this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.

Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!


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[–] WorldieBoi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But I don't want the remaining redditors. :(

[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

Can we just poach the remaining good ones?

I.e. the authors, the quality OC creators, and the people from niche hobby subreddits.

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lemmy is not ready for a full influx. The (fairly minor) influx recently almost brought several instances to their knees. The technology needs to have the kinks worked out of it. Most of us here are accepting of its current flaws, and want to work to improve it. The average redditer won't be.

On top of that, the community needs to stabilise and grow slowly for now. It's like wine. If you drink 100 bottles in a week, it will likely kill you. The same amount over a year and it's fine. It takes time to filter out the toxicity from new redditers, and integrate them. As we grow, we will be able to handle more, but not right now. I still remember the influx from digg to Reddit. The fundamental feel of it never quite recovered. Lemmy has that feel currently, we want it to stay as best we can.

[–] pearsche@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

Yup. This place is currently fine for people who can stomach the quirks and missing features and you don't want them to come, feel overwhelmed about how it isn't truly like reddit yet and then leave and not consider coming back

[–] just_change_it@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A counterpoint to the idea that the clunkiness that keeps away the masses should be Threads. A couple of days in and they are full with hate and bullshit because they had millions right away. I know the format is different from here, but I think the concept still applies.

Slow steady growth of people who have to think critically to really use the platform is better than explosive growth from every ignoramus signing up to spew drivel. At least that's my perception of it all.

[–] astral_avocado@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago

They're full of hate and bullshit because it's just the entire American populace who uses Instagram. I'm unfortunately one of these people who reads Instagram comments and they were always full of terrible people saying objectively shitty things.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a good point. As a 16 year Reddit user, the digg migration was really the beginning of the long end. Going slow is indeed the best way. And honestly, being big is not even necessarily a good thing for this type of community.

[–] zefiax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

As 15+ yr old reddit user, can't agree more. The digg migration was the best and worst thing to happen to reddit imo. It really boosted communities yes however it also significantly lowered the content quality.

[–] big_slap@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I am one hundred percent okay with not having people migrate so soon. I've been enjoying the good vibes here!

[–] CliveRosfield@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don’t want most of r/NBA here. Trust.

[–] minorsecond@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What’s the deal with that sub? People keep mentioning it.

[–] CliveRosfield@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(Just my personal observation)

Basically during the subreddit lockdowns most of the users there didn't and still don't give a fuck about the api changes, which is understandable. The NBA finals were going on at the time, and while that contributed towards their disdain towards shutting the sub down, I personally think even if it was off-season they still would have the same attitude. But none of that actually makes them poor users.

The issue primarily is that the whole fiasco revealed a lot of their true colors. Most of the posters are willing to bootlick and grovel as long as they get what they want; which is a place to shitpost/discuss the NBA. They do not care how trash the official app is and generally think the people complaining are crying nerds that need to touch grass. It's fair to not care about people complaining about using unofficial apps, but not understanding how the api changes eventually affects them and their precious sub is sad to see. Even worse was when some of them went out of their way to disseminate misleading information everywhere.

You know how Reddit started degrading as more and more """normal""" people started piling in? That's them basically. They never came to the site early on to grow it, only near its twilight years to inevitably cause its downfall. This place right now is awesome, but once you get a userbase that's comparable to youtube comments, it gets bad.

[–] LemmyKravitz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I was subscribed to r/nba and I had the same observation as you. They don't care about the API changes and complained about not getting their daily NBA fill. Called the mods out, telling them to just resign as there are others willing to take their place.

[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would strongly recommend against doing this just now. Lemmy isn't ready for your average Reddit user yet.

What'll happen is they'll create an account, see that it's still a bit buggy and a bit empty, then stop using it and tell everyone it's rubbish.

That's how Teslas got their reputation lol

[–] miah@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But Elon, and Tesla, are rubbish.

[–] SaveComengs@lemmy.federa.net -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Elon in engineering is good but he is shit at socialising/ethics

[–] yata@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Elon doesn't engineer anything.

[–] SaveComengs@lemmy.federa.net 1 points 1 year ago

he did but doesn't