Is a rat fleeing a sinking ship still a ship’s rat? A fair few people moved to reddit from Digg, and 4chan once the /pol/ cancer metastatised all over it a bit later on. I preferred forums personally until reddit ate most of them, and now reddit is a shithole I’m on Lemmy and have nothing to do with reddit, don’t even lurk there now. The kind of people with a low threshold for moving aren’t necessarily representative of the group they’re leaving; I don’t think we’ll see a really massive migration from reddit, and I don’t think we’d actually benefit from it either.
You have to enjoy a place while you can, either outright failure or Eternal September awaits every online community eventually. One day people will bang on about this being Lemmy’s golden age, before the legions of dopamine jockeys found it. Personally I quite like how discussions taking place over days rather than hours makes Lemmy genuinely pretty different from reddit, even if it’s mostly made up of ex-redditors.
Is a rat fleeing a sinking ship still a ship’s rat? A fair few people moved to reddit from Digg, and 4chan once the /pol/ cancer metastatised all over it a bit later on. I preferred forums personally until reddit ate most of them, and now reddit is a shithole I’m on Lemmy and have nothing to do with reddit, don’t even lurk there now. The kind of people with a low threshold for moving aren’t necessarily representative of the group they’re leaving; I don’t think we’ll see a really massive migration from reddit, and I don’t think we’d actually benefit from it either.
You have to enjoy a place while you can, either outright failure or Eternal September awaits every online community eventually. One day people will bang on about this being Lemmy’s golden age, before the legions of dopamine jockeys found it. Personally I quite like how discussions taking place over days rather than hours makes Lemmy genuinely pretty different from reddit, even if it’s mostly made up of ex-redditors.