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[–] [email protected] 150 points 6 months ago (5 children)

The only thing Reddit still has is certain very active niche communities, but we do great on the more general stuff.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 6 months ago (2 children)

As someone who used reddit for 14+ years, this place feels exactly like early Reddit, a place where you actually can converse with anyone and contribute instead of yelling into the void. Realistically we will always have both, but many more will join the verse everytime Reddit has an oopsie.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Narwhal, bacon, midnight, dick butt, le, doggo.

The real question, when we enter ^ this era of Lemmy, how many years of prison is appropriate for the above genre of jokes?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Lmao beans fit that list, we can cringe about it all we want now but at the time we're building community.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Don't forget jeans. We're almost there.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Truth. Still. Prison.

At least public flogging.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

This. /s

But yea I agree it’s a pretty solid community aside from a few overly aggressive contrarians

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

We even have our own annoying group of brigade-ers.

I’ll see myself out.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The sheer coverage of every subject on Reddit is crazy. Yesterday I was getting infuriated at a stupid plot in the 3 Body Problem, so I ddged it, and of course I found 3 Reddit threads sharing my frustrations. What a shame it has to get enshitified.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Upvoted because "ddged". Wonderful. 😊

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

duckduckgo.com

Good alternative search engine, have to use a bit of traditional search engineering sometimes, but to me that's a good thing, feature not a bug.

It can't find everything, think of it as an extra tool in the toolbox. Having selection between search engines is a good thing. Don't want just one monolithic source of information.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It helps that Reddit along with other big platforms like FB absorbed all the traffic that in the old days would have been distributed into small separate forums. Not good for the ecosystem.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Internet ecosystem is a great term, it was put well in an article someone shared on slrpnk: https://slrpnk.net/post/8711732

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Thanks for the link. That's an interesting community!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

We're doing our best!

If you're in a niche community, don't be afraid to put some content out there. Niche communities are generally so happy to see any conversation. The amount of criticism/downvoting I've seen on topics in slow communities has been very low.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I think Lemny needs to be pitched to more independent communities as a way to provide a forum to their members while being connected to the rest of the Internet. For example, game developers should make lemmy instances for their game communities so they can host a forum and not be subjected to the whims of Reddit. Non profits and guilds as well.