I've been waiting for more users tbh.

Nah it's great to have all of you here <3 I literally screenshot the (presemably) last time a post of mine actually went to the top haha. As long as users from the soon-to-blackout r/PCM don't start flame wars with lemmygrad, all will be okay.

Decentralized like this is how the internet was meant to be. Power to the people!

While I had this issue a whole year ago, it's intensified a lot these last weeks: People just don't want to lurk and understand the place. I see people calling communities "subreddits", not reading the rules or basic purpose of the site before signing up and posting and complaining when they get banned, someone asking completely off-topic things in /c/linux, people reacting to titles and not reading the post, people commenting without reading other comments. Especially people coming from popular subreddits and streams where being perfectly redundant is acceptable. If you agree with something and have nothing valuable to add, use the voting instead of burying everything by reposting the same thing twice! That, and the extra aggression we've seen, especially with people getting culture shock from the politics but just in general.

It's a general attitude of arrogance or uncurious ignorance and it's hard not to be offended, especially when some of us came here, in part, to get away from that culture.

Also, the normalization of pro-capitalist attitudes is a huge bummer. A non-trivial chunk of people trying to rationalize Reddit's actions as 'just a bad CEO' is unfortunate to see, that narrow-sighted denial of systematic factors and of what makes this ecosystem act differently, it's unfortunate especially on lemmy.ml which until recently was explicitly anticapitalist.

Again, this isn't completely new, but it's suddenly become a huge issue which may no longer be manageable without either mass action calling out inconsiderate attitudes, or harsh moderation.

I worry that you can take the users out of Reddit, but you can't take the Reddit out of the users.

Tangentially-related, perhaps: I'm a member of a subreddit that went from ~20,000 to over 2 million while I've been there. The increased quantity was fine, but the quality of postings cratered.

It had been a forum for people who did a particular thing, then suddenly 95% of the posters were dreamers/tirekickers who saw influencer YT/Insta content and came in to ask the same spoonfeedy questions over and over. Five minutes reading the sub would answer the FAQs, but no.

In order to keep my blood pressure under control I focus on specific technical areas and reply only to those that seem to be able/willing to understand.

My lemmy-age is 1 day (newborn). Serious question... just how old are the lemmy ancients?

the Reddit users moving over are the ones that care about social media and are willing to invest time learning new platforms. i think it's the masses we have to worry about, and I don't think they'll move over until they are forced to

I made an account when I first heard of Lemmy a few months ago, lost my login details. With the userbase taking such a huge uptick I've decided to get back on it.

I think its great, it'll be better in some ways, worse in other ways, but you just follow the content you wanna see and you're good. Reddit has been due for a mass migration to another platform for a while now, it seems this is just now the tipping point.

Ultimately I think to have redditors switch to a reddit-like platform that isn't controlled by investors is a great idea. And if you dont like the way your instance is run, make your own. You can do that. Can't do that on reddit.

I always liked libre software culture, even in my digital music production. Feels pretty good to see these decentralized platform grow up!

This is a great question - I'm new myself, and while it all feels very welcoming and friendly so far, I'd hate to think that there was some established Lemmiquette that I was unwittingly breaching.

I'd love to see this place become a genuine alternative to Reddit, but not if it pisses off the people who were here from the start.

The bigger, the better a social media platform is.

Lemmy will be fine as long as the toxic Reddit users doesn’t migrate over

My account is pretty old by Lemmy standards; back from the dev.lemmy.ml times.

I created it because I saw the potential but, after a bit of lurking, I was then met with the reality that there was just.. no content. Back to Reddit I went.

We're now at the point where I probably wouldn't need Reddit anymore, so I fully appreciate all the new users. If we can keep this up, I can probably get my fix here in the future and the dose would probably be much healthier too.

That view might be skewed by the fact that I'm sort of also in this wave though as, while my account is quite old, I've been inactive for most of the time and have only now started using it actively.

I'm new to lemmy/kbin but used mastodon before the twitter exodus. After that mastodon has indeed gotten some twitter flavor so I guess it's the same here.

@Cosmonaut_Collin hopefully the_donald and its cohort can die with reddit