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Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead (www.macrumors.com)

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[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You think there are still redditors around?

I think it’s just troll farms and bots. Every once in a while someone stumbles into the site and says something. THEN there is a whirlwind of answers/speculations/theories/lies.

I guess it depends on where you look. All the subs I've been visiting where people actually hang out, rather than just a handful of karma farmers spamming, are still flourishing*, so I never fully switched to Lemmy, but use both 🤷 Reddit subs have a magnitude or two more people, so imho they're better for news, memes and technical advice, while for the past couple years Lemmy feels better for insightful conversations.

* my main subs are for specific games and apps, a few countries/regions, and r/BestofRedditorUpdates, so ymmv

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 20 minutes ago) (1 children)

I think the bot percentage is proportional to how big a subreddit is and how profitable influencing people browsing it is.

Niche community about how to proplift (stealing small cuttings to grow your own plants)? Zero or close to zero bots.

Crypto community with thousands of comments a day, where it's all speculation that can't be objectively disproven* so bots stick out like a sore thumb and tons of money flying around? You better believe the bots are all over that.

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 1 points 27 minutes ago

Makes sense!