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What value did you get from Reddit that you hope to realize or expand upon here? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by mcpheeandme@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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For me, it's a few things.

A way to burn time that doesn't feel like a digital sugar rush.
Support, camaraderie, and kindness, primarily from /r/stopdrinking.
Niche stuff, like ideas for local hiking and backpacking trips, propaganda posters, and kayaking info.

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[-] EmpathProgrammer@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No longer the case on current day reddit, but in the past in the news subreddits, when an article was clickbait one of the top comments would usually point out that it was click bait and why. And that made reddit for me a very useful source to get news from all over the world because it was easy to skip through the biased/clickbait articles.

Then also the specific gaming communities. Lemmy is far to small to have a community for every single game so that's a big loss for me.

[-] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

This.

Plus the shitty humor. There was a time when the memes and shit-posts were actually fun (or at least somewhat creative.)

Then the Facebook and Instagram crowd moved in and reddit was reduced to 9gag re-posts and selfies with zero context.

I feel so old writing out those words...

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's probably how this will end up too if it takes off in the same way Reddit did though.

You either die a 9gag or you live long enough to become a 4chan

[-] aarmea@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I wonder how much interest there is in bringing /u/alternate-source-bot to the news communities/sublemmies/magazines/whatever we are calling them now. I feel like there could be some utility but I haven't seen any bots in the wild yet, and I don't want to spam or otherwise overload instances.