I'm pretty sure "we're" not doing the r/place protest. Lemmy has 63k active users per month, per the most recent user stats. Reddit pre-protest had 52 million daily active users and 450 million monthly active users.
I'm sure Reddit's metrics have probably taken a hit, but it's going to be the future people leaving Reddit for alternatives that kill it, not Lemmings that have already jumped ship shunning it. One small subreddit could individually take over Lemmy.
I like Lemmy, but it's pure hubris to think that we would even be noticed by Reddit, outside of being a place to siphon users away to.
I think it impossible to say if something like Lemmy and federated social media is going to replace Reddit, but it’s interesting participating in a potential shift and watching the evolution of how the internet organises itself.
I’m also quite shitfaced.
I've spent ten minutes there. Down from ten hours.
Doomscrolling is completely gone. I now use it when it turns up in Google search results or very specific things such as copying threads I care about to Lemmy.
Can I advertise !league@lemmy.ml while I'm here? One of the biggest subs over there, and it's dead over here.
Those .ml domains were being reclaimed by Malaysia. You'll want to promote a community on a different instance.
I'm only touching it to not miss my 7 day GDPR data download window. And after to run mirror scripts for 2-3 communities once.
That’s exactly my experience with Reddit lately. All the worst sort are left on the bigger subs, making the community absolutely insufferable. If spez’s goal was to make me not use that website, then…well, he succeeded.
I still visit reddit to get relevant info to cross post to the communities I'm keeping alive here on Lemmy. And I've noticed a significant decline in the subbs I used to frequent. I can't be the only one noticing this? I mean like it's extremely easy to notice as you might go days without content on several subreddits that used be active. They are niche subs, but still...
It's when you loved reading something, but you're finished now and it's all over, time to move on.
You realize that most people never even know what Reddit is nevermind who its CEO is.
Now, check who knows what Slashdot, Orkut and Digg were, and who ran them. Allow for a few years to pass.
If ignoring bad behavior makes children stop playing their attention game, then it should certainly work on a billionaire.
If Musk and Huffman are having a money-hungry-child competition, I can't tell who's winning
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The fuck spez people will get tired eventually and either move on or stay on the site. Just move on at your own pace, thinking about it won't change much.
Red-IT? Like the clown balloon?<Comments on post about Reddit, further perpetuating the thing he's criticizing>
<Points out irony of the cycle we've created>
Wow, looks like you're in here with me, huh?
-a smirk cracked his mouth, as he hit the Enter button to submit that comment. On Lemmy.
I think it would take half as long to die as it did to become a monolith. It's almost twenty so ten years. But I don't know, could happen faster. I'd say for sure it's not going to get any bigger. How much growth have the other major media sites seen since the profit mongering started?