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.

    • Sun-Spider@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years 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.

        • PureTryOut@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 years 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
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        2 years 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.

    • 7heo@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      You are correct in that people moving over from Reddit are accustomed to using the platform as an entertainment provider and not as an RSS aggregator. Memes are entertaining to most, so you can expect them to rise naturally. Reddit uses that specifically to attract/retain people, and most of us have gotten used to it over the years; I personally enjoy it, even.

      However, this doesn’t mean you can’t use Lemmy as an RSS aggregator anymore. But we would need extra features for that, such as tags, so you can filter content out based on them. If tags existed, you could trivially filter the “meme” tag out, and it would then be up to moderators (and their bots, and the users, to report content) to make people in a community actually tag their content properly.