You gotta meet the customer halfway until you get enough of them hooked, then slowly start introducing new ideas into their mental ecosystems that align with your vision.
The only thing I hate about the youtube algorithm is that it acts like my mom.
“I see you watched a single video about x. Now I’ll make sure to send you hundreds of videos about x, an x themed birthday cake, x socks, and the official x encyclopedia!”
I’m already seeing lemmy mods starting to act exactly like reddit mods so it’s not that ill-fitting.
We shouldn’t be surprised that the reddit-like website made as an alternative to reddit becomes more like reddit as more redditors leave reddit for reddit alternatives.