this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023

57 points (100.0% liked)

Asklemmy

1454 readers

60 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

Can someone still viewing Reddit explain how it is doing as of right now in terms of content quality and engagement? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Datman2020@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

15 comments fedilink hide all child comments

To someone who is subscribed to multiple communities on Reddit, has there been any change in their feed in their quality or amount of posts since July 1st? Any change in the amount of comments in the posts? Even the number of community subscribers?

I want to see how Reddit is doing without going back to their site to check. I know other people might still be seeing Reddit, so I wish to hear directly from them.

top 15 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] wilberfan@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can check on Reddit surreptitiously by going to https://libreddit/r/[subreddit]. If I understand correctly, reddit gets no "credit" for your visit that way.

The sub that I mod has gotten a LOT quieter since I stopped posting there (around the time of the blackout). Historically I was doing the bulk of the posting there, I guess.

There are 11K subscribers over there; my new "official" community has 16 at latest count--despite my notice and links to it.

When things settle down in the Fediverse, I'll make an announcement that I will be posting stuff exclusively on lemmy. We'll see what happens. 🤷‍♂️

[–] vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Keep in mind it only shows subs from your instance, might actually be a bit more.

[–] duber1@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

r/all is showing the weirdest subs. In 10 years just stuff I've never even heard of. Not sure if that's good or bad, but something is definitely off.

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I saw this also. The big subs are not showing. It's very strange content

[–] 3v1n0@feddit.it 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally I've to admit that sadly I didn't notice many changes in some communities :(

But well, it would take time.

[–] fci 1 points 1 year ago

The fact of the matter is the API changes didn’t directly affect the majority of Reddit’s users, and until it does, they won’t change their habits even with the toxic actions from site admins.

[–] reffugit@lemmy.fmhy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haven't deleted rif yet and have been opening the just to check every couple if days. On July 1, I was getting errors (429 I think), then the login page after a couple if days. Earlier, I was seeing posts, but the front page, popular, and all were the same. Also, all the multis I created were gone. Haven't checked on desktop yet.

I've found my Lemmy experience much better, even though many of the subs I was subscribed to haven't migrated yet. But it's early days and I have enough patience to see the Fediverse grow.

[–] sake@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's funny that reddit basically just blocked us from contributing. You can still use RIF to lurk.

Sometimes I forget and try to comment or upvote. After quick disappointment I actually feel relieved that I can't interact with reddit. It's weird.

[–] Thcgrasscity@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I feel you, its honestly like a nicotine patch is to smoking at the moment. I loved rifs widget just a bar with the headline. I hope a good lemmy app with that ability comes along.

[–] reffugit@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't really gone back to Spez's fiefdom ever since the blackouts began. But I've got plenty of saved comments to go back to, which I need to offload before I'm gone from that site for good.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

Pre ban, it's quality was down for sure. More smaller threads, weird questions that usually get left on the cutting room floor, all that. Reddit survived this, but much like someone surviving a life-threatening disease, they might not be truely 100% ever again. I believe this is just the first of many bad step reddit may take as they IPO and try to get more money out of people, I'd imagine. A slow decline, like twitter.

[–] wr90@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago

Infinity still works. Why so?

[–] wbl 1 points 1 year ago

I think the quality is significantly lower for me, mainly because a couple of the subs I follow and participate heavily in are in protest mode. I can totally see it barely making anything different for some people. Although I do have to say, r/all feels a lot more TikTok-y and clickbaity that how it already was. Low quality rage content and the such. I’m still on Reddit because of a couple of very specialized communities that have not migrated away but I personally do not enjoy Reddit nearly as much now.

[–] kscutsforth 1 points 1 year ago

I’m using it less but In my experience the protests and people leaving have made Reddit worse. Which in my opinion is a good thing.

[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

All I gotta say is Wilber is downright my favorite name, and easily one of the cutest names out there.