• Dick Justice@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I see an awful lot of people here who have quote left reddit, and yet they still go back to Reddit every day to see what’s going on, or to grab popular posts so they can repost it here and try to get imaginary points or something. All they’re really doing is helping inflate metrics like this.

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      1 year ago

      Alternatively, they give Reddit one users worth of ads to make Lemmy a better alternative. I think many will continue using Reddit but attempt to reduce the usage (especially once 3PA are blocked). That means once you run out of content on Lemmy, you switch to Reddit. So more content on Lemmy means less time on Reddit.

      The simple truth is that there are communities on Reddit that I care more about than about the API changes. And for those I will continue using Reddit until an alternative exists. So it is a gradual change for me and everyone that helps moving the good content to Lemmy helps me indirectly.

      I guess it comes down to whether you consider highly upvoted content good content, especially when it comes to memes etc.

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        1 year ago

        This here. I still check Reddit regularly, but I’m mostly just checking in on a handful of communities, not nearly as much engagement as last month, so if daily active users is their metric then I guess I haven’t moved the needle, but if it’s about actual API usage, number of posts viewed, votes given, comments made, etc. it’s probably 5-10% of what it used to be.

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        1 year ago

        Good points. Everyone’s in there own place with rhe whole Reddit thing. I shouldn’t assume I know whatt people are thinking. Except Spez. Fuck u/spez.

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      I believed the same, but in /r/piracy have seen people helping those inquiring about what lemmy is and how to get set up getting help. I thought it wouldn’t help, but people visiting reddit from lemmy are actually assisting reddit users who need help moving. It isn’t just meme posting going inside the comments themselves.