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What kinds of things from reddit would you like to see Lemmy avoid as the user base grows? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

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

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Personally I think not having karma limits is nice currently! I understand why they were used but grinding karma as a lurker on reddit was frustrating.

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[–] mcc@lemmy.one 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Here admin has even more power, except it is limited to their own instance. So it is more on the user to be prepared. You don't want to be too attached to your data on a single instance. The instance might be abandoned, down, gone; the admin might go crazy. And the solution isn't to have the admin be more reasonable. The solution is to hedge your bets on multiple instances and multiple communities.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

how would that work? create multiple accounts on different instances and switch to another one if needed?

[–] rbits@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That kinda defeats the whole purpose though. The entire point of reddit was to have a big community surrounding a certain topic. Having to have multiple communities for the same topic just increases fragmentation.

[–] IDe@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

That tends to happen naturally anyway. People tend to join the biggest and the most active community they can find.

The difference now is that you can more easily break off in case of a schism, without having to fight for the subreddit name or come up with weird prefixes like r/true_whatever and try to bring people over.