Perhaps this is a dark thought… but I’m wondering what the future Lemmy equivalents to “We did it Reddit!” or “Thanks for the gold kind stranger!” will be.
It seems like something cliche or corny always springs up, like it’s unavoidable.
Please, no. Can we have a little decorum here?
“Thanks for the gold kind stranger!”
That line made me cringe everytime I saw it.
See also:
“I’m not crying you’re crying!”
“This!”
“Wow this really blew up! Thanks everyone! <insert cheesy/cringy speech about being the main character in their life for 5 seconds”>"Literally was given gold on Apollos goodbye post after I thanks Christian and said fuck u/Spez. I had to edit it and tell people to stop spending money on gold. It defeats the fucking purpose.
Many people had coins/points left over from back when they were giving them out for free. I gave my last free gold to people who suggested kbin as a matter of fact
I had over 15000 Reddit coins when I cancelled my premium subscription last month. I’ve had it since they handed out years of premium when they killed Alien Blue. When it ran out I decided I enjoyed paying for no ads and still remembered when they’d tell you how much server time you paid for and would announce all the new servers coming online that came from gold users.
Anyway I used to get a kick out of spending my coins on people who hated it. I handed out more than a few in June, but it was money already spent.
Fair. I have a ton of coins from the alien blue era too. Never cost me anything. Good point.
I hope that’s the worst that happens to Lemmy. My worry is that it slowly dies off after it doesn’t grow enough to keep people interested.
Why are so many people rushing to turn Lemmy into the next Reddit?
Same thing with the various Twitter migrations where they kept trying to turn Mastodon/ Calckey into the new Twitter. I think people like familiarity.
Lemmy is strongly inspired by reddit. So it shouldn’t be too unexpected that a culture similar to that of the reddit community will develop here.
People liked Reddit.
Sure, and Lemmy existed prior to the “Reddit exodus”, so people like Lemmy too.
Maybe enjoy Lemmy for what it is, before trying to bend and twist it into Reddit’s image? Why not consider it a fresh start.
I think it’s more a desire to bring what was good over.
The powermods just demonstrated they can only survive without their precious powertrip for 2 days TOPS, most of our mods are passionate pioneers but in the long term we might also have the powermod problem faced on pretty much every site except Wikipedia’s gigachads and RationalWiki’s democratically-elected mod team. But even then, simply defedding your instance from the ones they powertrip on should quarantine them, and it also helps that since we’re nonprofit they have no boots to lick.
I REALLY don’t want us to bully kids to the point of suicide for using Reddit.
And I dread the day that c/atheism becomes just another embarrassing circlejerk dedicated entirely to bashing believers and blaming all current problems on their overall existence.
I get the impression that the goal is more to have Lemmy fill the hole that Reddit has left rather than duplicating it in some way; Take the good and leave the bad.
I have thought about, what if we set up a similar gold system that donated money to the Lemmy software, and the instance owner to help cover costs? I’m sure we’d collectively ruin it though.
A federated gold system would be difficult because we would need a way to stop an activitypub server from sending fake gold
Nostr have a adopted a system for this. It would be cool to integrate the Lightning Network into Lemmy as well!
Not exactly the same thing but… People are already referring to Lemmy users as “Lemmings” which, yeah it makes sense… But it also has some stereotypes associated with it that aren’t what I’d like to be associated with, you know?
I can already imagine it being used in a phrase with something about jumping off cliffs and being brainless followers and whatnot. Especially with this exodus situation. lol
The Lemmings suicide thing is actually a myth, made up for views by some documentary crew who forced Lemmings off a cliff. I looked the source up a while ago and that is what I found as information. I hope we can restore their reputation so I keep telling people.
https://www.britannica.com/story/do-lemmings-really-commit-mass-suicide
Now what I do like is this:
When the concentration of lemmings becomes too high in one area, a large group will set out in search of a new home.
That‘s so fitting to our situation, in a way. Let‘s hope the fediverse is a good home.
I personally like Lemmonites for Lemmy, but I think I’m alone there. Fedditors is starting to catch on and is more inclusive of the fediverse as a whole but I kinda don’t like fedditor because it defines us by what we left behind. It’s probably the best choice we have out there right now though.
Lemmy is only barely getting started. It’s way to early to try talk about what annoying over used phrases will plague the platform.
Random thought related to gold, but I wonder if it would be feasible to make some kind of fediverse tipping system that allowed people to give tips that showed up as something gold-like or award-like. Could be neat, but validating the payment when multiple instances are involved could be challenging without getting instances involved with payment gateways and finance regulations. I’m sure it could be done with crypto but that would probably be offputting to most people.
Could be a thing for individual instances. Broadly not Lemmy wide, can’t wait for the first stupid Internet drama here.
One month into my home instance’s existence (lemmy.world) and we’ve already had our inaugural hack and a few technical growing pains that broke several mobile apps for days
“I don’t mean to spez, but I don’t agree…” (I’m not trying to be an asshole, but…)
“Lemmy say…” (my opinion is…)
“And L’Emmy for best performance goes to…” (praise a good comment)
“Let me provide a cool glass of Lemmy-aid for you.” (I’m giving a friendly bit of unsolicited advice.)
“Quite the CaLemmyTea!” (A big disagreement or negative event (catastrophe) that ended in a surprisingly civil way (like over a good cup of tea.))
Lemmy stop you right there.
Honestly, I’m sure that joke is going to get extremely old as time wears on, but right now I always chuckle. Creepy stories is c/lemmyscareyou now. Adorable.
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This needs to be the meme
