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Users from before the current wave of Reddit refugees, how do you feel about the incoming monsoon of refugees? (lemmy.ml)
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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€“] sunspider@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] captainteebs@lemmy.ml 1 points 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.