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• magnetosphere@fedia.io ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A bunch of bots do not constitute a “community”

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It isn’t all bots

    A few years ago it had a vibrant community with tons of smart people. It is more of a echo chamber now with some memes tossed in.

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  • Korkki@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    depends on what subs you visit. /r/worldnews for example is a botted to the brim. Still, nobody bothers to send chatbots to shill on some Estonian guppyfish appreciation forum with 30 users.

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  • ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not with that attitude

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• Sergio@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I never felt that Reddit has a sense of community, even on mid-sized subs like r/karate or the sub for my local town. On the other hand, there are several people here on Piefed/Lemmy whose names I recognize exactly because we have smaller communities.

  The main advantage Reddit had is that for any topic, you were likely to have a world expert in that topic weighing in. You might have to scroll down a ways to get past the slew of stupid one-liners and joke-of-the-weeks, but it’d be there. But I suspect that fewer of those experts are weighing in these days, now that their only purpose is to feed the AI models.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I miss the memes and the niche knowledge

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    • Sergio@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, the niche knowledge is what I’m talking about, I agree.

      But as for the memes… you know, a couple months ago I looked at the reddit goth memes sub to try and swipe some memes for !gothindustrial@lemmy.world, and… I only found like 4-5 decent ones. And most of those were swiped from Insta or Facebook, by their own admission. If I want to find good new goth memes I gotta look at Insta or I think Tiktok. (for old ones, I’d look at Facebook, maybe imgur or pinterest.) I don’t think reddit has a lot of good original stuff any more. Maybe it’s different for different types of memes, tho.

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨46⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Reddit has good memes simply because of the user base. If 1% of the user base posting a good meme once a year is still 4 million memes a year or about 10,000 memes a day. (Quick napkin math)

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• FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I never felt it.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Unfortunately many people did. Lemmy is really lame most of the time.

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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Weird thing to think is a strength of reddit. I don’t agree

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• 7empest@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s what I miss as well. There were three sub’s that I joined that I really liked and met some great people through. Here, it is much much harder to do, because those similar sub’s on here are really small, and maybe get 1 post a week if lucky.

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• Triumph@fedia.io ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  All the more reason to not go to reddit.

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