Many of us have seen it happening in the last 4-5 years. reddit subs, and reddit in general has become a bit s***. Of course there are still good subs, especially the truly niche ones can often have a small helpful crowd. But with 100s of thousands of users, some sub drown in hate and negativity.

I’ve been thinking about why. With the offical reddit app, reddit is as easy as facebook, many people even refer the the platform as an “app”. Perhaps this ease of use attracts the wrong kind of people. This place is currently very far removed from this. You applied to get in, you chose this instance on the fediverse among a selection of other instances.

Calling it a concern would overstating things, but I think maybe we shouldn’t strive to become as ubiquitous as reddit has become. A couple of 100K users on this instance and maybe a couple of million spread across the fediverse is enough users. The ‘gate’ you have to go through to register actually makes this place so much better than reddit.

What are your thought?

  • frogman [he/him]@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    i think that’s an intrinsic value of beehaw. if someone wants a more “reddit” experience, other prominent instances give that. beehaw curates a safe environment for discussion and by default i think that will make it a smaller community.

    • hawkwind@lemmy.management
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      1 year ago

      That doesn’t make any sense, other than beehaw can moderate. Anyone can read, post, upvote or subscribe. All fediverse users.

      • chris.@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        That doesn’t make any sense, other than beehaw can moderate.

        i mean, yeah. “beehaw can moderate” is the whole point of beehaw existing

      • can@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        All fediverse users.

        Not lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works presently.

    • Baggins@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      And much less toxic and a more pleasant place to be as well.

      If you want really niche subs, could you not run your own instance?