I can likely fall into some version of a category of learned professional. IMO, it’s fine, many of us have made our migration to Lemmy. Reddit can burn.
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minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 1 week agoReddit has been a an archive of some of the greatest collective minds of humanity. Besides the general algorithm up voting bots hogwash, there have been some really good subreddits with excellent information from learned professionals on topics. it I wish it was preserved rather than deleted. The AskHistorians is one of my favourite professional vetted and clean subreddits, lots of academic discussions there.
But all things have a Golden Era, and then it’s enshittified and fades away. As Lemmy will be one day too.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 week ago
A bit weird that there isn’t the same cultivation of professionalism though. I feel I don’t see much of it here like there was on Reddit. Makes me wonder if Reddit worked behind the scenes to create it
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Narrator: they didn’t.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I think there probably did.
aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I don’t disagree necessarily but this is a very euphoric comment
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah, and try as we might, we haven’t been able to replicate its biggest selling point. It was unfortunately also its greatest vulnerability regarding the corporatetake over.
It was a central location from which thousands of large, niche communities could be found.
Lemmy is great, but the decentralized nature of it also fragments small communities and makes it hard for them to launch. I was super active of the Scuba subreddit, but on Lemmy, there are like 8 scuba communities spread across the instances, but they’re all so small there’s no activity on them, and that fragmentation makes it difficult for one to reach the necessary critical mass to become active.