Reddit doesn’t actually own any of the content, right? Neither do any of the contributors? Seems like a good way to fuck Reddit.
Reddit doesn’t actually own any of the content, right? Neither do any of the contributors? Seems like a good way to fuck Reddit.
There’s just no need anymore. Lemmy has boomed, and we have our own content. Reddit is not really relevant anymore.
I mean, the content here lately is 15 year old memes.
A lot of the boom is people that were too lame to get karma on Reddit so they spam dumb things here now and get upvotes because everyone is still in “upvote everything to help the community” mode.
Admittedly I’ve blocked the meme communities in my feed - but that’s not what I wanted from Reddit or I want from here.
Yes, only a few are left visible for me like programmerhumor because I enjoy those but the rest is just noise for me
I think you hit the nail on the head, but personally, I stopped upvoting “to help the community” a while ago. Lemmy seems to be doing fine now so I’m not against downvoting at all either.
The people upvoting those crappy 15 year old memes aren’t against downvoting either, because when I mentioned how terrible the memes were I got downvoted.
And before that it was beans. We have our own rich meme history
the only content on reddit is bots reposting shit… and Spez playing the sad trombone.
Steve is playing with his penis on the reddit front page? And he thinks anyone will pay for that? 🤣
Maybe. I’m finding the Lemmy content and platform features lacking personally. Some of my favorite subs don’t have an analogue here, and the clones here are significantly smaller and therefore have less content. I see great potential though, which is why I think “stealing” content is a sound strategy to grow. I find it interesting also, because there are two reasons people use Reddit: The content and the platform. One of those things isn’t actually owned by Reddit. So Lemmy has the distinct advantage in that there is already a good platform in place, and all the good content of Reddit (and half of it’s value) can be moved over here.
I feel you. I still think it might be worth stealing what is worth stealing, if you know what I mean. There’s definitely still good content creators over on Reddit.