Reddits content has gone downhill since the big migration. Even smaller communities are restricted to mostly shitposts, memes
, drama or a mix of those. I tried checking it a while back and it’s incredibly bad. If we vote yes for Lexit I’d probably go to whatever platform the admins pick.
This is something I hear but honestly I never fully left and it’s about the same as it was before the leave. Maybe /r/all has gone downhill(as hard as that is to believe), but the default subs and /r/all were already pretty bad more than 10 years ago when I started curating my subs a bit more. If you subscribed wisely the only real change is that certain subs being dark for a while lead to other subs bubbling to the surface.
The niche community subs are still trucking along and the just off mainstream alternatives are still about where they were before the migration.
I know we want to believe that we were the heart and soul of the site, but lets be real here:
A)There are millions of people on that site. We arent special even among that sample size and not enough people left.
B)There just isnt enough engagement or comments on lemmy to prove this. I think in general a lot of the articles and content here is nice, it mirrors my rss reader more. But generally there isnt as much content or engagement. Some threads get more or less but a lot of my front page on lemmy has single digit comments.
I think there is potential to keep growing and being better, but that potential hasnt been reached yet, and Beehaw leaving will crush things since beehaw was not only a major hub, but the Be(e) nice philosophy did help temper some discussion from going towards typical online message board Nerd BS.
Reddits content has gone downhill since the big migration. Even smaller communities are restricted to mostly shitposts, memes , drama or a mix of those. I tried checking it a while back and it’s incredibly bad. If we vote yes for Lexit I’d probably go to whatever platform the admins pick.
This is something I hear but honestly I never fully left and it’s about the same as it was before the leave. Maybe /r/all has gone downhill(as hard as that is to believe), but the default subs and /r/all were already pretty bad more than 10 years ago when I started curating my subs a bit more. If you subscribed wisely the only real change is that certain subs being dark for a while lead to other subs bubbling to the surface.
The niche community subs are still trucking along and the just off mainstream alternatives are still about where they were before the migration.
I know we want to believe that we were the heart and soul of the site, but lets be real here:
A)There are millions of people on that site. We arent special even among that sample size and not enough people left.
B)There just isnt enough engagement or comments on lemmy to prove this. I think in general a lot of the articles and content here is nice, it mirrors my rss reader more. But generally there isnt as much content or engagement. Some threads get more or less but a lot of my front page on lemmy has single digit comments.
I think there is potential to keep growing and being better, but that potential hasnt been reached yet, and Beehaw leaving will crush things since beehaw was not only a major hub, but the Be(e) nice philosophy did help temper some discussion from going towards typical online message board Nerd BS.