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Cake day: June 29th, 2023
  • Not sure I believe it. A drop off like this is absolute death spiral territory, and the exodus of users would be way more clear, as places like here would have exploded in new accounts. These people aren’t just going to go outside, so where are the commensurate rises in activity on other websites?

  • 11.5 year old account (same username). Reddit has been shit for years but there was never a real alternative. I tried so hard to make it good: I unsubbed from all of the defaults, curated my feed, used Apollo to block r/all, even blocked a bunch of keywords and chronic resposters. But it was no use, the quality of commentary was on a steady decline (UnDeRrAtEd CoMmEnT), and the arrogance of the average Redditor is staggering given how unoriginal and lazy they actually are (I’m not excluding myself from that comment). Frankly the ban on third party apps was just the straw that broke the camel’s back, but really it was a forgone conclusion that I left. Maybe it’s just because I’ve gotten older. I’ve checked it a few times since “leaving” - it’s still shit, and going back makes me realise how bad it actually was.

    I refuse to delete my account because I’d rather they (and anyone else) see that my account was purposely abandoned because of their actions.

    Lemmy is doing much better, but honestly it’s probably because it’s empty. It will likely go the same way in years to come, which I welcome because this place deserves the success. I’ll enjoy it while I like it… Ironically I tried to post this comment but got wiped by a long outage.