• agitatedpotato@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The amount of content I’m seeing over here these days lets me know that despite whatever the numbers tell you reddit lost sizeable amounts of community members and content producers. What these statistics hide is the massive dent in reddits free labor pool of mods that are likely done with the platform.

    • useful_idiot@lemmy.eatsleepcode.ca
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      1 year ago

      Lemmy has beyond exceeded my expectations of quantity and quality of content. I will pass by reddit occasionally but its become clear that the Fediverse concept can actually work. It has issues that need to be solved, but the minds behind it are very smart and motivated to find a way to make it keep working. The rate of PR’s getting merged into lemmy 0.18 are wild.

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      1 year ago

      A ton of current content is produced by spam bots. As I understand it, the new changes will also affect these bots, so curious to see what will happen.

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        1 year ago

        Somehow I doubt the actual spambots have applied for a developer API key. They’ll be fine.

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          1 year ago

          I wouldn’t be surprised if they had, actually.

          Still, a spam bot can just use the free license - they won’t make nearly as much api requests as a proper app would.

          The ones that make 60 posts per account per hour are easy to detect no matter how they post.