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A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Of course we hate it. It will trigger a whole new phase of enshittification.

I still use reddit because for some things it's still a valuable resource that Lemmy isn't yet for lack of users. Hopefully more redditors will find lemmy as this proceeds.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

One of the nice things this time around is that Lemmy has really crystallized as an ecosystem. It's missing some significant niches, but now people who need a working example, and can't just envision it based off of the concept, can see it truly in action, instead of just seeing Leninist wankery.

Future waves should, hopefully, be stickier.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It’s missing some significant niches

It's missing some pretty mainstream interests, as well. Some of my favorite parts of reddit from the before times related to sports, television, music, etc., and there just isn't a critical mass on any lemmy community to really get that robust dialogue going.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The biggest problem is that federation splits the communities between instances. So a single interest may have 5-10 different communities, all with fewer users than on an equivalent subreddit.

I've been saying this since the beginning, Lemmy needs a way to follow topics that allow you to subscribe to all related communities at once. And posting to a topic on one community allows it to show up across different communities of the same topic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I don't know if I agree with you. Your idea of following a topic over all communities is a solid one, for sure. Not sure I would agree with a comment being posted across all. Maybe an option for cross-posting, should one wish? How would you deal with the replies though, like certainly that all couldn't be cross posted, could it?. I just think it would get too complicated in a hurry, that's all. I like your ingenuity, anyways.