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?
It’s important to remember that internet culture and interactions themselves changed a lot from early days to now.
So actually, yes, Reddit did have a lot of “cloned” content that was just the same as what we were doing on previous platforms, but things were changing fast enough as to also make Reddit develop a personality of their own.
Lemmy could have that too… If we toned down the generic Linux memes.