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I remember I got into an argument on reddit awhile ago with a person over Italian food. It got to the point they were following me into other subs to harass me. I clicked on their profile to block them and their most recent post was them drinking their own piss on r/piss. At that moment I realized I had spent so much pointless time arguing about the taste of food with someone who drinks their own piss as a hobby. This site is a shit hole.

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      1 year ago

      For a site like reddit/lemmy, more is better. You need enough users that you can find any niche community u want.

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        1 year ago

        I guess I would rather have less bots, trolls and angry assholes than have more niche communities.

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          1 year ago

          I respect that, but I personally do value the goldmine of pragmatic advice and answers that virtually only reddit provided so quickly

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        1 year ago

        Like with most things, more is better until it isn’t. Non-niche subreddits are night impossible to have any meaningful discussion on because there’s too much damn noise.

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          1 year ago

          You can absolutely have the opposite example. I’m subbed to a bunch of niche Lemmy instances, and no one has posted anything in there for literally months.

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            1 year ago

            Yup, that’s the trade-off. A reasonable solution is to use Reddit (with adblocking on) for niche discussion only and Lemmy for anything else.

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          1 year ago

          yes, but it’s easier to create a smaller subreddit and get a sustainable subscriber base, than to create a niche community on lemmy and hope that people eventually stumble onto it.