• ultra@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Better than every user from Reddit coming to Lemmy, for a few reasons:

    • servers would crash
    • the reddit “hivemind” would move to Lemmy
    • the shitty jokes would continue here
    • just check r/redditmoment, do you want that to become c/lemmymoment?
    • right now the community here is big enough that there are enough posts to keep us entertained, but small enough to get to interact multiple times with the same people and not get drowned in a sea of posts/comments
    • the Lemmy community rn is also formed of at least mildly tech-savvy people (that could figure out the whole instances thing), that isn’t the case for Reddit
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      I don’t really agree on the whole tbh. Specifically, the one thing that’s still keeping my Reddit account alive is that there’s a bunch of communities that don’t exist on any other platform because they’d need enough of a “critical mass” of users for it to make sense; and they’re too niche otherwise.
      A huge influx of users certainly comes with… Challenges, I do not deny that. But I’d also love to not have to use Reddit anymore solely because of its active user count. And new Lemmy users are unlikely to come from Twitter or something; as it’s a different kind of format.

      Also, I think the sentiment of “the Lemmy community rn is also formed of at least mildly tech-savvy people […]” is kind of exclusionary for no real reason, I don’t think you have to be tech-savvy to have a good perspective on things, make a good joke or all in all be a positive person to interact with.

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        1 year ago

        I Wholeheartedly agree. Especially on the exclusion of non-techies. Kinda worried Lemmy will become a techie circlejerk with that mentality.

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        1 year ago

        But i think lemmy is a good way for a community to control their own destiny. Instead of the whims of a corporate overlord

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      the shitty jokes would continue here

      You’re posting in a meme community lol. Are memes not shitty jokes?

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        1 year ago

        No. Shitty jokes like “I also choose this guy’s dead wife”

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          And the puns. My god the puns.

          I just wanted more info about what’s going on in a video, and now I have to wade through hundreds of low effort puns. And most of them the exact same dumb joke repeated over and over.

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              Yes but there was also the time a guy in Africa took a machete to the face defending an orphanage from looters, and reddit got together and raised a couple hundred thousand to help the orphanage. They built walls and set up security, as well as providing loads of learning material for the kids.

              Point being, there were a lot of good things about reddit - if there weren’t, Lemmy wouldn’t be so similar. The problems with reddit all revolve around the admin, and in particular their efforts to monetise the site and “increase user engagement” by promoting controversy and hostility.

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                The Boston Bombing. Reddit called someone out for it, he killed himself (although iirc it wasn’t quite so closely tied together, as in he was already planning on/did kill himself, but it brought a lot of unnecessary hassle to a family that was already grieving).

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      I’ve been around long enough now to know that that sort of thing is unavoidable long term (and with popularity). The good thing about Lemmy is it’s pretty low-friction to set up a new community on a different instance if need be.

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      The best of subreddit, where it was just a quote from a random Redditor, really annoyed me due to it’s uselessness