Again, when I said “children” and teenagers, I didn’t mean to offend or anything, so I hope I didn’t offend you.
I was trying to get at the idea that a lot of people who reddit considers their target market now aren’t really the people who helped build it into what it is over the last, man, for some it’s almost two decades. The site has changed a lot over the years. (There used to be a time when there weren’t even comments; it was just links and upvotes/downvotes. It was actually a controversial decision to allow comments, ironically.)
I’d actually hazard a guess that Lemmy/kbin/Fedi probably has a younger userbase as well, so yeah, it’s not really about age. I do wonder if the ratio is closer here than it is on reddit right now, but it might be more or less the same.
To be honest, I’ve also noticed that in a lot of online spaces, younger people (Jesus, I sound fucking old; I’m just a regular millennial) tend to be more passionate about protesting.
Another reason is that this might not have pulled user is is that people do not like mods on reddit. Especially over the last few years. It’s always been kind of a joke (“lol, mods live in mother’s basement” and that kind of shit), but with “power mods” and stuff like that, there’s a pervasive “fuck the mods” attitude which meant that “anything that hurts the mods is good, they need to know their place” or some other nonsense.
(IMO, power mods are, and have always been, bad for reddit. So I think it’s a legitimate complaint, but power mods =/= mods in general, who were the ones mostly participating here. I think the power mods were actually the most quiet on this.)
In two days, when the spam probably starts slipping through the cracks, they’re still going to blame the mods anyway.
But we’ll see. I don’t know. Reddit is chasing a different crowd now.
(By the way, light mode is my jam, so you and I have that in common. My Linux terminal theme would piss off at least 90% of Linux users who spend any time using commands.)
Oh, yeah. Totally.
Again, when I said “children” and teenagers, I didn’t mean to offend or anything, so I hope I didn’t offend you.
I was trying to get at the idea that a lot of people who reddit considers their target market now aren’t really the people who helped build it into what it is over the last, man, for some it’s almost two decades. The site has changed a lot over the years. (There used to be a time when there weren’t even comments; it was just links and upvotes/downvotes. It was actually a controversial decision to allow comments, ironically.)
I’d actually hazard a guess that Lemmy/kbin/Fedi probably has a younger userbase as well, so yeah, it’s not really about age. I do wonder if the ratio is closer here than it is on reddit right now, but it might be more or less the same.
To be honest, I’ve also noticed that in a lot of online spaces, younger people (Jesus, I sound fucking old; I’m just a regular millennial) tend to be more passionate about protesting.
Another reason is that this might not have pulled user is is that people do not like mods on reddit. Especially over the last few years. It’s always been kind of a joke (“lol, mods live in mother’s basement” and that kind of shit), but with “power mods” and stuff like that, there’s a pervasive “fuck the mods” attitude which meant that “anything that hurts the mods is good, they need to know their place” or some other nonsense.
(IMO, power mods are, and have always been, bad for reddit. So I think it’s a legitimate complaint, but power mods =/= mods in general, who were the ones mostly participating here. I think the power mods were actually the most quiet on this.)
In two days, when the spam probably starts slipping through the cracks, they’re still going to blame the mods anyway.
But we’ll see. I don’t know. Reddit is chasing a different crowd now.
(By the way, light mode is my jam, so you and I have that in common. My Linux terminal theme would piss off at least 90% of Linux users who spend any time using commands.)