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!
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.