By now, I’m sure you’ve heard about the Reddit protests and blackouts but what exactly is going on with Reddit? Why are people protesting and why did the pro...
A video about the effectiveness of the Reddit protest
My growing concern for this community surviving is that it develops its own identity. My fear is that it’s becoming a dumping ground for Reddit infighting and not much else. Obviously, it’s early days still, but I don’t quite remember this when migrating over from Digg years ago. I feel like the community mostly just made fun of Digg and went on to post new and engaging content. This feels different, and not in a good way.
I don’t have numbers but I think reddit is much bigger than digg ever was. I agree though that Lemmy/Kbin servers need their own identity beyond just grumbling about reddit. That’s why I don’t upvote this kind of post. It’s better to just move on and create new communities here.
I agree, It reminds me a lot of what Mastodon instances I’ve seen were like shortly after Elon Musk bought Twitter with that being the main thing hooking me into the fediverse despite the fact that I’ve never used Twitter.
Thankfully those communities did develop and mature over time although it took a while for people to move towards unique types of posts and conversations.
I believe the same can apply here with Beehaw and Lemmy although we need to be the ones to help foster the change we want to see.
I don’t quite remember this when migrating over from Digg years ago.
Ohhh, it was there. I had been on Reddit for some time when everyone came over. Digg users were super pissed at Kevin Rose, heard all about it. Eventually they found their own interesting things on Reddit and headed off to do those, but for a while, there were a lot of people who were very upset with changes that they did not like being rammed down their throats.
My growing concern for this community surviving is that it develops its own identity. My fear is that it’s becoming a dumping ground for Reddit infighting and not much else. Obviously, it’s early days still, but I don’t quite remember this when migrating over from Digg years ago. I feel like the community mostly just made fun of Digg and went on to post new and engaging content. This feels different, and not in a good way.
I don’t have numbers but I think reddit is much bigger than digg ever was. I agree though that Lemmy/Kbin servers need their own identity beyond just grumbling about reddit. That’s why I don’t upvote this kind of post. It’s better to just move on and create new communities here.
We’ve got another month of grumbling coming up, lots of new users inbound.
I agree, It reminds me a lot of what Mastodon instances I’ve seen were like shortly after Elon Musk bought Twitter with that being the main thing hooking me into the fediverse despite the fact that I’ve never used Twitter. Thankfully those communities did develop and mature over time although it took a while for people to move towards unique types of posts and conversations. I believe the same can apply here with Beehaw and Lemmy although we need to be the ones to help foster the change we want to see.
Ohhh, it was there. I had been on Reddit for some time when everyone came over. Digg users were super pissed at Kevin Rose, heard all about it. Eventually they found their own interesting things on Reddit and headed off to do those, but for a while, there were a lot of people who were very upset with changes that they did not like being rammed down their throats.