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It's not a tech support group FFS!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

As a moderator who did that and stopped, that’s not the case. What it actually was: we didn’t want to go back to Reddit ever again. So, we desperately tried to lift the quality posts and communities from stubborn holdouts to have that quality come with us.

IMO, it was a failure because people were so anti-bot. But that’s why I was taking part in moving everything over from there. I had no financial motives. I was just hoping to 100% boycott Reddit and was looking to draw their communities away from that utterly enshittified platform.

I failed but I haven’t been back to Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think it was an overall failure (not blaming you specifically or anything) because it feels forced. The majority of "content" is just reposted memes, there's no real people to go along with it.

Most Lemmy communities don't feel like communities. They're just meme repositories - as if we needed 10 places all hosting the same pictures in a different order

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Agreed! Almost every single repost my bot made had like ZERO engagement! 😅