• samus12345@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I still read some niche subs from time to time, but I don’t post or vote on anything any more. It could just be confirmation bias, but the comments do seem to be more full of assholes than before the API change.

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      1 year ago

      Not that it’s not confirmation bias but I can confirm what you’re seeing.

      They lost a lot of active, enthusiastic, altruistic friendly people. I don’t think they’ve drawn in worse people, but there are less nice voices to balance out the vitriol. Under the circumstances there’s also less downvoting toxicity.

      I’m pretty sure it’s a real thing but how much it’s felt probably varies community by community.

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        1 year ago

        I also wonder if the combination of losing modding tools and mods being treated like garbage by reddit made them less enthusiastic about doing their (unpaid) job, too.