I’m not trying to cause an argument but when Reddit pulled it’s bs - I said that’s enough. I gave up my Reddit addiction and didn’t open it or visit the site for over 30 days.
The tone and people on Lemmy is great. I don’t miss Reddit. But I miss the content types. For me Reddit was a topic related news source, a place for great discourse about those news pieces, a place where community members asked constructive questions or shared ideas/projects - and lastly a place for some very specific community types.
Over the last few days I noticed that the first 2 categories of content came over to Lemmy no problem. But the second 2 types I outlined above don’t seem to have come. I went back to Reddit this morning and it’s all still there. Certain types of posts just don’t happen on Lemmy, and on top of that many communities never came over (street_photography is a great example. They literally shut down a subreddit with thousands of users and created a new location in Lemmy/kbin, and instead of coming over the community just evaporated). Other communities are also non existent and some that do exist are simply just not enjoying the same types of posts. I like it here, I want to stay - but it’s difficult. Is anyone else having this issue?
Thanks for hearing me out.
TLDR: all of my communities seem to link posts only, many types of posts just don’t seem to happen here.
Only problem i have with lemmy is that after scrolling for a bit i end up wading through posts with 0 comments and 2 upvotes, which are inevitably just links to something i do not give a singular toss about.
But that’s honestly kinda just good, it forces me to not just stare at my computer nonstop.
I still use reddit for specific communities, but only on desktop. I wasn’t intending to 100% quit reddit anyway though, just to primarily use Lemmy (or whatever alternative I liked best, which is Lemmy so far)
I used to use libreddit or teddit. But they are unviable now because of the amount of requests. So I sometimes try to check if there is something interesting about SSBM, which is the only subreddit that is not on lemmy which I’m kind of interested in, but I get the same error many of the times. But it doesn’t really matter, if you ignore reddit’s existence, you will feel no attachment to it.
A little. I miss the movie and show discussions. Also the smaller community subreddits for specific things/people I like to follow there’s not nearly as much or in some cases nothing on Lemmy.
I find Lemmy has plenty of content for my level of use but I didn’t browse tons of communities back on reddit so my feed was fairly stagnant. I like being able to see peoples opinions and conversations about things going on in the world. I can find news topics elsewhere but no where else but reddit and now lemmy really had any worthwhile discourse about them. I don’t mind the same topics showing up in my feed as long as there are new comments that I haven’t read. Reddit was getting pretty hard to use for this though honestly, if there were any serious replies they were way down below the jokes and rage bait comments most of the time.
just one sub. there’s an alternative available but it would require associating a public forum account with a game account (my in-game name gets plastered on the web) and i won’t do that
I was disappointed the first couple of weeks after I moved here, but the communities that interest me have filled in quite well and I feel quite at home now.
Good luck.
Make the posts you want to see. I’ve posted some questions in some niche communities here and I get well thought out responses and discourse.
Best answer, Lemmy, like all social media follows the 90-9-1 rule of social media. Of 100 people, 90 will lurk, 9 will comment, and only 1 will actually post anything.
There are people in the communities that want to talk, but you gotta be the one to post.
Hey take it as your opportunity to become a name in a community!
I don’t know how someone can lurk without the urge to post something or comment, that must take willpower
idk where these statistics come from, but the 90/9 ratio may come from the fact we don’t comment on every thread we read, and not that 90% of users never comment
Was on Reddit 15 years, left in June. It was definitely a build up, but I eventually posted every day.
Not healthy, so I scaled back. I post when I have something worthwhile. Otherwise I just contribute comments. And even then I erase half of them because they aren’t helpful or contributive.
I got relay but I didn’t make an account. I just go to the specific sub that there aren’t enough people for here and lurk. I occasionally forget where I am and try to upvote something and it tells me to make an account for that, after which I just chuckle and continue reading. no more reddit account, my previous one I nuked to hell after it got hacked.
Sometimes just trying to avoid “someone on the Internet is wrong!!!” anger engagement tbh. Lurk, think react, think again and just scroll on instead
Sounds like a motivational speech and I love it.
I don’t know what our percentages are, but I think we’re much more content skewed then the rest of socal media
Don’t let your dreams be memes as they say it today
It’s been easy.
Every time I think about going there I just remind myself that the people that run that site actively hate their users.
Yes. I follow the same small sub here for my favorite sports team, but there are simply not enough people to have many. posts and great discussions. So I still read the Reddit sub. But I don’t have their app, so it is only from my gaming pc, which severely limits my time there.
Sports subs are the #1 reason I still occasionally check in on Reddit. I’ve removed every non-sports sub. Sports subs can also be sorta “reddity”, but it’s still my favorite place for news and discussion.
When Reddit decided to backstab its app developers / community, I just full-on deleted my account. Makes it a lot easier to not go back when you actually remove the thing you’d go back to.
Think of it like recovering from alcoholism: are you more prone to relapse if you keep a bottle of some familiar brand of booze in your fridge? Or if you actually get it out of your house?
Sure you could go back to the store and buy another bottle (make a new account), but that hassle will help reinforce your decision not to. Keeping it in arm’s reach - different story.
Delete your account. Delete your reddit browser extentions, saved passwords, bookmarks, mobile apps… scrub that shit from your devices. You’ll find yourself much less tempted to relapse, and it’s liberating as fuck.
I miss a few features from Reddit; but I’m not making a new account and setting RES and such back up again to get them. Fuck that noise.
I got relay but I didn’t make an account. I just go to the specific sub that there aren’t enough people for here and lurk. I occasionally forget where I am and try to upvote something and it tells me to make an account for that, after which I just chuckle and continue reading. no more reddit account, my previous one I nuked to hell after it got hacked.
I do access Reddit actively, because some communities have no replacement, even though I personally tried to get some of them to migrate. I check it mainly for communities like r/headphones, r/VPNTorrents, r/mechanicalpencils, r/victorinox, r/emulation, r/india (my country).
However, my Reddit access time is about 1/3rd of Lemmy, which is insane to think of. The reason is that I extract value out of platforms extremely efficiently, to lessen my dependence on them permanently.
I use Reddit still for certain kinds of porn. As it was meant to be
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