First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?

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    I’ve already mentioned a few times here how I have similar feeling. An added effect to that is actually leaving comments again.

    At some point I stopped really engaging with reddit and became a passive lurker. I thought I simply grew out of it, but maybe it’s more about how the site stopped feeling like a community.

    Or how it started feeling like everything on reddit eventually became a witch hunt of one flavor or another. The days of karmanaut or years later unidan may as well be forgotten history to modern redditors. If they’re brought up it’s for the drama or the cringe.

    The feeling of actually enjoying them and how the community interacted with itself at that time has been lost.

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      I love that upvotes exist on Beehaw, but not downvotes. No more brigading. Now, if someone disagrees, they actually have to comment. Ideally, that leads to actual conversation instead of ME NO LIKE. ME CLICK DOWN ARROW.

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        The age of wholesome brigading is upon us. Thousands of friendly users descending comments, pivoting and posting comments of encouragement

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        About a decade ago it was pretty common for subreddits to “disable” downvotes. It was just a css hack so nothing but a cosmetic change, but I remember people saying similar things.

        As I understand it, on lemmy it’s kind of the opposite. I’m not on beehaw so I can still see the downvote button, but it does nothing if I click it.

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          That’s good to know, I wasn’t sure how interacting with the downvote button would work cross-instance.

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      Remember Streetlamp LeMoose? There haven’t been any such memorable events on reddit in recent years. What about the ol’ switcheroo? You don’t see that anymore.

      They are indeed as you said, forgotten history to modern redditors. Back in the day, it was a closer community, and these events were discussed for days and referenced for months if not years.

      Like you said, reddit has been consistently losing it’s community aspect. I’m glad to have experienced it, but I think it’s time to move on.

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        The ol’ switcheroo on lemmy would be a great way to teach people how to do inter-instance links! I don’t think it’s possible right now to link specific threads or comments, but it would definitely be a fun way to show how federation works.

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            The hard part is that while you can have relative links to communities (/c/[email protected]) it doesn’t work for individual posts, threads, or comments.

            I assume it’s a difficult problem because those would have different ids in different instances?