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?

  • Wahots@pawb.social
    13·
    1 year ago

    It’s probably just confirmation bias, but I also like platforms small, before all the rabidly negative 500k+ sized communities show up. When stuff gets too large, sites become impersonal. Regulars drowned out by a megaphone of spam, rage content, mass downvotes, “have you ever touched a boob? I’m not horny I just really wanna know” type questions, and which X is best X type threads.

    Reddit was getting far, far too large for its own good in regards to some default and even non default subs. Some went from meaningful conversations to just images drowning out all text threads. felt like shouting into the void after that.

    • monobot@lemmy.ml
      9·
      1 year ago

      I am feeling the same, reddit became too large for me, and while I think they could at least try to make it good place for smaller communities (like recommending small subreddits, allowing for beter moderation…) they focused just on growth.

      I am not certain advertisers will be happy with just teenagers (who don’t spend much money) over there.

      Same as YouTube, I get it that big channels make money, but I don’t like all polishing and teams of professionals “creating content” for me. I want to listesten to my peers, sharing their thoughts and hobbies, maybe promoting themselves amd their business… but current situation is unusable. I never see recommend video without milions of views, I don’t even know how to find those small channels - if they even exist anymore.

      • chrislenz@beehaw.org
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’m with you on that last paragraph. I’ve dropped all my streaming apps for YouTube at this point. I just genuinely like the feel of smaller YouTubers. I follow some that have millions of subscribers, but the ones I enjoy the most are small time creators. One of my favorites has a few thousand subscribers right now, and I get excited every time they upload a new video.

    • Egypt Urnash@pawb.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      September came for Reddit long, long ago. Personally I stay way the hell off of any popular subreddit because they’re just a total wasteland. And September comes for the small subreddits now and then, too - they’ll grow too big, the active mods get overwhelmed, and it starts to turn into 4chan. And I unsubscribe. If I’m lucky I hear about the mods starting up a new offshoot subreddit that’s trying to be small, relatively quiet, and aggressively unpopular.

    • Xer0@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      I agree with absolutely everything you said. Always been a fan of much smaller and tighter communities.