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zensanto@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I dunno about netflix, but at least the reddit debacle diverted a lot of users to the fediverse.

If we get a similar exodus from discord to matrix, that would work wonders for spreading the fediverse to others. Most of them still haven’t even heard of it.

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ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
A blip of users

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- athatet@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I mean, do you want more people on the fediverse or not?
  
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fizzle@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Thats not my point though.

At the time reddit closed their API to third parties loads of idiots were saying it was the end of reddit.

In reality reddit just sanitised their user base.

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- zensanto@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  In reality, reddit gave a userbase to a platform that previously had none.
  
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  - fizzle@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    … and yet, that’s not what im talking about.
    
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- TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  If you call that sanitised…
  
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  - fizzle@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Well they got rid of the users they didn’t want so from their perspective, yeah.
    
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  - sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    They lowered the lowest common denominator by driving away the users that wouldn’t tolerate their BS.
    
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