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Kkk2237pl@lemmy.world 2 days agoThe main reason I stay there are niche subreddits.
Even bigger ones are dead here.
I saw that 2-3year ago people try to copy paste stuff from reddit, but I see its discontinued.
What happend?
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
That was when Reddit killed their API for apps and started charging money for it. It lead to the first lemmy exodus.
Around that time there was a lot of attempts to build community and some perks felt it was useful to bootstrap lemmy with Reddit content.
It mostly resulted in a lot of dead end posts and crap, so I think it got dialled back a lot. It was a lot of noise that people hated/defederated from.