I’ve been using Lemmy for more than a year now and in the last month I noticed this tendency to dunk on people that complain and make memes about reddit.
Let me get this straight: I agree with the sacred commandment “thou shall not compare the two platforms”, because Lemmy is trying to be its own thing and the comparison keeps holding back this process.
But people that bring reddit up are usually new users that are angry with it and the just found a new platform where they can express this anger. They just need to vent for a second until their frustration is gone.
And you dunking on them is the same as if you were dunking on your friend who’s angry they got fired because that’s a topic you already heard.
because Lemmy is trying to be its own thing
It is? I mean apart from the whole federation principle, from a functional standpoint lemmy and reddit are bascially the same. Link aggregator websites with a ranking system.
from a functional standpoint lemmy and reddit are bascially the same
I could not agree more, that’s why the difference must be in the community.
You could choose to be kind and welcoming or you can choose to be hateful and trolling.
If you choose the second, Lemmy is just going to be reddit all over again.lots of people are going to be assholes on lemmy, because that’s what they’ve always been. If lemmy communities are going to be better than subreddits, it’s not because of what regular users do as individuals, but because of what the moderators and admins do with the collective
lemmy has one big advantage though, and that is that people have been registering at instances that align with their values (or lack thereof). Being able to remove a whole swath of users from your community because they’ve self-identified as incompatible with your values is something that hasn’t really been possible on reddit
It must be a mix of both. You must know the rules before authority can enforce them.
Are you familiar with the concept of “The Eternal September”?
If you’re interested in the internet early history have a read (I find it fascinating), otherwise TL:DR: when there is an overwhelming wave of inexperienced new users, it becomes nearly impossible to educate all of them.
That’s where individuals become the key of communication with these new members.
Yeah I don’t think Lemmy ain’t too different to be a Reddit alternative, key differences are free for everyone and free of corpo BS.
There’s specific communities for it. Everything doesn’t belong everywhere.
edit: My fav is prob snoopocalypse.
Even when I try to not mention Reddit here and I don’t remember to vent here about it (I used to do this on Reddit because IDGAF about karma BS 😆) I agree with you.
Mostly they will only have a few rants about Reddit in their first month before they realise there’s better things to find on here I think.
I came here from Reddit about a month ago or something. I didn’t feel the need to post about Reddit particularly but there are communities for it and logic dictates you’d post there. Just like if you want to post about DIY you don’t post in a Sci Fi community
i was using boost for reddit for couple years before they closed that down. but i kept using it for a few months after that until now. now i spend about the same amount of time on reddit and lemmy. definitely takes time to switch for me.
i used other reddit alternatives like saidit before this too and briefly voat, gap, etc. lemmy is exciting because it’s bigger than most reddit alternatives and not as conservative as gap. 9gag is mostly a meme site at this point.
For me, it feels more like being in a new relationship but you keep talking about your ex.
no, we are complaining about people talking about Reddit (including you) because we don’t care about whatever reddit does and all the Reddit talk gets old fast.
