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Does anyone else hope the bulk of Reddit stays there? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by DolphLundgren@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I think my favorite thing about Lemmy is that it feels like Reddit used to. Less negativity, more engaged users (I think). I know it will be fun to watch Reddit die, but if I put spite aside what I’m really mad at Reddit about is more about what Reddit became and maybe part of that is when the general internet user started going to Reddit and it became less like the small community it was years ago. Feel free to disagree or share an argument 😉

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[–] ram@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I realize that instances are not magazines and so on, and this analogy has technologically weak comparisons, but I think the principle works.

I do think that we will start to see communities getting their own hosted instances. A light novel/manga I read has an entire instance devoted to communities about the series, and I've seen some chatter in the selfhosted community about making an instance for selfhosted/datahoarders/FOSS in general, though we'll see if that actually pans out.

I really like the model of a community of communities being in containerized into one shared, dedicated instance.