We’re done with the platform but there are a lot of real people still using it. I do think the quality is going to tank and they’ll continue bleeding users though.
Yeah, its the tech-aware who have dumped Reddit. Unfortunately part of the magic was that it had grown to the point that if you went looking you could end up talking to anybody from a diesel engine mechanic to a paragliding instructor, not just a bunch of tech nerds. I think this’ll be the sticking point, lemmy/kbin is still 95%+ tech nerds.
I think this wave just gave us enough of a userbase to start establishing the infrastructure for general communities here, not even really specialized ones yet. But those will provide escape areas whenever the next wave occurs.
It’s 2010 all over again. We all used Digg and reddit was mostly for the techies. But as Digg kept digging its heels in, reddit become more and more palatable over time. Eventually it reached a critical mass and we all jumped ship and never looked back.
And a baseline of techies means a ton of people making the platform better which is why Reddit had so many people doing their job for free and they completely took that for granted and exploited that free work which every other tech company has to pay for itself.
Lemmy needs to hit critical mass and the talented devs making Reddit better as a hobby will come here and make it even better. Reddit’s dev team got lazy and complacent because outside devs were doing their job for them better and for free which is pretty ridiculous. If you put a monetary value on the bot defence teams work it would in the millions. Other companies have a team of full time employees fighting spam, Reddit was getting it for free.
We’re done with the platform but there are a lot of real people still using it. I do think the quality is going to tank and they’ll continue bleeding users though.
Yeah, its the tech-aware who have dumped Reddit. Unfortunately part of the magic was that it had grown to the point that if you went looking you could end up talking to anybody from a diesel engine mechanic to a paragliding instructor, not just a bunch of tech nerds. I think this’ll be the sticking point, lemmy/kbin is still 95%+ tech nerds.
I think this wave just gave us enough of a userbase to start establishing the infrastructure for general communities here, not even really specialized ones yet. But those will provide escape areas whenever the next wave occurs.
It’s 2010 all over again. We all used Digg and reddit was mostly for the techies. But as Digg kept digging its heels in, reddit become more and more palatable over time. Eventually it reached a critical mass and we all jumped ship and never looked back.
And a baseline of techies means a ton of people making the platform better which is why Reddit had so many people doing their job for free and they completely took that for granted and exploited that free work which every other tech company has to pay for itself.
It’s the beginning of the end if you catch my drift.
There’s no way Reddit can recover from this.
Lemmy needs to hit critical mass and the talented devs making Reddit better as a hobby will come here and make it even better. Reddit’s dev team got lazy and complacent because outside devs were doing their job for them better and for free which is pretty ridiculous. If you put a monetary value on the bot defence teams work it would in the millions. Other companies have a team of full time employees fighting spam, Reddit was getting it for free.
I had no idea this was a case. For free!?