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Lemmy enjoys growth as developers pivot from Reddit amid API charging controversy
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this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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I don’t think you’re a shill. There a plenty of normal people on Reddit, enjoying the content like before. While I despise Spez, I can’t discount that they have created a product that people want to use.
But there are also plenty of people who, like me, saw a decline in the average quality of content over the last x number of years. A move to the lowest common denominator. Comments like your example were more frequent years ago relative to today.
Lemmy feels like Reddit when I joined 11-ish years ago. That’s why I’m here now.
Edit: for what it’s worth, I also didn’t go to the default subs. I spent a long time curating to my tastes and hobbies, to the point where I even blocked /r/All from Apollo so I didn’t have to see the day-to-day shit. But it didn’t help. My hobbies deteriorated into memes and low-effort shit every day.
Then why do you accuse me of faking things when I tell you what I experienced?
Lemmy has people get super pissed if you don’t trout the company line. Don’t agree that threads will be the worst thing ever? Insults and downvotes. Don’t think Reddit sucks now? Sometimes similar. Got defederated by beehaw? Tons of insults.
The subreddits I was active in almost all had less toxicity than Lemmy. Tildes.net is for when you want people that aren’t assholes. Lemmy might some day be that place, once everything is settled, and you can choose which communities of people you want to interact with.
/r/europe and /r/de were the only places worse than Lemmy.
Mine didn’t. My frontpage right now on Reddit has 2 memes out of 100 posts. Both from gaming subs that tend to have a healthy mix between meme and non-meme stuff and the memes are rarely low-effort.
I didn't. You posted a comment and I didn't say it was fake?
Then why are you here?
Sounds like a difference of opinion
Me: "Not sure what kind of subs you are in, I don’t see that in mine", followed by an example.
You: Yeah mate you found one good comment. How much shit did you read before you found it?
That’s exactly that. You are the kind of toxic user I’m talking about. There’s no reason to attack other users just because you don’t understand them.
And I’m still here because luckily there are also a lot of users who aren’t assholes, and I can block those who are.
That’s called a question. Wasn’t an attack. You’re the one who went looking for an argument.
To date, you’re the only toxic user I’ve found on Lemmy, so well done.
Beat you to it, see ya.