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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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[–] time_example@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 year ago (13 children)

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

[–] schrodingers_dinger@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Omg this!

/s

I haven't noticed it too much but I feel like everyone is so used to how Reddit was that it would take some work and a collective agreement between users on the fediverse to shun the low quality comments.

I do remeber that somewhat working on Reddit for a while, but yeah once it became big enough there was no stopping the shitty comments.

[–] time_example@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It sounds terrible but I hope the ux doesn’t improve, as it acts as a barrier to entry to a lot of the shit-tier Reddit users.

[–] Rabbithole@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

If you want to stop more people coming, just go and tell people on Reddit to come here.

The trick though is that when you do, give them url's for both Lemmy and Kbin. From what I saw, doing that somehow made understanding this place so difficult that 95% of people would just start shouting abuse at whoever did it and refuse to ever entertain the idea of switching. :p

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