I imagine there’s excitement for the increase of activity but worries about the potential toxic side of Reddit coming along too.

I’d especially be interested in the Lemmy devs’ opinions.

  • Veritas@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    My biggest concern with the increasing number of people is that any interesting threads will be buried beneath memes, pictures, and similar content, like it happens on Reddit.

    • Sun-Spider@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I think the conventional way this is handled on Reddit is separating memes and fluff into one one community (subreddit) and more discussion based content into another community. It works on Reddit because even if the memes get more engagement in an absolute sense, each subreddit has it’s own yard stick for what is doing well, so a discussion that makes it to the front page of its own subreddit will make it through to the front page of users who are subscribed, alongside the memes. I don’t yet know enough about how Lemmy ranks posts to know if this will work, but hopefully it will.

      • Veritas@lemmy.mlEnglish
        81·
        1 year ago

        Nah, most subreddits are the same. All the top threads in each community are usually pictures, memes, or news. It’s hard to find discussions unless you specifically search for not so popular posts.

        • PureTryOut@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Can give you some examples? That is definitely not my experience, the few subreddits I visit often only have memes every once and while and they often get removed quickly by the mods redirecting them to dedicated meme subreddits.

      • captainteebs@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        This is what I am hoping will happen. With the current reddit structure, for each topic, you have multiple communities -

        1. The noob-friendly one that is not actively moderated and has a lot of reposts and garbage content
        2. The offshoot that was created because the main sub went downhill. Has stricter moderation and content policies.
        3. The meme offshoot that was created because the main sub banned memes.
        4. The circlejerk version.

        /r/gaming is garbage, /r/games is for discussion. /r/StardustCrusaders is a fan-art dump, /r/Shitpostcrusaders is a meme juggernaut The mods of the Game of Thrones subreddit wouldn’t allow people to shit on the show, so /r/freefolk was formed, and that also served as a template for stuff like /r/titanfolk.

        Anything that gains critical mass will break down into multiple sub communities. It’s inevitable.