“Clobber” implies violence, which is somehow even less elegant than the standard phrase that the haphazard “cobble” implies. Given the shitshow of X so far, clobber probably works better even if it’s not the usual way to phrase this at all.

FOMO is a weird term to use here because it implies some anxiety that I could be seeing more stuff than I am.

I get bored sometimes. There isn’t enough content here to keep me super engaged, and interesting niche subs about certain small games and whatnot are missed. I end up swapping back and forth between my front page here and my youtube recs, willing something interesting to appear.

But I’m not feeling the slightest anxiety that I’m missing some stranger’s idea of wit on a site I don’t go to. There’s way too much internet for me to ever think I was seeing it all in the first place, so I’m more than fine with missing the latest lyric or pun comment chain or the hottest new AITA fiction.

Corrected archive link - OP’s is missing a character so it’s not working

You said you want good faith discussions, but you preemptively dismissed one of the biggest answers because you don’t think it’s a good solution. Then you have people here disagreeing with you, explaining why, and pointing to examples of it being done successfully, and you continue to completely dismiss a donation as nothing more than a “thank you” - how is this in any way a good faith discussion if any opposing viewpoint is immediately met with this kind of “YOU’RE the problem” response?

I do understand your frustration in those cases in which donations fail, but it seems like you’re not willing to meet us halfway and acknowledge that sometimes, donations succeed, and not by accident or luck. There’s data there - test cases we could be picking apart and seeing what critical mass needs to be reached before an instance can reliably secure donations and what we can do for admins until their instances reach that threshold. But you’re just dismissing it as nonviable even though it clearly works for a lot of places.

That is not good faith.

I gotta say, I thought your first comment was some kind of madly wild, baseless, bitter accusation stemming from heavy disillusionment with reddit and assumption that spez must surely represent the worst of us.

The fact that you actually have a source for that madness and interpreted that source accurately is the most mindblowing thing I’ve seen in a while. That really is quite an article.

Thanks for the archive link OP, mods removed the post by the time I got to it. (Though the comment section is still intact, for now)

I don’t mind the lower quantity - that’s expected on a small platform - but I’m definitely not enjoying the lower quality.

I think the issue here is that there’s a sweet spot where quantity and quality are in equilibrium. You NEED a certain quantity before you have a high chance of finding insightful comments on a given topic – to simplify things, if there’s a 1% chance a given comment is going to be from an expert with great insight, you have a ~9.6% chance of finding that on a post with 10 comments and a ~63% chance of finding that on a post with 100 comments. The threadiverse just hasn’t hit that threshold yet.

Of course, there’s a tipping point which reddit is long past, where higher and higher quantities start to drown out the insightful posts with memes and quips, or downvote and mock them with a confidently wrong counter-opinion the mob wants to hear more.

I hope the barriers to entry with decentralized services that the masses find “confusing” are such that we eventually manage to reach equilibirum and not tip too terribly far past it.

have there been any writings, surveys, or studies

If this is your core question, I suggest putting it somewhere up top; people will get halfway through your post, find something they want to respond to, and just respond without realizing you’re not looking for anecdata.

But no, there’s nothing like that as far as I know. And I feel this sort of thing would get a lot of play from ex-redditors, so I agree with the other guy that recent shifts would have been too recent to have been analyzed.

(As far as anecdata goes, I’ve always found subs that focused on a location instead of a topic had a more prominent conservative presence, as location subs bring out a lot more fierce rhetoric as people feel they’re defending their homes from perceived threats.)

I doubt your ability to tell when someone is a sockpuppet, for one, given you seem to think I’m one of them. Which calls into question your assertion that this is a pattern of one rich guy who hates you and keeps ban evading and making all the alts just to mess with you.

As this was just morning drama popcorn though, you can skip the answers; these actions have spoken louder than any words you could respond with.

There it is! Lol

Yes I’m sure your bully carefully curated the persona of an MMO player and otome fan and the other projects she worked on for years under the same name just waiting for this moment. The long-ass review for a game I posted this weekend which is verifiably not plagiarized nor bland enough to be from an AI is totally just me feigning legitimacy so I can astroturf. The cat photos which can’t be found through reverse image search outside posts from this account are totally deepfakes to farm karma so my astroturfing would look more legitimate.

This won’t change your mind, but it needs to be said anyway: People can disagree with you without being alts, bots, sockpuppets, or in any other way “in on it.” Your inability to see this makes me doubt your entire account of these events.

It’s the mindset of someone who just woke up and was browsing sleepy as hell from bed and is already tired of hearing about this after finding it in like 8 communities and in several comment sections of unrelated posts. If you want to suspect my intent, go for it, nothing I say could stop you.

Why do you feel this is news that needs to be spread?

Like, I feel for you if all this is true, but we here already left reddit and you’re already pressuring the admins and claiming to involve law enforcement and reporters. There is literally nothing the rest of us could do to contribute to this even if we were inclined.

This was just morning drama popcorn. It doesn’t need to go anywhere and especially doesn’t want crossposting to large communities where it was off topic, nor does it warrant the spam in unrelated comment sections.

And if that opinion happens to make me a sock puppet, well…

Looks back over verifiable same-name online persona in niche interests for years and shrugs

Okay then.

I almost never used all on reddit.

On the fediverse, I use it every day. There isn’t enough content in my subscribed feed, so I check the “good stuff” first and then pop over to see what’s interesting elsewhere.

You have to understand that most accounting departments treat month-end with the same gravity as year-end. My job’s accounts payable department starts sending month end deadline reminders on the 15th. It’s absurd how much they focus on it.

(This is not an excuse for their abhorrent treatment of an employee, mind you, but it might help explain the twisted logic behind “end of July” possibly working against her.)

Vote federation can be a little wonky, but generally, yeah.

Dunno about over on lemmy, but on kbin we have an “activity” link on each comment exposing all voters.

Edit: OP downvoted everyone who disagreed with him.

Sigh. Please OP, we’re not doing that here. Downvotes should be reserved for trolls and the counterproductive. This comment with its snappy “kick the puppy that is your opinion” is not the most productive, but there are downvotes from OP on way more innocuous things, even one comment that agrees reddit is dying but in a different way than the linked article envisions.

Please leave that behavior on reddit.

Why pretend we never measure value in things other than money? It’s obviously a loss to the user experience for those who haven’t moved to offer sites, and a loss to the knowledge base that users had built there. I think you know that’s what’s being discussed here, yet you’re only countering from reddit’s productive of what would constitute a loss… for some unimaginable reason.

It sounds like the kind of melody that would go over top of something from Two Steps from Hell.

Unfortunately it’s not one I know and I’m not too familiar with their recent releases. But maybe it’s something from them or a similar “epic music” producer that you heard recently, once or twice, and it got lodged in your subconscious.

You can keep repeating yourself all day long; it’s clear you only read the clickbaity headline and not the article that clarified creative credit and copyright can’t be owned directly by an AI. Your entire premise is wrong.