I am myself a newcomer, did a full switch straight from reddit.

However, I did it just a few weeks before mods and admins started to crack down hard on certain opinions. Guess I had seen the sign on the wall.

I believe reddit’s clear change of direction has pushed many more people into the lemmyverse, many of them just like me, straight from reddit.

I sense that recently the tone around many subs has shifted towards more agressive and more divisive, and other patterns I recognize all too well from my years on reddit.

Do other people sense this too? Am I on the right track or completely off?

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
    10·
    1 day ago

    I set my homepage to communities I’m subscribed to, sorted by new. So I get a very limited and curated slice of Lemmy.

    I would say I’m seeing perhaps a small wave of new users from Reddit though not nearly as big as the wave from the API changes. That affects the questions being asked in general topic communities like this one; which is what they are for.

    In niche topic communities, I rarely notice changes brought in by new users. New users are slow to find them, and they’re probably already accustomed to niche community quirks from other forums.

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgOP
      5·
      1 day ago

      I would say I’m seeing perhaps a small wave of new users from Reddit though not nearly as big as the wave from the API changes.

      Thanks for putting some perspectve on it!