It’s amazing how many of them don’t get that Reddit was built over a very long period of time. A lot of those Niche subreddits didn’t exist early on. It took a while
07-09 Reddit was basically only programmers and people who couldn’t figure out 4chan but liked the humor. Digg v4 was a debacle and in 2010 everyone came over to Reddit. I think By 2012, Reddit was scaled up enough to be good nut niche enough to be cool.
Reddit’s current scale seems very recent to me… Even as late as 2019, only a few people I knew used it. Now literally everyone I know is a regular visitor for some reason or another. And I’d argue the site is worse because of it. Too many niche subreddits, somehow both overmoderated AND undermoderated, the API nonsense killing this party apps, the shitty algorithm…
So yeah, it took two decades to be as big as it is now
Was on Reddit from 2009 until a month ago and it really went to shit - beyond the API meltdown - when the IPO dropped. A ton of system changes and the algorithm super-charging the rage-bait subs and of course the 'bots.
AND - which I noticed, at some point in 2024, they quietly locked down older posts (beyond the nornal archived ones) and made it so users even, could not scroll down into their comment history and pull up really old content. Comments older than 12 months disapeared and can only be found if they’d been saved.
Right now, I’m only keeping my reddit account active (even though I’m banned) because I can still access the saved content I liked.
May be pulling a lot of that, esp. the tech stuff over here after the new year…
100% agree. A lot of my favorite subreddits, were over 9 years old! “The Great Lemmy Migration” (aka Reddit Third-Party App Fiasco) only happened less than 3 years ago. Plus, the internet has so many more places to congregate in since 9 years ago. So Lemmy’s numbers are probably going to be lower overall, even with years passed. Which I’m totally fine with. I’d like for it to grow more in good content shared by more people on here, versus low quality content. This should come with time.
It’s amazing how many of them don’t get that Reddit was built over a very long period of time. A lot of those Niche subreddits didn’t exist early on. It took a while
07-09 Reddit was basically only programmers and people who couldn’t figure out 4chan but liked the humor. Digg v4 was a debacle and in 2010 everyone came over to Reddit. I think By 2012, Reddit was scaled up enough to be good nut niche enough to be cool.
Reddit’s current scale seems very recent to me… Even as late as 2019, only a few people I knew used it. Now literally everyone I know is a regular visitor for some reason or another. And I’d argue the site is worse because of it. Too many niche subreddits, somehow both overmoderated AND undermoderated, the API nonsense killing this party apps, the shitty algorithm…
So yeah, it took two decades to be as big as it is now
Was on Reddit from 2009 until a month ago and it really went to shit - beyond the API meltdown - when the IPO dropped. A ton of system changes and the algorithm super-charging the rage-bait subs and of course the 'bots.
AND - which I noticed, at some point in 2024, they quietly locked down older posts (beyond the nornal archived ones) and made it so users even, could not scroll down into their comment history and pull up really old content. Comments older than 12 months disapeared and can only be found if they’d been saved.
Right now, I’m only keeping my reddit account active (even though I’m banned) because I can still access the saved content I liked.
May be pulling a lot of that, esp. the tech stuff over here after the new year…
100% agree. A lot of my favorite subreddits, were over 9 years old! “The Great Lemmy Migration” (aka Reddit Third-Party App Fiasco) only happened less than 3 years ago. Plus, the internet has so many more places to congregate in since 9 years ago. So Lemmy’s numbers are probably going to be lower overall, even with years passed. Which I’m totally fine with. I’d like for it to grow more in good content shared by more people on here, versus low quality content. This should come with time.