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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... (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] 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] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reddit ditched default subs years ago but it would maybe be a good thing for the big Lemmy instances to replicate in some way until it can get big enough. Finding communities is a challenge unless you’re really committed. The all feed is like 85% Reddit discussion.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you create a new reddit account you receive curated content from day one is the point. I've also been a oldreddit user so I didn't even know default subs went away lol.

I also set my Lemmy default to new comments, subscribed/local cause all is buggy AF it seems(d).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The problem with this kind of decisions is that there are some people that want the fediverse to remain somehow underground, which would drive some people away from it.

As for the Reddit talk, I reckon it’s expected given how much people is coming expecting to get the Reddit experience. However, I believe the dust will settle as the time passes, and everyone will start to see Lemmy as its own thing.

A similar thing happens at Mastodon every time there’s a new influx of users. People want to have a familiar experience, and that’s normal.