I saw this comment on c/whitepeopletwitter, and it made me wonder if Reddit was like Lemmy in its early days as well? A lot of the communities here are more or less just Reddit but with (sometimes) different rules and mod teams. Most of the memes here are just yoinked off of Reddit (which to be fair, really is just how the internet works)
But yeah, in Reddit’s early days, were the communities there basically just clones of whatever form of communities Digg/other popular sites had at the time? Was most of the content just reposts of stuff from other sites?
Muy brother in pasta, reddit, much like lemmy, is a link aggregator. It was never meant to have original content. It’s supposed to collect links from other sites and offer a spot to find and discuss them. Was this concept never explained to you?
Oh, I must’ve missed that in the very thorough onboarding process I was subjected to
should’ve paid attention during the training video, sheesh