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Lemmy is booming (rytter.me)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Lemmy is booming

I have never before received so many reactions and comments on my Lemmy posts before, so it's obvious to see, that there are many new members here.
Welcome to all the new! And I'm looking forward to see more of you here.
Cheers!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm calling it the Reddit APIocolypse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I prefer Cory Doctorow's "enshittification."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Problem is, reddit has been undergoing an enshittification for nearly a decade. This is just the culmination.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes it's been declining for quite some time. There's new good things in smaller subs too, but the "all" feed and most popular ones have become unbearable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The problem with reddit comes from the top. The APIocolypse is just the latest symptom of core degradation. There's also the rampant abuse of power by mods on some of the most popular subs, the far right/fascists and homophobic/transphobic rhetoric going unpunished by a lot of mods but then coming down on the people who push back against it, the massive influx of bot activity etc etc etc.

Reddit, while being more popular than ever, is now a rotten husk of the beautiful dream it used to be....