Cleaning up some low-usage features
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Hey folks, Over the next few weeks, we’ll be removing a few old low-usage features from old.reddit.com. These features may be familiar, so we...

It begins…

Found out via this post

Interesting side-note, reddit’s anti-VPN policies and blocking some archivers like ghostarchive.

  • laverabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    4 hours ago

    It is near impossible to start a new community. The Lemmy code primarily favors existing large communities, and it needs to change to heavily promote new communities over existing.

      • fossilesque@mander.xyzEnglish
        5·
        2 hours ago

        A little bit everyday. :) It was the same on Reddit until enshittification started, probably around the time porn disappeared from the front page. Lemmy is actually way easier to start communities on than Reddit is now.

      • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        Giving your own posts an upvote when you’re at 0 subscribers works wonders. I remember posting in the original version of RoughRomanMemes for literal months without significant interaction until I did that. Something about the ‘active’ feed I guess.

        Once the community is grown you don’t need to do that anymore.

    • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      What do you mean “favors”? Like the algorithm pushes them to the top when viewing “all”?

      I don’t think this is that big of a deal. The niche communities rarely reach the front page anyway. But people know to check them cause they care about the topic.

      Maybe google SEO is a factor too. When I am lttp for a game or a show, google almost always has a link to the reddit sub on the first page.