What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?

_number8_@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 863 points –

i can't stand megathreads -- no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!

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During the final days I spent on the platform, Reddit was starting to become very generic. Many subreddits, despite being about theoretically different topics, devolved into a generic Reddit frontpage community. Even if Lemmy becomes a lot more popular, my hope is that the communities here will stay somewhat distinct and won't become as much of circlejerks.

This is what I miss about oldschool forums. They felt so personal and intimate and you bumped into the same people in the threads and YOU as an individual felt involved in the inside jokes and the lingo, etc

Reddits inside jokes lasted 10+ years in some communities, having passed through the hands of tens of thousands. A far cry from what it even means to have inside jokes.

They changed from inside jokes to community jokes. It's sort of like how there are jokes among programmers that any of the tens or hundreds of thousands of us would get, but would fly over the heads of people not in the industry. Reddit jokes just turned into something that someone would get if they were a Redditor.

Probably because people treated subs like hashtags, yeah let's repost this photo to as many somewhat relevant subs as possible. Every other social media uses hashtags, so reddit must be the same, right?

But in some smaller, non default, niche communities, you still found plenty of quality, original content. Many of those were too small to probably even make it to Lemmy at all, let alone gain some traction. But I'm happy /c/flashlight is over here already.

Yeah, the smaller communities on Reddit were still really nice, which is why I wasn't initially eager to leave. It's unfortunate that it had to turn so shitty, but I honestly knew it was coming as soon as they announced that they were going public. The stock market and shareholders are really bad at building things with longevity, so when a corporation goes public it usually starts making bad but short-term profitable decisions until it goes under.

Yeah I just don't see a value Reddit can have for shareholders, other than selling ads (even more). If it was insanely profitable, the owners would be reaping profits already.

More companies should stay private, look at Steam for example, they're doing things at their own pace and developing things that aren't instantly profitable because they're not concerned with shareholders opinions.

Indeed. I'm not a super big fan of Capitalism in general, but often times private company owners are at least sensible. Shareholders on the public market have a collective mentality of "MORE MONEY!!!" and some company models just aren't compatible with that, especially social media companies which are barely profitable to begin with.