I think a lot of people thought there was some sort of money to be made by staking a claim on community names and then having bots fill them with Reddit reposts.
Also the search functions Ive found to be pretty terrible.
As a moderator who did that and stopped, that’s not the case. What it actually was: we didn’t want to go back to Reddit ever again. So, we desperately tried to lift the quality posts and communities from stubborn holdouts to have that quality come with us.
IMO, it was a failure because people were so anti-bot. But that’s why I was taking part in moving everything over from there. I had no financial motives. I was just hoping to 100% boycott Reddit and was looking to draw their communities away from that utterly enshittified platform.
I think it was an overall failure (not blaming you specifically or anything) because it feels forced. The majority of “content” is just reposted memes, there’s no real people to go along with it.
Most Lemmy communities don’t feel like communities. They’re just meme repositories - as if we needed 10 places all hosting the same pictures in a different order
We copied over subreddits without copying the spirit. It’s a free-for-all on most of these communities and it sucks
Nostupidquestions is full of questions that belong here
Wasn’t aware of that comm, thanks for sharing 😁
!nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
It’s full of reply-baiting vent posts like “why would [company] do [something that favors profit over user experience]?”
I’ve seen only a handful of “good” questions
I think a lot of people thought there was some sort of money to be made by staking a claim on community names and then having bots fill them with Reddit reposts.
Also the search functions Ive found to be pretty terrible.
As a moderator who did that and stopped, that’s not the case. What it actually was: we didn’t want to go back to Reddit ever again. So, we desperately tried to lift the quality posts and communities from stubborn holdouts to have that quality come with us.
IMO, it was a failure because people were so anti-bot. But that’s why I was taking part in moving everything over from there. I had no financial motives. I was just hoping to 100% boycott Reddit and was looking to draw their communities away from that utterly enshittified platform.
I failed but I haven’t been back to Reddit.
I think it was an overall failure (not blaming you specifically or anything) because it feels forced. The majority of “content” is just reposted memes, there’s no real people to go along with it.
Most Lemmy communities don’t feel like communities. They’re just meme repositories - as if we needed 10 places all hosting the same pictures in a different order
Agreed! Almost every single repost my bot made had like ZERO engagement! 😅