JayGray91 comments on /r/BuyFromEU: "Let's settle the Reddit alternative discussion: Lemmy doesn't need to “beat Reddit”, it needs to feel effortless"

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 9 points 7 months ago (5 children)

My guess is they're the late reddit accounts when reddit is already big and shit. They weren't around when reddit was just "small digg". Tbf I wasn't there as well.

I was there when reddit already have comments for posts and remember imgur is the image hosting site for reddit (with no culture and community of its own. Until the reddit file cabinet suddenly gained "sentience").

I suspect it's most likely those that cried about lemmy's "bad UI" only joined after reddit turned into the vomit inducing non chronologically sorted reddit.

Side note I have never browsed r/all ever, but I concede it's a necessity for the threadiverse. But it's all just for me to further curate what I want to see. I was never into whatever dogfood sorting spyware algos tried to force down.

Though I admit it took me several tries to understand federation and how it works.

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[–] berber@feddit.org 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

indeed, you make a good point. most of these people didn't experience reddit when reddit had "no userbase" compared to other social media.

but reddit was unique, and that is what drew people there. sadly, lemmy does not have that much "uniqueness" to show (being a reddit clone), besides being federated and fully open source.

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[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 5 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

To me, it kind of does! Lemmy (with copious blocking) comes as close as I’ve ever felt to what Reddit felt like in 2010.

“All” still requires a lot of filtering, but I see interesting stuff every day.

And I came back to read the other person’s comment, and you had replied! The person I replied to, I remembered the username. And it’s a really thoughtful reply! This happens a lot on smaller communities on Reddit as well, but the whole thing used to feel like that.

I see that on the fediverse pretty much every day! It’s always all about the (preferably kind) communities you build around specific things.

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[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 4 points 7 months ago

I agree. Since reddit has turned into whatever it is that they want now instead of the original "link aggregator with comments" that I started with and liked a lot, I feel that the threadiverse covers the era of reddit very well

And now I understand why people would go to /all on reddit before. With the lack of (or little) algorithm back then on reddit and (mostly) solely rely only on voting, /all really do can be a slot machine of interesting topics.

@berber@feddit.org

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

My guess is they're the late reddit accounts when reddit is already big and shit. They weren't around when reddit was just "small digg". Tbf I wasn't there as well.

I was on reddit back when it was just small digg, you are 100% correct.

These are a bunch of modern social media brainrotted people, for lack of a better term, who just need to get all the upvotes, need to get as much digitally mediated social validation as possible.

These people are the hivemind.

They want everything to be easy and convenient and accomdodate them, they'll yap for hours about how something should work and never do a damn actual thing to achieve it beyond 'spreading awareness'.

The fact that it took you a few attempts to figure out how to 'do' lemmy acts as a filter.

I'm not awake enough to be able to try and argue whether or not its... net better overall to have an easy, more difficult to censor and manipulate reddit alternative... or if allowing it to be easy to access just fundamentally does comprimise the system by way of the hivemind then eventually, inevitably taking over and becoming increasingly sycophantic and culty and sociopathic.

... but I can tell you that from a certain point of view, having to actually engage your brain a bit to join what is basically a network of web forums, well you can see see that as a feature, not a bug.

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[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 3 points 7 months ago*

By this point of my life on this floating rock we call Earth, I think having a filter is a good thing lol.

Not all things need to be easy as piss

I'll be happy to help my friends to jump in and guide through the filter. And if some of them aren't will to do it (much like reddit before it is changed targeting the lowest common denominator audience that is addicted to online validation), well I can't help them.

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