Can we stop talking about that other site that had a migration here?

Every other post is about that site.

It’s like getting a new girlfriend but constantly talking about your ex.

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Reddit's downfall is a major disruption in the internet, of course everyone is going to talk about it, especially considering most of us are coming from there. Chill, bro!
- Arguably one of the most important sites too. People had accounts for week over a decade, they're rightly pissed when a place you used to love turns to shit because some dropkick CEO wants to pump his upcoming IPO
  
  Yup. It was very different back around 2011 when I made my account.
  It was a hard first month not going there but I’m pretty over it now.
- Furthermore we want to make Lemmy better and that includes learning from reddit - what should be the same, what should be changed and what should be added/removed/be like reddit "used to be" etc. It's a software project not a summer flirt.
- We still talk far too much about it, though. For example, I posted about a breakthrough in Alzheimer's research yesterday. In what world do Reddit's issues justify one hundred times the coverage of that breakthrough?
  
  Because reddit never has operated that way. Posts aren't news. Posts are things on people's minds. Opinions will always outnumber events. Especially when those events may not have a big impact on their lives. And to be honest, I see more complaints about "let's not discuss reddit" than I do discussing reddit. My guess is you're confusing the amount of content that gets posted to your instance. It's not nearly as much as reddit so you'll see all the low voted content just as often. That content never makes it to other instances though. So it's not so much a Lemmy problem, but a lemmy.world problem is my guess.
- I am very chill my friends.
  Just exercising my right to express myself. If that goes against what you believe it doesn’t mean that I’m mad or vexed.
  
  You think my reply goes against your believe in the freedom of expressing yourself? Lol, I think I'll have to say it again: Chill, bro!
  
  It's interesting that you're exercising your right to tell people to stop exercising theirs....
  
  Chill people usually don't go straight to waving their constitutional rights in other people's faces at the first sign of any minor disagreement.

"I am going to create a discussion about a thing I would like people to stop discussing"
- It's like saying "smoking should be forbidden" and the lighting a cigarette.
- Except OP is starting a meta discussion about Reddit discussions, not a direct discussion about Reddit. I don't necessarily agree with OP, but you've crafted an artificial contradiction using a false equivalence. I'd be happier if we left the Reddit-tier logic back where it belongs.
- Hey, I gotta try make some content on here. Haha

Fine, I'll stop talking about 9gag. Sheesh.
- Do you remember, when even once 9gag was actually a good platform and not destroyed by money? Pepperidge farm remembers.
  
  9gag was never a good platform, it's where memes went to die.

I sincerely wish people would use the block feature, rather than keep making threads complaining about content/communities they don't like to see.
- Sincere question, how do I use the block feature, I mean, can we filter out certain words? I only know of blocking of users.
  
  On kbin and I think most major lemmy instances, you can block communities, so if you don't want to see content from them, say redditmigration posts, you can filter the whole community. That won't stop you from say seeing it in unrelated communities, in which case blocking the users who keep bring it up reduces visibility of the topic even more. Finally setting your default page to your subs rather than top reduces the visibility of unwanted topics even more.
- I have done that but I am still allowed to have a discussion.
  Some people made some valid points against my sentiment, I would not have gotten that had I not posted.
  For me it’s important to see opposing views, otherwise what’s the point.
  
  Than make a post about having a discussion. Not a declarative statement of what needs to happen and a subjective sentiment delivered in objective format. You don't start a discussion about immediately saying others are wrong.
  
  Than make a post about having a discussion. Not a declarative statement of what needs to happen and a subjective sentiment delivered in objective format. You don't start a discussion about immediately saying others are wrong.

I don't mind it. In fact as a person who spent countless hours at Reddit over the past 6+ years I'm very much interested on what's going on there despite the fact that I'm no longer using the platform.

I think it's important while creating a new community to examine what the previous one did poorly so that we can do better.

This is the first post I’ve seen in a while about it. Thanks for bringing it up so people will discuss it.
Jk nice try spez, go home.

...No? It's relevant news.
Seems like it'd be more odd if there wasn't news about it.

How are you going to get people to stop talking about a major site failing? Lmao
- Do you have any data that shows it’s failing?
  Has the user base dropped by an amount that they would notice?
  You’re naive if you think Reddit will fail over this my friend.

Nothing more Reddit than complaining about Reddit

Removing per rule #4.

It took a year or so before the discussion of Digg stopped happening on Reddit. It’s already calmed way down from peak API but they keep on making horrible decisions.

hey guys stop talking about the thing that i just made a post about but won’t name and therefore is not about that thing that i’m complaining about.
if you want to see better content, create it. you’re making it worse by posting about it yourself.
- Akin to saying the same thing a third of the commenters said.

You’re talking about it right now!

Congrats. You added to the problem.
- Such is life.

Yeah exactly ppl need to start standing lemmy up on its own. Let Lemmy grow into something new and exciting. I kinda feel it's just growing pains of a new site. And it's going to take years for it to grow into it own.
- Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. If reddit had issues, it makes sense to discuss to ensure they don't occur again

I'm okay with talking about that site to spread awareness.
What I'm not okay with is sharing direct links to it and, therefore, make traffic for it. Please use some aggregators and mirrors

When I joined mastodon, all the talk was about “the bird site.” It fades over a few weeks.

Anything to help you in your withdrawal op.
- Brother the people in withdrawal are the ones talking about it all the time.
  I am happy here. My time wasted on my phone has dropped considerably and that’s bloody awesome for me.
  
  Yessss I love how the algorithm here isn't tailored towards sucking me in

No
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It gets to be a lot, but you can just filter out the obviously Reddit-centered communities/mags/whatever a lot of the time.

DAE hate old site????? xDDDdD
Just ignore it or block it and move on. No need for the same post everyday.
- At 120 up and 60 down I would argue that the majority are happy with the post.

I don't mind those posts. But I am on the other hand slowly getting bothered by your kind of posts. They seem to be posted more often than any other reddit related news/shittalking.
- Im sorry that they bother you and I hope you cast your vote to show this.
  That said I’ve not seen too many posts like this, not that I don’t believe there are many.
  Have a nice day.

I appreciate your point, however - if you wish for this series of communities to succeed, it needs to be welcoming to newcomers. And one of the ways of doing that is allowing for a continuation of conversations that were on the source communities - including, "Oh, we're getting out", "Why it's so bad", "Where do we go to", "How do we make the new community look/feel like I'm used to", etc. etc.
I'm happy to see this because it means that a corrupt and non-people-focussed environment is losing members. Like anything, it will pass, but please don't push people away by making them feel unwelcome.
- I see your point, but you could be making me feel unwelcome (you’re not).
  I was asking a question based on the content I want to see. I am not saying people can’t do this or that. I’m just initiating a discussion.
  Whether people agree with me or not is fine. I respect that other people have other opinions.
  
  That's fair enough. I didn't read it as "initiating a discussion", more "get off my lawn". That may, however, be me - I'm coming off my meds and it's making me grumpy.

, he said, contributing.

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