Excited yet worried about future of Lemmy (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by Pinklink@lemm.ee to c/wefwef@lemmy.world

17 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I know probably not the perfect place to post this but want to get the discussion started and don’t know enough to be scared or not: because of the decentralization of Lemmy, is it extremely vulnerable to malicious/ad bots, astroturfing, spam and such?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] wutBEE@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Former Digg user who migrated to Reddit once everyone stopped posting. I don’t actually remember why though. What did Digg do again that pissed us off? I remember something about the navigation changed that I didn’t like, but it’s all a blur.

[-] Dick_Justice@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

If I recall correctly they changed the algorithms to prioritize "promoted" corporate content and deemphasized user content. They also did multiple redesigns, removing and changing features, and ultimately removed messaging, downvotes, and video posts with DiggV4. That final redesign, and user generated content getting buried lead to the mass exodus.

[-] Saneless@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Sounds like Twitter Blue now. Except the corporate content is bluetlicker dipshits

[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

For me it was always the redesigns. Man they just never stopped and it just got worse and worse. I’m sure they were in aid of something but it sure as shit wasn’t the users.

[-] mysoulishome@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The site is still up now and you can see what it is. Just a bunch of links

this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023

39 points (95.3% liked)

wefwef

4228 readers

1 users here now

wefwef is now Voyager! Subscribe to !voyagerapp@lemmy.world.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

aeharding@lemmy.world