Memes

It's okay, you can swear on the internet.

Yeah! What OP said.

People are not moving to decentralized platforms yet, as they wish to empower those who are exploiting them more first whether they realize this or not.

Or at least, if you visit reddit, don't click on any ads or contribute in a meaningful way. In addition, never directly link to reddit. In a way, all your actions that affect reddit in any way should be to the detriment of reddit. It's like trying to cut down a sequoia with a sharp pebble, but even small livestock shits.

Upside of a small community: more interaction between the users that do comment.

Downside of a small community: if someone's a dick, you can't really completely get away from them.

But the question is, can you handle one dick, or do you prefer dealing with hundreds?

Has reddit reversed their API charge?

I've been away awhile but I haven't been using reddit either which is probably the best outcome tbh

As a fediverse weird thing, aside from the log in process, using eternity is just wonderful. I left when infinity started requiring a subscription and this has been great, aside from the lack of content. I don't ever have to the think of anything after the @

I can't, I was one of those given bullshit bans for no reason

Test

So are actual numbers of users down?

Same.

That's the spirit!

Every time I've gone back to Reddit, I've just seen the local communities I used to like getting incredibly right wing with the increasing number of wolf whistles in the comments. Or pro weed nonsense

And honestly, it just felt like doom scrolling and a waste of time. It has grown now to the point it's just basically the Facebook crowd.

Lemmy is sufficiently busy, and much better quality. And there is more to think about when reading comments