3rd party (so unreliable) numbers suggest they lost around 6% user engagement. I woukd guess that serving adds to all the people that switched from 3rd party to official apps probably made up for it in the short term.

[–] spiderkle@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

they'll be lucky yo sell before their IPO.

[–] pmarcilus@reddthat.com 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Once upon a time, reddit was an open-source platform. Never again it has the same face when it decided to close the sources, then the UI changes, then the ads, then the API charges. All of those are for the profits of them, not of users'.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

They don't even try hiding it, they are blatant and egregious about it. They are gonna just eng up chasing all their users away.

[–] Surreal2625@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As always everything gets destroyed by greed.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I just enjoy a new beginning

[–] spiderkle@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

spez isn't done. if he has proven anything is that he doubles down on making the user experience on the platform worse.

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

It's the usual enshitification

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Anyone else finding it hard to comment or post today? Is Lemmy struggling with all the extra traffic?

[–] spiderkle@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

New here, sorry if it's me

[–] GingeyBook@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

We still love you anyways

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, I end up having to specify the language as English in the dropdown otherwise I sometimes get language not allowed.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is because of the users settings that you're relying to

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure, I really think it might be a bug.