Please stop talking about reddit. If you want this to be the next reddit, I beg of you to stop mentioning it. Otherwise all this placewill be is a temporary hold over until we all just fall back on what we know cause we keep hammering in the name into our brain over and over again. I think the same sort of thing happened with the original “black out” of Twitter but we all came back to it because we kept thinking of Twitter in regards to whatever new site we tried. If you want Lemmy to succeed, let Lemmy be Lemmy

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    1 year ago

    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.

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      Exactly … I think people are just impatient … there is a change happening, to what degree of a change it will be only time will tell.

      Reddit is collapsing in bits and pieces … it’s going to take time to see it go down the tubes.

      Also, most people don’t want to change, no matter what the circumstances are, they like familiarity and things to stay constant because it is comforting … so they keep drifting back to Reddit hoping against hope that things will just keep going the way they always did. Eventually, the site will go stale due to all the infighting, protesting and regurgitation of the same old threads that people keep repeating.

      Once people get tired of it all and realize that the old Reddit they once enjoyed no longer exists … then they will drift into new alternatives like Lemmy, Kbin or Mastodon or whatever else and settle there.

      Give it time guys … nothing is going to change overnight. Personally, I’m staying here on Lemmy and Kbin and enjoying the hell out of it. I feels like 2010 all over again and it’s great!

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        1 year ago

        I can confirm we are seeing very similar levels of engagement on [email protected] as on /r/android despite significantly smaller subscriber numbers.

        Lemmy really does scratch the itch for me. It’s refreshing, even if mod tools aren’t there yet.