Aww, cats gonna explore!

Be the change you want to see, post new things, comment on stuff, upvote away.

A big mind shift from reddit is that the contribution doesn't have to be the most interesting, insightful, or novel. When you're in a giant community it can feel like you have to have the most incredible thing to feel like its worth posting. Here you can experiment so much more

If you build it they will come

Yes, its even listed on the Wiki page for reddit under 2016 controversies

Joined Monday, started two communities, subbed to what I like, and making an effort to post way more than I did elsewhere. Joined LW because lemmy.ml had issues Monday and I really didn't understand the difference. Using Jerboa on the phone, its all working way more smoothly than I thought it would

I'll take 'passable fascimile' as a compliment! The real niche subs are hard to reproduce. I started a Nebula one, but that subreddit was only ~5k ppl with comment threads maybe 100 long, so probably will be hard to reproduce here

Staying here. Rediscovered what I liked about Reddit in the earlier days - actually engaging. I don't think I've commented, posted, or even upvoted on reddit in like a year. It just seemed pointless and it was just a scroll and read machine. This is much more fun

I know that was ~12 years ago, but to go from that to "we will continue to be profit-driven until we are profitable" is one hell of a character arc for a website

Look up Digg v4. I was mainly a digg user until this point in Aug 2010. They redesigned the website and took away the downvote button. There were also increasing concerns from the frequent posters that the front page was getting more and more monolithic, you'd see like 20 stories from 2-3 websites at the top all the time.

Switching over to Reddit at first was hard. The site wasn't "pretty" like digg and the content was much more unfiltered. It was like moving out to the wild west - rough, a little scary, and had a ton to explore

Imagine having to have a different web browser for every website you visited, that's what 80% of apps feel like. Can't you just make a decent mobile site?

Shut up and take my money any time I see something I'm real excited about for sure

11 years on reddit and seeing its long slow decline its just sad. A return to the basics was very necessary. Removing subs from r/all, messing with the voting, "new" reddit, a clamp down on content...it just kept getting worse and worse. As long as I could use RIF and old.reddit it was fine, but the writing is on the wall at this point.

While most of their users are used to the newer layout from other social media, my goal was always to see the most number of posts I could on a single page and have a clean ad-free experience. Lemmy seems to get this