• pyre@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    service that owes its popularity largely to its low barrier to entry signals higher barriers to entry

    cool! please do.

    • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 days ago

      The whole reason reddit became as popular as it is now is because of bots in the beginning. The founders admitted as much.

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        7 days ago

        In the great reddit to lemmy migration of 2023, a lot of users complained about the lack of content and engagement on lemmy. A number of lemmy moderators who came from reddit basically said the same thing and that they were working on deploying bots over here.

        It looks like they did make some progress as there is a lot more content than there was 2 years ago. However, SOOOOO many niche subs just do not exist over here yet. Including most of my favs.

        I am not that interested in linux or computers anymore.

        • enzo@lemmy.eco.br
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          6 days ago

          However, SOOOOO many niche subs just do not exist over here yet. Including most of my favs.

          That is actually the only reason I come back to reddit from time to time.