I still use reddit for some niche topics that have like zero activity on Lemmy. But still, I feel kinda bad over it… What about you people?
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@Yingwu I went full on ActivityPub, but I get a little cold turkey-ish. The only thing I am missing is some of the communities I started to really like. I wonder if there are as active trans communities.
I quit posting but still lurk on some topics of interest. Lemmy isn’t the answer, sadly.
I deleted my Reddit account back when they fucked over the 3rd party apps, but I still do browse their site. Much as I think that Lemmy is the superior platform, Reddit still has a huge numbers advantage, and so the amount of content over there is much greater than here.
Any time I go into the comments section, though, I am reminded that Reddit is a shithole. So I try to stay out of those and just read the linked articles.
I don’t feel bad, but having moved a few days ago I’ll share my experience.
I try and come here first, will check the one or two things I’ve posted engaged with, scroll a bit - but realise I haven’t quite joined enough communities for there to be novel information each time I check in.
I then default to Reddit, and quickly go into my default auto-scroll passive lurk mode. I see something new - like the most recent Anonymous hack on twitter, and then come back to see if I can find it on Lemmy!
One key difference is I rarely posted on Reddit, but have felt very comfortable posting here. Not sure why!
Just posting some lesser known but great communities for you to subscribe to in case you are interested!
It so far ( in my very limited experience ) feels like users on Lemmy are more likely to have an actual conversation than immediately slip into the cycle of memes, in-jokes, and other drivel that usually ends up as the top several threads on reddit posts of popular sub-reddits.
It’s kinda nice.
I really hope it stays that way. Large subreddit have been bad for a long time with jokes and memes as comments.
I hope the same. It’s been quite refreshing.
It is nice! Showing my age but reminds me more like forums and chatrooms.
Honestly if the mobile website and app weren’t so bad I might still be using it regularly. As of now I just use it for the occasional niche tech support issue/tutorial.
I don’t browse or even log in to reddit anymore. I don’t feel bad for searching out specific things. Since the audience is so much larger, there’s niches that just haven’t been replaced by Lemmy or other services. Sports, media discussion, and old tech advice threads are the ones I’ll still go over for.
Even if you do login it your activity is tenous at best and reddit bans you for very little reason
Sports is surprising to me that it hasn’t gotten bigger here. I get that the tech crowd isn’t classically overlapping the sports crowd, but I feel like tech has gotten so mainstream anymore that it’s more sports people into tech than tech people into sports. A lot of the subs and instances are really lacking too, not to comment on the people posting there and doing what they can. It’s a tough landscape right now
Reddit’s sports subs were small for a long time. I think there would need to be either a sports sub exodus or a lot more lemmy users before there are enough active posters into sports discussion/gossip during the week to keep engagement up and lively between games.
I was part of the baseball sub for my local major market mlb team for years and it was really just the last three or four years it was consistently active between games and even when I left (api exodus) it was the same 30 or so people on game threads.
I am hopeful that Lemmy will eventually grow large enough to supply the numerical and geographical base for good sports stuff. It doesn’t take many active participants but the 100 - 10 - 1 rule I think is much more acutely felt in less populous spaces.
I’m doing my part in the football communities. It is sparse though.
You should plug it in your comment.
I feel dirty when I find the answer to my obscure question on a reddit post (using Kagi’s forum search, btw). I get what I need and close the window quickly, not because it has any actual effect but because there is only so much time on that site until the rage consumes you.
Same as OP. Yarvinists must rot, but there I go using their stuff again anyway.
The only reddit community I’ve yet to find a home for on Lemmy is /r/fountainpens. I don’t post there though. As a lefty getting into underwriting and fountain pens was really good for my penmanship. This in turn was good for my journaling and mental health. I don’t feel bad about it.
IRRC there was a Lemmy channel for it but it was really small.
Fountainpens is one of the view i occasionally lurk by, niche things are really hard to port over i fear
I stopped using reddit quite a bit after the API exodus. I’ve more recently just felt the itch to check out reddit due to content. Regardless, I don’t post, or vote on reddit to at least minimize the support I give there.
I feel bad while doing so. They’ve made it so unpleasant, I just want to read my HFY subscriptions in peace.
I’m logged in on my laptop but not my desktop. I’ll doomscroll occasionally and feel a bit bad about it.
Anytime I try to upvote or comment there’s a 25-50% chance it’ll error out so I’m not in much of a hurry to go back.I was permanently banned in June of last year for saying that I hope the Libs of TikTok woman would get hit by a bus. I still have my account, but I am unable to vote create or comment on anything so now I just use it to save NSFW material…
To be fair that was a stupid ass comment.
Not used it at all since the API shutdown. Been on lemmy since. Fuck spez
Same. Fuck that place. I miss some of the subs, but I’m not going back.
If you keep using Lemmy and spread the world it will grow over time.
Yeah after a while, I figured out we can sideload Apollo app and since then using Reddit again for some communities that are not really active here.
Do I feel bad? No, I don’t. My answer will be very selfish but, I will do what is ‘good for me’ and what suits me.
