Technology
This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.
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Rules:
1: All Lemmy rules apply
2: Do not post low effort posts
3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff
4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.
5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)
6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist
7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed
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A lot of sentiment seems to suggest that for Lemmy or the fediverse to succeed Reddit has to fail.
I don't get that opinion at all. Reddit had become overwhelming bloated. A popular thread would have thousands of comments. Most of which would be near identical. Only the most up voted would ever be read and typically they had to have been commented while the thread was new.
The internet is vast, there is plenty of room for multiple social media to exist.
If you dislike what reddit has become then ignore it. If you still wish to use it then you can do so side by side with using Lemmy.
Lemmy is #1 in my heart
Thousands of comments which the top ones contain the same types of canned, sarcastic answers as well.
The informative & constructive comments are generally way down at the bottom of the thread.
I also feel like, if Reddit died and all the users jumped to Lemmy, Lemmy would die rather quickly as well.
Lemmy still has a long way to go.
It's possible indeed, mostly because of infrastructure and manpower to moderate. Sustainable growth is the best growth
Yeah, I'd rather have a thread with a dozen high quality comments than hundreds of bot reposts/low quality buzzwords. I do hope that Lemmy sustains enough activity to have those nice, small conversations though.
I don't WANT Lemmy to replace Reddit. I hope Reddit continues to serve as a containment board for all the morons who flooded into it over the past few years and share views like "most people use the redesign, its fine" and "Reddit is a company that needs to make money". Let Reddit continue to show them the same 10 /r/funny reposts over and over again while the good part of Reddit's community moves here and recreates the quality community we enjoyed pre 2016.