Will this keep Redditors saying other alternatives like Lemmy are not worth it?

Lemmy sucks regardless what Reddit does. // Its not mutually exclusive, they both suck.

Every fucking thing sucks. If you want the perfect place, tough luck - you won't get it, ever.

So instead you look for the place that sucks the least, given your priorities. And when one place is becoming shittier by the day (like Reddit), the others (like Lemmy) do become more attractive.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The Great Shit Equilibrium

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yup, pretty much.

And there's more: if, hypothetically speaking, we could make a platform completely shit-free, people migrating to that platform would bring their own shit with them, so the platform would be shitty again. As if there was some sort of equilibrium to be restored.

...I'm going to call this Le Shitalier's principle.

[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

When reactants > shittiness the equilibrium lies to the right.

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