• Aa!@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    For me it’s been the people trying to turn this into a carbon copy of their Reddit experience. I get the desire to fill the void after leaving Reddit, but this is a different place with a different group of people and a different social dynamic. We don’t need copies of the subreddits we had on Reddit. We don’t need separate communities for every type of meme or joke like we had over there (yet). Creating niche communities is a little premature when we don’t even have the larger ones reading critical mass yet.

    And to a much lesser degree, I would like to stop seeing people say “sublemmy.” But at least I understand how we got there. “Community” is such a generic term, it’s easy to not realize that’s what they’re called.

    • Hype@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I’ve noticed that too. The compartmentalized nature of Reddit only exists becuase of the size of the communities. I’ve seen lot of people copying subreddits and also filling them with links to the top posts on that subreddit, meanwhile they are getting no comments or engagement. Lemmy should not act as a mirror hosting website for Reddit.