• samus12345@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I still read some niche subs from time to time, but I don't post or vote on anything any more. It could just be confirmation bias, but the comments do seem to be more full of assholes than before the API change.

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        Not that it's not confirmation bias but I can confirm what you're seeing.

        They lost a lot of active, enthusiastic, altruistic friendly people. I don't think they've drawn in worse people, but there are less nice voices to balance out the vitriol. Under the circumstances there's also less downvoting toxicity.

        I'm pretty sure it's a real thing but how much it's felt probably varies community by community.

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          1 year ago

          I also wonder if the combination of losing modding tools and mods being treated like garbage by reddit made them less enthusiastic about doing their (unpaid) job, too.

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      I still check in to certain niche subreddits that don't exist on lemmy. Those feel pretty close to how they used to. The other day I took a look at /r/all and… ooof. It's very apparent quality has completely nosedived. Lemmy /c/all is a much better representation of pre-blackout reddit /r/all right now.

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      Sometimes I'll check in to see if anyone's asking me a question and it always just ends up being some random groyped up nazi posting vitriol on a comment that's like, 3 years old. Now I don't even get that because everyone's either lost interest or jumped ship.