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I am trying, lemmee feels like home. I know why I hate my former spaces. I am trying to figure my happy space here. I don’t want it to be like the other places I left, however I miss some of there qualities, odd visits to insta. I really miss a good visual feed.
I also miss marketplace too. I like to recycle and it was good for that.
Lemmy, no Reddit anymore
There is plenty to engage with here. I don't miss Reddit, other than a couple of local groups that have no fedi equivalents, yet. But not enough to go back.
no equivalent, thats the only reason. althought im shadowbanned i can only read-only anyways, i suspect that is reddit/spez current intended purpose for users. keep just enough engagement, via propaganda bots and users to keep up a front while exposing everyone else to advertisements. i always criticized how they do very little against controversial bots, and we know why.
I use Lemmy primarily. I try not to use Reddit, Meta, TikTok or anything else as much as I can if there is a Fediverse option.
Unfortunately, there are a few things you have to use that stuff for:
Facebook Marketplace has completely replaced Craigslist in my area.
Neighborhood apps like NextDoor, even if there are other options, doesn’t matter if your neighbors don’t use it.
Reddit for specific niche forums. If the community is active on Lemmy, I post questions here first but in some case I need an answer for something that doesn’t exist in the Fediverse yet.
I switched to lemmy about two years ago and went almost cold turkey. There was one community on reddit that I returned to a couple of times in the first few weeks, but even that stopped as it just wasn’t worth it. I have been to reddit a few times since, but only when trying to solve a problem and reddit comes up as a search result, and only after trying other sources first.
i got permaban 99% of my accounts initially early this year, tried to play it safe with a single old account by only visiting niche communities, but shadowban eventually caught up with my account. i suspect it was triggered when i tried to switch toa firefox fork+ a mod removed one of my comments in a niche sub.
1st thing it did is force you to change password then the ban was immediate. i suspect they were using the "change password" trick to ban people.
I only use Lemmy for browsing but I still search “(product name) Reddit” for reviews of appliances in addition to free consumer reports access through my library. It still seems like the best way to get real user feedback despite reddits best efforts to sell out.
Reddit killed third party apps, and so they killed my engagement with them. Why go back?
They killed Apollo and I’ll never forgive them.
Luckily, Voyager is pretty similar with Lemmy
Just lemmy for some years now. I do miss the Reddit of the olden days though. You know, when there was still some Aaron Schwartz in it.
Back in the day I could go online and ask every goddamn question and a real person would give me an answer. There was this treasure trove of knowledge and opinions. Lemmy is sadly not quite there yet, but the memes are spicy and I like those nice socks you computer people wear.
I dream of the day, when somebody shuts down the internet. Because I know, all you sock wearing and Linux wielding Weirdos will get your shit running again the fastest.
reddit only started clamping down politically, because of trumps 1st term, hence made it harder to say certain things, because bots are astroturfing everything.
Yes? But I don't think I'm hardcore, I started using Lemmy when I stopped using reddit.
I still have Facebook because of real life friends but otherwise I am on the fediverse and Bluesky only. I even use Maven. I have never gotten into Snapchat or Tiktok at all, and I dumped Instagram and Twitter a while back.
I would love to not be on Facebook but sometimes if someone commits a really trashy crime in the news and I look them up and their page is full of crazy it's pretty delicious. Like a Southern Gothic novel.
FB, impossible to make an account without giving too much of your personal info away.
I'm trying to leave #Meta apps for the #Fediverse. However, It is not easy because Most of my contacts are there and there is not so much local discussion here
Meta, ZUCKERBORG honestly is too datamine invasive to even make an account. i just bypass thier login popup up to look at certain posts with ublock origin. i think you could do it to linkedin too. the reason job sites like glassdoor and linkenin datamine is to give , besides selling it, giving your info to these companies in case your review "badmouths" them and they try to sue you.
glassdoor became corporate shills after they sued users. at the same time forums for these jobs have been shutdown.
Same problem.
I stopped using Reddit when I got permabanned for speaking against fascism.
Occasionally I'll hit up a reddit result if I'm doing a search looking for an answer to a specific question. But I never browse it since the 3rd party apps stopped working.
I use Lemmy and Discord
I only use Reddit when it comes up in a search result. Otherwise it is Lemmy all the way
Only Lemmy.
Im IP banned from Reddit though. Still wouldn’t ever go back.
Lemmy only. Reddit has become some strange mix of Quora and X or something like that at this point.
reddit is like Yahoo answers/+ qoura+ answers.com. but only the other 2 reddit gatekeeps and bans more readily than the first 2. YA was a favorite because you can ask anything, it was also comic relief because there were stupid questions.
