I have no idea.

I bet Google searching in general has gone down too. It's often times quicker to just ask ChatGPT for an answer, and usually you can tell when an answer is correct or not. It's like the old days of manually searching on Google for StackOverflow questions and then finding answers, and then trying to determine which one will work.

This is 100% it. People who think giving additional traffic to reddit hurts reddit are very dumb lol

The only thing we could do is write join Lemmy and hope that more people will join Lemmy.

It's the only thing that will actually make a difference.

To add onto this, when someone who can't afford something pirates something, there is no lost sale because there never was a sale there to begin with. It didn't take any money away from the company since they were never going to see any money from that person.

With that said, the only piracy I partake in is for archival purposes, and like you I buy Steam games regardless because it's too convenient like you said.

They are really trying hard to piss off all their users lol

They have no idea what they're doing. It's kind of hilarious but also really sad.

Yep. I feel like all of the high-value like high-quality posters are now here or elsewhere and are done with reddit. I used to post a ton on reddit, even across multiple accounts. Now I just post here. lol

It's kind of crazy how these popular services are always insistent on killing themselves off with these horrible changes.

Actually, to be fair, they're being paid salaries to work on Lemmy lol

Though the 0.18.0 update was quite nice and solved a lot of issues I had, so it's definitely cool to see how well it's progressing.

Oh, so that's why I can't land a job this year. lol

I wanna self-host my own instance so I have more control over my data.