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For me it's become the opposite. I open reddit /all and see twenty adds for joining the US Army, US navy, I see a few posts with 9k comments. I feel bored. I close it and look on lemme and there's always at least as much if not more content, and the sheer mass of it isn't overwhelming to me at all. People are stupid on both platforms, but for me this one has become a less stressful alternative.
The advertising on reddit is quickly getting out of hand.
Lemmy hasn't really expanded in it's content umbrella to the point where it can really fill the same gap. I've instead just spent more time on other apps and don't open Lemmy often.
When I do open it and sort by all it's usually the same kinds of topics on top, not simply reposts, but just really focused on metadiscussions about the viability of the fediverse. I'm not here to make a change, I'm just a consumer looking for mildly interesting distraction. The audience for discussions of the fediverse is incredibly small, while the audience for mild distraction is the majority of the internet.
Not at all. I went cold turkey and have been off reddit and exclusively on Lemmy and Mastodon for the past 6 weeks. I don't have the app installed so it's easy.
I wouldn't say it's a problem for me but I see what you see. We have to be patient, building a community is one of those things that you have to do carefully, taking your time.
I don't know if you tried in other instances. I just subscribed to many more communities than I did in Reddit, no matter the instance.
Well, no.
Since their shitty app is the only app, the only time encounter reddit is in search results.
Since there's plenty of ways to avoid interacting with the actual site, I do that and never have to deal with the bullshit.
However, I did try to make a post on a niche sub I created for the small number of users. A couple of days ago, I tried logging in to make that post, and got captcha cycled through five damn screens worth before I quit and counted it as a lost cause.
Fuck reddit, fuck their shitty app.
I didn't specifically give up reddit completely, but I have drastically reduced my time on the site, especially since I only ever go onto it when I'm sitting at my desktop and I go to Lemmy first.
It sucks that a lot of communities aren't large enough to sustain content and have remained on Reddit. Even the larger communities tend to get stuck on the same few posts for multiple days without new things pushing them down the list (e.g. the recent LTT drama just would not leave my feed for far too long). For sorting Active is far too sticky, even Hot doesn't clear out posts fast enough.
I find that while I get votes on my comments, the amount of replies and such have definitely reduced, indicating there is less engagement going on within the comments on Lemmy to me than when everyone was moving over.
Nope. I can still find someone saying something stupid and bully them for it. You just have to be more patient.
Definitely less infinite scrolling, which has probably been good for me time management wise.
But yeah, just generally less content and posts. Also find myself ending up on reddit when doing internet searches for questions.
I never left. What I did is I browse and do what I did regularly on Reddit on Lemmy, except when I want to search for a really specific information about a thing, which can't be done here.
If I want to post something, that's on Lemmy (even if it doesn't get any reaction) and also Reddit if I need replies
There's more than one way to boycott something. I still search stuff there, but giving nothing back, i block ads and trackers, do not post, comment, or vote. For them, i am just a waste of server resources.
Reddit's street photography subreddit wasn't that great to be honest. I'm trying to curate a street photography community here, but it is a slow process. [email protected] .
But I agree, I still go back for some niche content like the editors' subreddit.
I miss the r/Hinduism community quite a bit. It was a real help for me when I first started following that particular path. Lots of friendly, helpful people.
Thing is, when the whole api fracas happened, I deleted my account and vowed not to use that site again.
"I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful. One hundred percent!" -Horton the Elephant
I said it on Reddit (and the comment got removed of course) and I'll say it here. Until Lemmy becomes the go-to for short form adult content most users will stay in Reddit.
Yes. I follow the same small sub here for my favorite sports team, but there are simply not enough people to have many. posts and great discussions. So I still read the Reddit sub. But I don’t have their app, so it is only from my gaming pc, which severely limits my time there.
It's been easy.
Every time I think about going there I just remind myself that the people that run that site actively hate their users.
I feel the struggle too, but I’m refusing to go back, unless it’s some google result to help with something I’m doing.
But ya, it depends on how much you relied on niche communities in your daily life. I can see missing some of that here. I still push this platform when I share links in Discord or to my family and friends though.
For casual browsing I've given up Reddit. Like a lot of people I used Reddit on mobile 99% of the time so when the apps died I just uninstalled. The only thing I use Reddit for now is when I'm struggling with a research or technical problem. Honestly don't miss the front page at all.
Not really, because my primary means of browsing Reddit was taken from me. If baconreader was still up, sure. Maybe.
Yes, it is a bit frustrating... I also don't really understand how it all works. I know that for some reason I need to make the same account over and over.
You definitely shouldn't need to do that, one account is enough.
Maybe you're confused because communities can be on different instances (servers). But you don't need to make an account on those instances, because all the instances are federated together. That means you can just have your account on one instance and follow and participate in all your communities from there.
Nope. Quit on June 30 and I’ve never been back.
I've been a lot more productive since I joined lemmy - reddit was too addictive in my opinion. I still add 'reddit' to my searches when looking for information, but haven't felt the urge to go back. I'm sure I've missed a lot of news and new techniques for my hobbies, but I also haven't seen a single repost for months. Worth it
I spend more time here than reddit. I never 'go' to reddit. I end up on reddit occasionally when looking up a question and the search engine takes me there. Often, i need to login to view, so i move on, as I deleted my account.
Nope. Two months of not using reddit. Not doom scrolling, not feeling that heart rate lift when I see I've had a bunch of new replies and wondering whether I said something wonderful, or something dumb and a hundred people are now calling me an arsehole.
I do get your point about some reddit communities being genuinely nice places with great content, and if it was just that I'd still be there. But my mental health is better through having left it. Also, having read the posts about Reddit's attitude to its users and supporters during the Apollo posts made me realise just how toxically they view us. Fuck them, they can go to hell without me.
I just use both lemmy and reddit
I have enough of the superiority complex of some lemmy users who think they are better than others for using a certain website
The only time I have ever gone back is when I'm looking something up and everything else that isn't a r€ddit link doesn't have the info I'm looking for, so I haven't found it that hard to stay away since even then I'm not looking up much where a r€ddit link is necessary.
I stopped using Reddit on June 30 because without the RiF app it is absolutely awful to use. Haven't been back except for the occasional search for information that leads me there.
No just went ....that's it I'm done. Deleted my account and moved across to the fediverse, haven't looked back
Yeah, there's an amount of niche content that's just not here (yet). I'm not devoting my time to build a community here myself, but I'm also not gonna use Reddit's sad excuse for a mobile app because it literally makes me angry to use that piece of shit. So when I'm bored at work on the desktop, I'll go to reddit, but my traffic is probably down like 60-70%.
I'm spending more and more time on lemmy. I hope it will grow. How can we advertise it on Reddit?
I migrated from Reddit during the Reddit protests. Most days I forget that I left and that it was a thing. I use the Lemmy app now and it’s indistinguishable from Apollo.
I’ve had no problems with content, although I’m a casual user. I subscribed to a dozen things, and it’s enough to keep my page fresh. I’m probably only on here 30-60 mins per day tho.
There's a couple of sports and tech subs I have bookmarked via old.reddit that are still the de facto place for the community, all in a browser with aggressive privacy measures. I check in on them when "stuff happens" in that area, but don't post and don't hang around.
Otherwise from the odd search hit, I made a clean break back in June and haven't really looked back.
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.
never really intended to give it up. I don't expect certain communities to move here that fast, and I see no reason not to participate in them
I’m using kbin, lemmy, and reddit for context. IMO reddit has started to turn sour. Kinda hard to explain, but it’s like nobody reads what you say for context anymore. They immediately twist what was said or use specificity (or lack thereof) as some way to discredit your point while ignoring the whole. It’s getting frustrating to try to have a conversation there.
It makes the content in reddit far less enjoyable.
OTOH cruising around lemmy and kbin I get shocked by the extremists posting fascist, pro-russian, or other political extremes, yet you can find a lot of the (reasonable) people here actually want to have a conversation.
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.