I was wondering how the pre-reddit lemmy members feel about the influx of ex-reddit. Have things got worst or better? Is there any lemmy etiquette that we are missing?

  • @simple
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    1 year ago

    Definitely better. I tried getting into Lemmy about a year ago and it was kind of a miserable place. Most communities were abandoned and the website was less usable than now, the only active group were tankies (specifically CCP lovers). There just wasn’t any demand for a Reddit alternative. I abandoned Lemmy and went back to Reddit not long after.

    Now the website feels sooooo much livelier and is a much nicer place. The community isn’t huge but it feels like the content I need to find is here, and as people settle in specific communities activity is going up! Once Lemmy fixes their bugs and Kbin fixes their federation I’m confident I won’t want to go back to other websites.

    • PhilOP
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      271 year ago

      That is promising , I was hoping we are not polluting the pool , so to speak

      • @Monkeyhog
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        21 year ago

        If anything, we’re cleaning the pool

        • @Pili
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          21 year ago

          Imagine moving to a place that’s home to a lot of people you don’t like, and calling them dirty.

          • @Monkeyhog
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            11 year ago

            You mean, imagine all of human history since the earliest hominid first stood upright and saw another group across the savanna?

    • TheOneCurly
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      131 year ago

      I had a very similar experience, my lemmy.ml account is about a year old and I bounced off it several times because of a lack of content and engagement. But now I think it’ll stick, thanks spez.

    • @mcpheeandme
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      51 year ago

      Thanks for sharing your experience. It’s good to hear there wasn’t a lot going on because, honestly, coming here from Reddit feels a bit like participating in some sort of digital gentrification.