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/r/BuyFromEU: "Let's settle the Reddit alternative discussion: Lemmy doesn't need to “beat Reddit”, it needs to feel effortless" (old.reddit.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] 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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  • [–] 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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  • [–] 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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