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I remember I got into an argument on reddit awhile ago with a person over Italian food. It got to the point they were following me into other subs to harass me. I clicked on their profile to block them and their most recent post was them drinking their own piss on r/piss. At that moment I realized I had spent so much pointless time arguing about the taste of food with someone who drinks their own piss as a hobby. This site is a shit hole.

      • cnut@lemmy.world
        62·
        1 year ago

        Yet. Reddit has been around for over a decade and has millions of users and lemmy has like a half million users. Lemmy isn’t better, there’s just a lot less of it. Duh.

          • eee@lemm.ee
            86·
            1 year ago

            For a site like reddit/lemmy, more is better. You need enough users that you can find any niche community u want.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
              121·
              1 year ago

              I guess I would rather have less bots, trolls and angry assholes than have more niche communities.

              • 1847953620@lemmy.world
                3·
                1 year ago

                I respect that, but I personally do value the goldmine of pragmatic advice and answers that virtually only reddit provided so quickly

            • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
              81·
              1 year ago

              Like with most things, more is better until it isn’t. Non-niche subreddits are night impossible to have any meaningful discussion on because there’s too much damn noise.

              • SneakyWeasel@lemmy.world
                7·
                1 year ago

                You can absolutely have the opposite example. I’m subbed to a bunch of niche Lemmy instances, and no one has posted anything in there for literally months.

                • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  3·
                  1 year ago

                  Yup, that’s the trade-off. A reasonable solution is to use Reddit (with adblocking on) for niche discussion only and Lemmy for anything else.

              • eee@lemm.ee
                1·
                1 year ago

                yes, but it’s easier to create a smaller subreddit and get a sustainable subscriber base, than to create a niche community on lemmy and hope that people eventually stumble onto it.

    • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
      10·
      1 year ago

      The people with the presence of mind, principles, and ability to leave reddit so seem to be better. I tend to like posts here better. That’ll change as better clients, more users and better stability come online though.

    • Trihilis@feddit.nl
      6·
      1 year ago

      A platform is as good as it’s users. I left Reddit because it turned into a shithole. I’ll do the same with Lemmy if that happens.

      I actually like the multiple smaller communities here, it’s part of the charm. If you think an instance is becoming too big just go to another one.

      You can’t really do that on Reddit since everyone is on the same big instance.

      Also leaving Reddit is the best thing for my mental health I’ve done in a while

    • steakmeout@aussie.zone
      718·
      1 year ago

      You and your conservacuck bumchums need to go back to Reddit and stay on Twitter fantasising about elon.