Truthfully, in the event another Reddit Exodus, which will happen, we need to try and be more of a content-oriented system during that era. Making more posts and focusing on adding to niches.

Reddit is about Niche communities and Content Saturation. Lemmy isn't really about that, but it can be for moments at a time to pull users in. At some point we'll reach a critical mass of users that leads to easier justification for new users to join.

We just need a group of extremely disorganized and disagreeable people to organize and and agree on this.

oh no

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Reddit also gets a little bit worse every spike, too. There are few mods remaining on Reddit who are doing anything more interesting for their communities than basic spam removal. Automod does all the work when all the largest subs just repost the same content and fake stories anyway.

It's not like going to implode or anything anytime soon but the quality (from my perspective at least) has totally flatlined since June because why would anyone in their right mind invest creative energy into cultivating a unique community? I think that eventually a Lemmy community will pop up that simply couldn't exist on Reddit and will serve to illustrate why I believe this model is better.

[–] MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

yea probably a illegal one

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago

LOL I was thinking something with a structure and functionality that's impossible to have on Reddit. But you're probably not wrong either.

[–] IndefiniteBen@leminal.space 3 points 2 years ago

There is still some new content (rocket league videos come to mind) that is hard to move to a federated platform, because video streaming is expensive.

[–] QuantumStorm@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Another hurdle is getting game devs to treat Lemmy instances for their games as official points of contact, which is definitely something reddit still has that Lemmy doesn't, unfortunately.

[–] EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I got questionable game jam games if you want them lol

[–] trafguy@midwest.social 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think Lemmy would either need to find a way to wean Redditors off of their dopamine machine or replace that dopamine machine long-term to sustain an exodus from Reddit. Either that, or Reddit will need to break their dopamine feedback loop. There are some cracks showing, and that might have already killed the platform in the long term, but it'll keep going from pure momentum for a while. Maybe as long as months or years.

Seems like there's more sexists and racists than I used to see over there, which is definitely offputting. I've found communities that are supportive of thoughtful discussion are more appealing, and Reddit definitely lacks that lately, outside of some small, relatively niche communities.

[–] someacnt@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

Jokes on you, I get dopamine boosts on lemmy as well.