My hope this site gets popular enough to be a flourishing alternative, but not popular enough to bring all the Facebook quality users who are over there licking boots, and upvoting worldstar public freak out rage bait.
His point about Reddit being late to the app game is precisely why I deleted all my comments except the one about navigating to Lemmy and deleted my account. I'm not sure if I'd have stuck around over 11 years ago if third parties didn't make Reddit apps. For me, they made Reddit. And now Reddit wants to force me to use their inferior app by running them out of business? Farewell, and thanks to Sync/Dawson for all the years of service to the community.
17 years. SEVENTEEN YEARS I spent on Reddit, through thick and thin. Gamergate, Ellen Pao, AMA collapse, the whole shebang. I never would have gotten through it if it weren't for Alien Blue and Apollo. But this shit? here? and now they're just nuking entire mod teams en masse? I left 19 days ago, and you know what I did? I joined a team developing an iOS app for Lemmy.
Nero can strum his lute and watch as Rome burns. I don't care, for I have better things to do and better places to be. I have found my new home.
The only times I have visited Reddit since all this drama started has been to delete/edit my comments then re-delete/edit as they are “mysteriously” restored 🙄. It was an adjustment at first but now I don’t even have the desire to return to that shit site. Let it burn 🔥.
Yeah, it’s been odd which of my comments have been restored. I just make a point a few times a week to check and re-delete any that reappear. It’s shady as fuck but at this point I’m honestly not surprised. I also received a mod message for a small sub I have (about 2500 subscribers) stating that if the sub isn’t removed from private/restricted further actions may be taken. I’m the only admin currently and the sub isn’t terribly active so it makes it all the more hilarious. They really must be getting desperate and worried at this point. I reported the message as harassment and replied 🖕. I also changed the sub to nsfw. Lol likely won’t change anything but it’s provided me with some good chuckles. Lol.
I'm confused by the user count. I follow a mastodon user count bot, and it's numbers are pretty close to the ActivityPub user bot. Can anyone speak to how these bots work? Can they differentiate between mastodon, kbin, and lemmy?
Every website/bot tracks it differently. Some are opt-in only, others may only consider a certain type of software, and for others it's just plain hard to get an exact count.