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Idk y’all, I see a lot of angry posts about Reddit still because of being essentially forced out, however! (self.general)

submitted 1 year ago by qooqie to c/general

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I feel like lemmy is actually really amazing and has a lot of smart discussion happening instead of the constant circlejerking that happens on Reddit. I also feel the community here is a lot more hopeful/helpful! That’s all, thanks for reading 😄

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think it's probably both.

I think the biggest decline was just before the 2016 US election.

That seemed to be the point at which the site hit "mainstream" and with that came a huge influx of new users, and with the influx of new users came the increase of corporate interest to advertise to the new massive audience.

r/all switched to be almost nothing but arguing US politics.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Definitely, astroturfing/Cambridge analytica/Russian bot farms coming up on the 2016 US election were the major causes of a shift in the paradigm. The actual results of the election and Brexit then influenced a strong divisive change in society globally. The pandemic brought even more people online who were dropped right into this chaotic chapter in Internet/cultural history.

Gonna be some really interesting studies in the future looking at how all of this played out.

[–] reversebananimals 3 points 1 year ago

The internet in general went to shit in 2016

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We're not even close to being huge yet and the lizard king already has ideas of capitalizing on us. Let's not pretend that this fediverse would ultimately become the utopia Reddit failed to be, but it's certainly a step in the right direction.