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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 1 year 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] 4 points 1 year 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