CRUMBGRABBER@lemm.ee to Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoLemmy should just go its own way and forget about cake day and karma farming, and instead reward original content, until reddit starts copying Lemmymessage-squaremessage-square86fedilinkarrow-up1388arrow-down129
arrow-up1359arrow-down1message-squareLemmy should just go its own way and forget about cake day and karma farming, and instead reward original content, until reddit starts copying LemmyCRUMBGRABBER@lemm.ee to Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square86fedilink
minus-squareFaceDeer@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 months agoThe reverse can also happen, though. Many of the features of Reddit are there because they are good, so if we just strive to be different for the sake of being different that will end up awful too.
minus-squareMorrisonMotel6@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoThey may have been good in the beginning, but they got fucking hammered to death instantly and became tired tropes in less than a week. I vote that lemmy diverges and does its own thing so we can beat our own tropes to death almost instantly
minus-squareRottcodd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoWho said anything about striving to be different? That’s at least as cringey as striving to be the same, and generally even more so.
The reverse can also happen, though. Many of the features of Reddit are there because they are good, so if we just strive to be different for the sake of being different that will end up awful too.
They may have been good in the beginning, but they got fucking hammered to death instantly and became tired tropes in less than a week.
I vote that lemmy diverges and does its own thing so we can beat our own tropes to death almost instantly
Who said anything about striving to be different?
That’s at least as cringey as striving to be the same, and generally even more so.