Yeah, there's not a lot now, but it'll pick up. Reddit used to be pretty barren too way back in the day. For now just enjoy the fact that you can read more interesting articles and have longer in-depth conversations instead of being first to post low-quality trash comments in a rush for karma
mrbubblesort
joined 2 years ago
Reddit *still is * a bottom-up community, that's why all their monetization efforts never worked and there's so much backlash against the API changes. All of the content and value on the site is created by the users and mods. Reddit the company doesn't own that, and redditors take offense at management's attempts to take advantage of the users' free efforts for their own gain.
What Huffman and Reddit should have done was think long term and set up a Wikipedia-like entity that could have ensured the health and growth of the site while only taking a modest cut. Instead they tried to pump up the value and cash out with an IPO, and when that likely fails, they'll end up with nothing.
Yeah, the only reddit browsing I've done this week is to check in on the API drama. Basically boils down to "is reddit still being ass? yes? ok, back to lemmy"