I never in a million years would go to r/all because i knew i would never find a new sub to read in all that mess. However, now on monero.house the “all” tab actually has stuff of interest that i would not have seen if i just looked at my subs. My guess is because we are interested tangentially in the same sorts of things. So a person who is interested in monero may also be interested in the darknet, tor, etc even if they dont know about those communities existance
Yeah, this really feels like the old days when you’d find all sorts of cool, interesting and unexpected content online. I’m not looking forward to people figuring out how to game the system and ruin it for everyone, but so far it’s just cool to burst out of the bubble I’ve been in for so long.
I’ll also say that it’s funny to me to see how some people are trying to duplicate some subreddits. I’ll see a ton of posts show up from a single person just copying over a bunch of the top posts from an existing subreddit. Not sure if they’re trying to jumpstart the community, back up the old subreddit, take over the new thing … or maybe karma is a thing in Lemmy and they’re after that?
Is karma a thing on Lemmy?
True. Reddit for me had some of the best user-generated content of all the social media sites, I would say, up until 2021. It was a decline until then, but one could still find a nugget then and now. But since then, it really fell off.
I’m sure this would be like arguing which season of Game of Thrones was the turning point, but for me, I see it as the_donald in 201(5?). Not because of the politics, but because it laid bare that the algorithm was something that could be abused by those who knew how, and the changes reddit put in place to deal with it just crushed the organic feel, and I don’t think it ever recovered for me.