Reddit doesn’t actually own any of the content, right? Neither do any of the contributors? Seems like a good way to fuck Reddit.
There’s just no need anymore. Lemmy has boomed, and we have our own content. Reddit is not really relevant anymore.
I mean, the content here lately is 15 year old memes.
A lot of the boom is people that were too lame to get karma on Reddit so they spam dumb things here now and get upvotes because everyone is still in “upvote everything to help the community” mode.
Admittedly I’ve blocked the meme communities in my feed - but that’s not what I wanted from Reddit or I want from here.
I think you hit the nail on the head, but personally, I stopped upvoting “to help the community” a while ago. Lemmy seems to be doing fine now so I’m not against downvoting at all either.
The people upvoting those crappy 15 year old memes aren’t against downvoting either, because when I mentioned how terrible the memes were I got downvoted.
the only content on reddit is bots reposting shit… and Spez playing the sad trombone.
Maybe. I’m finding the Lemmy content and platform features lacking personally. Some of my favorite subs don’t have an analogue here, and the clones here are significantly smaller and therefore have less content. I see great potential though, which is why I think “stealing” content is a sound strategy to grow. I find it interesting also, because there are two reasons people use Reddit: The content and the platform. One of those things isn’t actually owned by Reddit. So Lemmy has the distinct advantage in that there is already a good platform in place, and all the good content of Reddit (and half of it’s value) can be moved over here.
I just checked Lemmy stats - how is it possible that we lost 400 000 users recently? If people check it out and leave for good, wouldn’t that still be counted in the user base?
On top of the other explanations, it’s natural that many, if not most, who decide to check out alternatives don’t stick around for various reasons.
- They might not have found the right instance for them (or even realized they were supposed to).
- They might not care enough about the new state of reddit to leave, after all.
- The communities that kept them on reddit in the first place may not exist here so they have no incentive to stick around.
- The bugs, growing pains, quirks, and rough UX might have outweighed perceived benefits.
- They may have been put off by the model or culture for whatever personal/ideological reasons.
- They might still be using fediverse platforms but isolated by fediblocks or by their own choice.
They may or may not reconsider in the future, or their usage of the internet may have changed entirely (so they’re out of the game, so to speak).
We should just keep doing what we think is best for the kind of communities we want to see emerge and thrive here. Growth for its own sake is not helpful or valuable.
The counter question is: why would that be an improvement?
For me, the stuff with the 3PAs was just a final straw; there were lots of ways Reddit had gone downhill from when I first joined several years ago. I was happy that they was finally a workable alternative that was young and could potentially grow without the bad things about Reddit.
My ex wife is an ex for a reason, I’d never ask my wife now to try to be more like my ex. We can do better.
A number of people made bots to copy stuff over from Reddit, and that didn’t seem to create any more engagement in most cases, so I don’t see that as helping. I made my account here June 12th, so not that long ago, and the amount and variety of content has increased a lot. Too many memes for my tastes, but the place is clearly still growing. I think it’s doing well, considering.
Because then we are just a cheap reddit clone. I’d rather see Lemmy continue developing on its own terms.
Adding on to this: I’d rather see the Fediverse not become just Reddit 2.0. I personally very much like the vibes and communities we already got going on already.
Theres plenty of bots doing that
Fun fact, if you change the setting in your account to not see bot posts then they go away :)
Only for accounts actually labeled as a bot. Thats basically just a flag that can be turned on and off, someone who is going to make a bot for malicious purposes such as spamming content probably won’t flag it properly.
wait… you can do that?
Can I learn this power?! how does one learn this power?
