I'm kind of okay with Lemmy, or at least this instance of it, not becoming quite as big as reddit. Reddit was just an absolute firehose of bullshit by the end, and you had to wade through so many posts worth of crap, spam, Onlyfans shilling nonsense, reposts, and so on and so forth before you found anything interesting in most of the general subs. While the volume of content on Lemmy is obviously lower, I think the quality of it is noticeably higher. In my experience, anyhow.

People seem to make posts about things because they actually care about whatever it is -- or just making Lemmy a more active platform -- and not because they want to algorithmically please the hivemind and garner a shitload of upvotes, or have some chump award them gold, or whatever.

We like it here. 😁

My teen is a big Redditor and definitely notices poorer quality content. He knows my choice to no longer be there, but it’s not like I tried to be evangelical about it: he needs to decide for himself what values he stands up for, how he chooses to spend his entertainment time and attention.

He’s fascinated by human motivations and is a big reader of r/AmITheAsshole. It used to lead to some great discussions. We have t noticed whether there are less frequent postings but there are definitely a lot fewer worth discussing.

Unfortunately last timeI checked on Lemmy, there was a fledgling community but neither the scale nor the cultivation to be interesting.

Might want to put an exclamation mark in front of it so the link works 🙂

Thanks! Any clue on how I can access it from Kbin? We're supposed to be federated but I can't find that community using the search option for federated communities

They became Chive lol

I believe reddit jumped the shark after the obama ama. Too big a surge of users to keep the cultural norms and enough mainstream media attention for the admins to start seeing dollar signs. Thanks Obama!