Whether you like the company behind it or not, a lot of fantastic niche communities found a home there, and it would be wonderful if they could find a home here too, as this platform is basically identical to Reddit with just a few tweaks and improvements.
It took them years to get to that point though, why wait for it to organically happen when we already know it’ll be successful and awesome? :-D
Not talking about you specifically, I see a lot of people that want to replace/kill Reddit and make Lemmy the next big thing, and often those same people will also not want Lemmy to copy Reddit. I find that weird, given that Reddit has been hugely successful and beloved by do many communities, so we know it works, and Lemmy is an almost identical platform, so we know the transfer/“copy” would be very successful.
I think I somewhat agree but I also have 2 objections:
I don’t think people want a 1:1 clone of Reddit. We say that oftentimes. But there has to be some reason why you’re here and not over there… Like… You can have something that is 100% like Reddit, and that is Reddit itself. You can use it. But that’s obviously not the whole story there… What differences we all wish for is kind of individual. I’d like to see several improvements while we’re at it.
And I think it’s easier said than done. We still have some moderation tools missing, UI bugs, hacking and DDoSing happen when we were growing rapidly. And like more than a thousand open issues on Github. And artificial growth can have problematic consequences. Just dumping copied content here could kill engagement. Lots of people don’t like too much bot activity without meaningful user interaction. Or we could attract mainly the toxic people that got banned on other platforms for good reasons and are looking for a new place. We’d get the more toxic little sibling of Reddit and no-one wants to ask for relationship advice if it’s mostly trolls and shitposters replying to you.
I don’t see a good way for ‘artificial’ growth. But I like to hear other people’s opinions on that.
And I liked Reddit for enabling me to talk to people all around the world and have a place to discuss niche interests. You can really tell we only got like 40000 active users here (if the statistics are right) once you start asking for advice on a niche hobby. Nonetheless I really like it here. I think we need to have some patience but we also need to do the right things (right now) to succeed.
Whether you like the company behind it or not, a lot of fantastic niche communities found a home there, and it would be wonderful if they could find a home here too, as this platform is basically identical to Reddit with just a few tweaks and improvements.
It took them years to get to that point though, why wait for it to organically happen when we already know it’ll be successful and awesome? :-D
Not talking about you specifically, I see a lot of people that want to replace/kill Reddit and make Lemmy the next big thing, and often those same people will also not want Lemmy to copy Reddit. I find that weird, given that Reddit has been hugely successful and beloved by do many communities, so we know it works, and Lemmy is an almost identical platform, so we know the transfer/“copy” would be very successful.
I think I somewhat agree but I also have 2 objections:
I don’t think people want a 1:1 clone of Reddit. We say that oftentimes. But there has to be some reason why you’re here and not over there… Like… You can have something that is 100% like Reddit, and that is Reddit itself. You can use it. But that’s obviously not the whole story there… What differences we all wish for is kind of individual. I’d like to see several improvements while we’re at it.
And I think it’s easier said than done. We still have some moderation tools missing, UI bugs, hacking and DDoSing happen when we were growing rapidly. And like more than a thousand open issues on Github. And artificial growth can have problematic consequences. Just dumping copied content here could kill engagement. Lots of people don’t like too much bot activity without meaningful user interaction. Or we could attract mainly the toxic people that got banned on other platforms for good reasons and are looking for a new place. We’d get the more toxic little sibling of Reddit and no-one wants to ask for relationship advice if it’s mostly trolls and shitposters replying to you.
I don’t see a good way for ‘artificial’ growth. But I like to hear other people’s opinions on that.
And I liked Reddit for enabling me to talk to people all around the world and have a place to discuss niche interests. You can really tell we only got like 40000 active users here (if the statistics are right) once you start asking for advice on a niche hobby. Nonetheless I really like it here. I think we need to have some patience but we also need to do the right things (right now) to succeed.