Paper on Reddit Migration's Impact on Lemmy (2023)

Re:Paper on Reddit Migration's Impact on Lemmy (2023) by Rochus on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:55AM (#50455595)

I was looking for a Reddit alternative for quite some time, since the once lively communities that interested me have almost dried up, and their moderators seem to see their main role in preventing contributions rather than encouraging them. What I wanted instead was fairly simple: topic-based communities, titled posts, and nested discussions. I am interested in discussing programming languages and their implementation, not building a following. I could never really warm to twitter-style platforms, including their decentralised alternatives. I came across and tried programming.dev and did some research about it. My first impression was that it felt closer to what I liked about Reddit years ago. According to the attached paper and [1] I seem by far not to be the only one with this experience.

I wonder what experiences other users here have made. Do you consider programming.dev a suitable successor, or are there better recommendations?

[1] https://programming.dev/post/23029

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Re:Paper on Reddit Migration's Impact on Lemmy (2023) by plagiarist on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:23PM (#50456662)

I used Lemmy for a while and enjoyed the technical-focused discussions (although they did not have the volume of reddit).

In the more general channels, it turns out I made a poor choice of host server, because it was still federated with lemmy.ml. Some specific hosts have historical revisionist tankie viewpoints and make deliberately bad faith contributions to discussions.

It was interesting to see this from tankies since I usually see such behavior from the far-right. But "North Korea is an ideal state" loses novelty quickly, so it became frustrating to read discussions.

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Re:Paper on Reddit Migration's Impact on Lemmy (2023) by Rochus on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:30PM (#50456768)

> although they did not have the volume of reddit

The volume of r/ProgrammingLanguage posts went down to a few per week and maybe one interesting per month.

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Re:Paper on Reddit Migration's Impact on Lemmy (2023) by alsetmusic on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @03:07PM (#50457954)

Simply block the channels you don't want to see. I don't mind the tankies at ML. I also want to see what others think (when they aren't abusive or hateful). SDF.org doesn't defederate, fwiw to others who are like minded.

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Re:Paper on Reddit Migration's Impact on Lemmy (2023) by 4738837329 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:36PM (#50461875)

Maybe 140 million people having been murdered by Mao, Stalin et al was worth it to achieve a socialist utopia.

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Re:Paper on Reddit Migration's Impact on Lemmy (2023) by AnneTrotter on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:21PM (#50463043)

I swear some of those are propaganda accounts. Or really severe mental illness.

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Re:Paper on Reddit Migration's Impact on Lemmy (2023) by deminature on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:00AM (#50463585)

I'm working on Topicle which is trying to recapture the feeling of old reddit, while taking a centralised approach as opposed to the fediverse. It has a 5 star rated Android app and growing at a rate of a few hundred users a month at the moment. Feel free to give it a try. https://topicle.com/

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