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.
Initially I too felt like I was missing out on content, but the more time I spent away from Reddit the easier it feels to stay away.
I have accepted that I will not get certain kinds of content and communities, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make for Kbin / Lemmy. And I believe that slowly, eventually we’ll have the quality of the communities we had on Reddit. It just takes time.
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.
I need it to steal content from programminglanguages.
I use Lemmy for the “general” undirected browsing when I’m bored. I also increased the friction by removing Reddit from my bookmarks, and adding Lemmy.
I do still use Reddit for the smaller communities that have no realistic alternative on Lemmy.
I just use reddit for basic news on specific products I’m looking forward to, and the occasional time I need to search a specific question on it.
After trying out Lemmy, I used a script to delete mass edit/delete all my stuff in reddit, deleted the account, and never went back. I find no enjoyment in commenting on reddit anymore so it was an easy decision.
I agree Lemmy has a long way to go, but I only see it getting better from here which is enough for me to stick with it.
Now that you mention it though, communities do kinda feel empty. Not as in a lack of users/content, but that theres nothing in them that try to promote discussion like “weekly discussions” you would see on reddit. Its more or less entirely some random post by someone, or a news post.
As someone who only cares about news and the discussion around that news, Lemmy satisfies me pretty well. But for people who want a more social experience (probably most people), Lemmy begins to fall apart quickly.
Right now, I think the memes community is really the only active social one.
Reddit is still a year behind Twitter/X on its path of enshittification. So just wait another year or so and you’ll probably stop going there.
Be the change you want to see.
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 added some small/niche subs to my RSS reader. If something gets posted I’ll take a look, but I’m not spending time browsing and getting sucked in anymore.
Be the change you want to see. Or come back when everybody else has built it.
I still use Reddit for the small subreddits. Highly focused topics seems to be the only way Reddit is tolerable now.
I also just picked up reading again. Turns out part of my enjoyment of Reddit was reading comments and when that went to shit just reading books worked out for me. On my third book since the fiasco started.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm
One approach is to focus on the different kinds of users (early adopters vs pragmatists vs mass appeal etc) and their needs, one at a time.
My reddit usage is 99% mobile app and 1% desktop. Since there are no more suitable reddit mobile app. I stopped. The only time nowadays that I visit reddit on desktop is google search and reddit is on top result.
I have gotten back to Reddit eventually, mostly because it is hard to say no when my patched Sync for Reddit app still works lol.
Anyway I think my frontpage/best sort is fucked up because the algorithm just throws me stuff that isn’t too interesting to me, maybe because I am so little time there it doesn’t feed me with “the best of the best”.
On the other hand, my personal multireddits are still relevant to me and always find cool stuff, I usually go back to it when I get bored of Lemmy (yeah, I go from Sync for Lemmy to Sync for Reddit lol).
Not really. Sure reddit has more content and users, but for me lemmy has enough of both (and as time goes on I think it’ll increase).
Lemmy has no surveillance capitalism and a choice of applications to use.
I suppose currently reddit may be more user friendly than lemmy but I think lemmy will get better in time. Hopefully lemmy gets it’s own version of a “multi-reddit”
I ultimately left reddit because they pulled support for third party apps, which got me thinking more about the surveillance capitalism that comes with using reddit and decided I was done with it (except in the way I mention below).
Edit: If a reddit post shows up in a search result I will click on that if I think it’ll help me answer my question. That’s the only way I’ll use reddit.
