People need to realize you can use alternatives

  • Manticore@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    The reason reddit had so many is that it would rapidly homogenise into giant echo chambers with minimal community. Minority perspectives were supressed or drowned out by lurker voting.

    New subs were being made to recapture giant subs’ original intentions, or specialise, yo put minority perspectives of the Hot page and curate a community as a result.

    Lemmy isn’t big enough to homogenise like that, at least not yet.

    • pitl@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      I’m personally kind of hoping that the existence of smaller instances and multiple same-niche communities on Lemmy provides a way to avoid that phenomenon. Like, it’ll probably happen to communities on the Big Instances, I imagine, but on the more limited ones… maybe not?