Controversial take but in the early days I think it's fine if you replicate the content from the old Reddit posts (maybe even link to the post) as long as you don't claim credit. I think people just wanna see things at first, and then the conversation can grow. It's not like Reddit was chock full of OC.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm sort of hoping for a forum/reddit-y combo. My god I miss forums for niche weird stuff that I'm autistic about, but I also like consuming media at an ADD pace.

Am I the problem?

Lemmy does feel a bit cozy, kind of reminds me of the best of those worlds. It'll be neat to watch it grow... hopefully.

[–] bnaur@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You are not alone, and I'm starting to feel that treating Lemmy like a federation of web forums instead of Reddit replacement would fit the underlying model better.

[–] Risk@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

wassadifference - reddit was after all just a bunch of message boards that made it easy to skip from one to another.

Imagine if zetaboards - or whatever came before that - had come up with the idea to make it easy for users to cross between different boards.

[–] feitingen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have no idea how to use this, but there is an official phpbb like frontend for lemmy:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB

[–] bnaur@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That's actually cool and a bit like what I had in mind. But it doesn't seem to offer an actual hierarchical view of the lemmyverse.

It would be nice to have a forum style clear treeview of the forums (instances) and their subforums (communities) with activity indicators etc to make browsing and discovering content straight forward. Then if you subscribe to a community it would also show in it's own treeview that the user could arrange to their liking.

[–] matzah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

I like Lemmy for what it is. Feels like a return to an earlier web experience.

[–] jcb2016@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Hehehe, Reddit was repost king and Crosspost king

[–] grundelgrump@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was gonna do that but the subreddit I wanted is private lmao.

[–] c2h6@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's probably back up, time to do what redditors do best- REPOST!!!

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's my thoughts really. Integrate content that's being posted to reddit to flesh the boards out for the time being, and the communities will gradually grow on their own.

[–] Action_Bastid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't be afraid to go a little bit further afield or dig into archives a bit. There's plenty of good perfectly good shitposts out there that just need dusted off and set before a new audience. Get creative, folks.

[–] c2h6@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Something something tree fiddy