I remember that /r/all was actually pretty educational back in the day. There were specific users that you would know by their user names that always posted something insightful.
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psycho_driver@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The dumb masses always eventually follow the smart people. Reddit was full of mostly smart people in the beginning, if you can believe that.
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
nikaaa@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
isn’t that why the hippie movement ended?
namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
And this is why I’m perfectly happy with Lemmy being the size that it is. There certainly are trade-offs - I wish niche communities were bigger - but is it worth bringing in all the other crap that comes in, like all the shit you see on Twitter? No, in my opinion.