Hey, Don, I know you’re excited and all, and I do appreciate that, but Lemmy isn’t going to turn into Reddit overnight.
I’ve been here for only over a year, and I’ve seen growth, but it’s going to take a while (possibly never) for us to see Reddit size activity.
Don’t know you dude or dudeette but we can try to be what reddit first started as and what now it should be. It would be nice to show them compition to show their way is not working and ours are.
This is what Reddit was like in the early days, too. It’s better here because, with a smaller user base, you end up seeing a lot of the same people over and over again.
Yea but something tells me you miss niche communities .
Yeah, definitely. I agree with you. I just wanted to point out that when Reddit first started, it was primarily a forum for programmers and, to a lesser extent, Linux users. Memes and niche communities emerged after the Digg exodus.
Edit: Meaning, we might not have the user count to match Reddit in terms of quality, but I still think we should try. Another API change could cause another influx of users.
I get you, and I don’t disagree, but sharing more actual content and less questions and comments about the lack of content, is much more likely to keep users here.
“Can we have a better relationship than you did with your ex?”
We are who we are and Lemmy is what it is. How the userbase and the platform develop can be better than Reddit, because Reddit belongs to the bots and hedge funds, but that depends on what happens between us.
We left Reddit, and some of y’all are unfaithful to Lemmy, for weak reasons and Lemmy isn’t Reddit.
This is where we are and it is up to us and Lemmy to grow together. Lemmy or us can fuck up a good thing by trying to make Lemmy into what we miss from Reddit and Lemmy not being what Lemmy is.
Fuck Reddit. Lemmy deserves to be our main bitch that tolerates our fondness for Reddit because it isn’t as great as Reddit was; but Lemmy could be the best we ever had if we are faithful.
I’m a big clit fan and I’m very confused by your turn of phrase here?
Trying to give an alternative to use the word dick.
You could try using a non gendered insult instead of degrading women because you are not a man.
Dicks are wonderful too though! Might I suggest something generally neutrally awful if you’re concerned, like a shit, a jerk, a turbo loser, or even a failbot 9000?
Everybody’s got an asshole. Well, nearly.
Well to me dick should have been retired when Nixon left office and I know I am showing my age.
I’d say !casualconversation@lemm.ee does a good job. I liked the equivalent in our favorite land of the snoos, but would say the one on here easily beats it out in terms of a good time. The original community that inspired the one on here had a very frequent judgmental streak.
