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Hypothetically speaking, if Reddit back tracks on their API plan and meets all of the communities expeditions- would you go back to Reddit? (self.asklemmy)
submitted 2 years ago by snipeftw to c/[email protected]
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I myself am really on the fence about this.

I hate what Reddit has done, as I was removed as a moderator on my sub. But I much prefer the UI to Lemmy so far. I’m also having a hard time understanding how this all works. I was familiar with Reddit, and it is obviously a way more active community.

But I also used Apollo and hate how they’ve done him so dirty.

Will you guys return if Reddit rights it’s wrongs?

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[–] xargs 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This is the most degen reason to give, but the likelihood is I would go back. Lemmy is solid though there's a couple of things that make me wonder if it's worth fully commiting.

a) Userbase. If reddit went back, subreddits would likely reopen, change their rules back to how they were before, and therefore the numbers would follow.

b) Centralised. I know this one will piss people off, but the fragmentation of lemmy is a bit too much. I have the option to put all my trust into a single account on one instance and subscribe fedarated if instances support it, or I can create 20 different accounts across different instances.

c) Retention of userstats. While I've not got rediculous amounts of karma like some people do, I have a a little bit, and rebuilding that is a bit ass.

[–] damniel 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I agree with most of what you're saying, except for karma. Who gives a fuck

[–] TechnoBabble 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Isn't karma just like an anti-spam mechanism that barely works?

And you get karma just by posting whatever the community wants to hear. So it's not like it shows how enlightened you are or anything.

Anyway, one thing that bothered me about Reddit's karma system, is that people would delete their comments if they got a few downvotes, even if they had something important to say.

Here on Lemmy, you can quickly see both upvotes and downvotes. So if someone says something controversial due to politics or whatever, they're less likely to delete their comment because they can see "ahh, I'm not just being mercilessly attacked, 50 people upvoted me."

That can be abused I guess, but I like that it promotes discussion that isn't just echo-chamber nonsense. We'll just have to see how it works in practice.

[–] damniel 1 points 2 years ago

I agree. Or people would see a couple downvotes and just start dogpiling without even processing what the comment said.

I'll be honest, towards the end, farming downvotes in new or interesting ways was one of the only good parts of reddit for me. It was funny to see people so easily sucked in and worked up about what to me is obvious satire. It will be interesting to see how/if that type of behavior converts on Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

How do you even dowvnote on Lemmy? I don't see an option for it, only on kbin.