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Reddit never gave a shit about bots. To them it's something that pumps up their active users numbers to woo their investors. They're only doing this so they can force people to view their ads that are designed to look like posts.
Who goes on Reddit nowadays anyway?
ublockorigin prevents those fake posts from my screen.
They're concerned about AI scraping. They want to sell access to users' content for training, not let the AI in for free.
Unfortunately a good chunk of linux distro resources and troubleshooting, and also many hobby stuff is over there.
I still go on reddit often since that's where most of the game communities I want to hear from are.
Same, Lenny isn't mature enough to have some of the very niche communities yet
Yeah, if I want yoyo stuff, I have to go visit r\throwers.
Pretty much the same if I need mechanic info.
I think what there users who mostly post and users that mostly comment (I belong to the later). Lemmy could try to bootstrap some of those communities (note: to not make it to specific) by just reposting the same posts that are posted in Reddit and see if that could increase activity.
Lemmy never will be big enough without a change in thinking from the feudal nature to a more liberal democracy, alas.
I go on Reddit read-only fairly often, but these days it's quite rare that I'll post or comment. And when I do I always take the opportunity to promote the fediverse.
I mostly stick to Lemmy but there are times when I have a question to ask and the larger number of eyes on it does feel better even if it's just a placebo
i had to ask very specific questions, that Reddit has the niche subs for, that lemmy doesnt have recently.
Booo
Seems like most people don't really care about or understand stuff like "private platforms enshittify". Certainly not enough to be inconvenienced. People will be like "that's where the good memes are" or "that's where my video games post". Heavens forbid you miss the hot memes.
they never ever did anything to propaganda bots at least not recently, and since trumps 2nd win in the WH it was clear they were banning.
I think the issue is also related to how Reddit makes money. Reddit makes money from selling advertisement. I would guess they are charging a certain fee based off subreddit activity the ads are shown in. When most of that Reddit activity is bots and fake clicks on advertisement then the company won't see the return on their investment because they thought a million people would see their ad but only 100k real people actually saw it.
You guys see ads on reddit? I laugh in ublock