Comment on Do you feel this place has gotten more.. reddit-y lately?
legion@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well, when I look at the All communities list, I’m not yet seeing an endless flood of groups with “_irl”, “circlejerk”, or groups for every single damn anime in existence.
So, thankfully, it’s not feeling too Reddit just yet.
else@lemmy.fmhy.net 10 months ago
Subreddits for small niche interests is the thing I miss most from reddit and the only thing I return for now and then. Maybe I don’t care for those singular anime, but I’m glad the people that do have/had it available to them.
Right now I can’t watch twitch whole working so the only places to get a quick update on evo (what many consider to be the biggest fighting game tournament yearly, happening now) are reddit and twitter. Not great imo.
legion@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I get that, but the anime subs were just so absurdly numerous. I just wanted to browse /r/all without having the entire page be anime and “weeb” stuff. I would click to filter out subs over and over and over again, which would help for a while, but eventually /r/all would be flooded with a new batch of anime subs. All I wanted was a “filter out all anime subs” checkbox in the settings.
I think part of what annoyed me about the anime subs also is how much of it was the lowest of low-effort content (which was the same state of affairs for the “irl” and “circlejerk” subs, hence why I disliked them just as much). If I skimmed /r/all and came across thoughtful discussions about subjects that didn’t interest me, that never bothered me. But a screenful of crappy image posts never failed to annoy me.
I’m not arguing that the subs didn’t have a right to exist or anything, all I’m saying is that I personally found them annoying, wanted to not see them, and have enjoyed the fact that I’m not seeing so much of that same content now that I’m browsing Lemmy instead.
else@lemmy.fmhy.net 10 months ago
The way we used the service is different I guess. /r/all always had too much garbage for me to enjoy. I just subbed to whatever I was interested in and never had to worry about nonsense subreddits.