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this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2025
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Reddit died June 2023
I don't know why people are still playing with the corpse
I agree and haven't returned but lemmy hasn't hit critical mass yet.... Like I don't recall a post with over a hundred replies. Reddit used to have over a thousand on every reply on the first page.
I've never considered that a limitation.
You only need one other person in addition to yourself, for a good discussion.
If anything, here I'm finding I actually get replies, because my comment didn't drown among a hundred others.
I never really thought of it like this despite it being obvious. Very well said
Might be your settings. When I flip the front page to "Active" most of the posts have hundreds of comments (though I prefer setting it to "Top Six Hours").
I like "Hot" and "Top Six Hours" myself. "Scaled" and "New" aren't bad if you're looking for more content.
Literally the next post under this one, sorting by 1d top posts, has 147 comments
You obviously weren't here for the guy who didn't want to poop for days. There were a LOT of replies on that one.
Link?
I wish i could, but this was 2 years ago, and once the post blew up huge, OP deleted it. Some Lemmy historian may have a copy, but alas, i do not.
Basically, OP posted a question where they said they didn't want to poop during the upcoming weekend, and then asked how they could keep from pooping for three days. This was shortly after the Reddit API exodus.
The comments were very helpful, reasoned, and...Nah, im just kidding, they pretty much went the way you would expect, with lots of wild speculation about why OP didn't want to poop for three days, and lots of "helpful" suggestions about how to not poop for three days.
Strangely though, i think the post did a lot of good, as it showed a lot of ex-redditors that Lemmy could work as a reddit replacement, and be just as goofy as the original.
Here’s an archive link 7 days later, with 800+ replies
Like 6 good ones and a bunch of the same tired comments about poop knives, broken arms, same, this.
Here, at least most of the answers are real human beings trying to contribute to a conversation.
Reminds me of the scene in 300 when he asks how many warriors they brought. We brought real comments.
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Tbh I've decided I can live with less and less of this. I'll never go back to the giant ad covered spaces. But if this doesn't pickup or even dies, meh
I mean, does it really matter? Are you going to read 100 responses on a single post? I feel from Reddit that the larger communities get the shittier they get. More people = smaller intersection of common ground, which leads to dull content and repeating platitudes.
Legitimately who cares though? You‘re not in it for the money with Reddit either.
Same, once they violated certain principles, it was clear the site was dead. We need to do our best to build lemmy into something. It'll take years.
Some people are just into that kind of thing.
I feel like as an A’s fan. The same thing happened to Reddit. Owners turned it into a shit hole.
As a fellow A’s fan I completely agree this analogy.
Because they have a monopoly on old and especially niche knowledge/communities (also new niche knowledge/communities). As much as I hate it, that's why I personally still have to use reddit sometimes.