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.

[–] Surreal2625@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As always everything gets destroyed by greed.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

I just enjoy a new beginning

[–] pmarcilus@reddthat.com 17 points 2 years 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 2 years 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.

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

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

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.one 0 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

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