I thought it would increase surface area to make them more crispy but I’m not really sure it helped.

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Where does it say that?

I searched for the term blueberry and blueberries and nothing was found.

Edit: Oh I found it. I always print recipes to PDF so I guess I didn’t see that photo label. Probably a mistake.

“It’s entirely possible.”

I would say Reddit became mainstream in 2015 with over approximately 100 million users. That’s when I started noticing the quality of comments start going down. That’s when people stopped having discussions and started bickering more. Before that it was a lot less hostile and the topic of discussions were more fun and informative.

There was also a lot of OC at the time. You just needed to join subs in order to see it. But it was there.

I agree that the standards were lower. That resulted in a lot of fun because things were easier. It would be harder to gain momentum that way now.

The thing about link aggregation is that it can be done on any platform. You can post links to Piefed, Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr along with all mainstream sites. So why choose Lemmy over them?

The difference will be the OC. If users don’t want to put in the work for it then people who join will get bored and move on.

I’ll read comments on Reddit talking about Lemmy. Users will say they tried Lemmy but there was no interest/posts/discussion in their niche communities so they ended up back on Reddit.

We’ll see what happens I guess.

It didn’t take a decade for OC on smaller communities. I’ve been using Reddit since 2009. There was plenty of OC since ~2012.

Lemmy could use more OC in niche communities.

Most posts are links to other websites.

It might be good to try and post OC from Lemmy or the rest of the Fediverse to mainstream social media sites as a form of exposure.

Maybe we can get this type of idea to become more common here.