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Every other post is about that site.

It’s like getting a new girlfriend but constantly talking about your ex.

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[–] hardypart@feddit.de 156 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Reddit's downfall is a major disruption in the internet, of course everyone is going to talk about it, especially considering most of us are coming from there. Chill, bro!

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Arguably one of the most important sites too. People had accounts for week over a decade, they're rightly pissed when a place you used to love turns to shit because some dropkick CEO wants to pump his upcoming IPO

[–] sparkl_motion@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yup. It was very different back around 2011 when I made my account.

It was a hard first month not going there but I’m pretty over it now.

[–] banquo@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Furthermore we want to make Lemmy better and that includes learning from reddit - what should be the same, what should be changed and what should be added/removed/be like reddit "used to be" etc. It's a software project not a summer flirt.

[–] joelthelion@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We still talk far too much about it, though. For example, I posted about a breakthrough in Alzheimer's research yesterday. In what world do Reddit's issues justify one hundred times the coverage of that breakthrough?

[–] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Because reddit never has operated that way. Posts aren't news. Posts are things on people's minds. Opinions will always outnumber events. Especially when those events may not have a big impact on their lives. And to be honest, I see more complaints about "let's not discuss reddit" than I do discussing reddit. My guess is you're confusing the amount of content that gets posted to your instance. It's not nearly as much as reddit so you'll see all the low voted content just as often. That content never makes it to other instances though. So it's not so much a Lemmy problem, but a lemmy.world problem is my guess.