During the final days I spent on the platform, Reddit was starting to become very generic. Many subreddits, despite being about theoretically different topics, devolved into a generic Reddit frontpage community. Even if Lemmy becomes a lot more popular, my hope is that the communities here will stay somewhat distinct and won’t become as much of circlejerks.
This is what I miss about oldschool forums. They felt so personal and intimate and you bumped into the same people in the threads and YOU as an individual felt involved in the inside jokes and the lingo, etc
Reddits inside jokes lasted 10+ years in some communities, having passed through the hands of tens of thousands. A far cry from what it even means to have inside jokes.
Probably because people treated subs like hashtags, yeah let’s repost this photo to as many somewhat relevant subs as possible. Every other social media uses hashtags, so reddit must be the same, right?
But in some smaller, non default, niche communities, you still found plenty of quality, original content. Many of those were too small to probably even make it to Lemmy at all, let alone gain some traction. But I’m happy /c/flashlight is over here already.
During the final days I spent on the platform, Reddit was starting to become very generic. Many subreddits, despite being about theoretically different topics, devolved into a generic Reddit frontpage community. Even if Lemmy becomes a lot more popular, my hope is that the communities here will stay somewhat distinct and won’t become as much of circlejerks.
This is what I miss about oldschool forums. They felt so personal and intimate and you bumped into the same people in the threads and YOU as an individual felt involved in the inside jokes and the lingo, etc
Reddits inside jokes lasted 10+ years in some communities, having passed through the hands of tens of thousands. A far cry from what it even means to have inside jokes.
Probably because people treated subs like hashtags, yeah let’s repost this photo to as many somewhat relevant subs as possible. Every other social media uses hashtags, so reddit must be the same, right?
But in some smaller, non default, niche communities, you still found plenty of quality, original content. Many of those were too small to probably even make it to Lemmy at all, let alone gain some traction. But I’m happy /c/flashlight is over here already.
Oh shit I need to find that flashlight Lemmy. I’ve already found wet shaving and mechanical keyboards. I’m hoping ayymd makes it over too.
https://lemmy.world/c/flashlight :)
Thanks bro.
Now my addiction continues.