The thing I like most about the fediverse, unlike reddit, is that people are genuinely posting things they care about or like, rather than posting to be a karma whore. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve posted in reddit and it instantly gets stolen and used in another sub simply to get easy karma. It’s refreshing to not have that here. That’s all. Thanks!
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That’s why i don’t understand why people just want to make everything reddit 2. A lot of things on reddit are relicts from a cringe time, or some things that clearly didn’t work. And still, people don’t move on, now there is a time to not call everything porn. Foodporn earthporn, it’s so dumb, but people insist. The marijuana subreddit is called trees, so every month someone can make a post about an actual tree and everyone can laugh at this very funny joke.
Mass exodus from Reddit is because of API, not because the marijuana subreddit is called trees. You think the number of users skyrocketed the day API closed because people were mad about foodporn? No.
What? No, he’s saying they’re bringing reddit behaviors with them as they leave reddit, and he hopes they’ll stop.
Okay, fair enough. Although, honestly, I’m struggling to figure something out and maybe you know.
If Lemmy users all hated Reddit and Reddit users so much, why did they all go there and try to convince everyone from Reddit to come to Lemmy when the API debacle happened?
It’s just a case of different opinions, I think. Or perhaps they think reddit having 100’s of millions of users is creating the problems, and that they won’t exist here if those same voices came to Lemmy. But I would mostly just say it’s two different groups of people asking for two different things.
I’m in the boat that Lemmy has fully replaced reddit for me and I don’t feel the need to go convincing more people to jump ship. The people who cared about the health of Reddit as a platform have already come to Lemmy, the people who don’t, or need the massive userbase to use a website? They can stay there.
That’s maybe LITERALLY what they said, but I think they meant “there were a lot of things reddit got wrong that we don’t have to do here.”
Personally, the API change was just the thing that made me realize reddit’s quality has been in bad shape for a long time. I hadn’t realized some of the seemingly minor changes in the content that irked me had all combined to make Reddit kind of a shitty place to be. Once the major thing happened, I actually felt relieved that I could stop going there because things weren’t ever going to get better.
I really miss rediquette being enforced, not by just the moderators and admins, but by the community. People (in general) would politely call out bad behavior, have civil discourse, and put forth their best answers as a cultural aspect of Reddit. Of course, that wasn’t universal, but it was the predominant behavior.
The low effort karmawhoring, click and rage bait, overused jokes, and childish content (for me) have lately become the core cultural components of Reddit instead of the outliers.
Anyway, that’s just my opinion and an explanation of why I (and I believe others) are here now. Let reddit be reddit, and let’s make something cool here that draws from the positive components of Reddit and discourages the some of the less enjoyable things about it.
Yeah, I just wanna look at some butt pics but all I can find are images of lasagna ;–;
Calling weed trees has been around for longer than reddit…
True. But calling trees trees have been around for a much more longer time. So, it’s going to be the dominant thing here
Agreed. Reddit has loads of problems sand bad motivations. But I think people are trying to turn lemmy into reddit 2.0 because they lost the actual reddit. Sure, many people wanted less nose and higher quality… But that’s probably not true for most people that signed up over the last month+. They just wanted a reddit alternative.
I expect that much of the reddit obsession will dissipate as those users settle in and forget about reddit.
I want things to be like reddit but perfect. ok?
I’d be happy with 4chan.lite
Exactly. Me too 🙂
I have seen some people carry their karma whoring ways over from reddit. It’s been a few people posting the same anti-reddit article to 17 different communities. But, I just blocked them and moved on, I love how I can defederate from users or communities that are filled with low quality karma grabs.
are you sure it is not just people who are jazzed up on being anti reddit and showing it?
con lo sencilla que es la vida pero fijate como nos la complicamos
with how simple life is but see how we complicate it
I don’t know what I expected…
I think what you have observed is short-lived. I am starting to notice a lot of poor reddit etiquette showing up more and more here.
One of my huge pet peeves is multiple people posting the exact same link to the exact same article into the exact same community over the span of several hours. I’m not sure if they are doing it for the attention, if they are narcissists and assume that because they just discovered it that no one else might have posted it first, or if they are just too damned self-centered to quickly check the latest couple dozen posts to make sure they aren’t posting a dupe.
I think it’s a combination of all of the reasons you stated AND the sorting algorithm not being the same as some of us are used to on Reddit.
I’m still getting used to finding content I haven’t seen when I’m not toggled to “Subscribed”.
A way to mark something as “read” and not have it show back up for me unless I’ve posted in it would be handy, but as with all new paradigms, I’ll get used to this one eventually and likely wonder how I ever did things the “old way”.
I was posting something that just contained the same word as another post in that community and I got a popup letting me know. I don’t know if that’s a setting the mods turn on. Hang on, I mod the community I’m talking about and I didn’t do it, so no… I’m using lemmy.world on PC with no apps, if that makes a difference.
I understand what you mean, but I followed mostly selfhosting, emulation and handheld subreddits, I barely ever browsed r/all to begin with, and I still feel my feed wasn’t full of karma whores.
When I truly believe Lemmy content has more quality so far compared with Reddit it still miss lots of topics that interest me.
The potential.
Free open source software running on a decentralising protocol. We can own or join our own little corner. We can make our own platforms. We can be free of ads and profit margins.
