Since the source graph gets wonky immediately before the crop, there’s not really enough here to compare against from the before-times (last week).

But what is here looks like a very large problem on the comment front, with each peak being lower than the last and and the latter two nadirs following the same pattern. The presumed “small number of power users” were having a noticeable impact more than 48 hours earlier. (and, hey … good on them for using 0 as the axis)

Makes sense, posts can be (and are) automated via repost bots. Commente and genuine interaction is impossible to fake.

This is cool where did you find it? Or did you generate it?

Ask chatgpt what Reddit things about something something. It has probably scraped everything on Reddit anyway.

As the other commenter said, this is also why I won’t give up reddit 100%

Yeah this is the main reason I won’t be giving up reddit 100% once the 3rd party apps go down. I definitely won’t be doom scrolling on my phone like I used to, but I 100% will still use reddit on my desktop as a research tool. There’s just nothing else like it for the amount of quality niche information atm.

I’ve had multiple times when I launched Boost (my third party app of choice - at least until it’s forced to shut down) out of force of habit.

Thankfully, I planned for this eventuality. I installed a “focus” app and set it to block Boost and the Reddit app for 2 days. (I’ve since also moved the apps away from their usual spot on my phone to prevent launches.)

Ooooh man, I was searching up something earlier today and out of reflex I clicked a Reddit result. Felt icky once I realized where I ended up and went Back fast 😅.

It’ll be interesting to see if/how we’ll come to adapt to a more decentralized getup in time. I wonder how we might quickly search through all the public federated platforms at once? It’s gon’ get old fast to type [x] site:beehaw.org OR site:lemmy.world OR [ad nauseum]. I think it’d be cool if decentralized platforms got popular enough that search engines would add something like site:!social.lemmy.

What’s interesting is that a bunch of subreddits have disappeared from my multis in Apollo, perhaps because they were dark for over a day? Not sure.

Just woke up and first thing I do was open Apollo (lol) and this is what I noticed.

Apollo shutting down completely is going to disrupt my life like crazy!

There’s an app for that

Save and import:

{
    "createdBy": "Redirector v3.5.3",
    "createdAt": "2023-06-01T00:00:00.011Z",
    "redirects": [
        {
            "description": "Reddit to Beehaw",
            "exampleUrl": "https://reddit.com",
            "exampleResult": "https://beehaw.org",
            "error": null,
            "includePattern": "^(https?://)([a-z0-9-]*\\.)?reddit.com(.*)",
            "excludePattern": "",
            "patternDesc": "Reddit to Beehaw",
            "redirectUrl": "https://beehaw.org",
            "patternType": "R",
            "processMatches": "noProcessing",
            "disabled": false,
            "grouped": false,
            "appliesTo": [
                "main_frame"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

I’m totally not going through withdrawal.

Uh huh.

I opened Apollo once and got a special splash screen. I moved Apollo off the front page of my phone display.

NSFW always seems to push technology forward, be it video streaming, or VR, or now federated link aggreagators.

Praise porn-Jesus, horny be his name.

Niche communities reign for now! I’ll wait to create an alt account until the influx dies down, but this is, uh … handy to know.

Are we blocked from seeing NSFW communities on Beehaw? (Not an issue, I would create an alt for that anyway. Just curious)

We sure are, I think it should be in the sidebar but if it’s not, https://opencollective.com/beehaw

A one-time donation will help now, and with all the new users it seems like Beehaw needs some support now. A smaller but recurring monthly contribution would also help now and would add to a regular pool of funds which can allow Beehaw to be able to plan how to accommodate the larger community on a permanent basis. I think the community is worth having to wait through some of the strain right now, but I would like to contribute to infrastructure upgrades and maintenance so I have decided to make a recurring contribution.

Top quality, right there.

That’s excellent. Who is David Revoy?

yeah we hung with the flood of topics about this for a bit but it’s not super tenable (or desirable) on our end for every second post on our front page to be about reddit, lol

Rebellion

If the AMA taught us anything, it’s that spez doesn’t actually use reddit. Let alone understand it.

Spez is playing both sides so he comes out on top!