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Possibly an unpopular opinion, but I don't think Lemmy should be viewed as "spite sites". If the entire focus of the community here is to point and laugh at Reddit's failures, rather than actually provide an adequate site's worth of unique content, people will quickly get tired of it and leave.
Of course, it's the hot topic at the moment so it's understandable, but I hope we'll move away from it at some point.
I mean they keep doing stupid shit so there's still stuff to talk about but look around, dude. There's lots and lots of active conversation that has nothing to do with Reddit.
As I said, I get it.
And yes, there is discussion that's nothing to do with Reddit, however Reddit is still an extremely common topic, and I'm just a little concerned that this will become the Reddit trash fire viewing site with incidental other discussion, rather than its own thing. A positive thing to come out of the whole Titan accident is that is gives some other content to talk about at least.
But surely you'd agree viewing Lemmy as a "spite site" is not the way forward, no?