Comment on Reddit is a shithole

• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Smaller is often better. See Usenet and the Eternal September.

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  • eee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For a site like reddit/lemmy, more is better. You need enough users that you can find any niche community u want.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I guess I would rather have less bots, trolls and angry assholes than have more niche communities.

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      • 1847953620@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I respect that, but I personally do value the goldmine of pragmatic advice and answers that virtually only reddit provided so quickly

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Like with most things, more is better until it isn’t. Non-niche subreddits are night impossible to have any meaningful discussion on because there’s too much damn noise.

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      • SneakyWeasel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You can absolutely have the opposite example. I’m subbed to a bunch of niche Lemmy instances, and no one has posted anything in there for literally months.

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      • eee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        yes, but it’s easier to create a smaller subreddit and get a sustainable subscriber base, than to create a niche community on lemmy and hope that people eventually stumble onto it.

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