• sub_ubi@lemmy.ml
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      I’d honestly like to know. Looking through their post histories, most of them aren’t FOSS geeks and are only active in politics threads.

      I hate to say shit like this, but it seems like the reddit astroturf campaigns have come to lemmy

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      There were many of them last year who were like “I was a reddit-logo power poster who had N amount of karma, and now I’ve left it! So long, spez!” so I think some of them left simply because they hedged their bets that they’d be settlers in a land untouched by hecking updooted content.

      I also think many of them went back after it became obvious R*ddit wasn’t going anywhere and the “important” moderators were in fact easily replaceable. When I predicted this at .world many of the libs there were unhappy, but by now I think I’ve been proven right.

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        I think you have perfectly described the lemmy.world user. They all process a vague anger about reddit but have no specific critique of it. They don’t dislike anything the structure or the culture of reddit, they dislike that they themselves aren’t one of the powerusers. They have no interest in building a different vision of the internet or becoming part of a vibrant community, they just want their chance to become a recognizable user while it’s easier to make a name for yourself.

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          eh they forced the app on mobile users and have made the browser more and more cancerous to use. Most of the exodus was when they banned 3rd party apps and then simultaneously started making the mobile browser experience unusable

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          They abandoned new for a newer and worse version of new. Although only learned that when they announced they were killing new.r

          Still have no idea what they changed cause only use old

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        I might have thought this was a funny hyperbole at some point but unironically some were arguing .ml should move out of .ml and let .worlders take it over