Honestly, we really do need more content that isn’t just focused on what reddit admins are doing. Mind you, I do get it. I want to know how reddit is doing, myself. But the number of posts about reddit is just too high. There’s a ton of duplicate posts across numerous communities, which makes the reddit drama take up a disproportionate amount of space on the feed.

I’ve largely stopped upvoting anything that isn’t novel and especially only upvoting whichever post already has the most votes (ie, no dupes).

This reminds me of the first time I saw Reddit (a bit before the Digg migration.) It was similarly slow and boring (compared to Digg.) But that changed quicly after Digg collapsed. The same will probably happen here as Reddit becomes more hostile to its user base.

(I plan to enjoy the quiet weirdness of these new spaces while I can.)

Ah, the classic “sort by controversial.”

I think it’s the way the algorithm works on Lemmy. I was on Lemmy.ml for a bit initially (until I found the tankies…) and yeah the front page didn’t change much at all even federating with other Lemmys. But I don’t think it was from lack of content. When I switched to Kbin the posts would cycle much more frequently and since Kbin enabled federation it’s really felt like there’s enough here to replace my Reddit scrolling addiction.

The people who joined lemmy.world/one/whatever did it because they saw light and people. They are mostly spectators, not content creators.

The people who joined kbin saw an opportunity to restart from scratch, they are creators.