I know Kbin will grow in time but I miss how huge Reddit was.
I don’t. I like how I can comment on something and not have it buried. Engagement is much higher here
Yeah–I constantly read about how people liked reddit back in the day, or liked digg, but don’t connect it to the fact that the reason why they were better back in the day was because they were smaller and more intimate (for lack of a better word).
I’m excited for the fediverse to grow, but for me it’s already reached that critical mass for it to be engaging
That intimacy was still available on Reddit, but you needed to dig into the niche subs to find it. Commenting on large subs was definitely a cup of water in the ocean feeling.
Oh absolutely–that’s really the only reason I was able to stay on reddit. I do miss some of those smaller communities, but have resorted to actual forums now (if applicable), or just going without.
Shoutouts to the fiberglassflyrodders.com forums
Niche sub is just another way of saying echo chamber. Reddit was shit, every part of it
Ehh…as someone who was on Reddit and Digg back in the day, they were much larger than Lemmy currently is.
They weren’t born large. Reddit was seeded with content by the developers before the users came. The secret to growing a community is to grow a community. It all has to start somewhere and frankly, fediverse is starting with a much stronger kick start than digg and Reddit ever had.
The UI definitely needs an update. Need more distinction between comments.
I understand this only because my husband still is looking at reddit. I had to have a talk with him as to why I am changing platforms, the point of not visiting a site during a protest, and how Lemmys and kbin need time to grow. He was looking at news and he said “well your site doesn’t have anything! It’s basically empty where am I supposed to go for discussion!”
I told him he needs to either just view the news sites directly and contribute, or just try to curb usage and allow the sites time to grow. Use your phones native news app for now, whatever it takes to not add to Reddits ad revenue and user count.
If this was reddit, you’d be smothered in replies asking why you haven’t left your husband yet.
I mean, there’s a lot of content here already.
Yeah it’s not the same endless dopamine drip feed conveyor belt that is Reddit, but there’s plenty of content to engage with.
Yeah it’s not the same endless dopamine drip feed conveyor belt that is Reddit
Which sure as hell isn’t a bad thing!
Leaving reddit has made me start looking at actual websites for content and then if I like it I bring it back here. Where in reddit everything was pretty much guaranteed to already been linked somewhere. I know if this community get big the same thing will happen. But for now I actually feel a part of the community instead of just passively experience the community.
My SO still uses it and I would rather he not but I’m still using technology created by slave labor and taking 1 hour long showers. Reddit is going to be there, it’s not going anywhere, and they’ll keep doing whatever they’re doing but I’m here because it was a good excuse to leave and find somewhere else. Yeah they suck just like Walmart and spectrum and att and Coca-Cola and nestle and every single corporation. I’m not gonna start a fight over whose corporate addiction is worse though.
On the contrary, the smallest communities are the most fun and enjoyable to interact in. The big ones are just good for making sure there’s always fresh content on /r/all every few hours. It’ll grow. This is just the first big migration wave, there will be more when the third party apps shut off and there will be more again once people start realizing it’s not just a tiny forum experiment no one cares about.
The current communities are a bit too small to be really engaging. There’s often only a handful of comments instead of a wealth of discussion. It will grow and they will get better, but it’s understandable that some people are feeling the content is a bit hollow currently. I bet another doubling in size (very doable) would easily bring us to the activity level needed for things to be lively and fresh.
Yup and that’s the reason I think it is crucial now to stay here and be active instead of going back just because the learning heard goes after the memes. As Valdair said, it’ll grow step by step now that a proper alternative exists. Everyone just needs to do their part, either by posting, commenting or developing.
idk about smallest XD I think there’s a certain size of critical mass to have enough people on enough of the time to make a thriving community or subreddit or magazine. On Reddit I think it was probably around 10,000 nominal subscribers that a subreddit really felt alive for me! In the high-100,000s though it starts to feel impersonal instead of like a community.
Better to be a grower than a shower
It took me an embarrassing long time to process the word “shower” in that phrase lol.
Reddit feels like it grew exponentially the last few years. I noticed a huge increase in the number of accounts with auto-generated usernames and accounts referring to Reddit as an “app.” To me it also seemed to become increasingly toxic with this new wave of users. Hoping for a big reset with one of these new offshoots.
I had an account from 2010, and over the course of the 2016 US presidential election is when I started noticing the shift. Society seems to have shifted in general. MeToo and BLM coincided around that time, as well.
There was absolutely a phase shift in the atmosphere of Reddit when it grew exponentially.
Used to be, people were willing to discuss topics in ways that had at least some nuance. But nowadays you get attacked for discussion that doesn’t fit the narrow guidelines of “acceptable”.
Still, the smaller communities of Reddit retain some of the open-minded discussion that’s lost in big subs.
Hopefully here we can grow to a respectably sized community, while still allowing the freedom of dissenting opinion.
Without algorithms that target division to increase numbers, that might actually be possible here in a way that’s non-existent on the corporate platforms. But it’ll be a difficult achievement.
