Sure would be nice to foster new niche communities on Lemmy instead of talking about our obnoxious ex-platform
And not just a regular amicable breakup but one where you left after finding out the other person was actually a cold-hearted narcissist who only pretended to care about you and now they’re lying to everyone about how you were the horrible one. So it’s understandable to feel some schadenfreude for awhile.
My NFL team last year gave up its franchise quarterback, and the subreddit basically only talked about the former QB for the entire preseason, and then still talked about it for half the season. Then it died down. And before the protest, he wasn’t really talked about all that much.
Reddit is still fresh in people’s minds. It will go away. In the early days of reddit a LOT of people talked about digg, but within a few months it just wasn’t mentioned much anymore.
A lot of people here spent years on our ex-platform. It’s going to take some time to get that out of our system. In the meantime, enjoy the shadenfreude!
Yup. As someone that has been on Reddit since like 2007, when it was purely a tech news site and I don’t even think had comments yet, I don’t really understand these “just stop talking about it” posts. No. This guy took something that held immense value for a large percentage of our lives, and turned it into something near-worthless (at least a shell of it’s former glory) over a few years time. I think we should talk about it until it’s dead. I want to hear about it’s death knell.
Honestly this stuff is pretty important for morale and organization among users. Particularly because reddit is censoring conversation on their site. I don’t think it’s useful to complain about it at this point.
Why not both?
I’m doing my part in being involved in lemmy to the point I don’t miss reddit anymore, tho I’m having fun in seeing how people get so creative in fighting that overblown pig, it’s highly entertaining :D
I mean, that’s happening too, but this is kind of front of everyone’s mind right now.
Submit a couple of interesting links a day somewhere! I joined Reddit when it was just one page of stuff mostly of interest to Reddit staffers and Spez was submitting a non-trivial chunk of links himself. Was much, much smaller than the Fediverse is now. People just keep showing up as time goes on.
I’m definitely giving it a shot at being more of a content contributor. It’s given me a newfound respect for heavy contributors on subs that I’ve loved so much
For example, I’ve been doing my best to create a new simpsons shitpost once a day/every two days since I’ve moved over and it’s been a lot of fun
