I can get out of lemmy what I got out of reddit a long time ago. It only takes a few hundred smart/funny people to make a chat board good. We're here now. Hopefully some of the niche communities get ported over soon enough, but the real greatness of reddit was that it was mostly uncensored and intelligent opinion. That's mostly dead.

[–] auzy1@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Only in some communities it was..

And, the lack of censorship wasn't a good thing. It allowed absolute shtshow's like thedonald or fatpeoplehate to exist way too long. There were also numerous pedo subreddits too which were allowed to exist apparently.

I'd argue that Reddit is at least partially responsible for a lot of f'ed up shit that many countries are now facing, by empowering those weirdos

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

i think FB has reddit beat, FB resulted in more conflicts than reddit ever did.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

The problem with reddit very specifically is that it was, in many ways, internet counterculture. It grabbed a very specific demographic which is much less likely to be active on Facebook - young men stepping out from their edgy teenager "it's not a stage mom" stage, and into the throes of early adulthood. So now you have this very strange thing where "youth counterculture" is sometimes (often enough to be a problem) this unholy marriage between fascist nihilism and Christian nationalism.

[–] auzy1@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Absolutely true

In fact, here in Australia, someone has now introduced legislation in parliament to force social media companies to provide a feed without the algorithm / only posts by people you subscribe to

Of course the right wing nut jobs don't like the legislation, because they rely on scare mongering and rage bait to exist

That's why you know it's great legislation