It's already dead, but the corpse is being propped up by techno-necromancy.
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2025
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It still has the eyeballs unfortunately
The average user doesn't know or care about anything. You could prove to them beyond all doubt that every reddit post or twitter tweet causes a puppy to get punched in the head, and they'd shrug and say "but this is where the funny memes are".
Fucking thank you
I thought I was on crazy pills for a while, because I'd give someone evidence of like, some burgeoning authoritarian conspiracy and they'd just do the thing you mentioned
I then swapped topics to their thermostat before realizing there's literal TV static upstairs in the squishware
It’s for the Chive crowd now.
Much better here.
Reddit: More active and profitable than it has ever been
Lemmy: "Reddit's days are numbered."
Is it really? I haven’t been back in the 2 years since the API debacle. But based on how enshittified the rest of the corporate owned web is, I can’t imagine it’s a good experience
It's still a major warehouse for data and a central hub for social research.
Case in point, my wife was trying to get her Italian birthright citizenship registered (because America isn't looking so hot right now). There's a sub dedicated to people pursuing the same ends, and they all swap information on which consulates are helpful, what forms you'll need, and how to otherwise navigate the byzantine Italian bureaucracy.
Absolutely invaluable. Nothing else like it on the Internet. But yes, the website still sucks ass.
its only "invaluable" because it existsx, if it didnt exist the information would still be on the internet elesewhere
ppl would have simply asked and answered elsewhere
if it didnt exist the information would still be on the internet elesewhere
Where, though?
Are you serious? Yahoo answers, lol, quora, the thousands of other forum sites that only died because of the move to reddit, those answers would have still been somewhere because the questions would still be asked regardless of if reddit exists or not.
Yahoo answers, lol, quora,
Jesus. You're not helping your case.
I think you're just fundamentally misunderstanding the point, almost seems like you're doubling down just to be annoying because it brings you joy.
Well, you've never posted or commented anything I care about, so block it is, goodbye
More active than ever but for how long? They are permanently hemorrhaging users by banning them for stupid stuff and fingerprinting them to hell and back so they can't make new accounts.
Reddit: I don't even know who you are lol
They know who Lemmy is. That's why they need to swing the ban hammer at every mention of it.
That's a fine claim, my friend, but maybe you don't have the facts to support it. Who says that Reddit is more active than it ever has been? How are they measuring that? Many of us who left Reddit over the past few years did so partly because of the increase in bot traffic ... And certainly Reddit corporate does not want to admit that a large percent of the posts are automated, certainly they would never want to actually measure that, because it would likely undercut the perceived value of their company to the AI folk.
Similarly, if it's more profitable because it's selling data to the AI people, that doesn't actually mean the company is producing any value ... I think most of us with half a brain already realized that the AI bubble is exactly that. Rich people are speculating, and they're going to keep on doing that as long as they can. So, if I were predicting when Reddit will totally collapse, I would predict that it will when the bubble bursts.
Finally, Reddit used to be producing results that would show up on search engines, and now it's not. In other words, they sold the medium run for the short run. That could pan out, but I don't think it will. I think it just means they will get fewer people crawling to their website, fewer people linking to it.
Who says that Reddit is more active than it ever has been? How are they measuring that?
Statista, Semrush, and GummySearch all coorborate Reddit's self-reporting. I don't have their methodology on hand.
And certainly Reddit corporate does not want to admit that a large percent of the posts are automated
I mean, this is the billion dollar question. If you can find reliable ways to sift real humans from bot activity at the scale of a social media behemoth, you should just do that for a living rather than shitposting incredulity on a Reddit knock-off site.
But by all available measures, Reddit (a website that's always been plagued with bots and spam accounts) has the most real live active users in its history today.
Finally, Reddit used to be producing results that would show up on search engines, and now it’s not.
Google's been fully in bed with Reddit since at least 2022. One could argue that their habit of front-paging Reddit posts was what goosed its activity of late.
Ah, yeah, the website that will ban you for "provoking violence" against right-wing personalities.
And uses AI-assisted profiling for mods who can decide if a user can be banned for specific ideologies.
Is it, though? I haven't been there for months and sometimes almost forget about it. I honestly just don't care anymore.
I haven't been active on Reddit for 2 years... and I miss it, a lot. Reddit is where a lot of the best and most active communities are located. It's where a lot of the experts in various fields are active. It really is the best place for contacting other like-minded people for a specific community.
I hate that Reddit forces people to use their mobile app, or you have to pay a monthly fee to use a 3rd party app. And I really wish more people had left when they made these changes, but that didn't happen. Lemmy is growing, but as a resource it is sadly no where near as useful as Reddit.
The average user doesn't care about any of the things that happen behind the scenes, or privacy... they just want to be where the most people are, and that's Reddit.
Did you try the official forums of those various fields in question?
You might find the said experts there, and even better active users over there.
That's where I go now.