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Im very excited for Lemmy. It seems a bit rough around the edges, but I'm very hopeful for it. That being said... (self.main)

submitted 2 years ago by Sputnik34 to c/[email protected]

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Please stop talking about reddit. If you want this to be the next reddit, I beg of you to stop mentioning it. Otherwise all this placewill be is a temporary hold over until we all just fall back on what we know cause we keep hammering in the name into our brain over and over again. I think the same sort of thing happened with the original "black out" of Twitter but we all came back to it because we kept thinking of Twitter in regards to whatever new site we tried. If you want Lemmy to succeed, let Lemmy be Lemmy

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This happened on Mastodon as well, I wouldn't worry about it too much. People are excited and they'll post about whatever they're feeling. As it goes away, people will stop talking about it.

Even OP itself is a mirror of what happened on Mastodon when Twitter shut down, people calling for an end to Twitter meta discussions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's kinda funny that this thread is the first mention of Reddit I've seen on here in days.

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

I think the last major waves of people migrating were the blackout then prior to that the announcement of pricing.

The exact same thing came up on asklemmy or [email protected] I forget which, telling people to shut up about Reddit. I think people settled in after a couple weeks and a lot of Reddit-specific discussion is relegated to the Reddit topic lemmy and kbin communities which are thriving now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Lemmy also has an advantage over Mastodon in retaining people who move here.

With Twitter, most people go there to see content from particular users, be they famous people, news outlets, whatever. If those people stay on Twitter, users who leave it for Mastodon will eventually go back, because the content they want is still on Twitter, not Mastodon.

With Reddit, and also Lemmy, people are here for content but don't particularly care what users are posting that content. As long as the Lemmyverse continues to have good content-- and it only seems to be getting better, so I'm not worried-- there's no reason to return to Reddit