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The admins could throttle those bots down to reasonable posting levels and the meta around it could go from expecting an instant response to being “graced by their presence”. Something something art from adversity something something..
We don’t have to be a direct copy of Reddit, after all.
What I don't like about statements like this is that it ignores the fact that Reddit was just an interface for people to produce content and experiences that they wanted.
We are on Lemmy because we want a different interface, not because we want different content/experiences.
If Lemmy is a direct copy of Reddit, it is because the people want it to be.
Personally, I'm on Lemmy because I want a different owner, not a different interface. I liked old reddit just fine. I left due to the monetization of the community.
True, that's more what I meant by "different interface". Not actually feels different, just different as in on a different server.
Thank you. It would seem some believe Reddit forced us to behave a certain way. Traditions and customary behavior, both good and bad, were developed by the users.
I’m sure that’s true of some people, but my Lemmy experience is different from my Reddit experience and I like it that way. The population on it, in amount and type, the framework and the philosophy behind the framework automatically differentiates it from Reddit, for the better.
Sure, but if there are things on Lemmy that were also on Reddit, it's not automatically a bad thing. People are bringing things to Lemmy that they enjoyed on Reddit.
I'm just saying, don't knock something just because it was a Reddit thing. We're all here because, to varying degrees, we loved the Reddit experience and are looking for that experience without the owners.
…I’m not? I’m suggesting another way to interact with similar elements of Reddit within the confines of a much smaller space so that it isn’t overwhelmed.
Maybe you didn't mean it that way, but the part that I quoted came across that way to me. And I've seen that same sentiment in many comments on Lemmy. Like, things being done the "reddit" way in Lemmy is a bad thing. Which is why I said something.
Then please remember that you’re interacting with a number of different people and try not to jump the gun.
Not sure that I have jumped the gun. But ok. I feel that my original comment is valid.
Kind of a tangent, but I hated when bots went from saying random lines to saying relevant lines.
Like if you said Gandalf and ‘pass’ in the same comment then you know the Gandalf bot would reply “you … pass!”
Took the fun away from getting a relevant quote