I imagine there’s excitement for the increase of activity but worries about the potential toxic side of Reddit coming along too.

I’d especially be interested in the Lemmy devs’ opinions.

  • captainteebs@lemmy.mlEnglish
    81·
    2 years ago

    This is what I am hoping will happen. With the current reddit structure, for each topic, you have multiple communities -

    1. The noob-friendly one that is not actively moderated and has a lot of reposts and garbage content
    2. The offshoot that was created because the main sub went downhill. Has stricter moderation and content policies.
    3. The meme offshoot that was created because the main sub banned memes.
    4. The circlejerk version.

    /r/gaming is garbage, /r/games is for discussion. /r/StardustCrusaders is a fan-art dump, /r/Shitpostcrusaders is a meme juggernaut The mods of the Game of Thrones subreddit wouldn’t allow people to shit on the show, so /r/freefolk was formed, and that also served as a template for stuff like /r/titanfolk.

    Anything that gains critical mass will break down into multiple sub communities. It’s inevitable.

    • Deebster@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I like this model, although circlejerk can be the meme version too. Even a fairly quiet sub like /r/baduk/ begat /r/badukshitposting/ and it works well.