They didn’t leave because it was login-gated. That’s the point.
Comment on Reddit will force everyone to log in
eleitl@lemmy.zip 1 week agoDigg died mostly due starting to suck so badly people walked. For Reddit, there isn’t even a platform to escape to. But people are now less online in general and smeared over low-brow plarforms like Instagram and TikTok.
artyom@piefed.social 1 week ago
eleitl@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
The erudite content contributors altready left in a sequence of exit events. This is just another nail into the coffin of someone who died a long time ago.
Psychedelic_Rebel@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Anecdotally it would seem that people are more online in general, albeit episodically with smartphones rather than via desktops and for hours (apart from work). But engaged only passively on scrolling social media. I would agree that intelligent commentary is much less online than it once was. It seems that intelligent people have mostly seceded from society to do their own thing in peace, to whatever extent is possible, over the past 2 decades.