• localhost443@discuss.tchncs.de
      10·
      7 months ago

      Coming to Lemmy means losing some of the really well supported niche communities from Reddit of old and that was the biggest hit of leaving, but the site being such cancer now I wonder how well they are doing anyway.

      Lemmy, once you’ve blocked 90% of the weird tankies, really does feel like Reddit from 10+ years ago in the comments. It’s just a shame due to its current small size how single minded the general feed often feels. Hopefully that improves

      • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        7 months ago

        It doesn’t have anywhere near enough of the weird transformation porn I like to be Reddit from 10 years ago

          • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            7 months ago

            Drawn images of things like chicks having their booba get bigger because of magic or dudes turning into anthropomorphic horses… Stuff like that

            And that’s just the tamer stuff.

      • zeroday@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        7 months ago

        I’m curious, what do you mean when you say “tankie”? It’s a word that’s used to mean so many different things these days

    • bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      7 months ago

      One issue with alternative smaller platforms can also be them becoming cesspools of users banned from the big platform. The first couple of Reddit alternatives quickly collected the racists and jailbait porn.

      A viable alternative platform needs more than extremist niches.

    • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nzEnglish
      13·
      7 months ago

      A lot of these people will have never used an algorithm-less platform in their entire life.

      Drag can confirm, drag has never used a social media without algorithms. Unless talking through two cans and a string counts.