this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023
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The people who care have left. The people who don't care stayed and they obviously won't give a shit. The only way they're going to give a fuss is when the content torpedoes, which it looks like it's already started.
Quality content creators are mostly gone from Reddit. Quality content submitters are mostly gone from Reddit. Quality content commenters are mostly gone from Reddit.
So what's left?
Mods who think they have value and for some reason care about their /r , and working for free.
Ads thinly disguised as posts. Bots spamming and upvoting those fake posts.
And nobody important reading.
The quality difference on lemmy/kbin is staggering. This is the perfect time to be part of it.
It's inevitable it will start to slide once critical mass of users have been reached though. I'm curious if federated and smaller instances will keep it agile and fresh and big corp influence free.
I care and I’m quite enjoying dipping in and adding to the (remarkably John Oliver themed) chaos.
People who are fed up need to not leave. They need to go become a mild nuisance. Give nonsense answers to people (those who need casual assistance anyway). Pollute the data without contributing anything useful. And use an ad blocker the whole time.
Engagement is activity which is numbers you can show for the IPO. It's also ad revenue. Best to not engage at all honestly.
That destructive behaviour would eventually drop total engagement.
My goal is to reduce the amount of spez's payday as much as I can, because reddit is toast and he's just trying to cash in