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    1 year ago

    I don’t really agree on the whole tbh. Specifically, the one thing that’s still keeping my Reddit account alive is that there’s a bunch of communities that don’t exist on any other platform because they’d need enough of a “critical mass” of users for it to make sense; and they’re too niche otherwise.
    A huge influx of users certainly comes with… Challenges, I do not deny that. But I’d also love to not have to use Reddit anymore solely because of its active user count. And new Lemmy users are unlikely to come from Twitter or something; as it’s a different kind of format.

    Also, I think the sentiment of “the Lemmy community rn is also formed of at least mildly tech-savvy people […]” is kind of exclusionary for no real reason, I don’t think you have to be tech-savvy to have a good perspective on things, make a good joke or all in all be a positive person to interact with.


  • I used to distro hop A LOT, but by now I’m mostly on Arch [my laptop still runs Nix but I’m thinking of going back to Arch on that one too - Nix is nice but I feel like the difficulties for non-pre-packaged stuff aren’t worth it for me personally], just because it’s simple enough that I know where to look to fix things, plus the wiki is great.





  • Honestly, I don’t see this issue with that - having preprepared answers to make sure they’re accurate (though that doesn’t appear to have been the reason in this case…) etc is a reasonable thing for an AMA like that

    I think the substance (or often honestly lack thereof) of those responses is much more the problem, together with not actually addressing most of the questions that were responded to properly (and I’m honestly just confused by the decision process by Reddit’s leadership in general tbh as it was rather foreseeable not to end well. Kinda wish Reddit will die from this hoping a lot of the communities I care about migrate to something like Lemmy instead; but I’m not holding my breath)




  • Based on my experiences on Reddit, I’ve honestly found that voting is not just incredibly easy¹, but also something that at least I found myself engaging with when I didn’t want to write a comment myself LOL

    ¹ due to the very local results of votes in this kind of format, it doesn’t have the same feel as, say, a thumbs up on YouTube (and I very rarely engage with thumbs up etc as a result there), if that makes sense? Like, it’s limited to that particular level of the conversation