Please stop talking about reddit. If you want this to be the next reddit, I beg of you to stop mentioning it. Otherwise all this placewill be is a temporary hold over until we all just fall back on what we know cause we keep hammering in the name into our brain over and over again. I think the same sort of thing happened with the original “black out” of Twitter but we all came back to it because we kept thinking of Twitter in regards to whatever new site we tried. If you want Lemmy to succeed, let Lemmy be Lemmy
I feel like you don’t remember Digg v4. It was very much a topic on Reddit at the time.
They updated their interface to V4, which crippled most of, if not all, the functionality the site was used to.
This was also not a surprise to the users (but might have been to the Digg admin team), as the community was very vocal about why they didn’t like the new changes and even made suggestions on how they could be fixed/enhanced.
Digg went through with the V4 changes anyway, which led to a large majority of Digg users officially coming over to Reddit (I was one of them).
What you see at Digg now is a shell of what it used to be. When a majority of content creators/submitters switched to Reddit, it remained a popular topic for weeks, since that was relevant to the latest influx of users.
Fundimentally, as long as people get enough content to last their commute/poop/lunch break without crawling back to reddit for additional memes, Lemmy will be in a good position to make it.
But I agree with you, discussions about reddit don’t make for good content for everyone in a sustainable way. Those discussions I’d wager appeal most to the true believers who left on principle, not the average user.
As of right now, I’m finding Lemmy has more than enough content for my daily browsing. However, that’s because I took a few hours last month scouring as many instances as possible for the highest usercount communities that I wanted to get in my feed.
Reddit has a decent default sub list, and that’s what’s going to push new people away from Lemmy imo. I was frustrated enough with Spez to ditch reddit and dedicate a few hours to making this my new home.
Lots of people aren’t going to want to put that effort in, especially when their feed at Reddit was not effected by any of the changes made.
Reddit ditched default subs years ago but it would maybe be a good thing for the big Lemmy instances to replicate in some way until it can get big enough. Finding communities is a challenge unless you’re really committed. The all feed is like 85% Reddit discussion.
The problem with this kind of decisions is that there are some people that want the fediverse to remain somehow underground, which would drive some people away from it.
As for the Reddit talk, I reckon it’s expected given how much people is coming expecting to get the Reddit experience. However, I believe the dust will settle as the time passes, and everyone will start to see Lemmy as its own thing.
A similar thing happens at Mastodon every time there’s a new influx of users. People want to have a familiar experience, and that’s normal.
Interestingly enough, I couldn’t get my home instance to pull up !main@lemmy.ca. I can get other channels here, but !main just won’t show any content!
Give it a week, we just passed July 1. I joined during the Reddit blackout and it took a few days for new and interesting content to cycle through.
Be the change you wish to see in the world!
I got here after they announced the API changes. Took about a week for the reddit posts to slow down at all but they’re back in full force now that the changes have been implemented.
It’s just people discussing something that’s relevant to them. It’ll go away eventually.
Fuck your dick you shitty pissbanana. Let people talk about things that are going on and let the conversations develop naturally. If you really want to control what people can and can’t talk about go back to Reddit and start your own sub where you can aggressively moderate until you’re happy with your finely cultivated echo chamber.
man there is no need to be so insulting, maybe a snarky quip woulda been fine, but this is so far past the line, its not cool at all to be that rude to a guy posing a question, participating
Participating being a key word here. I’ve been trying to get conversations going on other things going and so I do know what this guy means - I also know it probably will just take a matter of time for things to settle down.
But that’s the insulting kind of talk I haven’t seen on here much, compared to Reddit
