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Reddit just auto removed my comment with a link to Lemmy.ml (self.technology)

submitted 2 years ago by lowleveldata to c/[email protected]

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I was commenting on a Japanese sub to guide them to Lemmy and my comment becomes "[ Removed by Reddit ]" after a few seconds. Was this always the case?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Imma be real, this sounds like you're massively overestimating the amount of people that actually care about this whole thing. Yes, you'll probably get less content, but not enough to really matter for many people.

The casual reddit user would be back once their favorite subs are back online and will go about their day like before.

Maybe once the third party apps shut down and people really don't want to move to the official app you might get something.

I got no idea what would happen if enough mods quit, and a lot of subs couldn't run properly anymore. For the biggest subs you might get paid mods from reddit themselves, but no idea what will happen to the smaller subs.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Agreed. I'm definitely waiting in anticipation of the end of the month to see what happens. Regardless, lemmy is my new home. Fediverse is just a great concept, looking forward to it maturing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Depending on how everything works out, I don't think I can move over to lemmy completely just yet. There are a ton of smaller communities, that are still missing here and might never move over.

For a lot of topics, especially specific games, there's often some Discord server, but I really don't like using Discord.

What I definitely try to change is stop the mindless doomscrolling I did too much on Reddit, and just check specific subs occasionally.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

The casual reddit user just lurks though. If the active users move, the quality of the site will go down (even more).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The % of people who care might be small, but it is that same tiny percentage who have the largest impact, and who are crucial to the smooth functioning of reddit.

If they all leave or get booted, reddit will noticeably change for the worse and a larger % of users will leave with them. I can only hope that the number of users fleeing to new platforms like Lemmy is sufficient to make them viable and strong alternatives.

If all the cool kids leave and set up shop elsewhere, reddit will be seen as outdated and people will start to leave it behind. Especially if Lemmy goes enough to gain unique new features/communities/traditions/memes/etc. Digg was abandoned so quickly in part because reddit was already there, complete with its own community, in-jokes, and sense of community for people to join in with and feel part of. Lemmy isn't there yet, but fingers crossed there are enough people involved now to have reached a critical mass that drives increased adoption.