Comment on Is there a Lemmy equivalent of "r/bestofredditorupdates"?
hanke@feddit.nu 4 weeks agoI think the crowd you are describing are just the wave of technological first adopters who usually have these traits.
As Lemmy becomes more mainstream, the less privacy focused users will grow in numbers and soon you will have more of this type of posts.
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I don’t know that there ever will be a wave of casual users like Reddit and Digg have. This space is filled with substantially more aggressive people than either of those spaces while simultaneously lacking the community of a range of fields that was the original draw for those sites.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
The average comment on Reddit seems more aggressive than the one on Lemmy. Of course, depends on the community
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Im blocking people here daily for being racists. It’s really odd how much racism I see here. It’s not as bad as Voat was but I wouldn’t casually suggest most check this place out.
xorollo@leminal.space 4 weeks ago
I think that due to reddits size, individual people had less overall work to do blocking bad actors.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Any recent example?
Die4Ever@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
IDK, people will probably eventually leave Reddit, as they left Digg and Myspace and many others. Where would they go aside from the Fediverse? Almost all new alternatives being built are using the Fediverse, and it’s the only way to get more than 1000 users currently.
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
There’s no reason to believe they will move on to another version of reddit. There’s no reason to believe they will interact with the fediverse.
Die4Ever@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Well yeah some of the people, but I think the majority (or at least a large portion of them) will want a similar alternative to switch to
VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I half agree but also I think with every extra step reddit takes like banning people for upvoting posts that mention Luigi we see more people interested in a freer alternative.
What lemmy needs is some new use cases reddit doesn’t have, I’ve been thinking about making an adversary debate platform that basically just offers a different format to a thread designed to make understanding events easier. Also I want to try making gamified chat modes where the main image is altered based on agreement or disagreement in the thread, basically an info graphic of the thread.
I’d love to make some game experiences on it too, I was thinking of a similar collaborative experience where user interactions in the thread alter the main image gameboard - would be great to use the existing floss infrastructure to make something open and fun.