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Re:Paper on Reddit Migration's Impact on Lemmy (2023) by add-sub-mul-div on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:17PM (#50455869)
If there's hope, it's that Reddit/Twitter/etc now function as a quarantine or flypaper for the eternal September, the bots, the scammers, the slop, etc. And newer sites/networks can flourish at a smaller size because there's not enough profit in targeting them.
Re:Paper on Reddit Migration's Impact on Lemmy (2023) by im3w1l on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:35PM (#50456066)
AI will bring the cost of ruining smaller communities way down.
Re:Paper on Reddit Migration's Impact on Lemmy (2023) by threetonesun on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:15PM (#50456554)
Closed boards always have been and always will be the way to avoid this. Read only for non-users, and an approval chain for new users so if someone brings in a bad actor everyone they brought in can be banned in one go.
Re:Paper on Reddit Migration's Impact on Lemmy (2023) by squiffsquiff on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:44PM (#50456175)
Ah so I see you're new to the Fediverse then? On Lemmy you can enjoy:

- People creating endless sportsball subs for a single team or even a single player

- Duplicate subs for the exact same thing across multiple instances, e.g. you might find two dozen Lewis Hamilton subs (forget the Lemmy name for them). And then duplicate that for ALL the topics...

- Endless subs in foreign languages because, why bother

- Getting shadow banned because your instance administrator and another instance administrator have beef or have political/religious/moral convictions or whatever and decided to de-federate, you know, just how telephone companies decide you aren't allowed to speak with someone THEY don't like...

- Endless, endless furries, especially trans/non-binary furry subs

- Breaking version changes every year or two, as in your (main) instance maybe literally being broken

- Struggling to share a link because maybe you'd open the upstream sub and not be signed in, maybe synced via your instance and you would

- checking that you are signed in on the right account to the right instance and that the instance itself is synced and on up to date version...

I checked out when I realised I had hit 1000 blocked subs and was trying to sync them across a dozen or so accounts to multiple different instances

Re:Paper on Reddit Migration's Impact on Lemmy (2023) by tancop on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @03:34PM (#50458298)
Most of it is just part of the fediverse instance model. This couldn't happen on atproto... then again everyone who leaves Reddit for Lemmy in protest is both a redditor and easily pissed off, so technical solutions probably wouldn't save it.

> Endless, endless furries

Can I get a link?

Re:Paper on Reddit Migration's Impact on Lemmy (2023) by cowlevel on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @03:58PM (#50458576)
What stops people creating subreddits that already exist on ATproto?