• Appie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t miss Reddit. I checked some comment sections and holy hell is it toxic compared to here. I think part of that is because of what you’ve mentioned in your comment.

    • SpookySnek@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Ever tried having a discussion in any of the default subs? If your opinion differentiates from the hivemind you will be downvoted as spam, without any responses. It completely defeats the purpose of a “discussion”

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        1 year ago

        I don’t see his it won’t happen here. The vote structure is very similar.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah that is true, but it wasn’t as bad on reddit back in the day (as far as I remember), it seems to have happened after reddit went super-mainstream a few years ago. So I am hoping lemmy will be like that until it “potentially” becomes super popular lol

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            1 year ago

            What if Lemmy becomes so successful and then it gets acquired by Reddit? Lol.

            Think of the big corps like Google, Facebook, etc. buying the competitors for their products.

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                1 year ago

                Lmfao, imagine some corpo trying to buy up all the instances one by one while the users all migrate out of the instance immediately when that happens. That would be hilarious.

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                  1 year ago

                  Ooh, i wanna see that happen, like reddit trying to do that and going bankrupt in the process

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      1 year ago

      I used to work for this major company, biggest in my country by far.

      Whether it was going well or poorly, they tended to offer severance packages to “cut back” on their staff, to appease the grotesquely overpaid consultants that analysed their finances.

      What tended to happen, was that the most qualified people, who had no issues finding another job (often better paying), took those packages (I took home a one year salary after having worked there almost three, then had two months vacation and started a better paying job), which left those who didn’t really have other options, those who did the bare minimum and had a lot of useless meetings.

      I guess that’s what reddit is heading for. They are alienating those who contribute the most, the content creators, the mods and the ones who like to engage others. They will be left with their bots, lurkers, racists, reposters and porn-spammers.

      Good riddance.

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        1 year ago

        Completely agree. I’m kinda hoping the substance of reddit just moves to lemmy and none of us will have to deal with so many tools and trolls.

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          1 year ago

          The very minor and surmountable technical barrier of joining the fediverse will do wonders to screen out users capable only of the lowest effort.

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            1 year ago

            It’s really nice to have this “filter” of a complexity because many people who do that low effort stuff don’t want to put effort in even trying to learn a new system (geschweige denn) one of the complexity of the fediverse. If you are ready to go through the process of undertsanding the system you are most likely a valuable part of the community