At least in terms of the communities popping up. A lot of them (even ones I made), are just the Lemmy version of Reddit subs. Is that a good/bad thing? Time will tell, but at the moment I think it’s kinda funny of what’s happening.
At least in terms of the communities popping up. A lot of them (even ones I made), are just the Lemmy version of Reddit subs. Is that a good/bad thing? Time will tell, but at the moment I think it’s kinda funny of what’s happening.
A lot of the new people coming to Lemmy are (ex) Reddit users. It’s normal that they want communities that have the same names as what they are familiar with.
Look at Ellis Island in New York. People from all over the world came through it and now you have neighborhoods from all over the world in New York. People like what’s familiar, especially when they have to move somewhere else.
That’s fair. Still an interesting thing to see when it happens. That and what forms of evolution will Lemmy take to grow beyond just Reddit refugees, once the equivalent of multigenerational citizens take over?
Also 1 July and the death of 3rd party apps hasn’t happened yet.
I have created a Lemmy account - obviously - but I am still desperately clinging to RIF.
I’ll go down with the RIF ship.
O captain, my captain… :'((
This is a great point and really interesting
I don’t even think it’s about the names. It’s just about the subjects. If you enjoyed a subreddit for your favourite game, you probably want to continue having a place to discuss that game. And because subreddits generally have pretty obvious, intuitive names, the name on here will also often end up being the same.