I think my favorite thing about Lemmy is that it feels like Reddit used to. Less negativity, more engaged users (I think). I know it will be fun to watch Reddit die, but if I put spite aside what I’m really mad at Reddit about is more about what Reddit became and maybe part of that is when the general internet user started going to Reddit and it became less like the small community it was years ago. Feel free to disagree or share an argument 😉
Yes! Every time I read a conversation on here, I feel like I’m back on Reddit of yore, and it’s an amazing feeling. I went to Reddit last week (it had an answer to a tech question that was posted a year or so ago), and was appalled at the negativity of the comment section.
I’ve been finding Reddit quite toxic lately, I also find it annoying how much less engaged people are in the actual articles posted and more interested in getting a laugh going off topic.
One thing I really don’t miss are the posts that are like:
I like chocolate.
edit: okay guys, I get that some of you don’t like chocolate, I was just expressing a personal preference.
edit 2: i understand that some people have had distant relatives who have died from eating chocolate, I meant no disrespect to the chocolate-averse community and I’m deeply sorry.
edit 3: someone reported me for suicide to the admins and someone else said I was spreading hate speech, gomna take a break from reddit for a while
Reddit has always had the good stuff in the comments. The shitification, IMO, is the total lack of effort everywhere.
The bulk of reddit has already gone back to reddit.
Don’t get me wrong, lemmy is great just the way it is. We don’t need a continued influx from reddit (although lets see what happens on 1 July).
The best part about Reddit is the sheer amount of actually useful, highly specific information about anything. The friendly community aspect has been, in my opinion, slowly crumbling for a few years now. If Lemmy starts to get as big as current Reddit, then I’m sure it will follow the same path and become shittifed. I do hope it takes a while though.
So call me what you will but I just want a new “Reddit”. I want a place where I can come up with a niche and find a place where people are talking about it. Whether it’s experts or enthusiasts but I want to shared experience of “talking about X”.
Exactly, I don’t need reddit to die, but I do hope long-term ill be able to interact with as many niche communities here.
Exactly, well put. This is what reddit used to be, I hope this place can and will grow into just that in time. I see the potential. Everything starts with very little.
I think those who are not satisfied with the direction Reddit is going are already here and found a new home. Maybe some will come here after the thrid-party-apps cease to work (if they aren’t here already).
The vast majority (the “bulk of Reddit”) doesn’t bother. As long as they can use Reddit the way they use to they will not leave. It possibly has to do with the fact that these users are not tech-savvy enough in general. I don’t mean it in a negative way. They just don’t care because they just focus on other things. And with this in mind these users probably checked out Lemmy already but because the buttons are green and their favorite subreddit is not here yet, it is not appealing to them. So they rather stay on reddit.
no way. this kind of elitism and gatekeeping kills communities
Yeah, I really hope we can get past the culture of thinking lemmy is morally superior to reddit and just focus on having something nice here that no CEO can fuck with.
Not really. I feel like it’s not healthy for any community if all the people you don’t like aren’t there to offer their viewpoint. The more you build an echo chamber with no dissenting opinions, the more extreme it becomes and the less it’s able to deal with things that clash with it’s ideals. The less it’s involved with things that clash with it’s ideals.
-This does not include groups with completely bad faith arguments that are clearly racist bigots.
You’re right in a way, but I think you’re applying a narrow definition of “opinion” when I think most people ITT are thinking about “behaviours”.
Sure, it’s not great to exclude dissenting political opinions, the intolerance paradox being a notable exception. That said, I’m not here to discuss politics.
Say for example that some users will do anything for fake internet points - post anything, say anything, there behaviour is guided by the pursuit of karma and building some kind of following. Other users will do anything for engagement, whatever it takes to get others to engage with them including trolling. I’m happy enough for these types of users to find more rewarding platforms elsewhere. Note that’s different to excluding them, it’s just being a part of a place that isn’t fertile ground for their fixations.
I don’t mind discussing stuff with people who have different views from me, but on Reddit I would mostly type out a comment, imagine what kind of rude retort I’d get, and trash the draft. I remember some years back having a great back and forth with someone on nuclear power and actually changing my mind! But more recently it’s just “you’re wrong and dumb”, no discussion. Ugh.
I’m still very new here, but it feels like Reddit used to, and I like it.
i just hope that lemmy posts are indexed by search engines
They are, I get results. My worry is they are not aggregated/unified. Some lemmy instances don’t have ‘lemmy’ in their name, and I’m not sure if they would show up in a search “X + lemmy”.
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I think I disagree. I have heard this a lot on Reddit and I’ve heard it about Twitter, Google Plus and a bunch of other social networks and I’ve been on small ones and huge ones alike. Honestly, to me, when a social network is large it includes both nuanced discussion and there more casual posting. I don’t see why both can’t exist on the same site and I feel like it often does exist on the same site.
I also think people have a huge range of interests, some of which might be quite niche and having a large user base means these niche communities can thrive. When I’ve used smaller social networks, this typically has been the problem. They often have their tech communities covered and they often have other large common hobbies and interests covered, but if you take for example learning welsh or theremin music or something else, then you typically only get communities about those things on larger networks.
Perhaps not the bulk. As people flee Reddit, I’ve been already noticing a few users here behaving as they were in Reddit: assumers, irrationals, context-illiterate, “chrust me” babble, so goes on. I feel like those perhaps would do a great service for Lemmy if they stayed in Reddit.
However I also think that this is partially a result of the environment, as Reddit has been tailored for stupidity. So it’s possible that those users start behaving a bit more like decent people, as time goes by.
I definitely get how you feel, but I think free communities stay like this one in tone, regardless of whether they get substantial growth. I think it could be a counterintuitive sign of health when Lemmy is big enough that some of its userbase is kinda annoying and you have to find the subs (is that the right term here?) with the community that you like
The equivalent to “subreddits” are called Communities in Lemmy and Magazines in Kbin
Subs=subscriptions.
Harder to abbreviate
You can call them commies if you wish.
I definitely hope the… simply massive amount of information stored there is archived in some way. I was troubleshooting some technical issues for a very niche hardware and software application this morning and the only sources I could find were on reddit.
I feel similarly about Discord. There is so much technical knowledge and information that would be lost in the blink of an eye if Discord shut down.
I helped a lot of people with niche hardware and software troubleshoot things for years on Reddit, I’m planning to leave my comments up because of that.
The amount of times I would search for something to only find threads of people asking about an issue followed by comments that say “deleted by [X software on github] in protest for [issue that was solved years ago]” and responses praising the deleted comment for helping them is too damn high.
Or hell trawling the internet archive for dead sites trying to find solutions.
I don’t want people to have to go through that.
I don’t care where my answers come from, I just want to troubleshoot crap in a timely manner.
!datahoarder@lemmy.ml did a great job archiving all of reddit and making it available on archive.org. 13.23 billion archives and counting. So personally I just grab reddit links, change them to old.reddit.com and put them in the wayback machine
Off topic but I like your icon :>
Also i agree - there’s lots of answers i can only get from obscure reddit posts…
Not really, I miss having niche communities that were populated. I get where you’re coming from, but I think more warm bodies around here will be a good thing.
Reddit is not going to die. Not atleast in foreseeable future.
Definitely. It’s going to become a mainstream platform like Instagram.
