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Showerthoughts

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Lemmy probably feels like Reddit when it first started, all warm cuddly and friendly to newcomers eager to discuss and collaborate around central topics. (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 1 year ago by kucuva to c/showerthoughts
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I joined reddit on the tailwind, so it was all echo chamber, we hate newcomers, gatekeeping, automod frenzy, too many rulebreakers, too many rules, etc I could be wrong, but thats what I imagine it used to be like.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel Lemmy is like reddit without the normies making this infact more reddit than reddit

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I miss the 'normies', I interact with enough tech people in my daily life

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

I block almost every tech community and tech is still 50% of my feed here

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

This is exactly how Reddit started too. It was the digg migration that brought in all the normies.