Becoming mainstream started the slow strangulation of Reddit for me. The conversations became more polarizing and stiffling. The takes less thoughtful, and the unoriginal comments more prevalent. So I hope Lemmy doesn’t become mainstream.
I do think Lemmy can grow, but if the recent events were not able to slow down the Reddit juggernaut; I do not see another platform coming to rival Reddit.
if the recent events were not able to slow down the Reddit juggernaut; I do not see another platform coming to rival Reddit.
I do think they were able to hurt Reddit or we wouldn’t have seen the reaction they had (threatening and suspending mods, spez giving a press tour to reassure everyone that the protest wasn’t affecting anything, etc.). And I’ve seen people say they noticed a change in the content on Reddit’s front page ever since the protest started. That is to say, the quality of the content has degraded further ever since the protest started, and it hasn’t recovered.
Not to mention some subreddits are still protesting. For example, /r/PICS is still posting only pictures of John Oliver, and they just marked the entire sub as NSFW, not because of gore and porn (which is still banned by the /r/PICS mods; this circumvents the “issues” /r/interestingasfuck ran into when it went NSFW), but because people were using profanity (which, according to Reddit policy, is NSFW) and not just vulgarity (which isn’t mentioned in Reddit policy regarding NSFW material).
Becoming mainstream started the slow strangulation of Reddit for me. The conversations became more polarizing and stiffling. The takes less thoughtful, and the unoriginal comments more prevalent. So I hope Lemmy doesn’t become mainstream.
I do think Lemmy can grow, but if the recent events were not able to slow down the Reddit juggernaut; I do not see another platform coming to rival Reddit.
I do think they were able to hurt Reddit or we wouldn’t have seen the reaction they had (threatening and suspending mods, spez giving a press tour to reassure everyone that the protest wasn’t affecting anything, etc.). And I’ve seen people say they noticed a change in the content on Reddit’s front page ever since the protest started. That is to say, the quality of the content has degraded further ever since the protest started, and it hasn’t recovered.
Not to mention some subreddits are still protesting. For example, /r/PICS is still posting only pictures of John Oliver, and they just marked the entire sub as NSFW, not because of gore and porn (which is still banned by the /r/PICS mods; this circumvents the “issues” /r/interestingasfuck ran into when it went NSFW), but because people were using profanity (which, according to Reddit policy, is NSFW) and not just vulgarity (which isn’t mentioned in Reddit policy regarding NSFW material).