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.

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

the all-or-nothing folks just grinds my gears. they're here too lol, just different flavors.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Perhaps the relative amount of all-or-nothing folks is different, but you're right - they're here too. And everywhere in the internet.

In fact, I have a hypothesis that four donkeymen are to blame for most social media woes:

Decontextualisation - when some info or reasoning is present in the context, disregard it.
Assumption - when some info or reasoning is absent from the text, make the opposite up.
Oversimplification - when it's too much info or reasoning, disregard even critical bits.
Genetic fallacy - when the info or reasoning comes from a specific source, automatically label it true or false.

The all-or-nothing folks sit squarely at #3; for them gradients - like "Lemmy has some shit, Reddit has more shit, thus Lemmy is less worse than Reddit" - are hateful, too much info, too "hard", too "I don't understand, I'm so confused...". It's simpler to say "Lemmy has shit, Reddit has shit, both equal, EDIT WOW THANKS FOR THE GOLD KIND STRANGER!!1ONE".

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Spot on

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