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Most major subreddits show a decrease of between 50 and 90 percent in average daily posts and comments, when compared to a year ago. This suggests the problem is way fewer users, not the same number of users browsing less. The huge and universal dropoff also suggests that people left, either because of the changes or the protests, and they aren’t coming back.

  • airportlineEnglish
    191•2 years ago

    I never thought it would be so easy to stop going on Reddit, but this place is good enough

    • @spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
      66•2 years ago

      good enough

      IMO the users here are way more pleasant to spend time with than those on Reddit. The level of hostility in some areas of Reddit was off the charts and it seems the trolls are staying put. This definitely /mademesmile.

      • @fckreddit@lemmy.ml
        13•2 years ago

        I really avoided unpleasant subreddits. There were many smaller subreddits that were genuinely fun to be in. I miss those communities here. One that comes to mind is r/gintama. That sub was a great source of joy for me. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find one here.

      • @Rubanski@lemm.ee
        10•2 years ago

        There is a bit of a hiccup with hexbear and lemmygrad but besides that, I feel it’s a very welcoming place here

      • @Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
        5•2 years ago

        Yeah I’ve had some really good conversations here, I had a lot of great little friend groups on Reddit over the years but being here made me realise I haven’t had a really good chat with someone that I genuinely enjoy talking to on there for about five years. I’d honestly just assumed it was me but here I’ve had so many great conversations, I don’t know why but possibly it’s that the good interesting people aren’t drowned out and beaten down by a sea of hostility.

    • @jotadeo@lemmy.world
      19•2 years ago

      Totally agree. And I’m now using more of my time to relearn all the Spanish I’ve forgotten over the last 20 years and even improve beyond my previous level.

      I also made the decision to try to use my social media/YouTube/web-browsing time on learning new things. When I’m in the mood for more mindless activities, I generally opt for watching videos where people bring positivity into the world in some way or another.

      I pop on here once a day or every couple of days to fart around a very short while and then I’m back to doing my thing.

      I occasionally end up on Reddit because a web search had results from there that were intriguing for whatever I was looking up. I never go in as a registered user anymore and those few times I do end up there, I’m in and out without going any farther than the thread that came up in the search results.

      Thanks, Spez, for helping me take back my life!

      • Karyoplasma
        3•2 years ago

        We have a saying im German that encapsulates that notion: Ein gutes Pferd springt nur so hoch, wie es muss (A good horse only jumps as high as it has to.)