Could anyone explain to my why some people are trying so incredible hard to turn lemmy/kbin into Reddit 2.0?

Reddit wasn’t exactly great before this migration wave, it hasn’t been an interesting place in quite some time and I sincerely doubt it will get better in the future.

In my opinion most content on there is pretty much trash in a variety of flavors. That and doomscrolling. Sure there is niche subs and I get that losing them to might suck, but everyone managed before we had those and everyone will manage now. There is always the option to remake them somewhere else when Reddit decides to kill them, be it by removing modding tools, drowning the content in ads or what ever malicious shit might happen.

In most cases a massive number of users has been detrimental to the quality of subs. I don’t really see the benefit trying to get as many people to switch as possible. In fact I think there is an argument to be made for smaller communities.

There is also a tendency to argue that people shouldn’t use Reddit. People also drink till they black out and shouldn’t do that either. Or drive their cars over the speed limit. Or pronounce “gif” with a “j”. Why not let everyone do what they want, why does this have to be a binary choice or a choice at all?

Maybe a few people just feel like this is some kind of battle that has to be won. It isn’t. Reddit will try to make as much money as possible at any cost, it is how most companies operate in capitalistim. You don’t have to like it. As a matter of fact I’d respect you more if you didn’t. But it is nothing you will fix by trying to “convert” people to Lemmy like you are a Jehovah’s Witness of discussion platforms.

Or maybe you are mad at spez. Good, he is an ass. Maybe other people will realize that and take it as a reason to use Reddit less or not at all. Maybe they won’t. You don’t exactly have agency when it comes to their decision.

So what exactly is it that is driving you? Do people have friends over there they want to bring over here? Do you miss the endless meme subs and can’t survive without them?

I clearly don’t get it and would very much appreciate some comments, so I might be able to understand your motivation better.

  • explodingkitchen@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Everything I’ve seen thus far is typical of the early days when a contingent of people leave a platform they were once invested in but have left because they were unhappy/dissatisfied…

    there will be different perceptions of the abandoned platform, and the larger it was, the bigger the spectrum will be. Reddit was huge; where you hung out is going to shape your impressions of how good/bad it was.

    there will be people eager to recreate the communities they enjoyed, and they’ll be looking for something just like what they left

    there will be people eager to try something totally different

    there will be people hurt and angry by the event(s) that caused them to leave, and that will be expressed in different ways, and for different lengths of time. During the initial transition, the former site will be mentioned–a lot–and often with anger/bitterness. Over time, that dissipates, although there will be some people bitching about the old platform until the heat death of the universe. Basically, how you react to shitty things IRL will be echoed here, because guess what? This is another facet of RL.