I expect reddit will roll it out slowly and stop if they're losing too many users. If they actually follow through and impose age "verification" on everyone it'll be a bigger exodus than anything seen before — so they probably won't.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

reddit seemed to have lost tons of "traffic" in the past few months, which is why they are implementing the aggressive logins right now. i think it was reported on another forum that it was AI/chatgpt not referencing or scraping reddit anymore in thier summaries, which is the result of reddits ever increaisng filter that was banning people last year. they lost too much people last year as well from indisriminate bannings. so the user generated posts became less usefull, and started to be filled with most AI posting.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 1 day ago

Ah, the discord approach

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Why should we care what people that are still using Reddit do or don't do do?

Sorry, but anybody still there deserves whatever shit they get.

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (14 children)

Certainly. Don't know how large and when, but a significant (relative to our size) bunch of people would likely show up. That plus people who dabble in both would increase their activity here. The threadiverse is more or less guaranteed to grow and form a solid contrubutor base. We don't seek to increase profits YoY so our services are only going to get better over time. For-profit socials have to grow profits over time, so they are going to get worse. Increase in service quality for for-profit platforms is a temporary stage of their development. The threadiverse will be around in 5-10 years time, in some shape or form and it'll be larger and better than it is today. This is why I keep pushing the vote buttons and type words every day. Deliberately spending more time than I'd like. 😄

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[+] ceiphas@feddit.org -10 points 1 day ago (17 children)

Don't call the fediverse threadiverse...

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 8 points 1 day ago

Didn't realize you made the rules

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Here is an interesting post on the topic. The TLDR is that the term Threadiverse predated the shitty attempt by Threads to do whatever, and some of the biggest names in the Threadiverse including the software developers underpinning it decided not to allow Meta to steal it from us.

Besides, Threads is more or less fully dead now, isn't it? And anyway it's preemptively defederated by pretty much literally every instance out there, including those that famously defederate from virtually ~~anything~~ (edit: nothing) else - including even CSAM spammers.

Regardless, long live the Threadiverse! Other terms like Forumverse or just Verse may have worked better but... meh, people got used to calling it the Threadiverse and it just kinda stuck, or rather they did not want to change it. Feel free to advocate for something better, but the matter feels kinda settled now, so you would be going against what everyone else does routinely now.

In that post I included links to older comments proving usage of that term prior to Meta announcing its naming of Threads. We truly had it first, so using the term now is not in homage to them, but rather in spite of them.

Also, at this point I usually add an obligatory fuck spez... except I realize that I haven't done so for months now, because at some point it's okay to simply move on and forget him. That's the real way to dispose of trolls: just forget they ever existed in the first place! :-P

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