No Stupid Questions
No such thing. Ask away!
!nostupidquestions is a community space dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rules
1-All posts must be legitimate questions. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.
2-Your question subject cannot be illegal and/or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
3-Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. It’s not safe and there will be niche communities for that.
4-No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
5-Questions we suspect of being leading questions or asked merely to promote an agenda or sealioning are not allowed.
Rule 6-Provided it is about Lemmy or the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.
If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.
7-If you harass, disturb or discriminate against any group our any of our members in any way, you will be banned on sight.
Partnered Communities:
To partner with our community and be included here, you are free to message the moderators or comment on our pinned post.
Community Moderation
For inquiry on becoming a moderator of this community, you may comment on the pinned post of the time, or simply shoot a message to the current moderators.
view the rest of the comments
Reddit back then was like a blend of what content we're seeing on the "chat" communities here on Lemmy, and what Hacker News is today. It was much more technology oriented, and much less topical.
Subreddits existed, but ones for smaller fandoms and narrowly focused meme formats did not.
Was there a catastrophic event similar to the Reddit API change that led people to flock to Reddit? Or was it the appeal of the format?
For reference: I started because my friend was browsing Reddit in class and it seemed like something to do. I’m not sure if I represented the general population
I wasn't around for it, but I understand that Digg was the "it" place until they did something dumb, and then reddit was flooded with Digg refugees. It seems like history is repeating itself, or at least rhyming.
Yeah, the digg v4 move didn't have identical reasons as now, but it sure felt familar
I remember a UI redesign that looked kinda like shit, losing the ability to downvote and therefore bury paid ads placed to look like regular content, and something about a facebook connection but details are real hazy.