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The warnings and bans have gotten ridiculous. Reddit is dead. It just doesn’t know it yet.
The warnings and bans have gotten ridiculous. Reddit is dead. It just doesn’t know it yet.
Still there, but with the new accounts after the email switch at the beginning of the year only on a handful of subreddits and slowly migrating away.
But there ARE faaaaar many more people there still - especially ones with whom you can have interesting discussions. Most lemmy/etc instances dealing with the boycott of US stuff are small and really sometimes can feel like an echo chamber. And a lot of trolls.
There are still a lot of people on reddit but man has the quality of posting dropped in the past couple of years.
if lemmy communities were more diverse and entertaining yeah i’d agree
I get it, especially for users that have always been more on the lurking side (and this isn’t judging, that has always been the majority for any platform) - it can be a bit empty. As someone who has been here since 4 years ago (now I’m on a new account on my own instance), the first two years of that basically just visiting every few months out of curiosity, I can slowly see more diverse communities popping up recently, beyond the established strong points of Lemmy (FOSS, Politics, LGBTQ+ memes). And this time, unlike the first Reddit exodus, I have more confidence in them not immediately dying from lack of conviction and activity.
But of course, the sheer gargantuan user count of Reddit comes with many advantages. For many obscure topics, there will still be enough people, that a sufficient amount of “super users” congregate to provide content and moderation, so that lurkers can usually participate and still post sporadically. The latter is of course also a giant advantage, millions of people posting occasionally still provide lots and lots of posts and comments. And of course, it will take a long time and more fuckups for Reddit not simply being “the default” if you want to create a forum for a community around something. (Also, waaay too much of our knowledge is on that platform, we carelessly gave answers to help fellow humans, and now the answers are on Reddit for them to appear in countless internet searches, and for them to do with as they please.)
Where Lemmy currently has its strong suits is enthusiasm of parts of the user base, fewer issues getting noticed at all among the millions of (bot/re)-posts, and where there is activity, I’ve usually seen it panning out being able to handle actual discussions. (Though, lets not kid ourselves, of course the Reddit-like structure also still encourages circle jerks. I don’t even think that is that large of a problem, but it’s a reality.)
If you feel you end up having the energy to keep a community alive through dry spell, sure, be the change you seek, but it’s okay and understandable if you don’t want to invest the energy and work (at the moment). In that case, just stay tuned, check out the communities that pop up in all/scaled or all/new for interesting ones currently getting more traction, the Threadiverse will take a long time before it can replace a giant like reddit, but it has a few good stones for its sling up its sleeve.
This is my first week here after ten years+ years on Reddit.
I’m not going back. This place is quaint. It feels like the internet of old.
Be the change you seek.
and had more mature adults being able to write coherent understandable texts and not only youngsters and trolls …
Says the guy on Reddit.
One step at a time.
Would love to see if there is any self awareness in the comments
I’m willing to take a guess
One dude half self aware, knows about Lemmy, but also thinks it’s too hard to join.
I’m on both rn because reddit’s userbase is still bigger atm and not every sub I subbed to on reddit has an equivalent here
