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.

  • Overzeetop@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    good community with lots of discussion and information

    and

    doesn’t have to be big, or popular

    have a very, very small overlap. The advantage of reddit was it’s reach and community size. Do we need the 10M subscriber subs for pics and world news? Not for the core purpose of a vibrant discussion site. Instead, those are advertising (if you will) that gets people in the door to see how deep and wide the communities go. You might stop in because it’s a place to see what world new stories people are talking about, and find that there’s a community of a hundred others who love creating turtle harnesses from ropes made of human back hair and all of a sudden there’s a hundred-and-one of you all discussing harvest methods and weave patterns, or how to identify the right anchor points on a great Mongolian terrapin.

    And sometimes it’s just fun to kill time on the “big” communities, and it happens to be convenient that they’re all in one place. I don’t want the drama of reddit, but I like the size because of the depth it implies (and delivers, in many ways, if we’re being honest).