Any change today? ( kbin.social )

Arotrios , 11 months ago

@Bendersmember Content generation has slowed and from what I can tell, comment participation is way down. Right now, after going through and subscribing to a number of magazines, my kbin feed is more useful and active than reddit ever was, although the audience is clearly smaller (but seriously growing since last week). The quality of the content is better, and it's much easier to filter out the shitposting.

The clearest place to see content drought this is in /r/all - the top posts are all 3 - 15 hours old. Before the blackout, it would refresh in a matter of minutes, not hours.

Bendersmember OP , 11 months ago

That's kinda what I figured, didn't expect it to be a ghost town, so that makes sense.
I could tell by the loud users declaring that Reddit is gonna be better and everyone else were just whiners that content would slow down quite a bit. Didn't get a vibe of those types putting out engaging content haha.

Jcb2016 , 11 months ago

Plus its the weeked espeically 4th of july weekend. the content creators are probably having a vacation!

athos77 , 11 months ago

One thing I'd point out is that it's a holiday weekend in the US, one of the traditional weekends for going out and doing stuff with family or friends. So some of the slowdown may be related to that.

DoucheAsaurus , 11 months ago

That is true but I would like to point out that lemmy.world just grew by 40% in the last 12 hours.

https://lemmy.world/post/920949

btaf45 , 11 months ago

These growth rates for reddit alternatives are insane. I love it.

density , 11 months ago

who else is impressed about the general stability of all the services?

I was totally expecting everything to be down half the time due to sudden unexpected skyrocket demand over past few weeks. But it has been 98% good. About the same as reddit.

UnhappyCamper , 11 months ago

It's a holiday weekend in Canada as well.