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Reddit's rise to prominence is in part a result of emphasis on facilitating the discourse Facebook used to be a place for. Facebook as a venue for discourse has gradually ended over the past decade or so, for the majority that still use it it is now just a centralised email server for sending event invitations.

No one has global Reddit traffic data except for Reddit - market estimation methods can't really account for a deviation from the norm on such a short timeframe. Regardless, it's the users that matter that are gone, we agree on that. The same ones that made Reddit the safehaven for Digg users to begin with.

I don't think Reddit is going the way of the Dodo, it's Reddit as a platform for discourse I'm on my soapbox about. Probably the largest exchange of ideas in human history happened on it. But the writing is now on the wall, to continue posting you first need to overcome the internal conflict of putting stock in a platform whose killer use case was predicated on user goodwill now burned. That itself is enough of an obstacle to make folks disengage, skewing the userbase, post quality declines, and then it's just another cesspool. All of this takes time though

My personal compulsion to browse reddit certainly isn't to think actively about the content I'm being fed, that's kind of the whole point - here's all the links you want spoonfed to you so you don't need to seek them out. The algorithmic approach to content delivery is the core product, and it became popular because it is good method of consumption. But when content quality goes down on average, eventually you end up with a Facebook situation - those are the users that actually don't care.

Thanks for the link, on the face of this I'm not sure if this really goes for or against my idea about the available metrics at hand not really being sufficient to make accurate/meaningful observations about the data. It certainly does feel to me like there's an undeniably significant protest occuring on the platform now, even within the confines of established rules on reopened subs. And also datapoints not considered, such as subs which have been reopened by direct admin action, or under threat of it.

I'm just trying to summarise to be concise, this part is what I was getting at

look at how little it took for the protest to wane, some subs are still protesting or migrating, but the majority reopened and they’re going on like nothing happened.

I disagree that "the majority reopened", of a total proportion of subs that blacked out I think the majority are either blacked out or have not resumed operations as normal. This is different from a majority proportion of all subs, which is a much larger number, and the majority of which also never participated in any blackout. Since the majority of traffic on reddit goes to a minority of subs, it's not clear which metric you're looking at or whether it's meaningful in context.

Since reddit algorithms to some extent relied upon that consistent operating principle of posts in popular subs being boosted, initially the result of the blackout was extreme - the website could not functionally aggregate posts on most users frontpages with so many subs on private mode. But that is not a problem directly caused by the blackout, it's caused by reliance on consistent data. So all reddit needed to do in that case was adjust the algo to significantly improve the average user experience during peak blackout. Instead of users seeing a bunch of posts about private subs they can't interact with, they just get fed posts from subs that didn't black out, so users could engage with reddit while an active ongoing protest was happening on the platform and might not even notice.

So I guess my point is that someone's impression of how the frontpage looked at t+24hrs, or t+48hrs, or today, as an indication of how reddit's going right now, is inaccurate because of the inherently subjective nature of the information visible from just browsing the platform.

I think the position in the tweet is sound if you assume a healthcare system that's generally fit for purpose where barriers to potential abuse exist. If you can't then there's most likely other factors in that system contributing to drug dependency more significantly than ADHD diagnoses, like marketing from pharma companies or lower minimum qualifications to prescribe substances with abuse potential etc.

It makes more sense on balance to prioritise addressing the unaddressed mental health disorders in the general public than worrying about opening up avenues for potential drug abuse that aren't currently a big issue. I mean, shit, if addicts all switched to prescriptions, that'd be a win for public health compared to where we are now.

Whether something is up or down is more meaningful in terms of our average interaction with that object than whether it is left or right. Conceptually the latter is inherently relative to the observer, and in many circumstances the observer could just turn around to change the state of whether it's left or right, so it doesn't matter which way it is. Whereas they can't do as much about many things that are "up" or "down" like the sun, a tree canopy, the earth's mantle. Those things are more constant generally so it's easier to grasp them

I feel like any cases of multiple communities for a given subject will naturally resolve as users develop a preference for one community over the other. The users from the lesser communities will organically migrate to the dominant community for that subject, or we'll arrive at the conclusion that each community actually explores niches of that topic that are worthy of separation or delineation.

That's how it worked on reddit, anyway. Multireddit functionality of any sort was missing on most platforms, and yeah there's a lot of users that want it. But a lot of that desire is borne from the current state of Lemmy, rather than what it will be once the fediverse is more developed both as a concept in software and a concept in social media interaction

You can be a bear and lead a pack of wolves into battle, pets would be cool but I'm already satisfied lol

Great comprehensive guide, I also watched some vids from Kripparrian which he linked that were very informative. Bye bye resistance gems, turns out resistances are effectively broken right now. Was thinking about spending some time leveling an alt necro or sorceror but might wait for balance changes given the current state of that

Calm before the storm, sure. Most migration away from reddit (whether the migration ultimately proves to be consequential or not) will logically happen when the measures that made users migrate actually go into effect.

Either that or the community's reaction to the 3rd party app thing was overblown. In the specific circumstances I don't think it was.

That's a more realistic clear and present danger to the platform IMO - an influx of actual users that makes the numbers to date pale in comparison.

The way the respective platforms handle bots is subtly different, but in a way that could result in profound changes either good or bad. But we haven't actually seen that yet, and the software is still a work in progress. The existing migration has really lit a fire under the devs on issues that were identified years ago where progress has been slow, so for now I'm happy to let that play out and happy with what we've already got. I'm sure if bots become a bigger problem then that's what devs will shift focus toward.

I think we'll probably get something soon. Activity on a few open issues and pull requests from 2022 or earlier seemed to increase a lot over the past week, I imagine they're still figuring out what needs to be prioritized on the fly.

I think this could be really cool style if it blended some more of the lemmy UI elements like color-coded threaded replies. I also feel generally the info in the post tiles on frontpage is too spaced, both on this userstyle and lemmy's default styles. Obviously you don't want cramped design but I feel like the vertical space of the tile could contract like 30% without losing any information or looking cramped, then you could fit 30% more links on the screen at once.

Honestly same as an Aussie. I'm surprised either team has done as well as they have in current conditions. Back when there was whispers of them offering Langer the coach job, I joked I might become a team England fan. But Mccullum is a better fit and just as easy for me to get behind as a leader. At the end of the day they're playing good cricket under him, although I think they need a couple more years to refine their approach before it can be relied on in a big 3 match. I was more skeptical about Stokes as test captain, but he's done well so far as well. Keep proving me wrong lads, love to see it.