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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The reverse can also happen, though. Many of the features of Reddit are there because they are good, so if we just strive to be different for the sake of being different that will end up awful too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Who said anything about striving to be different?

That's at least as cringey as striving to be the same, and generally even more so.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

They may have been good in the beginning, but they got fucking hammered to death instantly and became tired tropes in less than a week.

I vote that lemmy diverges and does its own thing so we can beat our own tropes to death almost instantly