do you want lemmy to have a different userbase and culture than reddit

or NO

mine is yes, since i dont want the fediverse users to bring their former platform’s bad habits with them

  • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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    What people hate about reddit is what people hate about mobs. If Lemmy ever gets as big as reddit, it will suck just as much.

    • Tonuka@feddit.org
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      I hate this kind of talk. For me the point of the fediverse isn’t that it’s cool because it’s niche, but that it’s cool because it’s a solution to a systemic problem with Social Media. I want Lemmy to get big and messy and full of obnoxious people. I think that’s a GOOD thing. Because then they’ll be on the fediverse, and not on a platform owned by a single billionaire

      • im_fine_sandy@nord.pub
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        The fediverse won’t survive that kind of growth in its current form.

        Federation requires mutual trust. As soon as there are enough users to make it a target, and a sophisticated threat appears, it will be impossible to avoid manipulation.

        lemmy.world will defedrate from everyone.

        I don’t think this is “bad”, just a predictable future of the fediverse.

  • LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works
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    Having migrated a couple times, I’ve found that instances have their own culture and I don’t see anything wrong with that.

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    Most of us are here because reddit is shit and unusable. Why would we want that here?

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    I think the fediverse is a series of individuals who will create microcultures. we will not all be interacting with everyone and will be what we will be.

  • Tonuka@feddit.org
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    Yeah but also social media is just a medium. It’s the people who create the culture, not the medium. Sure people adapt to other people but you still start somewhere.

    Tumblr was popular with young people, women and minorities, and to this day it’s overwhelmingly queer and female. Facebook was popular with young people but was quickly discovered by organisations and businesses as an easy way to be public facing, so over time it’s become sort of more professional and inclusive of older people.

    What kind of people used reddit? Before it got popular, it’s culture was influenced by millennials, nerd culture and hobby forum culture. That’s what’s stayed. What kind of people use Lemmy? Well, that’s the question isn’t it?

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    I don’t really like the parroting of in-jokes thing. Probably any sufficiently long lived large group will probably have in-jokes, but reddit-isms always grated the most.