The main thing Lemmy offers over Reddit is opportunity.
Reddit is a business. Spez’s hero is Musk. That’s the direction Reddit is heading in and they will (because they have) fucked over anyone who interferes not with the quality of their future content but with their potential profits. They fucked over the curators of their content, they fucked over r/blind and they insulted and lied to them into the bargain.
What we have here then is opportunity. We have an opportunity to build something that isn’t subject to the idea of a profit margin. We’re right at the very start of this process. It was only 3 months ago that the reddit API shitstorm hit and a lot of people ended up using this software. Software which is still pretty barebones but already has a better UI (and in fact various better UI’s) than Reddit. And if you’re finding certain communities or people insufferable - block them and move on.
Reddit has over a decade of content behind it. Lemmy has had 3 months. The way to make the most of this opportunity is to participate. Find the niche communities and post interesting stuff. It doesn’t have to be the best post ever made, just an interesting one that people might engage with. Keep doing that every day and other people will join in. At the moment it feels like we’re all a bunch of people standing on the edge of the pool, wondering how cold the water is and waiting for someone else to jump in first.
Bottom line - do you really like using reddit? No, me neither. So here’s our opportunity to build something better but we have to actually put the hard graft in and create the content. If we do that over a long enough time period, Lemmy will reach a tipping point.
The main thing Lemmy offers over Reddit is opportunity.
Reddit is a business. Spez’s hero is Musk. That’s the direction Reddit is heading in and they will (because they have) fucked over anyone who interferes not with the quality of their future content but with their potential profits. They fucked over the curators of their content, they fucked over r/blind and they insulted and lied to them into the bargain.
What we have here then is opportunity. We have an opportunity to build something that isn’t subject to the idea of a profit margin. We’re right at the very start of this process. It was only 3 months ago that the reddit API shitstorm hit and a lot of people ended up using this software. Software which is still pretty barebones but already has a better UI (and in fact various better UI’s) than Reddit. And if you’re finding certain communities or people insufferable - block them and move on.
Reddit has over a decade of content behind it. Lemmy has had 3 months. The way to make the most of this opportunity is to participate. Find the niche communities and post interesting stuff. It doesn’t have to be the best post ever made, just an interesting one that people might engage with. Keep doing that every day and other people will join in. At the moment it feels like we’re all a bunch of people standing on the edge of the pool, wondering how cold the water is and waiting for someone else to jump in first.
Bottom line - do you really like using reddit? No, me neither. So here’s our opportunity to build something better but we have to actually put the hard graft in and create the content. If we do that over a long enough time period, Lemmy will reach a tipping point.