We’ve had plenty of questions about what people miss from reddit that Lemmy had, or what they hope doesn’t come to Lemmy from reddit in future, but do you miss from the earlier days, before reddit that you would like to come back?

  • detwaft@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Niche web forums still exist around a discrete interest group, they have lost a lot of traffic to enshittified giants but I think the people who post their lazy questions on facebook groups are better off there anyway. Repeat questions was an issue on web forums and still is, but I think having an additional torrent of ask-before-search users would make forums untenable now.

    The internet was amazing when only technically-capable people were on it. Or in other words, everything gets ruined by being too popular.

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      1 year ago

      everything gets ruined by being too popular

      Is this an instance of what they call “the tragedy of the commons”?