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Influx of Lemmy brothers and sisters incoming. Already 3K and growing deep, we may as well rebuild together. Let's do this! 🤝

Edit : Yes there are workarounds using Revanced. Check the comments for some awesome help on how to do this if you wish! Just know, in the future it will most likely end up being patched annoyingly and I therefore recommend looking forward to the future with us here.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

everything will be replaced eventually in time but whether lemmy will replace reddit (in this case) is the question.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don’t think Lemmy will replace Reddit, just like Mastodon didn’t replace Twitter. But I think we can build them into great alternatives for people who want to avoid using the big corporate originals (like me).

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I personally don't want lemmy to end up as a reddit replacement. I'm scared the discussions will get worse like it did in reddit. Nowadays, people in lemmy actually discuss with you and not downvote-bomb or make a snarky comment for karma. I do hope we grow, though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Much like Reddit was in the early days. I think bots are a real problem and presumably nobody is making bots for Lemmy yet if that is even possible.

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

Lemmy has a massive botswarm problem right now

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

However they are simple and stopped by captchas and easily detected with email verifications.

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

Yeah, the discourse on Reddit hasn’t been good in years and years. Normies using it was good for numbers, but the content suffered greatly. I like reading sentences that have at least a semblance of structure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

When I first joined Reddit I remember thinking the conversations on there were more insightful than on other sites. Recently it's been the exact same poor quality of content. and since the exodus (in the couple of threads I've lurked) I've noticed it's got FAR worse in such a short period of time.

Yesterday I checked in on Reddit and read some comments under a video of an older man getting called out for taking creep shots of a girl in public. A good ~50% of the comments were saying he's allowed to take photos in public ??? It was honestly disgusting.

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

I’m a new convert to Lemmy. It feels a lot like old reddit before it hit the mainstream and the digg exodus. I hope it stays like this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Lemmy us only superficially similar to Reddit. In fact it is much more, or so much less, depending on what you need in your social networking.

That level of control makes it more complicated for some people.

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

But… does Lemmy HAVE to replace reddit? Why not just… enjoy it and forget reddit even exists?