I decided to take a peek at Reddit to see what kind of activity is happening, a good handful of the subreddits I am subscribed to are still super active with posts and commenters.

There’s quite a few news articles on the front page regarding Spez and the blackouts, I am surprised those articles are even still up for people to see.

The comment section is filled with people saying how they should just kick the mods out of the dark Reddit’s and take over, ofcourse these posts are heavily upvoted…

Perhaps there is some AI activity going on, I mean it’s kind of easy to do in this day and age. You just prompt an army of AI bots to defend Reddit, and try to keep users engaged.

I am so happy I found Lemmy, and I am so happy that there is a comfortable level of activity. Sure it’s only a small fraction of what Reddit is activity wise, but it’s so much more hearty and welcoming.

Reddit has just turned into one big toxic mess. Lemmy reminds me of what Reddit used to be 10 years ago.

  • Today@lemmy.world
    43·
    1 year ago

    I caught my husband on reddit yesterday. Went into full attack mode, explained the blackout, and offered to help him switch to Lemmy. Showed him that some if his subs have lems and even tried to sway him with lemmy porn. He didn’t care…at all!!! Now, if i want to read anything on reddit i have to go outside or to the bathroom so he doesn’t see me.

    • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺@lemmygrad.ml
      11·
      1 year ago

      Look people have different motivations for different things, like it or not, not everyone is going to take the API issue and greed of a for profit company as a deal breaker, and I personally dont think we should lash out at those people. At the end of the day essentially all they are doing is choseing a different social media service.

      Also may I ask why you “went into attack mode” when you still go onto reddit?

      • Today@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Use of the word ‘attack’ was supposed to be humorous. I was just harassingg him for being on during the 'blackout ’ days and trying to get him to try lemmy. I’m shifting…still look to see if favorite subs have been active, share lemmy links if there is one, screenshot some old stuff, …

          • normalmighty@lemmy.world
            14·
            1 year ago

            Looking up on that sub and all the current talk, sounds like there was some issue where pedos thought it was okay to post CP there, but it seems under control now.

            Probably not them allowing CP in the first place, so much as them struggling to moderate fast enough at first. Make sense for communities exploding this rapidly, and nsfw communities have always and will continue to need to constantly be tightly moderating to get any illegal shit out of there ASAP.

          • Today@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 year ago

            I don’t know what cp is, but whenever i set to ALL / NEW and scroll, every few posts theres a blurred out one.

            • docrobot@lemmy.sdf.org
              5·
              1 year ago

              I don’t know what cp is

              cp = “child porn” but likely not in the way you’re imagining. A certain subset of people think that “child porn” is any drawing of a girl, or any photograph of a real woman under the age of 35.

              Edit: Oh, look. Angry downvotes and not a single attempt to refute me. Guess I was right.