Did Reddit get massive because of Digg users making a beeline towards them or were they already big before that?

  • TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Was Lemmy not designed as a reddit clone? Community/post/comment system with upvotes and downvotes, volunteer moderators, generally the same sorting filters, crossposting - hell, they even display your date of join as a “cake day”. The influence is obvious.

    That’s not a bad thing, take the good and leave the bad, but if anything I think Lemmy needs more unique features that Reddit never had.

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      1 year ago

      If you want lemmy to be like Reddit, you’re not getting the bad without the good. When it grows in number, it grows in trolls, bots, fascists and pedophiles.

      Take your pick.

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        Yes, it will have those things, and in fact already does. There are trolls, bots, fascists, and even pedophiles already. This is an extremely sad and disturbing reality of online spaces. The only thing we can do about it is ensure moderators and instance admins have the tools to deal with it.

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          Right. However the more popular it gets, the more moderation will be needed. See what heavy moderation did to Reddit?

          You couldn’t even post on many subs without proper formatting and or your posts were removed if you didn’t put it in the megathread.

          I’d rather lemmy remain small.

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            See what heavy moderation did to Reddit?

            I was a moderator on Reddit off and on for like six years, so yes I did. Heavy moderation is the only thing that kept larger communities on topic - r/Askhistorians being the shining example. The amount of effort required to keep spaces from devolving into low effort hodpodges of memes and such was notable.

            But it was worth it. Lemmy will grow, and moderation will probably have to grow as well, but I hope that the mod-user relationship here will be healthier and we can rely more on good faith interpretations of rules so we don’t need to resort to pages of detailing no one will read.

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              r/Askhistorians being the shining example.

              You are so right about this! I will goto whatever service has that again

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              And how do you filter out the heavy handedness of mods like what was on WhitePeopleTwitter where if you didn’t fall in line with whatever agenda they followed, you were banned and reported to Reddit admin?

              With growth, you can expect this to happen here.

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                Well I expect that the federation model that allows multiple communities to grab the same namespace combined with instance admins that will be more active in removing openly hostile users and mods will help.