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The only thing I miss about reddit are the large, academic subject specific subs, that tightly moderate their subs to make sure that as many of the posts/answers are from accredited people, or that the post seems to check out when they look the subject up. r/askhistorians for example.
Well but also I miss like r/gme_meltdown too. And the sportsball stuff but I know most don't care about that around here
Unfortunately I stopped going to reddit for sports info before I left. I just kept running into increasingly toxic people, over what is such a low stakes subject. It wasn't just reddit, I also gave up on televised sports because watching sports feels like I am watching ads that are occasionally broken up by bumps of sports. Even friends who are WAY more into sports have pretty much given up on watching them. Also, the way that sports is handled across streaming platforms I find enraging.
Yeah it's weird that the smartest communities are too dumb to leave reddit
I think it is less that, and more that establishing a large enough body of experts requires a very large audience to pull from, and on top of that it took years, and lots of work, to get them established, and working correctly, so it will be very difficult to move.
It's pretty 1 to 1. Doesn't seem that hard at all
It isn't though. The mod tools for lemmy are super primitive compared to the moderation tool suites that exist for reddit. These subs live because they have these in-depth mod tools. Tight, on point, moderation is key to keeping these places one topic, and of quality. Also, we don't have the user base. While I guarantee there are a decent amount of subject experts on lemmy, I have seen them myself, you need enough to be posting/dealing with posts multiple times a day, in any given subject. So, not only do you have to have a body of expertise large enough to cover the topics, and rate of posts, you have to keep in mind these people also have to want to do this. Most people like that don't want to add that amount of extra work, and stress, to their lives.
We are working on it, maybe it's not that big yet, but we also aren't invaded by ads, bots, and censorship in the same way reddit is.
Are there volunteer fact checkers then or is it mostly just a free for all?
I think it depends on the community/topic, but I find that people are generally posting and commenting in good faith and provide sources up front or of asked to.
Are there any preparations for dealing with the bots, ads, trolls, etc. when they eventually migrate over? The word budget comes to mind. Is Lemmy open source and not for profit?
It's not like reddit, this is a free platform designed to stay free and open. I might not be the person to ask, but if there's no money then there's less incentive to bot.
Cool, sounds like what I’m going for. Thanks for your help
I did choose this over reddit. I just wish there was something like that that wasn't reddit. Maybe some day.