Current reddit situation

Is it really that bad over there now? I haven't been since RIF died
- I don't know either, I don't visit reddit after joining lemmy
  
  oh i'm not brave enough for politics
- I check it every so often without logging in. A lot of the old major subs went dark and both All and Popular are almost exclusively memes. The occasional News or Politics article breaks through but, and this may be because I usually didn't visit All, it's like looking at a completely different website. The comments aren't too much different but it feels like desktop users are getting the upvotes now as opposed to the shorter but still solid replies from mobile users.
  The fandom subs I frequented (Star Wars, NBA, etc.) have sort of gone to shit, though it's hard to tell how much of that was always there. Actually the biggest difference may be just how unmoderated some of the big subs are, so where before duplicate posts on the same topic would be removed in Technology, now you'll see 20 articles on the same thing. I suspect Reddit admins are inflating vote counts to make engagement look the same as always when participation is actually down, but it's just a hunch. I have no proof of it.
- It feels like you see the same 5 popular subreddits get pushed on you either on r/all or your homepage. And if you visit any new subreddit you get spammed with posts on your homepage “because you’ve shown interest.” It all feels really desperate
- IDK, nowadays I only ever use reddit desktop on my ipad (firefox on that forces desktop site everywhere) for a few of the naughty subs, but hopefully it won’t be long before they, too find out that most lemmy instances have an 18+ category too. I wouldn’t know.

This scene always drove me nuts. It seems so unrealistic that a ship could survive crash landing onto the planet like that.
- You're looking for realism in a film about space wizards?
  
  The technology isn’t presented as magical so yes. Just because people can move objects with their mind doesn’t mean gravity doesn’t exist.
  Suspension of disbelief only works if it feels like you’re trying to make the system consistent. If you start doing whatever you want because the story isn’t entirely based on our reality then it becomes an uninteresting story
  
  Space Poppins casts disintegrate at your suspension of disbelief
  
  ... that is for children?
- Idk how sturdy the warships are built, an f-15 landed with only one wing without even noticing, just some sluggish handling.
  Maybe these ships had so much reserve shielding an backup controll authority that they could land it even as it was disintegrating? Anyway, I always found it awesome rather than emersion breaking.
  
  Repulsorlifts are the technology that enables ships to hover and fly the way they do. There are typically many across a ship's structure for redundancy and handling reasons.
  Not to mention that there were two Jedi on board, both of whom would probably be using the Force to pull the ship into a safer crash. We've seen Jedi use force powers strong enough to manipulate ships before, so this is not out of the question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
- This is so much in the spirit of Monty Python, I've never seen it before and it's glorious.
  I'm picturing the interviewer played by Eric Idle and the interviewee by Graham Chapman.
- This is hilarious, thank you for the link :D

I'd like to know if there are any stats on how many votes it took/now takes to get onto the front page of r/all. This feels like it should be publicly available data...
- The vote counts on Reddit aren’t real. They never have been. They use an obfuscation on the vote counts in order to deter spammers and bots.
  
  True, but I was under the impression that was just a level of noise added. It would be interesting to know if the number of votes needed to reach the front page has dropped (in broad terms) since the API changes. I wouldn't have thought the obfuscation would hide that?

last time i open reddit up to copy link for sub.rehab

Do we have any data on how Reddit’s business was affected?
- I think all we know so far is that desktop traffic dropped 3% in the month of June. So pretty much, we have barely any data at all. We need information on total traffic and mobile traffic, and from July 1 onwards.
  I guess we can also say that Reddit got pretty horrible press, but we don't know if that's had a financial impact.
  
  "desktop traffic" sounds like a carefully chosen statistic which would exclude all the users of 3rd party apps. Frankly they were presumably hoping this measure would go up?
  
  Not to mention that we'd need data on how many bots makeup reddit interactions/engagement to compare against the traffic data. My guess, bots likely increased.

Since we switched to Lemmy I removed the Reddit app and the Apollo app, but did occasionally browse a single subreddit in Firefox mobile app whilst not logged in. Now they’ve totally walled off the whole site. Ridiculous.
- Walled off the site? Like, no access if not logged in?
  
  Yes. Login, Sign up or install the app.

I might be missing something but my last known was that (unfortunately) they are really doing just find. Yes took a user count/traffic hit and lost a lot of free labor since the Landed Gentry left or were fired (lol). But mostly remain unscathed sadly. It seems business wise they hardly felt it.
- It’s like deferred maintenance on dams and bridges. They don’t all fail at once, but the more time goes on, the more things fail. Reddit won’t fail all at once, it will slowly spring leaks and fail.
  
  Great analogy! And I can only hope man
- They lost their monopoly. The transition of Lemmy/Kbin from a scrutiny to mainstream will hit them hard … down the line.
  
  Agreed! People are learning their are other options. Can’t wait to see the fediverse eclipse Reddit entirely.

Infinity is still working so I still dip my toes in occasionally. Sadly it hasn't crumbled as much as I'd hoped.
- Maybe that app is just so incredibly efficient that they just dont notice it lol.
  Reddit is just a text based site after all.