I intend to stay here on beehaw. It will take me a while to get over the habituated behaviors I had with reddit, but the quality of the posts over here is high. I don’t feel like voices are getting drowned out over here. So reddit won’t miss me. Over time, I won’t miss reddit. All good things must end.

Now time to enjoy watching how new communities and the software driving Lemmy develop.

That’s my thought too. Even before this, I felt like I was reading automated posts and chat bot responses on reddit. It seems like a zombie forum where most of the “people” weren’t really real, it was just recycled content, laugh tracks, and being force fed content posted by reddit itself (versus users) scraped from other places.

Thanks @[email protected]. That is indeed where I saw it. I forgot the link in my post.

Interesting. The comments are now lagging well below normal. Here’s a screenshot from the blackout tracker. The red arrow shows how reddit is still spamming lots of new posts, but comments are much lower than usual. Normally, at the peak times, comments are at or even above the number of posts. Not today though.

It looks like the activity is flattening now. I guess the stale content is starting to have an effect.

I want to like kbin, but I understand beehaw and Lemmy instances better. For the life of me, I cannot figure out the syntax to find communities/instances that are not local to kbin. They have some great “magazines”, but I’ve already started following some communities on other Lemmy instances, so if I opt to use the kbin server and their UI, I need to be able to figure out how to find the communities I’m already participating in.

I’ve been curious as to what the end user experience on reddit might look like today and tomorrow. The blackout tracker seems to show fairly typical activity though. https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/ That perplexes me.

Maybe people are still checking reddit like usual, but many posts are hours old in the private subreddits that they may subscribe to? I know a percentage of subreddits didn’t go dark, but those wouldn’t be big enough to cause engagement to stay at the usual levels. Anyone hazard a guess as to what’s up?

Oh…thank you guys for keeping up with all the chaos from us new folks slamming your servers!

Part of me thinks that while a majority of folks will remain on reddit, the most active, engaged members will leave. …the mods, the people posting original content, the people posting the most replies.

Over time, the content on reddit could become even more stale, repetitive, and low quality.

How do I see all the hashtags that I could follow? I’ve been trying searches and I’m not hitting the right keywords yet.

nm- I’m dumb. I typed in rpg for instance and hit the return key instead of seeing the option to do to the hashtag. Doh!