I only go there to ask in Japan-related subs about tax/business/legal questions and try to help others (though I’ve mostly stopped). Several of us tried to get the people to move but they won’t. Without the knowledge that some of the people (some of whom do related legal/accounting work for a living and others with decades of experience), there’s no point.
Comment on Reddit signals ominous upcoming "changes” for old.reddit.com
Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
I dont think many old users are still on the platform. Look at thr platform growth and its eclipsed the old.reddit years. They will lose a few million but theyve got hundreds of millions using the new ui
farmgineer@nord.pub 3 weeks ago
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
They will lose a few million but theyve got hundreds of millions using the new ui
even just thousands of users joining Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed would do a lot of good for us
kazerniel@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
afaik some important mod tools are only available on old reddit, so if old goes, so will many of the remaining subreddit mods who haven’t left after the API shutdown
steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
There’s the proposed theory of 90% of the community are just lurkers, 9% contribute occasionally, and 1% contribute most of the content.
Might not seem like it doesn’t matter, but depends on who are the ones submitting most of the material to the site than lurkers.
Majestic@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Doesn’t matter. They’ve been replacing the content people with repost bots and AI bots for years and most people won’t notice if half those power posters leave as a result. Many of the power posters would stay on Reddit anyways short of being charged $10/post simply for the feeling of being important which they derive from being influential.
Thats not even getting into how the US Air Force has been astroturfing Reddit for over a decade with most active city Eglin Air Force base and would therefore put paid effort in to keep it afloat and their psyops reaching minds. Heck tons of organic posters leaving gives them a chance to seize mod positions and make trustworthy names for accounts under their control.
steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
I stayed away from the general popular subreddits that tend to populate /r/all preferring to stick to either hobbyist and tech related subs. I haven’t noticed much change when it comes to places like emulators or roms for example mainly going there to check the wiki and when myrient went down people backing it up and making Minerva.
So I guess if it is the general trash subs that the twitter crowd congregates along with news, the bots and stuff might be more apparent with it being about karma, trying to go viral, and manipulate what users see. But, the more resource oriented ones like Linux or build a pc still seem to be less affected.
I’ve avoided the /r/all crowd for years, which is where the filtering of RES came in so handy along with tagging users to make it easier to know which to avoid even if I’m not logged in to utilizing blocking. Can’t stand the twitter type populace of reddit that has become the main demographic over the years.