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Users from before the current wave of Reddit refugees, how do you feel about the incoming monsoon of refugees? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I imagine there's excitement for the increase of activity but worries about the potential toxic side of Reddit coming along too.

I'd especially be interested in the Lemmy devs' opinions.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I hope the reddit echo box 'our way or the highway', 'everything is a pun' mentality doesn't transfer over as well

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

When someone shares a personal story about his wife's struggle with cancer and the top reply is "I also choose this guy's dead wife"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Aww, but Reddit pun threads are fun.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Once you've seen the Anne Frankly one more than a few times, you'll have had enough

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

To each his own I guess. To me it's too much of the same regurgitated over and over again like a meme that stopped being funny years ago

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They're fine when appropriate. It's nauseating how they're inserted everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah, when a simple bots can post most of the replies. E.g. if post.contains("r/theydidthemath") { post.reply("/r/theydidthemonstermath"); } then it's gone too far. There are some good, creative ones, like The Old Reddit Switch-a-roo, but they're too few and far between.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Agreed, I hope there is room for pun threads here too.

[–] TacoThrash3r 4 points 2 years ago

I imagine a non-zero number of walled off instances forming cause "they banned me for _____"