• Pennomi
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    1511 month ago

    The only thing Reddit still has is certain very active niche communities, but we do great on the more general stuff.

    • @kernelle
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      1051 month ago

      As someone who used reddit for 14+ years, this place feels exactly like early Reddit, a place where you actually can converse with anyone and contribute instead of yelling into the void. Realistically we will always have both, but many more will join the verse everytime Reddit has an oopsie.

      • @[email protected]
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        221 month ago

        Narwhal, bacon, midnight, dick butt, le, doggo.

        The real question, when we enter ^ this era of Lemmy, how many years of prison is appropriate for the above genre of jokes?

        • @kernelle
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          291 month ago

          Lmao beans fit that list, we can cringe about it all we want now but at the time we’re building community.

      • @blackwateropeth
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        This. /s

        But yea I agree it’s a pretty solid community aside from a few overly aggressive contrarians

    • oce 🐆
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      561 month ago

      The sheer coverage of every subject on Reddit is crazy. Yesterday I was getting infuriated at a stupid plot in the 3 Body Problem, so I ddged it, and of course I found 3 Reddit threads sharing my frustrations. What a shame it has to get enshitified.

      • @WildPalmTree
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        311 month ago

        Upvoted because “ddged”. Wonderful. 😊

          • @[email protected]
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            11 month ago

            duckduckgo.com

            Good alternative search engine, have to use a bit of traditional search engineering sometimes, but to me that’s a good thing, feature not a bug.

            It can’t find everything, think of it as an extra tool in the toolbox. Having selection between search engines is a good thing. Don’t want just one monolithic source of information.

      • @[email protected]
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        141 month ago

        It helps that Reddit along with other big platforms like FB absorbed all the traffic that in the old days would have been distributed into small separate forums. Not good for the ecosystem.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 month ago

      We’re doing our best!

      If you’re in a niche community, don’t be afraid to put some content out there. Niche communities are generally so happy to see any conversation. The amount of criticism/downvoting I’ve seen on topics in slow communities has been very low.

    • @fidodo
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      31 month ago

      I think Lemny needs to be pitched to more independent communities as a way to provide a forum to their members while being connected to the rest of the Internet. For example, game developers should make lemmy instances for their game communities so they can host a forum and not be subjected to the whims of Reddit. Non profits and guilds as well.