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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People aren't going to leave reddit all at once right away, because structure means that individual subreddits are very much isolated from one another in terms of users.

However, it's likely that we will be seeing some kind of cultural shift happening there as quality get worse. I feel it's inevitable that there will be more low effort content pumped out as quickly as possible than ever before now there is an actual monetary incentive instead of imaginary Internet points, and all personalized feed and ad is going to do is isolate individual users in their individual bubble and not allowing human connections to form between them.

Things are getting better here. The regulars recongnize each other's name and personalitu, whereas on reddit all the usernames all blends together into an amorphous mass unless it's one of those novelty accounts or e-celeb or something. That's the key difference between Lemmy and reddit right now.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Couldn't agree more. Those novelty e-celeb accounts on Reddit are getting really put of hand, aren't they, Margot Robbie

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Academy award-nominated actress Margot Robbie does actually spend most of her free time modding an android group on Lemmy - but you will never see that mentioned on mainstream social media.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seriously, it really doesn't take that much time at all, way easier than I thought it would be.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any advice you'd like to give that would make somebody starting modding a lot easier, would be appreciated.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't micromanage, I just let people do whatever they want but encourage them to do their best, and only remove/ban for people who absolutely won't listen to reason.

You should also get involved with your comm by talking to people there a lot, so they don't think you are just some asshole who's only there to ban.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for replying.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Oh absolutely, especially those celebrities who comes in, promote their latest project, say some catchphrases, and leave. Why would they do such a thing?

Also, that's Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie to you!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit's not going anywhere until they ban porn and the hobby communities jump somewhere else.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just wait for old.reddit being removed, there will be another wave of new Lemmy users.

[–] Makeshift 5 points 1 year ago

I still have my account and check like once every couple weeks for 2-3 communities.

On PC, old.reddit, and no chance of getting a single ad in my face. I’m not technical enough to know if they’re getting other data from my bimonthly visits, but that’s a far cry less than my old every night visits.

As soon as they get rid of old.reddit it won’t even be reddit to me anymore. Just an ugly new thing overwriting the site I once enjoyed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

yea, if I hadn't been permabanned that would have done it for me but there's still enough people on there that don't even know old.reddit is a thing for that to really kill the site. I have a feeling a lot of people are willing to just put up with their shit for the sake of not really having anywhere else to go. Unfortunately at the moment unless you want to talk about politics or Linux the pool of content on Lemmy is pretty dry and I don't know of any better options besides going back to independent forums.