Every other post is about that site.
It’s like getting a new girlfriend but constantly talking about your ex.
Reddit’s downfall is a major disruption in the internet, of course everyone is going to talk about it, especially considering most of us are coming from there. Chill, bro!
Arguably one of the most important sites too. People had accounts for week over a decade, they’re rightly pissed when a place you used to love turns to shit because some dropkick CEO wants to pump his upcoming IPO
Yup. It was very different back around 2011 when I made my account.
It was a hard first month not going there but I’m pretty over it now.
Furthermore we want to make Lemmy better and that includes learning from reddit - what should be the same, what should be changed and what should be added/removed/be like reddit “used to be” etc. It’s a software project not a summer flirt.
We still talk far too much about it, though. For example, I posted about a breakthrough in Alzheimer’s research yesterday. In what world do Reddit’s issues justify one hundred times the coverage of that breakthrough?
Because reddit never has operated that way. Posts aren’t news. Posts are things on people’s minds. Opinions will always outnumber events. Especially when those events may not have a big impact on their lives. And to be honest, I see more complaints about “let’s not discuss reddit” than I do discussing reddit. My guess is you’re confusing the amount of content that gets posted to your instance. It’s not nearly as much as reddit so you’ll see all the low voted content just as often. That content never makes it to other instances though. So it’s not so much a Lemmy problem, but a lemmy.world problem is my guess.
I am very chill my friends.
Just exercising my right to express myself. If that goes against what you believe it doesn’t mean that I’m mad or vexed.
You think my reply goes against your believe in the freedom of expressing yourself? Lol, I think I’ll have to say it again: Chill, bro!
No, I don’t.
I was merely pointing out that just because you don’t agree that we should see less of it mentioned that I am not chill, when in fact I’m more chill than frosty the snowman.
You have a wonderful day brother.
You too, mate!
It’s interesting that you’re exercising your right to tell people to stop exercising theirs…
Can was there operative word I used. It wasn’t telling people anything.
I was merely hoping to start a discussion.
Start a discussion about not discussing it? Right. Brilliant move. Your responses so far haven’t even been on the topic you wanted to start/stop. It’s been replying mainly about defending your ability to complain, even though most of it is in contradiction to your stated goals.
Chill people usually don’t go straight to waving their constitutional rights in other people’s faces at the first sign of any minor disagreement.
When the goto defense is that it’s not illegal, you’re pretty much admitting you have a terrible position and already know it.
“I am going to create a discussion about a thing I would like people to stop discussing”
It’s like saying “smoking should be forbidden” and the lighting a cigarette.
Except OP is starting a meta discussion about Reddit discussions, not a direct discussion about Reddit. I don’t necessarily agree with OP, but you’ve crafted an artificial contradiction using a false equivalence. I’d be happier if we left the Reddit-tier logic back where it belongs.
“I’m going to reply to this light-hearted comment by first stating what the OP has created and his intentions for doing so, as fact, whilst simultaneously not necessarily agreeing with the OP. I will then belittle and insult this commenter using my superior terms and intellect. I will then let everyone know what it will take for my life to be generally happier, whilst again insulting this random commenter by saying he should either go back to Reddit, stop posting or learn better logic because he is so stupid”
On an even lighter note, I hope you are right about me having crafted an artificial contradiction and using a false equivalence… that’s probably the smartest and most creative sounding thing I’ve done all year, if not my whole life 😎 I don’t know if I should admit my original comment was at least partially tongue-in-cheek, I don’t want to detract from my masterful crafting! 😋
Let me be simpler then:
No get hurt feel from talk on electric box
Hey, I gotta try make some content on here. Haha
Fine, I’ll stop talking about 9gag. Sheesh.
Do you remember, when even once 9gag was actually a good platform and not destroyed by money? Pepperidge farm remembers.
9gag was never a good platform, it’s where memes went to die.
I sincerely wish people would use the block feature, rather than keep making threads complaining about content/communities they don’t like to see.
Sincere question, how do I use the block feature, I mean, can we filter out certain words? I only know of blocking of users.
On kbin and I think most major lemmy instances, you can block communities, so if you don’t want to see content from them, say redditmigration posts, you can filter the whole community. That won’t stop you from say seeing it in unrelated communities, in which case blocking the users who keep bring it up reduces visibility of the topic even more. Finally setting your default page to your subs rather than top reduces the visibility of unwanted topics even more.
I have done that but I am still allowed to have a discussion.
Some people made some valid points against my sentiment, I would not have gotten that had I not posted.
For me it’s important to see opposing views, otherwise what’s the point.
Than make a post about having a discussion. Not a declarative statement of what needs to happen and a subjective sentiment delivered in objective format. You don’t start a discussion about immediately saying others are wrong.
Than make a post about having a discussion. Not a declarative statement of what needs to happen and a subjective sentiment delivered in objective format. You don’t start a discussion about immediately saying others are wrong.
I thought the word can was asking a question. Had I used something like you must stop it would have been different.
Every other post is about that site. It’s like getting a new girlfriend but constantly talking about your ex.
Where is the question? If you were sincere, which I don’t think you are, you could have worded it much better. For example: “Is it better if we do not talk about that site…?”
Yep the girlfriend metaphor is weird since it would make most of us polygamous. Miss my old girlfriend, love the current one and have my eye on several new ones. Calkey….mm she sexy and pixelfed seems like a cool chick as well but more my little sister’s type to be honest
I don’t mind it. In fact as a person who spent countless hours at Reddit over the past 6+ years I’m very much interested on what’s going on there despite the fact that I’m no longer using the platform.
I think it’s important while creating a new community to examine what the previous one did poorly so that we can do better.
This is the first post I’ve seen in a while about it. Thanks for bringing it up so people will discuss it.
Jk nice try spez, go home.
…No? It’s relevant news.
Seems like it’d be more odd if there wasn’t news about it.
Nothing more Reddit than complaining about Reddit
Removing per rule #4.
How are you going to get people to stop talking about a major site failing? Lmao
Do you have any data that shows it’s failing?
Has the user base dropped by an amount that they would notice?
You’re naive if you think Reddit will fail over this my friend.
hey guys stop talking about the thing that i just made a post about but won’t name and therefore is not about that thing that i’m complaining about.
if you want to see better content, create it. you’re making it worse by posting about it yourself.
Akin to saying the same thing a third of the commenters said.
You’re talking about it right now!
Congrats. You added to the problem.
Such is life.
It took a year or so before the discussion of Digg stopped happening on Reddit. It’s already calmed way down from peak API but they keep on making horrible decisions.
