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I'm glad there's fewer 'comedians' here (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world to c/casualconversation@lemmy.world

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I was Reddit earlier and viewing one of question subs. The top 5 comments were all 'jokes'.

What's worse is no matter how unfunny the top jokes are you'll get hundreds of cold comments flogging the joke to death.

The 6th top comment actually answered the question.

Lemmy may not have as much content but what is here is so much better quality.

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[-] Lutra@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

@CashewNut me too. The top comment is always a joke. 5 out of the top 8 also attempts at jokes. Its not a discussion anymore.

[-] OpenStars@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago

That is bc Reddit used to be a discussion forum, but along the way (to the planned IPO) switched to aim to become a social media platform. Longer comments literally got harder to type out, as more users were pushed towards using the mobile app (to monetize their data?), which in turn brought in a younger crowd, used to different forms of interactions from other social media sites. I've heard reports of old-Reddit starting to break after July, and you just know they'll kill it off entirely soon enough, or would if they thought they could get away with it.

Reddit literally changed, lead in large part by the push for the IPO, and it got harder and harder to buck the trend.

Until we all just gave up on it entirely and came here instead - problem solved! :-P