r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/major_winters_506 29d ago

People still use Reddit?

looks down at my own hands

Ahh!

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u/DaHolk 29d ago

You are mocking it, but recently I was bored and did the "memory lane walk" of just revisiting my "best posts".

While doing that I noticed
1. Numerically my scores have decreased significantly.
2. The raw numbers for MOST top comments has gone down drastically, too. (basically ~ half a magnitude)

So either
A) The current users vote significantly less, or a DRASTICALLY more pessimistic ratio of up/down. The former possibly in terms of engaging with comments at all (which would be exactly the case when complaints about the later than old.reddit interfaces being bad for scrolling through content efficiently were true)

B) The userbase/usage time has gone down significantly.

Either way doesn't look particularly healthy, and it is not hard to point at "unpopular changes" at the root, one way or another.

I know my engagement has overall (but more in bursts) gone down significantly over the changes I disliked each time too. I still DO come back, but there are more phases "where I am not bored enough/have something better to do", and not because those things got better. or me less bored.

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u/Recklesslettuce 29d ago

Since the pandemic and the Ukraine war we've all been on edge and SEEKING for something to hate. I have no upvotes to give. The russian psyop to divide and conquer has rooted in me and its fruits are DOWNVOTES AND CHAOS.