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Reddit: More active and profitable than it has ever been
Lemmy: “Reddit’s days are numbered.”
Is it really? I haven’t been back in the 2 years since the API debacle. But based on how enshittified the rest of the corporate owned web is, I can’t imagine it’s a good experience
It’s still a major warehouse for data and a central hub for social research.
Case in point, my wife was trying to get her Italian birthright citizenship registered (because America isn’t looking so hot right now). There’s a sub dedicated to people pursuing the same ends, and they all swap information on which consulates are helpful, what forms you’ll need, and how to otherwise navigate the byzantine Italian bureaucracy.
Absolutely invaluable. Nothing else like it on the Internet. But yes, the website still sucks ass.
It’s already dead, but the corpse is being propped up by techno-necromancy.
It still has the eyeballs unfortunately
The average user doesn’t know or care about anything. You could prove to them beyond all doubt that every reddit post or twitter tweet causes a puppy to get punched in the head, and they’d shrug and say “but this is where the funny memes are”.
It’s for the Chive crowd now.
Much better here.
Fucking thank you
I thought I was on crazy pills for a while, because I’d give someone evidence of like, some burgeoning authoritarian conspiracy and they’d just do the thing you mentioned
I then swapped topics to their thermostat before realizing there’s literal TV static upstairs in the squishware
Is it, though? I haven’t been there for months and sometimes almost forget about it. I honestly just don’t care anymore.
I haven’t been active on Reddit for 2 years… and I miss it, a lot. Reddit is where a lot of the best and most active communities are located. It’s where a lot of the experts in various fields are active. It really is the best place for contacting other like-minded people for a specific community.
I hate that Reddit forces people to use their mobile app, or you have to pay a monthly fee to use a 3rd party app. And I really wish more people had left when they made these changes, but that didn’t happen. Lemmy is growing, but as a resource it is sadly no where near as useful as Reddit.
The average user doesn’t care about any of the things that happen behind the scenes, or privacy… they just want to be where the most people are, and that’s Reddit.
Did you try the official forums of those various fields in question?
You might find the said experts there, and even better active users over there.
That’s where I go now.
