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Reddit Migration

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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean, a sub with a thousand subscribers is not that interesting to them.

[–] Pandoras_Can_Opener@mander.xyz 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's part of what made reddit interesting tho. Having these niche subs that still had a reasonable amount of activity. If they loose that this is the one thing they had over lemmy for me personally. I've never been particularly attached to say r/pics but r/aspiememes was the bees knees. They are coming to lemmy by now.

[–] timdesuyo@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

r/streetphotography had 300,000 subscribers.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting for whom? You and me? Sure. Reddit? Nope.

[–] Pandoras_Can_Opener@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup. But then that another reason for users to leave reddit behind. Which should interest reddit. But it's been clear for a while they can't even act in their own best interest.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago

Publicly traded companies by their very nature have to prefer short term profits. It's no surprise that Reddit does the same in preparation for going public.

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I imagine there are thousands of subs with 1000-5000 subscribers. Sure they keep the biggest subs open but it's quite a loss.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For whom? For Reddit? Not really. I mean, in the long term it is, but corporates are about maximizing short-term profits.

[–] harmonea@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why pretend we never measure value in things other than money? It's obviously a loss to the user experience for those who haven't moved to offer sites, and a loss to the knowledge base that users had built there. I think you know that's what's being discussed here, yet you're only countering from reddit's productive of what would constitute a loss... for some unimaginable reason.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

The unimaginable reason is that the OP, which I replied to, claimed they couldn't replace all mods. My counter point was that they don't care about replacing them for small communities, because that's not what makes them money. Hopefully I've broadened your imagination.

[–] BananaTrifleViolin@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If Reddit think small.communities are worthless then they really dont understand social media. Lots of users belong to big and small communities. I left Reddit because the small communities I engaged with are gone.

I'm not drawn back by the big generic communities - they've lost me from both. Multiple that up everytime a small community has fallen apart with a proportion of its users are gone for good, and you have a real problem.

It's all part of the same enshittification. Reddit is dying through death by a thousand cuts.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 6 points 1 year ago

They care about people seeing ads. And that's it. I agree with you that Reddit is dying (very slowly), but there are millions of dollars to be milked before the platform is fully dead. And for everyone like you and me, there are thousands who are there for the generic communities. Most people on Reddit don't post or comment, those don't strike me as someone who would enjoy being part of the niche communities.