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Users from before the current wave of Reddit refugees, how do you feel about the incoming monsoon of refugees? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Uncreativechap@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I imagine there's excitement for the increase of activity but worries about the potential toxic side of Reddit coming along too.

I'd especially be interested in the Lemmy devs' opinions.

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[–] Veritas@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nah, most subreddits are the same. All the top threads in each community are usually pictures, memes, or news. It's hard to find discussions unless you specifically search for not so popular posts.

[–] PureTryOut@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can give you some examples? That is definitely not my experience, the few subreddits I visit often only have memes every once and while and they often get removed quickly by the mods redirecting them to dedicated meme subreddits.

[–] MBM@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Subs that regularly hit /r/all kind of lose their own identity

[–] Veritas@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://old.reddit.com/r/all/top/?sort=top&t=day

[–] hadrian@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, when it's r/all by top. But a massive part of it is subreddits, which then constitute the front page. The majority of my Reddit front page isn't memes, because my main subscriptions are things like acting, patientgamers, askhistorians, piano, etc. Which don't have many, if any, memes posted.

[–] Veritas@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, it's not a problem of the majority of Reddit but of the most popular subreddits and the front feed.

[–] hadrian@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah I totally agree with that! I think it's a basic side effect of the way the voting algorithm works - namely that early votes count for a hell of a lot, and so memes/pictures get those early votes much earlier than discussion posts do - because it's much quicker to look at a picture, than it is to read a long text post.

So the good thing about smaller (especially smaller and well-moderated) communities, is that there's enough space for text posts to breathe, without competing with memes for vote ascension space. But that doesn't erase the problem of meme/image supremacy in r/all and r/popular.