I miss some of the friendships I’ve formed over there. other than that, I hardly open the website at all, and when I do, it’s via Redlib.

Since the whole API fiasco and losing reddit is fun, I wiped my reddit account, downloaded my comment history and then used a bot to wipe all my comments and posts, doing so got me banned from commenting on a lot of subs, something to do with the speed that the comments were edited at or something. Either way, I don’t really care.

I still use my reddit account for lurking, there are some niche active subs that still have good information/discussion that unfortunately haven’t been picked up elsewhere, but I have those subs opened in old reddit on Firefox and I don’t venture outside of that, and I’ll never contribute or comment again.

I get that I’m contributing to their traffic still, but I was an active member for 12+ years, and I’m still pissed they fucked the entire community to profit from our fucking content. Definitely won’t be contributing to their content again.

Werid, I brought up the notion that I don’t agree with transgenderism and was permabanned from Reddit admins. I didn’t said hate or kill or die or insult them, just don’t agree with it.

Reddit has been a huge part of me growing up.

Watching the site self-destruct has been… painful.

I go on Lemmy and mastodon and have had no reason to visit reddit. The content on Lemmy reminds me of how reddit was many, many moons ago - less content, but higher quality. I’m part of that “older generation” of the internet, with the “information superhighway!” posters in my local library when I was in middle school, so I get what you mean.

My wife still visits (logged out) to read bestofredditorupdates, it’s all she really likes that’s there, which isn’t really here yet.

Personally, I really like the federation model. I think it has a long way to go still, but this structure makes sense to me. I’m interested in seeing where it goes.

As far as other solutions like discord, I don’t use it much aside from a few niche things where it’s the best place, due to the number of non-tech people involved. I think that will shift over time too, as federated solutions becomes easier for the typical user.

I wish I could be like some of the other commenters here and say that leaving Reddit has been good because of the time suck that it was, or that I’m self-hosting xyz, but I can’t. And I am truly jealous.

I’m still looking to scratch that itch and there’s…nothing. I’m just very bored now but I haven’t gone back because I’m so angry at the way it ended. I do like Lemmy a lot, and Mastodon since I also gave up Twitter, but for better or worse they were a big part of my life and I’m not doing amazing things and coming to wonderful realizations now that they’re gone. It’s just depressing all around.

I volunteer in disaster response, and hurricane season started today and Reddit and Twitter were huge resources for us. Do you know how much of a loss that is? That can’t be replaced…entire communities, regions, parishes, counties, cities, states…they aren’t going to magically swap from one service to another because spez and Space Karen are assholes.

I’m sorry for the rant but enshittification sucks and I am sad.

TLDR I agree with you, OP.

For the first half of my transition over to Lemmy, I found myself talking and commenting more, even if I got into fights with Tankies a decent bit. I thought that once I blocked enough tankies and their instances my experience would get a bit better, and for a while it did, but then as time has gone on, I have begun to see that federation kind of makes good moderation extremely hard and rare, and if I try to use general feeds instead of curated ones, the amount of rage bait articles making it to the top has steadily started to increase, and this is finally pushing me away from Lemmy, and unfortunately back to Reddit since someone suggested Dig at one point, and good god its UI looks like I am constantly being fed ad after ad. I may eventually transition back to Gaia Online since I’m not super happy about going back to Reddit after all the shit Reddit has pulled, but I’m missing having a source of random information gain, that isnt hardcore tailored to rage bait.

I left reddit for good a year ago as well and I haven’t looked back.

The only thing I miss are the creepy askreddit threads, but I found that a lot of youtubers love curating and making videos on them, so that’s filled that hole pretty nicely.

for me Reddit was the one big online platform where the average visible user didn’t seem to be very misinformed about Palestine (at least not by default), and it was frankly very sad to see where it got in the past few months.

This was a really big one for me, it was the clearest indicator that something had fundamentally changed on that site.

I do miss it. A lot of niche communities. One example is r/Slovakia. Sometimes it even gets Q&A posts from major politicians or other people like that. Here it’s dead.

Also RF-related communities. On Reddit I had a separate feed for stuff related to that: https://www.reddit.com/user/lukmly013/m/radio_stuff/new/ (I haven’t been there for a year, I don’t know if the communities are still relevant)
I am not even a ham, I just liked to lurk around.

And a controversial opinion: r/teenagers. I joined Reddit when I was 14. Sorting by… whatever the default is did usually bring up dumb stuff, but sorting by new had some good posts. Lots of questions, others posting their art or photos they took. Usually not something worth posting on dedicated communities, but not bad either. The quantity of posts meant there was plenty of good ones too. Usually others there were nice, unlike in real life.
It partially reminds me of [email protected]

But Lemmy has advantages too. While there’s far less people, they’re usually more active. On Reddit, most comments and posts received nothing. Doesn’t tend to happen here.
Lemmy is also fairly technically-oriented. I feel like 70% of Lemmy user base is using Linux (desktop) at least a bit. But there’s more aspects to it too like being privacy-oriented and anti-corporate, so I don’t see stuff like “Just sign up for [data collection service], it’s free.” or “Anyone could be a billionaire if they tried hard enough.” and “It doesn’t matter, your [appliance] will be long obsolete before it needs a repair anyway.”

But in the end, it doesn’t matter as much. I joined Reddit mainly for the Linux communities. There’s very much not a lack of that here.

I used reddit is fun, haven’t really been back outside the occasional Google search that links a post. It sucks and I do miss it, kind of like an old ex you look back fondly on but things just didn’t work out. I used to spend HOURS on the site and while lemmy is nice for keeping up with general world events and memes it just isn’t the same.

I like to rationalize that it helps keep me in the real world instead of spending most of my time on an app. Oh and sticking to a principle and trying to support those 3rd party app creators.

I divested myself of Twitter a couple of years ago (which is how I ended up on the fediverse in the first place) and then in the last 18 months or so, Reddit, Facebook and Discord have all been given the boot too (and for a bonus, Windows as well)

I’ve found replacements for all of them in self hosted and/or community ran alternatives. It’s quieter, and missing content, yet at the same time, it’s far more personal than the sites I left behind. In many ways, it feels like the old IRC days, with smaller communities, but where people knew each other somewhat.

I wish they were a bit more active, and that some of the niche stuff existed, but at the same time, I feel quite at home with my alternatives, rather than lost.

Reddit is dead and buried, what’s left are bots and teenagers. Those yappy discordians now run the show, most of us 10+ reddit veterans either came to lemmy, or gave up on “the internet”. I’m pretty sure you’re not the only one who considered reddit to be the internet at that point.

Most power users, myself included, spent 5+ hours per day there, at times more so than at their paid careers. Especially the mods (I’ve been moderating 6 subs, two of which had over 1M and 5M users).

I do miss some of those communities. I don’t miss modding. Leaving reddit showed me what ungodly amounts of time I sunk into that platform, now that I had to fill other means to close the gap. With Lemmy it’s 20-30 min a day, often spread out over 5+ sessions since there’s not much to say or see that takes me more than 5 min at a time.

I’ve stayed on some of the moderator discord channels since those are fine folks, and chat with them in the off-topic rooms. Which shows me that reddit has gone off the deep end once and for all. With many decent folks leaving, ads and bots exploding all over the place, only the die hard shitposters and radical opinion leaders stuck around. They might not have had a digg moment, but are going the way of tumblr, which is arguably worse.

What I’m trying to say is that while Lemmy isn’t the arch we wanted it to be, going back isn’t possible either since the harbor burned down.

Personally, I’ve started a PhD just about a year ago at the time I left, and it does plenty of filling the gap in my daily calendar…

My experience on lemmy has been very similar to my experience working in a startup. I’m constantly concerned that I’ve picked a sinking ship, and concerned that the people I’m on it with are not the people I’d want to sink with. But there’s excitement around being a part of something that’s still playing out, and being able to influence the long term trajectory.

I don’t think the small community is a detractor, though. I’ve felt for a long time that large social media circles quickly fill with the worst kind of content, and normalizes the worst kind of behavior.

Anyway, I think the thing that makes this worthwhile is the decentralization and the knowledge that it’s (for now) safe from corporate capture. I’m happy to be contributing to an alternative to for-profit social media, and that makes all the worst parts of it worth enduring

I’m permanently banning you for asking a question.