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Conversations like this are why I want more people, especially "normies", in the Fediverse (old.reddit.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When we have a critical mass of people, we can get random experts chiming in about interesting topics in an organic way.

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The thing is that "normies"(I hate the term) weren't on reddit when it was the size of lemmy. The only experience they have is joining it after it had 10 years of development reached critical mass of users.

So we are stuck being compared to an impossible standard. When I compare Lemmy to old reddit lemmy hands down blows it out of the water. Old reddit had cp and racism on the front page every single day for years.It was hard to use and hostile to new users.

I've seen lemmy pop up in search engine posts already which was cool to see. Ive also seen lots of high quality intelligent posts granted they are only tech related but we will grow.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I tried to use Reddit for years and absolutely hated it. Finally after virtually every internet search for any question i had lead need too Reddit I decided to aquire a taste for it.

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

Was it the format or the user base that drove you off?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Format at first, then user base. I then found you could subscribe to subs and see only that stuff. That made it tolerable.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess that's a fair point, but I'd rather shoot for what's good instead of settle for "better than terrible".

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

Incremental improvement is bad?

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

Jesus, it was that bad? I am surprised they weren't taken down by the FBI.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Read up on the saga of /r/jailbait sometime if you want to be utterly confused how the FBI didn't show up and arrest everyone involved with Reddit.