Same. The main reason I never had a Reddit account is because it is too big. You either get drowned out or swarmed by an army of dissenting opinions no matter how innocuous your comment was.
That’s the nature of entropy in any system, especially one where anyone can freely engage with it. I think it should be recognized that anything good will inevitably change, and by being aware of it, we can take steps to slow down the inevitable descent into chaos.
If anything, I do think the fediverse itself is a good set-up for preventing the sort of issues that Reddit eventually faced. It’s almost like the internet itself. There’s no centralization, only various participating end-points sharing and receiving data.
Expect a new wave of refugees to Lemmy every fiscal quarter as they make ridiculous changes to increase the value of a sinking ship for shareholders.
Now it’s just a question of whether old.reddit will be killed off before the IPO or shortly afterwards. Either way, I doubt it makes it to the summer.
I hope you’re right.
I hope it doesn’t ruin what we have here
It won’t
I welcome the Reddit refugees as a former Reddit user
Same. The main reason I never had a Reddit account is because it is too big. You either get drowned out or swarmed by an army of dissenting opinions no matter how innocuous your comment was.
A good administrator, some good moderators, and the ability to create more instances, can solve that situation. The third one is easy, the other two…
That’s the nature of entropy in any system, especially one where anyone can freely engage with it. I think it should be recognized that anything good will inevitably change, and by being aware of it, we can take steps to slow down the inevitable descent into chaos.
If anything, I do think the fediverse itself is a good set-up for preventing the sort of issues that Reddit eventually faced. It’s almost like the internet itself. There’s no centralization, only various participating end-points sharing and receiving data.
I sincerely hope so, many hobby and interest communities absolutely need more active members to achieve stable activity.