I know we all are in rage about reddit’s fuckery, but this says nothing about the state of the website.
we already knew reddit was not the objective truth or wikipedia, but mostly an echo chamber. incrementing the check on the information objectivity will NOT hamper reddit’s growth. we’ve already seen other social media thrive without the weight of fact-checking or their intended purpose (facebook, instagram, I’d dare to say the new twitter as well).
I as all of you would love to see reddit bomb so badly that they’ll all end unemployed and spez under a bridge sleeping with cardboard sheets, but that’s not going to happen soon.
we should stop looking at how badly is reddit doing, and start watching at how to make Lemmy a better reddit instead.
Yeah, I hate Reddit as a company for the same reasons as everyone else, but I keep going back there because the quality and diversity of discussion on Lemmy isn’t good enough.
It’s like early Reddit in that people stay on topic and make relatively high effort comments, but it’s dominated by straight white male libertarian software engineers, so you get really narrow viewpoints that overwhelm anything else.
This. The whole circlejerk about how much better Lemmy is and how people are so glad they left reddit is getting really old, really fast. Meanwhile, any interesting post that would be normally spur fervent and meaningful discussion on reddit has maybe a dozen comments on Lemmy, most of them low effort. Heck, this exact same article on reddit’s r/technology has 10x more comments and way more total engagement.
The spam and toxicity here are the same as on reddit with a different tone. Lemmy is just another echo chamber with a different coat of paint, and the only differences are a lack of ads and way less people and diversity to interact with.
It’s something I’ve seen POC on Mastodon complaining about, that everyone in the fediverse thinks they belong in every discussion. It’s been the same with the autism community on Lemmy, I’ll say something about my experience of autism and immediately get a reply like “I’m not autistic but I disagree”.
At least Reddit is big enough that not every post hits the front page and gets a comment from every user, so niche subs can fly under the radar a bit.
Yea. I felt like the article was just nitpicking about not much change at all. Just past mods reminiscing? The nut graph of the write up was not great to begin with and the body wasn’t really news…
I know we all are in rage about reddit’s fuckery, but this says nothing about the state of the website.
we already knew reddit was not the objective truth or wikipedia, but mostly an echo chamber. incrementing the check on the information objectivity will NOT hamper reddit’s growth. we’ve already seen other social media thrive without the weight of fact-checking or their intended purpose (facebook, instagram, I’d dare to say the new twitter as well).
I as all of you would love to see reddit bomb so badly that they’ll all end unemployed and spez under a bridge sleeping with cardboard sheets, but that’s not going to happen soon.
we should stop looking at how badly is reddit doing, and start watching at how to make Lemmy a better reddit instead.
I don’t even think about Reddit anymore. Let it fade into obscurity.
Yeah I haven’t been back once since they blocked Sync. Hopefully it rots and dies, just like Digg before it.
Yeah, I hate Reddit as a company for the same reasons as everyone else, but I keep going back there because the quality and diversity of discussion on Lemmy isn’t good enough.
It’s like early Reddit in that people stay on topic and make relatively high effort comments, but it’s dominated by straight white male libertarian software engineers, so you get really narrow viewpoints that overwhelm anything else.
This. The whole circlejerk about how much better Lemmy is and how people are so glad they left reddit is getting really old, really fast. Meanwhile, any interesting post that would be normally spur fervent and meaningful discussion on reddit has maybe a dozen comments on Lemmy, most of them low effort. Heck, this exact same article on reddit’s r/technology has 10x more comments and way more total engagement.
The spam and toxicity here are the same as on reddit with a different tone. Lemmy is just another echo chamber with a different coat of paint, and the only differences are a lack of ads and way less people and diversity to interact with.
It’s something I’ve seen POC on Mastodon complaining about, that everyone in the fediverse thinks they belong in every discussion. It’s been the same with the autism community on Lemmy, I’ll say something about my experience of autism and immediately get a reply like “I’m not autistic but I disagree”.
At least Reddit is big enough that not every post hits the front page and gets a comment from every user, so niche subs can fly under the radar a bit.
Yea. I felt like the article was just nitpicking about not much change at all. Just past mods reminiscing? The nut graph of the write up was not great to begin with and the body wasn’t really news…