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.
Yes. I also quit R after all the bs. There a hole in my internet heart and nothing to fill it with
Make the posts you want to see. I’ve posted some questions in some niche communities here and I get well thought out responses and discourse.
Don’t let your dreams be memes as they say it today
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.
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.
Unless they arbitrarily defederate. Which you wouldn’t be aware of unless you’re following specific communities, which you may or may not be able to follow without making separate accounts.
And like, I understand the intention. The fediverse is a good idea. But let’s not pretend it’s “easy”. Average users are subject to the whims of admins as much or more than on Reddit, because here, admins can effectively hide /r/piracy, and you’ll never have known it even existed. Understanding the mechanics that allow that process is more complicated than learning reddit. I’m not prepared to say it’s worse, but it’s different.
No, I don’t use reddit anymore. Kinda. I sometimes visit Reddit due to search results. Otherwise there is not much I miss or care about.
The content isn’t as plenty here, but it is still giving me my mindless scrolling fix.
I still have a Reddit account, but I only subscribe to the communities that aren’t replaceable yet.
But I refuse to use the Reddit app, so I only access on desktop, with adblock, maybe 3 times a week just to check in.
Being unsubscribed from the mains keeps it from being a rabbit hole.
You can still use TPAs (Boost at least) if you’re a mod. Just create a subreddit, set it to private and NSFW if you want and enjoy your fully functional TPA.
Redreader still works, apparently they could prove their indispensability for the blind community.
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.
because low density of content, i browse lemmy by all and just block spammy communities im not interested, my home looks too empty for now, but still don’t feel the need to hang out on reddit
I’ve tried to do that so many times, but I just get inundated with such a massive volume of porn that it’s difficult to wade through to get to discussion communities I’m interested in.
Sure, Lemmy allows you to block NSFW content as a whole, but I don’t like doing that. I still want to see things like NSFW memes or NSFW discussion topics. Going nuclear and blocking all NSFW doesn’t really help the problem.
Try sync, there’s a multitude of block options. By instance, domain, user, community, etc.
There’s the porn, and then there’s some bot instances, right? And then there’s the pornbots that bring you a little mix of both.
Maybe it’s a lesser issue on world, but on some other instances I’ve found that bot instances are arguably worse than porn by sheer volume of posts, but they can be pretty close.
I still visit posts from search, but I’ve given up most of the logged-in experience (upvoting, commenting, submitting on a weekly basis). 99% of my previous activity was via third party apps on mobile, so I have little incentive to go back and contribute content. I don’t feel like contributing for free to some portal run by a private company. Reddit used to be a steward of their community but now feel they own it. I don’t need to work for them for free
I don’t feel like contributing for free to some portal run by a private company.
100%!!! The only thing I did differently was deleting all my usernames. I’m not contributing to all Reddit’s ad tracking, AI training, privacy invading nonsense.
I still go back to my favorite subs (r/gme_meltdown and r/buttcoin) to read only, but that’s it. Also there’s still tons of active BB boards (not on social media) for all my niche hobbies, soI really don’t have a reason to.
I’m not participating in that dumpster fire ever again. At best I’ll rip content from Reddit to post here on Lemmy.
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.
Reddit just has sooo much of the niche stuff that i image it’ll probably always be the dom porn social media (unless reddit pulls a tumbler).
They will pull a gfycat and migrate all adult content to a a new domain ala redgifs.
A lot of people (like myself) need to step out of their comfort zones if we want Lemmy to get more conversations going. Yesterday I made a game thread in the community for my favourite NFL team; I was the only one who commented. But I’m going to try and make one for the game next week.
I’ll join you during regular season.
Well done, what is the community? !nfl@lemmy.world ?
Thanks. It’s a smaller instance for the Steelers, !Steelers@lemmy.world
Ah no wonder you had no discussion
Zing
I see. If I may, you may want to comment on a larger community, as a way to get more people reacting.
I used to post to !fantasy@sffa.community , but now I do it in !fiction@literature.cafe because it will have a larger audience.
Lemmy is still a small population, so you might to go to the larger common denominator
Thanks for the advice, there’s definitely a lot more people on the NFL community but the Steelers are generally not viewed well by the NFL fans at large haha.
I ended up subscribing to the Athletic since they have a discuss section. Any sports threads on lemmy are small af rn unfortunately
Not only are they small, they keep appearing in feeds and people downvote them because they don’t want to see sporting content instead of just blocking the community.
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.
A little. I miss the movie and show discussions. Also the smaller community subreddits for specific things/people I like to follow there’s not nearly as much or in some cases nothing on Lemmy.
I haven’t been back, and honestly I don’t care. I don’t miss it. Do I wish there was more here? Yeah but it’s not a deal breaker.
Doesn’t matter how good the content is if I have to fight the interface to get to it.
https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym
several lemmy instances host this port of the old reddit interface at old.example.com
The lemmy interface is fine. It’s the reddit one I’m sick of dealing with.
