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What are some Redditisms that Lemmy needs to avoid? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For example, people on Reddit asking redundant questions and give equally redundant or unhelpful answers.

Whenever every 'What's the worst show you've seen?' is asked, you'll get 10,000 "Kardashians" answers, which is just easy karma farming.

If someone posts in a community that's geared for something like opinions, but someone elects to just go on a full scale rant instead.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What I will miss from Reddit:

relevant discussions on every minute, niche topic available
hitting a button and having it usually work (Lemmy growing pains are tough sometimes, I had to try repeatedly to get this comment up)

What I will not miss from Reddit:

Low quality content, including, to be blunt, images with text (and calling them "memes")
joke subs in general
joke subs where the people that joined later don't know it's supposed to be a joke
silly repetitious comment chains
"we did it, Reddit!"
subs that were supposed to be about real advice/drama but were flooded with bad creative writing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good news: the low quality memes are here! We'll work on the rest in the morning

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The good thing is one can block entire communities without issue in order to personalize the experience. It was already vital in Reddit for me, so I'm happy to do it from the start here. I don't hate meme subs or anything and I'm glad they're having fun, it's just not what I want of this site. Or outrage bait subs.... or sports subs... or gacha games subs... or cringe-focused subs... or -you get the drill. Happily blocking is easy and harmless to them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah. If only jerboa actually did it. Instead I've been blocking things just to see them still in my feed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I haven't seen an unironic "we did it reddit!" in years. It turned into a parody of itself

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Atleast the second point on your 'missed' list is generally instance related (atleast in my experience).

The only issues with buttons not working I had was when I didn't realise my instance was down to update to 0.8.1

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Atleast the second point on your ‘missed’ list is generally instance related (atleast in my experience).

True, and I am aware of that. But just speaking of the user experience, it is a pain point that I'm currently experiencing that I wasn't when using Reddit (aside from the occasional "You Broke Reddit" outage periods).

That's not a criticism of Lemmy, I mean I lived through Friendster's cripplingly poor performance, Twitter's failwhale, and the bad early days of Reddit. Performance issues with new, growing social media sites is to be expected. But for the time being, I do miss being on a more stable platform.

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