• dragontamer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been part of super-tight, highly curated communities before. They’re nice in their own way and a fully different way of running a community than Reddit-style that most are used to.

    I think for a lot of (former) Redditors, they come over here on Lemmy.world and see a tightly curated community like Beehaw.org and just get confused. Something like that was simply not possible in Reddit and runs counter to the way popular internet sites (not just Reddit, but Twitter, Facebook, etc. etc.) were run. But this is closer to the BBS days where recruitment was a phone-call and a secret code you found at the gym… back in those days, all communities were tightly curated and Reddit is the aberration.

    In any case, Lemmy (and the Fediverse) allows the “freedom” group to interact with the “tight / curation” world, in a… tight controlled manner. Its alien, its unnatural to some, etc. etc. But hey, its Lemmy. That’s how we’re gonna roll.

    • WFH@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, no problem with a super tight community on a forum. I’m part of places like that, they’re great, we really know each other, some of the people I met there are now some of my closest friends.

      I just feel that for place(s) like here, everyone should have the right to choose what content they want (or not) to see in this fast growing network.

    • Warfle99@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Reddit refugee here. I chose lemmy.world because it was easy to register on and haven’t had any issues. Losing beehaw will just mean people who want the reddit like experience will move to other instances. Having a great time so far.