I think we need to give it some time. I was not there when Digg went bad but I’m assuming that in the early days of Reddit, there was a lot of discussion about Digg. Once Reddit reached a critical mass, posts about Digg died down.

To make the ex metaphor. Talking shit about your ex is not productive but talking about what was wrong or didn’t work can be very insightful. Entirely blocking your ex out of your mind is a pretty easy way to make the same mistakes again.

I can see why people think it’s annoying but I think this is also a good thing. Talking about this helps people understand what they want to see in their communities or instances.

It’s the currently trending topic for pretty much everyone here. It will die down by itself eventually as it becomes old news.

I mean this is true and was a problem on mastodon when i joined as well with twitter but it died down and I can hope the same happens here.

I mean, a good chunk of the content on reddit came from Twitter or Facebook or 4chan, if not one of the many other sites that also scrape from those places. And after the Digg exodus, there was a lot of discussion about that too.

This is normal. This is just growing pains.

Obtuse comment, a vast majority of people have no self-awareness. Its good to discuss things.

It took years for Reddit to stop bitching about Digg all the time. Hopefully, we will get over this phase quicker than that.

For the moment, I personally find this feedback valuable. We are starting something new, and a part of figuring out what we want to look like is acknowledging what we don’t want to look like.

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Edit: Seems like people don’t joke about this stuff here. Lesson learned.