Comment on Has Reddit acknowledged the existence of Lemmy?

• mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We are our own unique ecosystem. It's fine as is.

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  • Fingolfinz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Exactly. I love how there is actual discourse here rather than petty bickering and useful discussions are happening on here that I didn’t encounter on reddit

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    • naught101@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I hope it continues as Lemmy gets bigger, but I’m kind of doubtful it won’t eventually decay in the same way as reddit. At least, I don’t see anything inherently different that would avoid that. Perhaps the federation and moderation structure might help, but that doesn’t seem certain yet…

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    • charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Whatever boomer!

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• Addv4@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Pretty much. I still occasionally have to go to reddit for some random questions, and the difference in tone is often rather jarring.

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  • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s an impressive difference really. I’ve yet to be called any slurs here, and most people seem to follow the “upvote if it adds to the discussion, downvote if it doesn’t” principle. I’m totally fine with a more limited amount of content if that’s the tradeoff.

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    • Addv4@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah. It largely reminds me of what reddit used to be a long time ago, a place for interesting stuff and to have a pleasant conversation.

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• ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Who does you think used Lemmy though?

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  • stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Based on how nerdy reddit seems to be with all the Linux talk the demographic that is more similar to old reddit.

    There was a period early in reddit when it seemed more techy. Later on it became more mainstream with a shift towards people posting in a manner more similar to Facebook and Instagram sharing more personal pics and memes.

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    • Machinist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I imagine the pipeline for a lot of users is some variant of:

      BBS/Usenet | Slashdot/SomethingAwful/Ars Technica | Digg | Reddit | Lemmy

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• RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My experience with people on Reddit was better than the one with people on Lemmy, but i am probably an exception considering the amount of people saying Lemmy is much better than Reddit

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  • EddoWagt@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    As long as you block Lemmy.ml and hexbear.net it’s much better to be honest, I don’t really like blocking an entire group of people like that but it really does help

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    • RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My instance hides most political communities unless you are subscribed to them so people saying that Russia and China are amazing is not a problem; i see people complaining about lemmy.ml way more

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