So I’ve switched to lemmy since the reddit meltdown started, experienced quite some withdrawal symptoms, occasionally turned back to reddit, more often logged out than logged in. Now I am merely using Lemmy occasionally and by far not as often as I used reddit before. No more doom scrolling.
So far so good.
Today I went on reddit for the first time in like 3 weeks straight (I couldn’t do that for the last years… yeah, I was very addicted in hindsight). I just… I don’t know what it is.
Reddit just isn’t fun anymore.
I turned away after maybe 5 minutes. There were maybe 2-3 repost-worthy pics, one interesting video and a few small niche discussions that all went straight tits up within a few replies.
If I ask a question on lemmy, it usually is a straightforward, honest discussion. Almost no blaming of the posters or answerers misunderstandings or senseless answers. It goes a bit back and forth usually and people tend to thank each other for corrections. I can’t remember when that happened on a reddit discussion. Maybe years back? Anyway, I’m not going back there anymore, not because I hate the CEO, but because reddit is not fun anymore. Lost all interest in it.
Did anyone of you have a similar experience?
I still use it from time to time because sometime I just need the information I’m looking for. I’ve justified it telling myself that I’m using it 1/100th of the time I used tt and only use it when necessary.
I check it frequently but I only check my fave music subs, and even so I don’t watch/listen to everything posted there. For me, the main difference has been the heaven sent lack of engagement on mostly trivial topics that seem to appear every single day on the rest of the subs I used to follow.
I occasionally go there but for specific reasons. No more late night browsing for me.
i tried to get the calyx lemmy communities some users but that failed
I downloaded infinity for reddit. Scrolled few post and deleted the app. Back to lemmy.
BTW: Infinity for Lemmy exists!
Yeap,already downloaded. Its new name is eternity.
I do both, but the reposts and karmafarming make Reddits Popular or All options terrible while Lemmy’s is just… weird but interesting. Plus, I like Linux, Star Trek and D&D. Hell, even the random porn, why not. Nobody’s looking.
Granted, I’m also the kind of guy who despises wholesome crap, and would take random fringe tankie posts over wholesome (really orphan crushing machine) posts any day. No karmafarm1988, your repost about the dog that was rescued did not make my day. I’d much rather hear for the twentieth time how the dog was only homeless because of capitalism, lol.
It’s also no longer personal when even in my less popular communities there’s like 4000 comments, almost all of which are karma farming. No reason to chime in most the time. On Lemmy I’ve encountered jerks, main characters, and holier than thou type users, but it’s less often. That’s a feature of humanity, not a bug.
But, I do still have some subreddits I’ll lurk, via Infinity (no ads, no data mining). I haven’t seen a good alternative to r/comics or r/idiotsincars, unfortunately. Can’t replicate the former since it’s up to the artists, and can’t replicate the latter because it benefits from a huge userbase. There’s always someone who lives near an accident and can give solid context, even if it’s bumfuck nowhere.
Reddit isn’t fun anymore, I agree with that. I checked /r/all for this first time today in months. I haven’t logged in or browsed since the blackout, but there are a few communities I miss and was thinking about going back over for those, so I checked r/all out of curiosity to see how things have been. The content was just so much trash, and I don’t even think it’s that much worse. It’s just that I’ve been away for so long that I’m looking at it now like “how did I spend my days scrolling through this garbage for hours?” It’s just boring, it’s like just interesting enough to keep you scrolling hoping to find something actually interesting.
Here on lemmy there is far fewer users and far less content. But I’m starting to see that as a good thing. I pop by and scroll, but I don’t spend hours here like I did on reddit. The discussions are smaller, but more engaging and thoughtful. I remember before I left there were certain threads I’d see and just skip because I already knew exactly what all the comments would be. Also, I’m actively engaging more here, so there is actually some “social” in my social media use, instead of just passively consuming like I mostly did on reddit.
Overall I think ithe switch to Lemmy has been good, for me at least. It’s like I’ve broken the reddit addiction, and looking at it now I can’t understand why I got so caught up with it in the first place. To me, reddit just isn’t fun anymore.
Did you scroll through r/all previously too though?
It’s always been a hot mess to me, without my curated subs reddit isn’t much better to me than Facebook or Twitter.
A lot of my favorite subs aren’t the same. Many are gone. Askhistorians has even dimmed a bit. Pretty much the porn is the only thing left
Hopefully Lemmy porn instances will catch up as well
It was that way for a bit at the beginning. I found the quality of discussion here was much better, and reddit was just super toxic by comparison.
I’ve noticed the general toxicity has creeped into Lemmy now though, so it’s kinda the same either way for me now.
The only time I go to reddit is to look at r/redditalternatives and witness whatever drama is going on within the newest centralized attempt at reddit that week
I still go there when I want to answer something that I know there are posts there. Also some products run their user communities on Reddit but I have a much more utilitarian attitude towards Reddit. My focus on participation is over here.
I’m back to Reddit, I kinda gave up here, but I’ll look a couple of times a week.
Too much politics. Linux. Privacy. Bidet talk. ADHD. Bad memes. Techbabble. Snore
No matter the filters I just can’t get an interesting feed, I just blocked about 6 political subs just today - it’s kinda shitty content imo (for me anyway)
I’m happy this exists but the rage honeymoons over for me. Old habits die hard I guess ……now………back to arguing with bots!!
I share a bit of the same feeling. Too much memes, tech, politics, news.
What other interests do you have?
Me too is not that interested in most communities here. All you have to change is the default setting in your profile to “subscribed” instead of “local”. That’s the same mechanism as reddit had.
But yes, the amount of discussion here is limited. But not in a bad way. More like, concentrated rather than spread out. If you want to give it a try, go here:
Just look up the most active community for your specific interest and hope for the best. Worked for my few interests.
Pretty much. I really struggle here to limit how much I have to read about politics, “tankies,” fascists/communists, nazis, defederation, etc. It’s everywhere. For fuck’s sake at least I felt insulated from political shit on Reddit for the most part. Yes, I know everyone thinks the USA sucks, landlords are bad, the rich should be shaken down, etc. Maybe that’s true! But I can’t listen to this shit anymore and it’s pushing me away from this site.
Do you consider anything that mentions politics boring? Do you have no interest in international relations? I understand if you’re not from the US, but there’s a lot of good information in those posts.
Is that really so strange? Personally I don’t care about any level of politics or news outside of a couple of fields in general, certainly don’t care for it being on social media. Generally it seems that if it is actually important I will find out about it one way or another anyway.
Yep! I don’t care about trump, elon musk and what lame alternative to discord there is. Slowly blocking stuff will be the way I guess
Fair enough. Then I imagine c/Everything would be a drag.
I only go for one community surrounding a book series, and only on Mondays when there are weekly discussion threads for new chapters. I found reddit pretty easy to cut out when I just stopped using it on mobile entirely.
Don’t be afraid. There’s the two of us now.
Too much rage bait, also after a time in here it’s quite apparent how much the algorithm tries to push you to addiction.
I miss the niche communities tho.
Reddit since changed the UI again which killed my interest in scrolling r/all. I still have to go there to view r/localllama, r/singularity and r/UFOs, none of which have a sizeable Feddit equivalent. I could do without the speculation of the latter 2 in my life, but I need LocalLlama because it is a great source for news and advice on LLMs.
Yes I have gotten back from time to time, mostly because my Sync for Reddit app is still patched and makes it easier to not use their garbage app (which I don’t even have installed).
And no, it still feels interesting to me, not with r/all nor my frontpage with best sort (this was my main page) but my handhelds multi reddit.
I am subbed to similar communities here, but it is just not the same… Yet.
