15 points

Reddit is a Nazi site. Musk being worshipped religiously was a whole thing on there. They’d be happy, and I’d hope so–anything to keep conservatism off of Lemmy, and the rest of the fediverse.

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Outside Musk subs like /r/elonmusk, /r/Tesla and /r/spacex, Elon is widely mocked across reddit.

Reddit is a shithole but let’s be real here.

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Aye, as evidenced by the entire site getting him on a PewDiePie meme review.

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10 points

Reddit is a lot of things, but to call it Nazi devalues the word. Shame on you.

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27 points

Reddit is mostly ChatGPT bots talking to each other these days.

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I get that people don’t like Reddit but to claim it’s “mostly bots” is almost certainly false.

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Nah, take a look at the top comments in any of the default subreddits. They’re either copy/pastes of the top comment from the last time the same meme was posted, or they’re very clearly LLM-generated. Most of the big subs are absolutely loaded with bot activity these days.

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There’s a big difference between the default subs and the niche subs. There’s bots all over the default subs, especially the news/politics ones. But like, the stardew valley memes sub, for example? I don’t think there’s a whole lot of russian bot activity going on there.

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I went thru the profiles of 10 different users whose comments were on top of the most popular subreddits and none of them seemed like bot profiles. I’m quite confident in my original statement.

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The copy/paste thing has been true for years even before the Reddit API exodus. Also bot-farms have been active for quite some time as well.

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Not even hyperbole. One of the shitty meme subreddits with 20+ million subscribers I saw ban bots. Activity dropped off instantly to almost nothing. It was so disturbing I deleted my account.

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4 points

probably back to Digg, as god intended. Lemmy is way too laggy to sustain any meaningful users number

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9 points

Says the person who chose world…

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What do you think the millions of people flocking to a new service as refugees would do?

Do you think George Takei or Flavor Flav care about federation and instances, or did they just see that Bluesky works similar to twitter and make accounts.

Most of the people joining are going to use the default recommended instance because those people aren’t joining out of technical interest.

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I did it. The difference is that I eventually realized my error and moved elsewhere.

I was telling OP that they have the power to decide which instance they are on and that the slowness that they are complaining about is BECAUSE of the instance they chose.

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3 points

I’ve used lemmy.world before and never noticed it to be particularly bad.

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9 points

Well, your anecdotal experience differs from mine. World is by far the laggiest instance.

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It’s laggy for you? In what way?

Have you tried another instance than lemmy.world? A lot of users culminated there for no good reason, which could contribute to whatever lag you’re experiencing…

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If an instance become laggy as soon as people start culminating there… it will make lemmy always unable to allow influx of many people. I mean all people wont change instance all the time. I know I wont

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There will only be an exodus if there is a better alternative than Lemmy/kbin. Remember that twitter was still going strong despite mastodon existing until bluesky won the race and became the new twitter. If reddit somehow manages to collapse one day, most of the people won’t go to lemmy because it’s already been shown it’s not an attractive or equivalent replacement for it, so either something new reddit-like appears or nothing changes.

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Reddit will be a Frankenstein like Facebook and will refuse to die. They will find a way to monetize it while also forcing right wing engagement. Right wingers will be thrilled for some time thinking they are now the “cool reddit people”(lol) while never realizing everyone stopped caring.

Individual subs will still be as active as they always were. Mod support will wane. At the end of maybe year 5 you’ll look at the site and it will be unrecognizable. Just another captured audience too entrenched to ever leave the platform.

None of this should worry you. Reddit isn’t popular because a left wing person owns it. It’s political lean is entirely from its users. Changing who owns the space doesn’t erase left leaning people. They just go somewhere else. After having used lemmy for some time, I’m fairly confident it will be here. Even if not, wherever it is will be new and cool and away from right wing shit bags. It’s almost exciting to think about having a new space to explore.

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Reddit isn’t popular because a left wing person owns it.

Extra true because Spez would absolutely slob Elon’s knob given the opportunity.

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