In another thread, I read a user’s comment about how the lemmy experience has got progressively worse over the past few months, with a lot more trash content making it to their front page.

Is this your experience? How was lemmy when you joined and how do you think it’s changed?

  • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
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    1 year ago

    Well thats gonna be the case for as long as lemmy is mostly populated by renegade reddit users, no? Gotta have a larger userbase to provide a more varied degree of content

    • imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.one
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      1 year ago

      Yeah for sure, we have a lot of growing ahead of us before Lemmy truly establishes its own culture.

      I would say that my personal experience has been that there is a significantly higher proportion of non-American Lemmings, as opposed to redditors. Like if reddit is 50% American, my feeling is that Lemmy is closer to 30% American. You can even tell when the Europeans wake up and are active, because they comprise such a large portion of the userbase.

      It’s hard for me to assess if that is reflected in the political content, because I always mostly ignored communities of that type, both on reddit and here.