[brabel]

When the Reddit strike started, I tried Lemmy for a few weeks. Absolutely the only content that got any discussion was posts about how Reddit was bad or about Lemmy itself (both criticizing the owners and extolling the platform). I was interested in programming posts but there was almost nothing interesting there :( so I was quite happy when Reddit came back (it seems to have come back to normal levels now).

[BeFlatXIII]

> Absolutely the only content that got any discussion was posts about how Reddit was bad or about Lemmy itself

I call this the new social death spiral. When meta-discussion dominates for too long, it kills the community. I'm surprised Mastodon has lasted for as long as it has for precisely this reason.

[thejohnconway]

Mastodon definitely got a critical mass of non-Mastodon subject matter.

[CM30]

Yeah, this is kind of a problem with a lot of 'alternative' social media sites and platforms. They become places where the majority of discussion is "why the existing site/service is trash and why the people using it are idiots/wrong"

But that's not an interesting topic to discuss, at least not for very long. A community based on negativity towards an existing community is built on sand, and probably isn't going to last very long.

So they need to find a way to attract people who discussing 'normal' things, and don't spend every waking moment of their life being obsessed with the platform/the old platform.