I see, interesting perspective. I think it is somewhat natural to try and bring everything reddit-style over to lemmy right now because we all want this place to grow from the exodus at reddit. Having familiar content and communities is how we can make new members feel right at home. Over time we will properly split off and become our own thing tho.

I got into Reddit a little bit before the memes started. It was a great place for discussion and questions. Then it turned into competitive Facebook. I’m hoping the lack of user karma will discourage most of the meme farming, but eventually it’ll happen here too. At least there’s a chance that instances could specialise and be meme-free if they wanted.