A lot of questions on here are aimed at the reddit users experiences, but I’ve been wondering what the older users thought of his move. Are there any reddit cultures you are hoping do not come with the users? Are you confident or fearful of the growth coming from the reddit community? I’m curious how the reddit influx is changing these communities either for better or for worse.
I worry that you can take the users out of Reddit, but you can’t take the Reddit out of the users.
I’ve come here from reddit and I’m worried about the same thing lol. I’ve already caught myself doing it a bit…
Decentralized like this is how the internet was meant to be. Power to the people!
I’ve been waiting for more users tbh.
I just got here. Started overwriting all my posts and comments on Reddit this weekend so there will be nothing left when I leave on the 30th. Gonna spend the next few days figuring things out. I like the upvote and downvote buttons. Feels familiar.
Tangentially-related, perhaps: I’m a member of a subreddit that went from ~20,000 to over 2 million while I’ve been there. The increased quantity was fine, but the quality of postings cratered.
It had been a forum for people who did a particular thing, then suddenly 95% of the posters were dreamers/tirekickers who saw influencer YT/Insta content and came in to ask the same spoonfeedy questions over and over. Five minutes reading the sub would answer the FAQs, but no.
In order to keep my blood pressure under control I focus on specific technical areas and reply only to those that seem to be able/willing to understand.
My lemmy-age is 1 day (newborn). Serious question… just how old are the lemmy ancients?
Seen some accounts that are 2 years old, and topics 3 years old.
Must have been lonely…
Yeah what the hell were those guys doing for years
Lurked for a week and left, userbase was way too low. More new topics this past week than an entire month last time I logged on 2 years ago! I love it here now
I tried to make an account last year but got bored waiting to be approved :/
I think the question you should be asking is what were you doing.
fair
Mine is 3 years old. Back then, I signed up but never really posted, just lurked for a while and went to explore Tildes instead. So yeah, didn’t really do anything. I remember there being a few enthusiastic users about open-source software but also a few tankies, which kinda turned me off it. But I’m glad Lemmy’s exploding with activity right now, as we got a more diverse userbase.
Honest question. What are tankies?
Originally, like someone said, it was a derogatory term for supporters of Khrushchev military intervention against a revolt in Hungary in 1956.
It is also used to pejoratively refer to a supporter of some leftist regimes, such as that of Stalin’s USSR, China, and North Korea (also Pol Pot’s Cambodia, probably). Are also a supporter of Putin’s Russia and its invasion of Ukraine.
Take of it what you will.
It’s a term originally used for anyone who supported Khrushchev’s intervention in Hungary. Now it’s a thought terminating term for anyone I don’t like that’s also to the left of me.
t’s a derogatory term for far-left Marxist-Leninists (MLs). Some MLs proudly wear the label (see r/InformedTankie on reddit) since the term has been overused to the point of meaninglessness. Basically, any sympathies with or presenting info contradicting mainstream propaganda about socialist states (USSR, PRC, DPRK) will have you branded “tankie”, i even just read a post from r/rust saying they dont want to move to any Lemmy instance because we’re a buncha tankies
i was just lurking every couple of months after i first used it but i wasn’t really a regular user
I’m 4 years. Lemmy back then was basically a lot like a dark web forum. Very, very lonely. I never posted until this Reddit stuff went down and haven’t really visited in a couple of years. Very nice to see this place full of activity.
I fully welcome you all! I’ve mostly lurked Lemmy, but I’ve been here 4 years and seeing it so active is so refreshing. Really gives me hope for this service. I’m trying to participate more now to help make it more engaging.
Nah it’s great to have all of you here <3 I literally screenshot the (presemably) last time a post of mine actually went to the top haha. As long as users from the soon-to-blackout r/PCM don’t start flame wars with lemmygrad, all will be okay.
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the Reddit users moving over are the ones that care about social media and are willing to invest time learning new platforms. i think it’s the masses we have to worry about, and I don’t think they’ll move over until they are forced to
I made an account when I first heard of Lemmy a few months ago, lost my login details. With the userbase taking such a huge uptick I’ve decided to get back on it.
I think its great, it’ll be better in some ways, worse in other ways, but you just follow the content you wanna see and you’re good. Reddit has been due for a mass migration to another platform for a while now, it seems this is just now the tipping point.
Ultimately I think to have redditors switch to a reddit-like platform that isn’t controlled by investors is a great idea. And if you dont like the way your instance is run, make your own. You can do that. Can’t do that on reddit.
The bigger, the better a social media platform is.
Lemmy will be fine as long as the toxic Reddit users doesn’t migrate over
This is a great question - I’m new myself, and while it all feels very welcoming and friendly so far, I’d hate to think that there was some established Lemmiquette that I was unwittingly breaching.
I’d love to see this place become a genuine alternative to Reddit, but not if it pisses off the people who were here from the start.
@Cosmonaut_Collin hopefully the_donald and its cohort can die with reddit
At first I thought it was cool but now its clear lemmy will just be turned into reddit.
