Sounds like it was a stronger plummet than I first thought.

Also almost amusing that their venture would hinder them, though I’m still suspicious they may be self-sabotaging on purpose.

Besides, I have a theory platforms without post hiding features and heavily dependent on algorithm make their userbases be on a constant state of FOMO, which by extension makes them constantly stressed, which makes them more aggressive.

Besides, if you don’t like the culture of a given community or how their most active members behave, good luck finding a replacement within Reddit itself. Aside from the handful of big places, the place can be rather barren in alternatives.

Here on the other hand, you can always either find somewhere else, block stuff in a granular way, or make your own alternatives.

Could indeed be a spearhead to open way for others not liking open access to information. And with Reddit making access ever harder, killing RSS, Old Reddit and anonymous browse, it would serve as scapegoat so the other possibility, acting on behalf of others, isn’t theorized.

Redlib if you must keep using Reddit. If not, alternative forums, fediverse included, invite you.

Not familiar tbf

If that’s the case, I wonder if #Reddit announcing they’d kill #RSS, killing Old Reddit, and demanding login and registration verification has anything to do with it.

Imo if the person moves the responsability to a third party, he should still be responsible for what happens. The wait sounds reasonable to me, as then people can see how responsible the dev or “dev” shows to be towards the project he is managing.

And by that, it allows separating those just using LLMs as additional tools, from “adventurers” (local expression for people that do things without a plan), scammers and asset flip users going for an even quicker buck.

Besides the recommendation to drop sites that demand privacy-breaching validations, seeking the legal venues is important too, else people will just lose ground as they try to avoid the issue.

Healthy growth is exponential, so while an initial growth may seem like near zero, as it gains traction, it should become visible.

Also if the fediverse is indeed smaller than those it competes against (can’t audit numbers, can’t trust them), thus making the potential users interested in a given topic, still spreading word of the communities or at least their posts elsewhere, like chatrooms, may help bringing people in.

Maybe go to !forums@sh.itjust.works and ask where you can find external replacement communities if you can’t find them on the fediverse?

Also, within the fediverse, if you use Mbin, PieFed or Friendica, you can easily use hashtags to broaden the covered topics while an equivalent community doesn’t get made. Just avoid hashtag spam within a same post, please.

And lastly, any project is just as successful as the people involved are interested in building it. The fediverse is a niche within a niche, and neither Reddit grew overnight, its advantage being to be much older. And since Reddit seems hellbent both on self-sabotaging and monitoring people down to their criminal and medical records (exhaggeration but who knows for how long), it may be a good idea to be proactive about building and growing alternatives, instead of feeding Stockholm syndrome for Reddit.

I get the impression some people are put in power precisely to parasite and destroy the brands and companies they inherit.

Not familiar with software for streaming, but maybe bluetooth HDMI would serve the purpose?

!hanszimmer@lemmy.world

Reddit not being transparent and not having independent safeguards against numbers’ manipulation, I wouldn’t trust their statistics.

Besides here, might I suggest participating in other forums? Some times they get highlighted at !Forums@sh.itjust.works, but they’re still way more plentiful that what gets curated there from my experience. Also if you must still consume contents from Reddit, they still have RSS for the time being.

They don’t show the name of the poster in the feed anymore?

Been using for some 2~3 years now a Nitro 5 laptop almost always set to the Nvidia GPU. Issues are very rare, and some times compatibility is actually better than with the other GPU, the Intel one. Also worth noting I use Linux Mint though, and been some years since I last tested systems based Arch (btw).

RSS helps avoiding part of the BS those “2010’s platforms” put the users through, like curating what you follow, having access to shadowbanned users and groups, and redundancy in case those you follow get banned, “mysteriously” gone from a given platform, the platform becomes unreachable, etc.

Can’t help with so little details.