Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits

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• yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Literally haven’t regretted a single day since I left that platform, fuck reddit

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  • scintilla@crust.piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don't know what it is about reddit buy I find myself constantly feeling outraged when I stop by to browse something that's not on Lemmy. I don't have any accounts anymore luckily but for some reason reddit feels harder to disengage on then lemmy/piefed.

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  • hector@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I worry about not being able to get help with some work-related projects. There is Facebook but Facebook just sucks especially from my phone. You would think they would use their billions of dollars to fix glitches but since they have no competition why bother I suppose.

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• WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Obligatory fuck spez

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  • Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Pedo Spez

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ah, the old stock-pumping strategy of cooking the books and only sharing good numbers. Never change, Reddit.

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• misk@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  At first I thought it’d be a good change because subscriber count can really distort size of the community on older subreddits. On the other hand - given that this whole thing runs on inertia I don’t see how new metrics solve this. Big subreddits will stay big because they’re big already.

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  • blackfire@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think that’s the idea. True traffic or at least recent traffic will bubble up while old ones fall.

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• minorkeys@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lemmy needs to stop obsessing over everything Reddit does.

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• ulu_mulu@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ofc they will, so the can inflate participation with bots all they want.

  If bots weren’t counted, it wouldn’t actually be a bad metric IMO.

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• BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fuck reddit, it’s all fucking bots and Russians at this point.

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  • hector@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The site-wide administration seems to consider triggering Russians’ feelings as a violation of their rules. Also Israel.

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    • BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      100%. Talk as much shit as you want about the left but bring up Trump, Russia or Israel and get instantly banned.

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• Dholi@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Good, glad I stopped contributing to Reddit. We need to stop being so dependable on US social media giants.

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  • monogram@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    US Proprietary - social media giants. Let’s be inclusive with, TikTok, VKontakt

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• Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m sure they will find some underhanded way to fudge and cheat these numbers with AI bots going forward.

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• DreamAccountant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  But it won’t detect the bots that it doesn’t want to, so the numbers will just be bullshit.

  “Buy ads based on my fictional metrics, please!”

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Much better than long dead accounts that subscribed.

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  • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It is not an “either this or that” matter; they could show both pieces of info. And they should.

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    • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Why should they show subscribers of dead accounts? I think they only kept that to “prop up” numbers before the IPO.

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