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[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Oh my God what terrible thing to Reddit happened in February

[–] MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The IPO announcement w/ shares being offered to Reddit users. Also, the deal with AI training off of user data without consent. Hard to keep track these days lol.

[–] VolcanoWonderpants 1 points 8 months ago

I wouldn't be surprised if we see another boom in active users and new accounts due to that. Just depends on how much this pushes users who were already annoyed over api changes over the edge.

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Reddit can't help but treat their mods and user base like absolute shit. So while it may not be much, there will be a slow and steady drip of users over time.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

It seems more like there are infusions into Lemmy when Reddit makes some kind of change, and there's a slow drip out of Lemmy

[–] gt24@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

If you don't know, Reddit updated their interface in February and made it worse by doing so. People who tolerated the older "new" interface can find a way to use that (at new.reddit) while the older interface is still there too (old.reddit).

Still, it seems like Reddit keeps making changes to drive away their older user base which hypothetically is drawing in new users (otherwise it seems a bit silly for them to be doing those changes).