Comment on Reddit is a shithole

• 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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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yup, that’s the trade-off. A reasonable solution is to use Reddit (with adblocking on) for niche discussion only and Lemmy for anything else.

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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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