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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.

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[โ€“] lemmy_steve@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm an ex Reddit user. It seems inevitable that the Reddit admins will lock out third party access - I could be wrong but based on recent years, Reddit doesn't like to listen to it's community.

I hope that the toxicity stays away, but it's likely there will be toxic users at some point. My main gripe with Reddit was the lack of actual reading. Most mainstream subs were just memes / circlejerks / pics. I'd much prefer to learn something or read something of value over "lol-ing" at a pic.

I'm keen to see how Lemmy grows.

[โ€“] zipdog@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wanting to learn something hits the nail on the head. I recently came to the realization that I used to learn things on reddit, especially in the comments. Not sure when that stopped but it's why I had been wishing for an alternative for a while.

[โ€“] jayknight@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I still learn things there. I keep my subscriptions pretty clean and tailored to really interesting things, but have a mulrireddit called "fun" where I can browser brainlessly and have a laugh.

[โ€“] tmpod@lemmy.pt 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, toxicity will inevitably appear more (it was already present in small amounts ๐Ÿ™ƒ) but I'm hopeful the lack of a karma system may help to mitigate some of Reddit's typical "bad behavior".