I think they made the bet that they will earn more from boosting the monthly active user numbers than they would lose from the bad image drawn by Lemmy trolls, and I’m not sure the outcome is obvious.
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sicjoke@lemmy.world 11 months agoAnd based on everyone’s excitement to participate seems like their plan is working.
oce@jlai.lu 11 months ago
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The outcome is obvious. Admins will remove anything they don’t want people to see and they’ll have accomplished their goal of pumping their engagement numbers.
Getawombatupya@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Bread and circuses 🎪
matt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Agreed… Feels like everyone is falling for this hook, line, and sinker.
The goal is to get people back on Reddit, doesn’t matter what you’re doing. For how many people are still on Reddit complaining, it clearly doesn’t matter that much to people.
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
99.999% of people never left reddit in the first place… this is our chance to get some of those people that either never heard about Lemmy or were discouraged by the complexity of the while thing the first time around, but might be primed to make the leap now
Getawombatupya@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Yeah, Nah. Fuck the joint. Haven’t logged in since the purge.
Shikadi@wirebase.org 11 months ago
Are we sure about that? Many people exclusively used third party apps and wouldn’t use it otherwise
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
It’s too early know right now. We do know that a very small percentage actually came to Lemmy. My assumption is that most of the people who cared enough to stop using reddit would have looked for an alternative, and other alternatives like Tildes and Squabbles are much smaller than even Lemmy.
But I suppose its possible that a significant portion of users simply stopped using reddit without a replacement. I doubt it, but we don’t know for sure.
TheBat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No they didn’t.