my solution: if you gotta cave to the craves, READ on reddit but only POST on federated. this will kill them long-term, and for me at least, its an easy "fast" to hold to. If we only post to federated, the quality here will keep going up. Reading doesn't help reddit stay alive (at least not compared to writing, giving them "content").
albatross
joined 1 year ago
Hot take: its a bigger impact on those with anxiety disorders or other tendencies to rewrite things a million times when they are "important". I find it easy to post online because its cheap, but writing my beehaw paragraph definitely stirred up some "eeeek, I gotta say this right!!!" fears in me.
I agree that the depth and size of userbase is key. I don't think its unrealistic to expect lemmy to have a better commenter to reader ratio, so we don't necessarily need the scale of reddit.... but I do agree more than is here now.
The coming weeks will determine the long-term course of Lemmy, I think. My encouragement to people is "read on reddit if you must, but only post to lemmy/kbin/federated". That is easier to hold to than a "no reddit" diet, and it will starve reddit in the long-term. Its more realistic to get posters to stop posting to reddit than to get readers to stop reading. YMMV.
Wow, if you're used to apollo, wefwef.app is surprisingly amazing! hard to believe its running in the browser