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What the title says. I think there is still a long way for that to happen but i've been hopeful. What do you think?

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[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 122 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not everyone who left Digg went to reddit, and not everyone who left Myspace went to Facebook. "Replacing" reddit should never be the goal, it should be "be better than reddit".

If this is ever to go mainstream, what we should be concerned about is making good, high quality original content. If people see us having fun and being nice here, they'll want to join in too.

[–] Deez@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

+1 for doing your part to build a nice community!

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quick plug for my own communities:

[–] spicy@vlemmy.net 5 points 1 year ago

now why did you pop off with nowlemmyexplain. the creativity jumped out with the name

[–] hagerman@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Great point about the high-quality original content. I remember before Reddit was popular, that’s where much of the original content was generated, and it would eventually be reposted on Digg. Reddit had the reputation of being tomorrow’s Digg homepage today.

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Likewise, I think the way we know we've made it is when the reddit reposts here stop, and Lemmy posts are reposted on reddit instead.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Right, I don't want forwards from Reddit, I want our own ecosystem.