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You know… I never thought about that. I would usually wonder why trainers only have like 2 or 3 pokemon.

I only have 2 dogs despite there likely being 150 breeds. What kind of psycho would horde so many pokemon?

Imagine a charmander and evolutions. Constant fire hazard from the tail alone. That little fuck would spend it’s entire life in it’s pokeball if I want to have any hope of insurance covering my house.

Actually I feel like insurance just wouldn’t cover you if you have any pokemon at all unless you pay extremely high premiums.

“Fine… It’s Imagine Dragon… These balls over your face! Eyyyyy!”

It would’ve at least given us closure.

To be fair, with a website as huge as reddit, a 25% or even 50% decrease in user activity probably won’t be that noticeable from someone like us. Instead of 2 million posts a day, it’s not now 1 million. Or instead of 500k, it’s 250k. None of those are knew we could feasibly differentiate.

Maybe if you sit on r/all and keep track of how fast new posts are moving, but even then, the algorithm may still just move the same number of posts up and down the main pages. So even then, it would be hard to tell if usage is down.

Now obviously there’s no way it’s down that much. It’s significantly lower. But I’m just saying even if we pretend that it was down that much, it would look like business as usual.

Also, either way, I’m still glad to find this place. It feels nicer and offers what I wanted in a way reddit couldn’t.

Yes. Has been for a while now. I’m thinking probably years at this point.

That’s not feasible if you upvote a lot of stuff. There’s a difference between, “let me upvote this so it gets visibility and to help there be activity on this site so it can grow” and “This has a piece of information that I want to look at later when I need it.”

They are two different markets. You can also buy the next elder scrolls have while paying for ESO.

One is a single player game, the other is an mmo with that mmo feel.

Yeah this is definitely step 5 type of deal. A while ago, they stopped adding api features for apps. So most apps couldn’t add any functionality. And not only that but even if you do somehow keep access to the api, you can’t do so with NSFW content. So they also took away something from api access.

Then there was the thing where apps couldn’t start with the name Reddit (like Reddit Boost had to turn into Boost for Reddit). I think Reddit is Fun was okay because it sounded less like an official app and just describing reddit or something. Not sure why they got to keep it.

The whole new reddit redesign to feel more like Facebook is just gross.

All the 9,000+ awards that meant nothing? Like you get a free one a day and maybe you get the wholesome one so you ironically give that award to a post about dying animals or something. So many posts just have so many random “awards” that it just feels like jingling keys in front of us to keep us engaged.

Reddit may not be dead yet. Maybe not for a while. But I’m not going to be holding on to the very last second. It’s been getting worse for a long time and this was just a good excuse to jump before it gets worse.

It will be fun to see what changes they make to moderators due to the blackout of this highly unpopular decision that they refuse to back down from.