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A lot of those people left for here
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The content is so repetitive, likely because they drive engagement by reposting content with bot accounts. I still get a major amount of news from there, I can tell it's value is slowly fading
Yep I swear askreddit has the same dozen questions on repeat
I had to delete thousands of my posts from there multiple times before they stayed deleted. I had most of a decade of helping people out regularly. When all was said and done the only post I left on there were the ones that were helping people migrate to Lemmy before I left.
I recently left reddit for lemmy. More so because of the 51st state bullshit and calling our Prime Minister a governor, rather than the tariff's and buy Canadian. Most of what I posted on reddit had no value and I hope to continue that honourable tradition here.
It’s still good for niches. I am in a couple subs about health conditions, and there are no comparable communities on Lemmy. I haven’t observed the composition or activity level of the groups change at all over the past couple of years.
Bring them here!
I wish I could. It's hard to get a community started on any new site where people have to make accounts and get in the habit of going there. The network effect is tough to overcome, too... people go where other people are, and then those places have content, and most people consume content, not create it. Also Reddit will ban you for promoting Lemmy, even through DMs.
Disagree, as somebody that started on reddit 15 years ago who now browses Lemmy daily, I still read and post there more because there is more content and discussion.
People that say otherwise are living in a Lemmy or bluesky bubble
Be part of the change. Your “discussion” is with bots over there
I don’t believe he was referring specifically to discussions. Rather, it seems he was alluding to the broader scope of topics and content. This is not a criticism of Lemmy; it is simply natural that a platform like Reddit, which has existed for so long, would encompass a wider range of content and niches. I have no doubt that Lemmy will reach that level as well, but it will require time.
What subreddits did you visit where discussion is with bots?
I still use Reddit every now and again for aviation and a mobile game (where there is an official company presence). Most of the discourse is genuine.
Now some of the more general subreddits, that’s garbage.
I get my news and politics from Lemmy now and, if anything, the experience is better. In fact, I seem to be more up to date on Canadian news.
I've found them periodically in r/worldnews, r/politics, and they are easy to spot on anything related to Gaza/Israel, Russia/Ukraine or things like crypto and finance. That's where to go if you don't want to look too hard. The other day I'm pretty sure I saw the same comment reposted several times across the same subreddit when sorted by top by year, something really generic with the same slightly off punctuation along the lines of "This community is the best!" It is really interesting to see actually. Most of the time their usernames are the randomly generated ones.
Any tips for telling bot accounts?
Generic usernames, the randomly generated ones, newer accounts, especially since the rise of ChatGPT and when they were gearing up for making Reddit public. Look for ones that do not really add substance and often argue for arguments sake (not to be confused with a troll). It is a vibe too. Knowing how these things are made helps, look into AI agents, and kind of knowing what trolls actually are too, for that check out this book.
Mate that's so helpful thankd!
Mate my mind is blown thanks
Also, lpt, if you look on google for something, add the boolean "before:2022-11-30" to your search for better results. That is the date ChatGPT was released. You can also compare threads before that date with what you see today for reddit by using the search "site:reddit.com before:2022-11-30". Try doing that with one of the topics I initially mentioned or going on the Wayback Machine before that date and you will see a difference.
I've saved your comment thanks. Lemmy is so helpful!
You're most certainly part of the problem. You're like someone who complains about local restaurants closing, but keeps buying drive through. Reddit isn't better, it's merely easier, but it's also a terrible value and bad for your health.
There is nothing positive that Reddit is capable of, that Lemmy is not. It all comes down to shifting the audience. Lemmy keeps improving, while Reddit keeps getting worse. All Reddit has is inertia, the energy of which came from a distant, nearly forgotten push. Put some time and effort in, help build something rather than merely consume it.
Here I am "supporting the local restaurant" but already am sitting at -20 points in an hour for stating my experiences.
On reddit there are more posts I wouldn't have seen otherwise, and more opinions and people to talk with. There aren't dozens or hundreds of people here discussing very niche hobbies, places, or events on an hourly or daily basis like there are on reddit. I buy the hamburger at the local restaurant when I can, but when I need a graphics card delivered next day, my mom-and-pop local computer store that sells to senior citizens has never even heard of a 5090.
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Stop giving a shit about fake internet points, they literally mean nothing.
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"Its dead in here" says person who never contributes anything except to complain how dead it is.
- I don't care about fake Internet points. But a comment sitting at such a negative score so quickly shows the community does not welcome my content.
- That's just incorrect.
Lol, finance (and thus financial reporting) is so braindead.
I'll summarize the whole article: Why did RDDT crash? "Because the stock price went down. Some people sold the stock, so more people sold it, now the price is lower"
Thanks Yahoo finance, this is the journalism we rely on you for...
This is what people mean when they say they have an economics degree.
People selling the stock does not cause the stock value to lower. For every sale there is a purchase. What causes the stock to lower is people willing to sell for cheaper.
This is semantics, because that's the same thing.
If you want to sell now you have to sell at a lower price, to have your put orders at the top of the stack. So the reason they were selling a lower price was just that they actually wanted to sell.
Sure, you can put an order to sell at some optimistic price, and that won't effect the stock price, but simply having a put order on a stock is not actually the same as wanting to sell. People actually wanting to sell now lowered the stock price.
Once I bought a set of stockes (5 of them) for 50 cents each and sold them for a dollar 2 minutes later. It's a fun way to game the market a little if you get lucky
It's gambling. Highly complicated strategies exists, but at the end, it's gambling. And somehow we've let ourselves get convinced that's the way the world should be run
Basically any way of making an income has risk, but we don't consider most such things gambling. Even a fixed-income investment is gambling, since the value of the dollar can fluctuate randomly. What concerns me about the stock market is not its randomness but rather its reliability in outpacing inflation. It seems from a bird's-eye view like a mechanism which is almost guaranteed to concentrate wealth into those who already have it. Surely that wealth must come from somewhere?
I think I need to learn macroeconomics.
I’m giving you an angry upvote for this, because this comment is on one of two ends of the bell curve.
Because they banned all their users
Reddit crashed on Monday because Hoffman thinks he can fuck with investors like a trillionaire can. Do I need to put the clap hands in between all the words, too?
is "fuckboy" synonymous with "pigboy" now?
what the fuck is this year's april fools gimmick gonna be now? please please please please please do space again. i want to see that roman salute!!