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Excited yet worried about future of Lemmy (lemm.ee)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/wefwef@lemmy.world
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I know probably not the perfect place to post this but want to get the discussion started and don’t know enough to be scared or not: because of the decentralization of Lemmy, is it extremely vulnerable to malicious/ad bots, astroturfing, spam and such?

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[–] 35 points 3 years ago (7 children)

Not sure if you were alive when we all moved from MySpace to Facebook but it is supposed to be exciting and scary, baby. All the best things in life are.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Or when Digg leadership made utterly boneheaded decisions that wrecked the way users interacted with the platform and drove everyone to: Reddit.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Former Digg user who migrated to Reddit once everyone stopped posting. I don’t actually remember why though. What did Digg do again that pissed us off? I remember something about the navigation changed that I didn’t like, but it’s all a blur.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    If I recall correctly they changed the algorithms to prioritize "promoted" corporate content and deemphasized user content. They also did multiple redesigns, removing and changing features, and ultimately removed messaging, downvotes, and video posts with DiggV4. That final redesign, and user generated content getting buried lead to the mass exodus.

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