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The influx of Redditors has had a detrimental effect on Lemmy. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm a long time Lemmy lurker and occasional Redditor. Since the Reddit influx, I've watched the frequency of shitty Reddit-type behavior, e.g., combative comments, trolling, and unnecessary rudeness, just sky rocket.

I'm happy to have more content on Lemmy, but I wish the bad actors and assholes would have stayed on Reddit.

Yes, I realize the irony of posting this on a new community that's basically a Reddit transplant.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Seeing the low-quality comments starting to appear is disappointing.

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

Sometimes you want to support a post or comment but have nothing to say. Comments increase engagement scores on most platforms

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my experience the only ones caring about engagement scores are advertisers. If you agree with a post/comment you don't actually have to press any button (upvote, like, heart, etc) or even reply to it. We've been conditioned to do it because they have found a way to profit off of our "uh huh" and "yeah that's right". I'm not suggesting it's all bad, I'm trying to put it into context.

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

Sure and it might not be a thing here in Lemmy but there’s a lot of users conditioned to behave this way

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