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Reddit Activity Plummeted After The Protests (www.garbageday.email)
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Most major subreddits show a decrease of between 50 and 90 percent in average daily posts and comments, when compared to a year ago. This suggests the problem is way fewer users, not the same number of users browsing less. The huge and universal dropoff also suggests that people left, either because of the changes or the protests, and they aren’t coming back.

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[–] airportline@lemmy.ml 263 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I never thought it would be so easy to stop going on Reddit, but this place is good enough

[–] jotadeo@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

Totally agree. And I'm now using more of my time to relearn all the Spanish I've forgotten over the last 20 years and even improve beyond my previous level.

I also made the decision to try to use my social media/YouTube/web-browsing time on learning new things. When I'm in the mood for more mindless activities, I generally opt for watching videos where people bring positivity into the world in some way or another.

I pop on here once a day or every couple of days to fart around a very short while and then I'm back to doing my thing.

I occasionally end up on Reddit because a web search had results from there that were intriguing for whatever I was looking up. I never go in as a registered user anymore and those few times I do end up there, I'm in and out without going any farther than the thread that came up in the search results.

Thanks, Spez, for helping me take back my life!

[–] Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Good enough, that’s our motto.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

We have a saying im German that encapsulates that notion: Ein gutes Pferd springt nur so hoch, wie es muss (A good horse only jumps as high as it has to.)

[–] nerdblood@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

🤣

We're a pretty darn good minor league baseball team if you ask me

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Agreed, and it seems to be evolving over time.

[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago

Only thing I miss from reddit is the r/SamHarris subreddit. It was pretty much the only place on the internet, that I know of, where one could have serious, intellectually honest discussions and disagreements.

I like Lemmy but the content here is, for the most part, focused on certain popular topics and even though there's still a lot to discuss there the issue is that people have quite strong opinions and generally aren't willing to entertain alternative views on those subjects but rather have already made their mind and the replies are generally based on emotions but not always facts.