I'd rather the growth here be much more organic and discovery driven, than by a mass exodus of users from another platform all rushing in. Mobile app's were 'far' from being the only reason to leave Reddit.

Befitting first comment. <3.

Got to admit, I'm still curious to see what Rossmann has to say on the matter. Man sometimes has interesting opinions in this sphere.

Anyone commenting on this site now is in a very specific tech bubble.

And it may be better that it ends up this way. Tech people at least in my experience, tend to be more balanced and level headed discussing topics outside of tech, than people who are single-issue, obsessed with other topics.

If we're partitioning user engagement from the growth in echo chambers, Reddit's seen continued drop off in community engagement for nearly a decade now. This only marks the bigger nail in the coffin.

Most of the changes will happen behind the scenes as they usually do. Reddit rarely conducts it's extremely underhanded shit out in the open, unless the publicity is going to be unavoidable.

So it's actually happening...

Except that's not the framing they view the issue in. They see it as preferable to remaining financially kept on the hook and leash of the US, only to have their chain jerked and be threatened whenever they 'act out of line'.

Oh, look, you have an opinion about tiananmen, what a surprise!

Lol, imagine being criticized for 'having an opinion'. If that doesn't tell me all I need to know about you.

So far? Lemmy is filled with Russian shills. I hope we outnumber them soon.

Ah, the good ole everybody challenging the western propaganda narrative against Russia is a secret Putin shill. I can see Reddit is leaking, already.

100% with that. In fact I was listening to the Darknet Diaries ('highly' recommend their show/podcast if you're a techie) episode with Samy Kamkar from back in the day (1, 2), and he echoed the same sentiment. A lot of his exploits he's done, he's tried taking to the vendors only to have them make legal threats against him for his actions. So the next best thing was... you guessed it... essentially doing a controlled release of it into the wild.

I almost don't want them to succeed, so the exodus can continue to happen. Then again, I don't want this place overrun with their overwhelmingly idiot userbase.