I hope this doesn’t come across the wrong way, but… does Lemmy want to become Reddit?
A few years ago when I first tried Lemmy, I had a lot of the same criticisms. I had no idea what instance to choose and was agonizing over it, until I saw a comment that said “it doesn’t fucking matter what instance you start with. Just pick a big one and get going.”
After a couple months of browsing and getting familiar, I now have multiple accounts on multiple instances and use a couple of them frequently. I don’t need one single identity on a social media platform, and because karma doesn’t matter, I jump ship on my accounts whenever I want.
At this point, I don’t think I want Reddit users to migrate over to Lemmy. A lot of the problems with Reddit come from their users. Lemmy has a far better culture than Reddit.
The user experience of Lemmy could improve, but there’s an assumption that Lemmy should be a kind of “Reddit killer”, but after a few years of using Lemmy, I could care less about that.
One thing I really miss from Reddit is that there’s almost always an expert in the comments. And I don’t mean a know-it-all, I mean people of the kind “I wrote the paper this article is based on”, “I used this exact tool professionally for the last ten years”, and of course amazing “Astronomer here”. These people come from having much larger user base. I don’t want all the people from Reddit here, but I do want more, and these in particular. Of course, if we get these, the others will follow, which will probably be sort of a problem.
Also, it would be have a wider range of people here, now it’s very, very much skewed towards IT.
“If there’s something worth stealing, I steal!”
–Picasso
In this case, yeah… there’s still plenty of good design and features to lift from Reddit, and why not? Also, in terms of the FV as whole (i.e., not just Lemmy), I’d love to persuade more of Reddit’s better users to migrate, especially the more they realise that they’re not much more than a “$” sign to spez and the investors, anyway.
Pretty crazy how we saw such naked greed and contempt from them back in Summer '23, and yet the bias of recency (or whatever it has) has largely normalised it out of existence for both the Reddit and the FV side. Like… bloody hell, mate…
I hope this doesn’t come across the wrong way, but… does Lemmy want to become Reddit?
A few years ago when I first tried Lemmy, I had a lot of the same criticisms. I had no idea what instance to choose and was agonizing over it, until I saw a comment that said “it doesn’t fucking matter what instance you start with. Just pick a big one and get going.”
After a couple months of browsing and getting familiar, I now have multiple accounts on multiple instances and use a couple of them frequently. I don’t need one single identity on a social media platform, and because karma doesn’t matter, I jump ship on my accounts whenever I want.
At this point, I don’t think I want Reddit users to migrate over to Lemmy. A lot of the problems with Reddit come from their users. Lemmy has a far better culture than Reddit.
The user experience of Lemmy could improve, but there’s an assumption that Lemmy should be a kind of “Reddit killer”, but after a few years of using Lemmy, I could care less about that.
One thing I really miss from Reddit is that there’s almost always an expert in the comments. And I don’t mean a know-it-all, I mean people of the kind “I wrote the paper this article is based on”, “I used this exact tool professionally for the last ten years”, and of course amazing “Astronomer here”. These people come from having much larger user base. I don’t want all the people from Reddit here, but I do want more, and these in particular. Of course, if we get these, the others will follow, which will probably be sort of a problem.
Also, it would be have a wider range of people here, now it’s very, very much skewed towards IT.
Advocatus diaboli:
“If there’s something worth stealing, I steal!”
–Picasso
In this case, yeah… there’s still plenty of good design and features to lift from Reddit, and why not? Also, in terms of the FV as whole (i.e., not just Lemmy), I’d love to persuade more of Reddit’s better users to migrate, especially the more they realise that they’re not much more than a “$” sign to spez and the investors, anyway.
Pretty crazy how we saw such naked greed and contempt from them back in Summer '23, and yet the bias of recency (or whatever it has) has largely normalised it out of existence for both the Reddit and the FV side. Like… bloody hell, mate…
I’m with you about 2023. I guess outage is cheaper than change.