What an entitled take. No community worth its space is “effortless”. Building an actual, worthwhile community takes care and time, and that need never ends.
But what people really want in these hollow comparisons to Reddit is an infinite content machine - a place to go for an endless stream of mindless content that requires no effort on their part. It’s purely selfish, and if those people are turned away by the “effort” required just to sign up, then good. Users like that are, at best, a burden, and more likely to sway these spaces into directions they’re better off not headed.
They’re looking at it from todays reddit perspective which is much different to when reddit first started growing. I joined reddit about 10 years ago and it was still a little awkward to get into. But people got used to it and the platform evolved and it seems like most of todays redditors were not around at that time. Lemmy today feels more like reddit 10 years ago so it just does not appeal to many modern redditors.
What an entitled take. No community worth its space is “effortless”. Building an actual, worthwhile community takes care and time, and that need never ends.
But what people really want in these hollow comparisons to Reddit is an infinite content machine - a place to go for an endless stream of mindless content that requires no effort on their part. It’s purely selfish, and if those people are turned away by the “effort” required just to sign up, then good. Users like that are, at best, a burden, and more likely to sway these spaces into directions they’re better off not headed.
They’re looking at it from todays reddit perspective which is much different to when reddit first started growing. I joined reddit about 10 years ago and it was still a little awkward to get into. But people got used to it and the platform evolved and it seems like most of todays redditors were not around at that time. Lemmy today feels more like reddit 10 years ago so it just does not appeal to many modern redditors.