HCSOThrowaway

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course not. That’s why I said “To the best of my recollection the last I’ve seen bits of traffic data here and there, […]”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  To moderators. I want to say even to regular users if your comment/post gets enough traction on New Reddit, i.e. hundreds or thousands of views.

  Other, similar websites also show such data to those in privileged positions as well. If they’re pretty sure you’re not a bot, they give it freely. Whatever tier above “average user” and especially “a person interested in growing the website out of self-interest” a given website has, it’ll probably be available. I’m sure you can imagine a half dozen that are on the money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  To the best of my recollection the last I’ve seen bits of traffic data here and there, it’s large, but not large in comparison to the US and India.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s my Amateur Coder waving the Wand of Coding idea:

  What if we had a FOSS browser extension that scraped Reddit passively, uploading everything you see as you browse (except PII like your username and PMs and such) via bot to Lemmy (on a delay so they can’t pinpoint your identity as easily?)

  I can’t be the only one who splits their time between Lemmy and Reddit, and would much rather participate here than there, but there’s much less to comment on here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit would probably sooner just lop off their entire EU userbase than comply.

  No offense to Europeans because I love y’all, but you are a drop in the bucket for global (English) internet usage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  On a long enough timeline, every Lemmy thread eventually becomes one of the following:

  1. ACAB

  2. Trump bad

  3. FOSS good

  4. Reddit bad

  5. Socialism (generally, via vanguard party) good

  6. Tankies (i.e. #5) bad

  Not that I disagree with most of the above, but we need some normies in here to balance things out, so invite them and don’t demonize them. That’s made trickier by Reddit banning people for talking about the Fediverse/Lemmy, so you have to be clever about it.