Reddit is a Dying Mall

JustinHanagan@kbin.social to Technology@lemmy.world – 759 points –
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To be fair Lemmy feels like a brand new mall of stores with empty shelves.

A lot of empty stores, and then the big anchor stores are full of depressing doomer news articles

Don't look in the changing rooms, they are all full of furries

Don't forget the hexbears:

"You're all warmongering fascists except Putin!!!"

I try not to label an entire instance, that's like labeling an entire race, it's not a healthy way to think about life.

Yes because fediverse instance is something intrinsic like skin colour

Yes because all analogies necessarily represent a 1:1 ratio of severity or scope 👍

Parent comment was pointing out that you pick what instance you use and there are a lot to choose from, so they tend to be fairly homogenous in views (exception being the largest few)

I think there band I haven't seen any thing from them this weekend

So, they're out in absolute force on lemm.ee, had 3 guys jump up to explain to me how the holodomor wasn't a genocide and calling it one makes me a nazi because I don't respect the jews.

So maybe they are only defeded on lemmy.world, only went to lemm.ee because of the downtime, might switch back.

Lol I forgot about those, I banned as many as I could.

It's always sad when you go to a community for something you like, something that's widely popular, and see the newest post is 2 days old.

Especially when you're the only one posting. At some point, it feels a little like you're spamming the sub, even if you are the only one keeping it active.

But when nobody comments on your submissions, is it even "kept active"? :/

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Reddit is gentrification as a website

Lemmy is restoration

The "mall" analogy works for Reddit because the point of it existing is to buy things there. Lemmy instances and communities only exist because people want to make space for conversation. If spaces are empty, I see that as a sign that someone, somewhere cares so much that they will happy build the space and wait for others to arrive.

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