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I disagree with that. The larger subreddits have significant moderation problems. Only through extraordinary efforts by the mod teams, such as at /r/askhistorians, are things kept in line. It's simple math: the more users you have, the more likely you are to have people posting in bad faith. If a subreddit of 1 million users has only 0.05% of its users posting low quality content, that's still 50,000 people that need to be moderated for.

The more popular a community becomes, the shittier it gets. The easier you make it to join and interact with, the more popular it will become.

In the case of places like Gab, Truth Social, Parlor, and other right wing nut job havens, while the quality of users might not get higher if you raised the barrier to entry, those places certainly wouldn’t have become as popular as they have.

But the barrier to entry isn’t the only reason they’ve congregated there, they have other cultural reasons driving them, primarily the owners or moderators being friendly to that kind of mindset. I don’t think the same crowd would be able to gather here as they’d just get defederated.

I have high hopes for Alan Wake and Metal Gear

Okay. Well, we're all hungry. We're gonna get to our hotplates soon enough, alright?

Wasn’t Arsenal in for Tielemans last transfer window?

As for Ox, I don’t think he’s going to have much of an impact there. I hope I’m wrong because I’ve always liked the lad, but he’s way too inconsistent on the best of days, and he’s only dropped off the last couple of years.

Perhaps, but the downside is that it takes me forever to finish any single one lol

This is one of my favorite books. I’ve read it probably 4 or 5 times, and every time I come back to it, depending on where I am in my life, I get something different from it—as a son, as a father, as a man struggling personally, it just speaks to me on so many different levels.

I have books scattered throughout the house, and so what I’m reading changes depending on where I am.

• If I’m going to sit outside, I’ll grab the book I keep on the table next to the back door. Currently that’s Stephen King’s Bag of Bones

• If I’m going to read in bed, then I pick up Tuesdays with Morris by Mitch Albom

• If I’m going to read in the bath, I’ll grab my Kindle and work through Alma Katsu’s The Deep

• If I’m in my office chair, I’ll work on The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defence, by Suzette Haden Elgin

Kind of a funny way of going about things, but there it is, heh

Makes you wonder how many absolutely awesome things that society has lost, or would otherwise have, if capitalism and greed hadn’t absolutely fucking ruined things. It’s tragic that we can’t have nice things just because they’re nice, someone has to make a buck in order for a thing to exist.

I want Lemmy to succeed, I want to be optimistic about it as an alternative to Reddit, but OP is correct, and we need to be honest about this very simple fact:

The Reddit we knew and loved is gone, and that’s a sad, tragic thing, and there likely won’t be a 1:1 replacement for a long time, if ever.

It’s okay to admit to ourselves that this whole situation sucks, because it absolutely does. That doesn’t mean that we can’t enjoy Lemmy and other federated things like it, and it doesn’t mean that federation doesn’t have advantages over Reddit, but let’s be honest: most of us were happy at Reddit, using our favorite 3rd party app (like Apollo), and we wouldn’t be here if the admins weren’t happy to kill what we once loved.

All we can do is try to make the best of it.

Agreed. This is depressing as hell. Apollo is a joy to use. There are so many niche communities on Reddit that I enjoy, and even if Lemmy or other federated things like it take off, those communities are largely going to die. This is a tragedy, no matter how you look at it. We are losing.

Fuck, City wining the triple is going to make me sick.