• logicbomb@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    If you’ve been to Reddit since the API meltdown, it’s pretty clear that large sections of it were fucked by angry moderators, and still remain that way. I don’t think the fediverse was ready to take over, but Reddit very clearly has fewer people working for them for free.

    Specifically, there are several subreddits where they used to be strict about submissions, and now they let anything mildly related in.

    I’m honestly pretty surprised that they still haven’t recovered. At this point, I’m hoping that their mediocrity will continue to push people away until Lemmy can catch up.

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      11 months ago

      I think the struggle is that we still need to build more tools for the fediverse ecosystem. I’ve been building Lemmy frontends but it’s a big lift to make a world class experience for users, moderators, instance owners, etc.

      Progress is being made, but I agree that Lemmy was not prepped for the wave of Reddit users.