(This is my second account. My first was made almost a year before this one. I initially came to Lemmy in early 2020.)

I haven’t been terribly active here. I’ve always been more of a lurker anyway unless I feel like there’s something worth piping in with. To me a place being filled with more stuff doesn’t necessarily make it better.

However, I do already see too many people trying to accelerate this place towards being Reddit in a negative way. They want celebrity AMAs. Dull memes are flooding in and being upvoted. People are trying hard to make inside jokes and call things the X of Lemmy (like the weird post about the person saying they don’t want to poop for three days). People are trying to kinda indiscriminately flood communities with copies of what’s being posted on similar Reddit communities because they think more=better.

I grew to hate Reddit over about 15 years of being there and hadn’t been using it much in recent years. I’m concerned a lot of what I didn’t like about Reddit is now being carried over. I don’t know, but to me it feels like some people are fleeing a dump and now they want to turn the new place into a dump too. And given how easy it is to flood a place, it’s not hard for a small group to do that.

Maybe it’s just me getting older. I’ve been on the verge of giving up the small bit of social media like this that I continue to use anyway.