Pre-digg immigration OG reddit user here. The enshittification of reddit started when digg users joined en masse and flooded the site with advice animal memes and f7u13 macros.
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EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I dug Digg once upon a time. When they tried to undermine the power users, I found Reddit. Then Reddit enshittified. Now I got Lemmy. It’s where I want to be. No company behind it, milking the users.
Iamaquantummechanic@lemmy.world 4 days ago
sunbeam60@feddit.uk 4 days ago
As someone with a 20 year old Reddit account, I have to say I agree. The character of Reddit did change noticeably when digg users came over. And that’s fine. But it definitely happened.
nosuchanon@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Maybe now they can go back to Digg.
billwashere@lemmy.world 4 days ago
My timeline was
Fark>Slashdot>Digg>Reddit>Lemmy
I don’t allow loops.
Zink@programming.dev 4 days ago
Yep, I’m ready to read the news that this platform surpassed the user base of Lemmy on the first day and never looked back. And I am ready to not be bothered by it.
Good on them for any pain they inflict on reddit. And I do hope the fediverse takes over the global media landscape because that is better for humanity than corpo-governmental gatekeepers. But if Lemmy’s user base just hangs around in the tens of thousands rather than the tens of millions, I am content.
knexcar@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I disagree about being content with a small user base, I want more niche communities beyond News/Politics, Linux/FOSS, and memes.
elephantium@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I have mixed feelings.
On one hand, agreed @ wanting more variety in communities.
OTOH, Lemmy already has too much fucking politics. I don’t want whatever’s infecting reddit to become even MORE prevalent here. shudder
knexcar@lemmy.world 4 days ago
How much worse could it really become in terms of politics? It already feels like 60% of posts are politics, and jumps to 90% if you include the “Windows/Google/AI bad, use Linux/Librewolf/Selfhost” posts.
Doctorbllk@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
Be the change you want to see in the world
YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
It’s effing hard. Doubled the numbers on one community after a year. Both of us are a bit depressed by that.
k0e3@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Sorry for being off topic (from the article), but I have a little community of translators on lemmy.ca if you’re interested in niche communities.
MarieMarion@literature.cafe 4 days ago
What? Where? Nice!
knexcar@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Sadly that’s not one of my niche interests. But thanks for the offer!
Zink@programming.dev 4 days ago
Oh I want those things too. The current size of Lemmy is not my ideal. It’s just really really nice in its current form for me as a unique little nerdy place hidden in plain sight from what most of the internet has become.
It was more the juxtaposition of how the world needs all these open technologies that people band together to create for the good of all, buuuuut if nobody notices this particular one then that will serve my personal interests. And to be clear I’m not hoping for that or trying to hold it back. Just pointing it out. :)