Please stop talking about reddit. If you want this to be the next reddit, I beg of you to stop mentioning it.

I wouldn't be too concerned about the references to Reddit. It's precisely that upset toward what we're seeing happen to Reddit that is driving even greater usage of Lemmy. The same thing happened with Digg, which contrary to some of our collective memory did not take place all at once. Many moved over to Reddit in 2007 following the HD DVD encryption code scandal, with many still using Digg to some degree. Sentiment toward Digg continued to decline and Reddit traffic continued to climb until the final mass wave in 2010 with the arrival of Digg v4 that shifted emphasis away from user generated content toward heavier curation - this sealed Digg's fate with folks deciding to switch for good.

I think it's a good thing that Lemmy users continue to view themselves as displaced Redditors. You don't want that energy to fizzle out. It's what's driving people to volunteer more of their time and effort into community building.

Fundimentally, as long as people get enough content to last their commute/poop/lunch break without crawling back to reddit for additional memes, Lemmy will be in a good position to make it.

But I agree with you, discussions about reddit don't make for good content for everyone in a sustainable way. Those discussions I'd wager appeal most to the true believers who left on principle, not the average user.

I think this is a little overblown. How long were you in reddit for?

A lot of the people coming over here were on reddit for 10-12 years, back in the old days. People are adjusting. A big majority of the new users on Lemmy aren’t interested in going back to reddit at all, nor do we want Lemmy to be reddit.

Reddit has degraded significantly overtime, I think that the API debacle was a massive wake up call. People are still adjusting and there is a very big wave of new users on July 1.

But many of us came over in early June when the changes were first announced. I haven’t been back to Reddit since and I have been a lot happier. I honestly found that my interactions have been very pleasant here, the content has been deeper and more engaging, overall I’m really excited for the future.

Reddit was fun but it’s time has passed for a lot of the users here.

The two most common posts right now are complaints about reddit, and complaints about complaining about reddit. Be the change you want to see....

Ok. Downvoted for talking about reddit.

I'm gonna talk about Reddit even harder.

Give it a week, we just passed July 1. I joined during the Reddit blackout and it took a few days for new and interesting content to cycle through.

Be the change you wish to see in the world!

This happened on Mastodon as well, I wouldn't worry about it too much. People are excited and they'll post about whatever they're feeling. As it goes away, people will stop talking about it.

Even OP itself is a mirror of what happened on Mastodon when Twitter shut down, people calling for an end to Twitter meta discussions.

Whats happening on reddit is a big news story, it's getting coverage on all the major socials and is pretty high up on a lot of news outlets. it's getting a little more attention here but that's because it obviously has a lot of refugees. I don't think it's a huge problem. Maybe if it persists with this level for another month.

I got here after they announced the API changes. Took about a week for the reddit posts to slow down at all but they're back in full force now that the changes have been implemented.

It's just people discussing something that's relevant to them. It'll go away eventually.

Wtf is Twitter?

I feel like you don't remember Digg v4. It was very much a topic on Reddit at the time.

This is my first post. I'm still a little confused as how to add more subs. Most of the niche subs I was part of on your unmentionable site had about 10x the user base. Really what's needed is an app that let's you amalgamate all of lemmy websites into one, you need a certain number of people on the general subs in order for those small niche communities to thrive.

I agree.. is there a way to hide all of the communities that have been/are being created by that lemmy bot I see lately? I mean maybe the author thinks it's helpful to mirror subs with all of their posts from 'over there', but I fear it also lets us be lazy and expect content to come from outside. People need to actively engage and create here, not just lurk and visit read-only copies.

Edit: it's all the auto-copied subs and posts from the lemmit.online instance -- I am not advocating for de-federating it, just hoping there would be a way to auto-hide any *.(instance) rather than needing to manually do it one at a time.

Edit 2: I'm a dork. I found how to just list new postings from my Subscriptions.

Fuck your dick you shitty pissbanana. Let people talk about things that are going on and let the conversations develop naturally. If you really want to control what people can and can’t talk about go back to Reddit and start your own sub where you can aggressively moderate until you’re happy with your finely cultivated echo chamber.