Hear me out, a good portion of Reddit posts are reposts anyways so what if we did a one time import of Reddit community top posts of all time to seed communities so there's a place people feel more encouraged to post to? I don't like bot posts generally, but if it's a one time thing I think I'd like it if the communities here had some extra seed content to browse so you wouldn't reach the end so quickly like you do now.

Nah. Once Apollo got the cold shoulder I nuked my account and have not returned. I occasionally read stories about it here out of morbid curiosity and hope I’ll get to watch the Hindenburg going down, but otherwise that’s an ex and I’m not inclined to go back and chat.

I'm pretty much off reddit entirely. Popped back the other day to ask a question to a sub that doesn't exist here. I'm on this too much anyway but there little to zero content a lot of the time.

I'm trying to think what it is that I used to comment on in reddit. I can post the exact same articles but it's the comments that make the feed and the comments are because of the range of people.

Numbers are what make it good and ultimately bad as well. You need users to create the content but then you get too many and it becomes too big.

Gotta be a sweet spot and ai in all it's magnificence should be able to work it out

Lemmy just about keeps me here. It's a little anemic, but not due to lack of niche, but lack of normies.

Plus Lemmy hasn't turned out to be full Nazis like voat did. I find more on Lemmy than Mastodon.

Edit: Fix! I clearly meant Lemmy not Lenny.

I haven't seen anyone really saying that. Reddits a cesspool of hyper moderation. They'll ban their own users and Lemmy will literally be default

I'm not leaving lol

The main thing Lemmy offers over Reddit is opportunity.

Reddit is a business. Spez's hero is Musk. That's the direction Reddit is heading in and they will (because they have) fucked over anyone who interferes not with the quality of their future content but with their potential profits. They fucked over the curators of their content, they fucked over r/blind and they insulted and lied to them into the bargain.

What we have here then is opportunity. We have an opportunity to build something that isn't subject to the idea of a profit margin. We're right at the very start of this process. It was only 3 months ago that the reddit API shitstorm hit and a lot of people ended up using this software. Software which is still pretty barebones but already has a better UI (and in fact various better UI's) than Reddit. And if you're finding certain communities or people insufferable - block them and move on.

Reddit has over a decade of content behind it. Lemmy has had 3 months. The way to make the most of this opportunity is to participate. Find the niche communities and post interesting stuff. It doesn't have to be the best post ever made, just an interesting one that people might engage with. Keep doing that every day and other people will join in. At the moment it feels like we're all a bunch of people standing on the edge of the pool, wondering how cold the water is and waiting for someone else to jump in first.

Bottom line - do you really like using reddit? No, me neither. So here's our opportunity to build something better but we have to actually put the hard graft in and create the content. If we do that over a long enough time period, Lemmy will reach a tipping point.

I find lemmy is more active in smaller communities compared to reddit, where any sub less than 500 subs feels dead. On Lemmy a similar sized community is bustling.

Staying on topic and not commenting about James Franco. Yeah, this isn't reddit.

There is a singular community I've been returning to Reddit for. Thankfully a (very) small subset has mograted here, but the day to day conversation just isn't there. I definitely need to interact, comment, and post more on the community here though. Gotta help it grow and all that.