• nicky7@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I share your sentiment up until the last bit which feels like gate keeping. There are enough healthy discussions coming from a lot of people outside of that demographic to make me want them to follow us here. Plus it’s bad for reddit if they do. I worry about the negative effects, where quick and easy comments that are easier to digest get upvoted over well researched and thoughtful comments. But I’m hopeful that we can learn from the past and develop tools to better incentivize people to write thoughtful comments. I think the fediverse has the potential to help us avoid dumbification of content, but it also brings greater risk of creating echo chambers.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not trying to be gatekeeper at all. But we are absolutely not ready for an overnight deluge of 100 Million users. Nor does Lemmy have the technology in place to combat shills, influencers, bots, scammers and all the other crap that would be here next week if all of Reddit migrated.

      I really want the Fediverse to grow, but I want that process to be organic. I want the servers, apps, mod tools to grow with the users.

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        1 year ago

        For sure! I only meant that it felt a little gatekeepy, was not intending to imply that you were. I share your worries.