Why is this subreddit now just askreddit for movies?
Some time in the last few months, r/movies has been entirely consumed by askreddit-style questions like "What's your favorite hidden gem??" or "What actor fell off the map??"
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What is now causing all these unique, seemingly-non-bot posters to suddenly start flooding this particular subreddit with their discussion posts, instead of going to askreddit? Did the whole reddit protest shit change the moderation rules? Has the subreddit been infiltrated by a secret Buzzfeed content farming cabal? I unsubscribed from r/askreddit because I got sick of this shit, but now it's back on r/movies!
What is going on??
I think the comments are most interesting though
Because the audience for reddit has dwindled since July. Reddits offial site and app push controversial posts over just well yovkted ones. Most controversial posts asks inane questions. Then there's bots reposting those questions for karma and then websites juicing social media for content to get crammed down your throat via SEO.
They should make a second internet just for people
This all started with the boycott.
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I’d assumed things would go back to “normal” after the boycott, but it looks like a lot of power users really did take their ball and go home. (I wonder what they’re doing with their time instead? Hopefully some new hobbies? Time with friends?) Maybe reddit will regret removing the 3rd party apps, after all? Maybe we’ll just accept a future where niche subs become little more than BuzzFeed polls, but we get paid if our poll does well, so users won’t care?
It's because Reddit is trying to drive engagement. I don't know if you noticed, but since the purge of third-party apps, the comment sections have been kind of meager, and things don't get as many upvotes as they used to. Heck, half the comments act like bots anyway. It seems like reddit has been distilled down to those most addicted to it and has taken a hard lean into all the most extreme views.
When Reddit killed third party apps, the quality fell off all over the place. It took me about a month to realize the timing and why r/all had so much AITA rage bait stories and celebrity gossip and stuff now. I think a lot of the quality posters and people who liked more high brow discussions just left Reddit.
I think that depends on the circumstances. The peak here is like a million times higher than anything I've ever seen on Reddit (possibly I did not look hard enough:-). The average is probably lower, but even that depends on your instance.
One aspect is that Reddit had (has?) more niche communities, which by their very nature may be of more interest to you, and depending on the niche and community, that may remain on Reddit, have moved here somewhat, or elsewhere like Discord or forum boards/Twitter/Mastodon/etc., or just more or less ceased to exist altogether (possibly in a more complex way like a large fraction of content creators post nowhere now).
Also the presence of high toxicity - on Reddit, or here, or wherever - runs people off too. So burnt out moderators (or doesn't Kbin entirely lack any moderation tools at all?) means fewer comments overall.
"Overall" comment quality maybe should not even be measured evenly across everything when you can easily digest ones like these, but what looks like longer ones yet that contain misinformation are much more damaging to your perception of a place and overall feelings of love or disgust for it.
Finally, another aspect is that Lemmy/Kbin requires much heavier investments from the users - to choose an instance, a community, and curate your experiences in them. But once you put in the work and know how, it should get much better!
I am sure that I offered little in the way of actual solutions here, but I hope you enjoyed these thoughts at least:-).