I check it every so often without logging in. A lot of the old major subs went dark and both All and Popular are almost exclusively memes. The occasional News or Politics article breaks through but, and this may be because I usually didn't visit All, it's like looking at a completely different website. The comments aren't too much different but it feels like desktop users are getting the upvotes now as opposed to the shorter but still solid replies from mobile users.
The fandom subs I frequented (Star Wars, NBA, etc.) have sort of gone to shit, though it's hard to tell how much of that was always there. Actually the biggest difference may be just how unmoderated some of the big subs are, so where before duplicate posts on the same topic would be removed in Technology, now you'll see 20 articles on the same thing. I suspect Reddit admins are inflating vote counts to make engagement look the same as always when participation is actually down, but it's just a hunch. I have no proof of it.
It feels like you see the same 5 popular subreddits get pushed on you either on r/all or your homepage. And if you visit any new subreddit you get spammed with posts on your homepage “because you’ve shown interest.” It all feels really desperate
IDK, nowadays I only ever use reddit desktop on my ipad (firefox on that forces desktop site everywhere) for a few of the naughty subs, but hopefully it won’t be long before they, too find out that most lemmy instances have an 18+ category too. I wouldn’t know.
The technology isn’t presented as magical so yes. Just because people can move objects with their mind doesn’t mean gravity doesn’t exist.
Suspension of disbelief only works if it feels like you’re trying to make the system consistent. If you start doing whatever you want because the story isn’t entirely based on our reality then it becomes an uninteresting story
Idk how sturdy the warships are built, an f-15 landed with only one wing without even noticing, just some sluggish handling.
Maybe these ships had so much reserve shielding an backup controll authority that they could land it even as it was disintegrating? Anyway, I always found it awesome rather than emersion breaking.
Repulsorlifts are the technology that enables ships to hover and fly the way they do. There are typically many across a ship's structure for redundancy and handling reasons.
Not to mention that there were two Jedi on board, both of whom would probably be using the Force to pull the ship into a safer crash. We've seen Jedi use force powers strong enough to manipulate ships before, so this is not out of the question.
I'd like to know if there are any stats on how many votes it took/now takes to get onto the front page of r/all. This feels like it should be publicly available data...
True, but I was under the impression that was just a level of noise added. It would be interesting to know if the number of votes needed to reach the front page has dropped (in broad terms) since the API changes. I wouldn't have thought the obfuscation would hide that?
This is so much in the spirit of Monty Python, I've never seen it before and it's glorious.
I'm picturing the interviewer played by Eric Idle and the interviewee by Graham Chapman.
Since we switched to Lemmy I removed the Reddit app and the Apollo app, but did occasionally browse a single subreddit in Firefox mobile app whilst not logged in. Now they’ve totally walled off the whole site. Ridiculous.
I think all we know so far is that desktop traffic dropped 3% in the month of June. So pretty much, we have barely any data at all. We need information on total traffic and mobile traffic, and from July 1 onwards.
I guess we can also say that Reddit got pretty horrible press, but we don't know if that's had a financial impact.
"desktop traffic" sounds like a carefully chosen statistic which would exclude all the users of 3rd party apps. Frankly they were presumably hoping this measure would go up?
Not to mention that we'd need data on how many bots makeup reddit interactions/engagement to compare against the traffic data. My guess, bots likely increased.
I might be missing something but my last known was that (unfortunately) they are really doing just find. Yes took a user count/traffic hit and lost a lot of free labor since the Landed Gentry left or were fired (lol). But mostly remain unscathed sadly. It seems business wise they hardly felt it.
It’s like deferred maintenance on dams and bridges. They don’t all fail at once, but the more time goes on, the more things fail. Reddit won’t fail all at once, it will slowly spring leaks and fail.