Friendship ended with Reddit, now Lemmy is my best friend

  • Lvxferre@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    What’s up with the new wave of people talking about Reddit? Did their admins do some stupid shit again?

    (I’m just curious, mind you, it has been months since I don’t browse Reddit.)

    • JokaJukka@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      For me two things come to mind:

      • X’s influence - they are doing some stupid $hit (like removing ability to block people). So I guess my brain decided it is fed up with corpo apps.
      • degradation of content quality - I feel like Reddit has served it’s purpouse, and I struggle to find something funny and/or informative. When I opened Lemmy for the first time, at least 4 interesting articles came on my feed.
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        1 year ago

        degradation of content quality

        One reason why reddit could die slowly. It won’t be a process of dumb leader quotes/decisions like the twitter to mastodon waves. It will be slow and continuously.

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        1 year ago

        Got it!

        It’s kind of hard to generalise based on one point of data, but I’m surprised at you saying that the content quality went down. I did expect it to happen, but not so quickly. (Also, welcome to Lemmy!)

    • kratoz29@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Did their admins do some stupid shit again?

      This seems to be a fair assumption whenever we see a new wave to be honest.