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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 228 points 11 months ago (47 children)

Everything of value on Reddit was posted by people who have left

A lot of those people left for here

[–] Lulzagna@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The content is so repetitive, likely because they drive engagement by reposting content with bot accounts. I still get a major amount of news from there, I can tell it's value is slowly fading

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[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It’s still good for niches. I am in a couple subs about health conditions, and there are no comparable communities on Lemmy. I haven’t observed the composition or activity level of the groups change at all over the past couple of years.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I recently left reddit for lemmy. More so because of the 51st state bullshit and calling our Prime Minister a governor, rather than the tariff's and buy Canadian. Most of what I posted on reddit had no value and I hope to continue that honourable tradition here.

[–] pohart@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago

I for one welcome your shitposts

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago

I had to delete thousands of my posts from there multiple times before they stayed deleted. I had most of a decade of helping people out regularly. When all was said and done the only post I left on there were the ones that were helping people migrate to Lemmy before I left.

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[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 114 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

Lol, finance (and thus financial reporting) is so braindead.

I'll summarize the whole article: Why did RDDT crash? "Because the stock price went down. Some people sold the stock, so more people sold it, now the price is lower"

Thanks Yahoo finance, this is the journalism we rely on you for...

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

This is what people mean when they say they have an economics degree.

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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 45 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Reddit is going to quickly be replaced by AI, leading to the question: what data will AI train on after that?

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago
[–] sloppychops@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago

If they keep feeding garbage data to 'train' AI were going to end up living in a future ruled by an absolutely deranged train wreck of an intellect.

No changes for the US.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Who will train the AI?

"The AI!" Said the AI.

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[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 39 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Because it's trash?

Somehow it's both under-moderated AND over-moderated

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It used to be the "front page of the Internet". Now it's at the top of my search results, but the last page I'll actually visit...

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[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Wow, reddit is actually up 164% since IPO. Did not expect that at all

[–] oxjox@lemmy.ml 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I'm a bit surprised it's not higher.

Everything they've done is to increase their ~~profits~~ revenue. While some people may have left as a protest, the vast majority of people don't really care - see: twitter, facebook, instagram, tiktok. If anything, the "bad news" about people leaving was great advertising for them.

What I've observed over the past ten+ years, and still don't understand, is how anyone enjoys the platform at all. At one level, I get that it's just another social media platform that promotes headlines and memes. But the voting system and the engagement is revolting. I'm not going to say it's 80% bots but I will say that 80% of people using social media might be dumber than the bots.

I deleted my account in 2023. I have to admit that there are few if any reasonable alternatives for some of the subs existing there. The Fediverse really doesn't satisfy the need for people to get semi-expert opinions on things, for example.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Last I heard though they still weren't profitable, but that was awhile ago. Has that changed?

They have gone done in quality an incredible amount just to get profitable, I can't see them increasing in profit consistently....

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[–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 11 months ago

If the GME/AMC story taught me anything, the price of a stock doesn't necessarily reflect the value of the company. It's just what people are willing to buy/sell the stock for.

[–] groolthedemon@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago

Good. Let it fucking burn.

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Reddit crashed on Monday because Hoffman thinks he can fuck with investors like a trillionaire can. Do I need to put the clap hands in between all the words, too?

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Because they banned all their users

[–] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 8 points 11 months ago

Reddit should be a penny stock

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