I deleted my reddit account and never looked back. It wss an adjustment, but with a little patience I got used to how lemmy works.
Same here.
About 2 clicks and few fingy taps on the keyboard.
So not too bad, unless you don’t have fingies, might be a bit more difficult.
I love my fingies
It was easy to start, but difficult to keep to. There were communities that had a special place to me, and while I’ve found the Lemmy analogues and they’re amazing, I still sometimes miss seeing certain familiar names I grew to associate with my time over at Reddit.
I realize we were nothing more than ships passing in the ocean of comments, but sometimes, seeing a familiar name drop some good advice or just a cheery reply on a rough day was nice.
I thought I’d miss Twitter, but nope. Mastodon’s great. The only difference is you have to put in a little effort and engage with people, since you don’t have an algorithm trying to feed you content.
I hope in time I’ll enjoy Lemmy just as much.
Depends on what exactly is considered a social media site. Most of them I never really used, so “easy”. Reddit was the biggest one for me, and well they made my choice for me when they decided they didn’t want to let me browse it in a decent way.
Really easy. I assume when you say “social media” website you mean Reddit. Reddit was a website I’d browse to kill time when I was bored to find amusing content. Thanks to their recent policy change and their crappy treatment of their users, I torched my 10+ year old accounts and moved over basically overnight. Plenty of like minded individuals have done the same in the past couple months it seems. The fediverse has reached critical mass.
The core of Reddit were their users and the mods who volunteer their free time to look after the site, and they shat all over them. Killed the golden goose as it were. I’m a little surprised as to how many people (especially mods) are still hanging around over there.
I found an Android app similar to RiF so it wasn’t hard at all. Still testing it out, but it’s very similar and I like trying new things. FWIW the app is Connect.
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I had to go to fediverse school, too. This is why I was completely absent from social media for the past two weeks.
Reddit is the only social media I no longer contribute to. I have a private LibReddit instance I use to read from the smaller niche communities that I can’t find elsewhere, and some I even have feeding into my RSS reader. I haven’t had a Facebook in quite some time and I never signed up for Twitter/Insta/etc.
The Fediverse has actually encouraged me to take part more. Not having to worry about corporate interests, or me being used as a product was always my main gripe.
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They told r/dndmemes to stop posting goblin porn so someone posted a link to the fediverse… and I made an account. Simple as, really.
A bit hard. That’s very dependent on the alternative though.
Lemmy: I tried it a few days after the Reddit debacle and I never looked back. I really want this to work but the main thing is that I can still doom scroll anyway so I got that going for me, which is nice.
Mastodon: I didn’t use Twitter anymore but then I wanted to again. So I looked into mastodon. It’s been chaotic af. Couldn’t find ppl I wanted to follow because no recommendations and you kinda have to know who you’re looking for. Also there’s no likes, so you don’t even know which tweets were more interesting and that didn’t help (I know this is controversial, but imo these are things that will always make it hard for the average social media person). I kinda just gave up and until this gets easier I won’t try again. Don’t have the motivation nor the patience for that. Not worth it.
it was a really easy transition
Once I figured out how to make lemmy look a lot like what I was getting from Reddit and HN, I haven’t been back to either. Now I have a single RSS feed in my reader to my personal Subscribed/Active page. The RSS link you can get from your instances website while logged in includes some kind of ID to your personal feed so there’s no authentication needed and I never have to change anything there, if I join a new community, it starts showing up in my RSS reader, if I unjoin, it goes away. It’s quite glorious. I’ve found good/active enough communities to replace what I followed at the old places and the comments sections are far less flooded with nonsense.
I’m on Mastodon a bit, and I do really like it, but it wasn’t a replacement for me, I was off Twitter and the like for about 7 years already when I decided to try it.
RSS was all I could’ve ever asked for back then. And then it was gone.
Reddit and HN still have RSS. Are you referring to other sites? I quit all the other ones long ago.
Not hard at all. There’s so much here to see and interact with.
Totes agree.
I’m still occasionally browsing spezworld in read only mode and I thought I was doing okay but I just found old.lemmy.world and now it feels like I’ve relapsed.
I never knew that even Lemmy had an “old” variant of the website.
It was just announced a little over an hour ago. https://lemmy.world/post/1941511
Yeah, I didn’t delete my account, but I’ve logged out so I can’t comment and close it if a login to read box appears. Like you, I’ll probably be just as addicted to Lemmy soon enough.
