I decided to take a peek at Reddit to see what kind of activity is happening, a good handful of the subreddits I am subscribed to are still super active with posts and commenters.

There’s quite a few news articles on the front page regarding Spez and the blackouts, I am surprised those articles are even still up for people to see.

The comment section is filled with people saying how they should just kick the mods out of the dark Reddit’s and take over, ofcourse these posts are heavily upvoted…

Perhaps there is some AI activity going on, I mean it’s kind of easy to do in this day and age. You just prompt an army of AI bots to defend Reddit, and try to keep users engaged.

I am so happy I found Lemmy, and I am so happy that there is a comfortable level of activity. Sure it’s only a small fraction of what Reddit is activity wise, but it’s so much more hearty and welcoming.

Reddit has just turned into one big toxic mess. Lemmy reminds me of what Reddit used to be 10 years ago.

  • sibachian@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    It would appear it’s mostly bots, probably paid for by reddit (or interested groups) to muddle the waters.

    I have seen countless posts trying to discredit the fediverse, how it won’t work because it isn’t financially backed (completely ignoring that email is still a thing), or how Mastodon apparently failed. On top of that, there are tons of comments in the threads for subs that went dark where the commenter argues “all this does is hurt the sub”. but when you look into the commenter, they have no previous history of being active in these subs at all.

    But, i’ve seen this kind of activity all over reddit for the past 2 years. Especially when something unpopular is happening. There is a lot of the same type of crap you see during the presidential elections of the US. A lot of fake comments, posts, and statistics, and other things to try steer the public opinion in an engineered direction.

    • Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      how Mastodon apparently failed

      Saw this on my Mastodon home feed:

      12,484,940 accounts
      +2,493 in the last hour
      +66,136 in the last day
      +273,430 in the last week

      Four time-based charts

      Upper blue area: Number of Mastodon users
      Upper cyan area: Hourly increases of number of users
      Lower orange area: Number of active instances
      Lower yellow area: Thousand toots per hour

      For current figures please read the text of this post https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/110554252061792575