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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (6 children)

You people are delusional. You are living in a fantasy.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I agree. I think it's just good that with all this shitstorm, a lot of the good users migrated to the Lemmy.

We don't need 100% of the Reddit population here, if we just get like 10-20% we will have potential to become the long gone golden age of Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. The users who have moved here are disproportionately commenters, power posters, and moderators from reddit. I was a top 1% poster on reddit, lots of OC, but I've essentially stopped participating there. I occasionally comment, but I don't make posts on reddit anymore. If a significant fraction of power posters (and not just the reposters) and moderators migrate to lemmy, lemmy will have disproportionately good content, while the reddit experience will degrade further into reposts and poor moderation. I think lemmy already has disproportionately good posts and engagement, just still pretty small at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

In theory I agree, but we need to get past the anti-Reddit circlejerk fast.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

people often forget that reddit initially achieved network effect because a small number of high quality users left digg for being too captured by corporate interests. the rest took 10 years to play out, but inevitably when the mainstream follows these initial users, the platform dies and it is time for another migration. I think we've been ready for a while.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The shitshow reddit has become now , I believe most will be looking for an alternative !

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

High five for those into fantasy!!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Nah, the bloodstains on the floor are from the reaper's scythe cutting them in their big toe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The red trail is just the magic leftover after turning them into shit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I kinda agree. I like the niche, albiet small, community these decentralized platforms offer. TBH, I love the trade of brands not pointing their content firehoses in our direction. While I love the idea of more people using lemmy, for example, I worry about the inflection pointe where that changes and this place gets ruined.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Facebook is nowhere dead. Everyone I meet wants to chat via Messenger, small firms here don't bother creating a website anymore, they create a facebook page (' cause everyone's there) and local/company communities use facebook groups to talk. Not to mention event hosts, they create fb events. If you are interested in topics that are liked globally, the fediverse is getting better. But if you are looking for a local community, you'll rarely find any. The lemmy page of my country is basically dead, the sub however is thriving.