How has it been for you? Do you get FOMO feeling sometimes?
I use Reddit less and less but haven’t fully quit yet. Always have this odd feeling of FOMO regards content.
Not only that, some subreddits haven’t migrated to any other platform unfortunately. Or they have but the content is very little compared to Reddits content.
Note - wasn’t sure where to post this. So if this wasn’t the right place, apologies!
The issue I have with Reddit - it’s full of hateful people and most content is just bots karma farming.
EDIT: Thanks for all the responses!
EDIT 2: Thanks for the ones that mentioned RSS-Feed. Just got it and it’s amazing. Still manage to only follow the subreddits that I like without crapads.
Fully left Reddit. Hate that they killed Sync so bounced. Don’t miss it at all.
The flip side is Lemmy is meh. Every damn post is Linux shilling. We get it. Lemmy users like Linux. At least Sync works on this site.
Ultimately, I guess I just don’t care about either site. I just want something to mindlessly browse for a few minutes every day when I’m shitting, and Lemmy is fine.
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Don’t forget about “every problem in existence is because of capitalism.”
Well this is looking like a slippery slope. Next comment is just going to be something like “I actually kind of like the far right.”
I always find it funny when people use the phrase slippery slope, not realizing that it is literally a logical fallacy.
The far right can get bent for what it’s worth, but most of the issues people attribute to capitalism are very far from exclusive to capitalism. No matter what socioeconomic framework you go with, you’re probably still going to need to go to work, deal with shitty bosses, insane bureaucracies, mid life crises, not having the motivation to read that book you bought 3 years ago, your furnace dying in the middle of winter, etc.
Shitty bosses are probably less likely if your boss is ultimately democratically accountable to you and not to the some alien legal party that is your employer
Democratically elected/accountable doesn’t necessarily beget quality. See: politicians.
Point is, people act like moving away from capitalism would suddenly fix all life’s ails. Sure, it would probably fix some stuff, it would probably cause some problems capitalism doesn’t too. It’s much more effective to focus on tackling specifically scoped issues rather than whinging about capitalism and proposing no solutions other than tearing down the entire system and hoping whatever rises from the ashes is better.
To make some very specific points, I believe that if we simply fixed outrageous housing and healthcare costs, the overwhelming majority of domestic complaints about the USA would be solved. No need to ditch capitalism to fix those problems.
If given a choice between democratically elected politicians and unaccountable dictators and autocrats, I would choose politicians.
By capitalism, I mean specific institutions. I have specific solutions in mind such as recognizing the inalienable right to workplace democracy, and common ownership of land, natural resources, and the means of production.
Land’s inelastic supply, which can only be solved by socializing it, plays a role in housing costs.
Work issues remain unsolved by those two
I left reddit totally when I made my account here. Lemmy has been great, but it’s not a full replacement per se. Most often I’ve just decided I can live without the niche reddit content. Lemmy has plenty of its own content, and it’s enough for me to fill that “hole”.
As I’m sure many are aware, reddit has addictive qualities that aren’t always serving your best interest. Just because there’s a subreddit for
r/breadstapledtotreesdoesn’t mean you should dedicate time out of your day to look at it. All the important discussions to me have mostly moved over here, and all the people who are posting and commenting on Lemmy have a much much higher level of aptitude on these topics than redditors (I like that you can go into a random meme community on Lemmy and pick a fight about filesystems).We still need to create and fill a lot of niche communities here, but Rome wasn’t built in a day and we’re making great progress here in just a few months. Lemmy feels viable and sustainable and I think we’re past the hard part of gaining critical mass and making daily Lemmy use a habit. My call-to-action would be to stop searching reddit for answers to things and start posting those questions on Lemmy. There are so many smart people here waiting to infodump their experience onto you.
It’s been bad for me.
All those hate filled posts everyone talks about? I never saw those on Reddit, because I had a couple dozen technical subs (r/emacs, r/PLC, etc.) that I’d browse and rarely if ever strayed from those. Reddit was big enough that the specialized subreddits generated enough content for my use case.
Some of those communities exist here, but they’re practically empty. So I wind up doom scrolling on All, which is full of tankie garbage and political propaganda.
I dunno, while I like the idea of Lemmy, I don’t think it’s likely to ever get the traffic you need for my kind of use. I probably just need to diversify my phone use and visit other sites.
You should fill your subscriptions with instances that aren’t lemmy.ml, or browse another instance in its entirety… however that works.
That might help with the tankies, but it won’t fill in for the specialized subreddits I used to visit. There just aren’t enough people on Lemmy.
18 year reddit veteran.
I haven’t contributed or actively browsed Reddit since moving to Lemmy. Three visits from a google search for a specific problem.
I don’t get FOMO - too long in the tooth for that, but I do miss the center ground politically on Lemmy, which despite my best attempt of locating I haven’t found here. I sometimes feel like I’m the only one to frown at both nazis and tankies here.
I had fully left Reddit ever since the API changes but checked in very very rarely every now and then whenever I googled something and Reddit results were the only results actually answering my questions. I don’t really miss it, and I found that I do spend way less time scrolling mindlessly, so that helped.
What kind of killed me was my deleting my account. I had been starting up PowerDeleteSuite in the last couple of months to get rid of my comments and posts, but I didn’t leave my PC running for long enough to delete everything whenever I actually remember to start it up. Now, I finally deleted everything and deleted my account too. I wasn’t using the account at all, but it made really sad to see the account go for good this time. Similar feeling to when I deleted RIF off my phone.
It was a good run.
Honestly, I haven’t missed it. I’m no longer doom-scrolling an eternal screen of karma-farming bullshit.
I took part in the blackout protest and tried Lemmy at the same time. When Reddit proved they didn’t give a shit, I went back long enough to scrub my post and comment history, before deleting my ~15yo account entirely. Sure, they could probably recover the data, but why would they?
I use Pihole for DNS and a private searx-ng instance for web search, so I just block all Reddit domains in DNS and search results, and it’s genuinely like it doesn’t exist for me any more.
Also, the pace on Lemmy is much nicer, IMHO. I find a lot of days I only look at Lemmy a couple of times, and very quickly move on if there’s no posts of interest to me.
I haven’t deleted my account yet but I very rarely visit Reddit anymore.
There are a couple things about Reddit I miss that Lemmy lacks at this point, such as r/askhistorians or r/whatisthisthing which could be useful. I don’t think Lemmy/kbin/the fediverse are widely adopted for me to get a reasonable answer to a question like “what is the oldest practical warning sign known to exist?”
Discussion boards of things like Battletech or Satisfactory or other slightly niche interests exist here, but are pretty much inactive.
Leaving Reddit gave me the opposite of FOMO. I’m glad to not be fed as much algorithm-tailored BS as before. I still use YouTube, but most of my YouTube viewing is at least related to my other hobbies.
I check Reddit maybe twice a week, but only a couple of specific niche subs( like many others have said). For me it’s /r/fragrance that I’ve had a hard time finding a good replacement for… Perhaps I should just frequent Basenotes.com more?
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what does being a perfume connoisseur look, feel or work like?
I’m not sure if I’m a connoisseur, I just like testing perfumes I haven’t tried before. I get samples of perfumes at perfume stores and wear them for a few days. If I find it really irresistible I buy a full bottle. If not, I just enjoy trying something different and developing my sense of smell. I could easily go broke buying all the nice perfumes, so sampling is a cheap way to find out what I like and only buy the ones that really hit the mark. How does it look and feel? I look like an old dude with a big beard but at least I smell good.
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reddit isn’t verbotten - hell, I still have a myspace account… This “place” will grow. Let it. Then someday everyone will say “fuck lemmy - let’s move to scritum” or something as cryptic. Probably using hieroglyphics, err, I mean emojis.
I mean, face it… reddit was fine up until a few years ago - well - five or more. Then the musk wannabee bought it and it turned to shit. Before then it was okay. a bit prudish for the 21st century but still workable.
Ten years ago it was way neato - just like Lemmy is now. So, moral of this story is let Lemmy grow without using a crowbar.
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Then the musk wannabee bought it
I hate spez as much as the next guy, but this is inaccurate. He is literally one of the founders of reddit, he didn’t bought it.
If anything he sold it, then came back as a CEO.
Lemmy may die, everything will. But as long as it is not for-profit, I think it will be good. Everything that venture capital touches turns into shit.
For me it was great. I’ve been trying to leave that shithole for years; Lemmy got enough content quantity and diversity to keep me entertained.
I do miss a few niche subs; mostly r/conlangs, game-specific subs, and a few subs for anime/manga/LN series. But I don’t really feel missing out.
I also miss behaving like a shit-flinging monkey and chimping out. I don’t do this here in Lemmy, but I did it all the time in Reddit. I guess that I contributed to what you call “hateful people”? Perhaps not, you don’t look like the sort of user that I’d chew on.
The issue I have with Reddit - it’s full of hateful people and most content is just bots karma farming.
My issue with Reddit is also the userbase. But it’s on another level: the local culture of Reddit encourages braindeadness, disingenuousness, entitlement, and circlejerking.
the local culture of Reddit encourages braindeadness, disingenuousness, entitlement, and circlejerking
I feel like I see more of that here, at least because there are no active replacements yet for the niche subreddits I used to participate in which were actually moderated to remove low-effort comments. I would never have posted in /r/politics if I wanted to discuss a controversial topic, but here I feel like that’s the only option.
That’s a good counterpoint - in Reddit, large subs often work as containment cages for the morons; Lemmy is simply not large enough to have this distinction yet. And perhaps the topic also has some influence, I feel like people in Lemmy are emotionally more strongly attached to their political views than in Reddit, this is not bad per se but people often get irrational when they’re emotionally attached to a subject.
Yeah, Reddit users will call you a transphobic slur and move on. Lemmy users will harass you for months for being trans. cough hexbear
The issue I have with Reddit - it’s full of hateful people
I left two or three years before the big wave, for precisely this reason. It really is a toxic culture – it seeps into your brain that you cannot say something mildly wrong or controversial without the mob snowballing your comment to death.
No one affords others any goodwill, because not doing so makes their own number go up.I was on Mastodon for quite a while, because Lemmy wasn’t a thing yet. And over there, you can only make people’s numbers go up and the culture reflects that.
I do feel like the Lemmy model works better for unearthing content (Mastodon is more about people), but I can’t help but feel like there ought to be a path in the middle.it seeps into your brain that you cannot say something mildly wrong or controversial without the mob snowballing your comment to death.
It wasn’t like that over here a few months ago, but unfortunately that’s starting to change.
From my view the more of Reddit that comes here the farther right we go. My first experiences on Lemmy were somewhat off-putting because it was so far left I couldn’t relate, like literally just ignorant anarcho-commie shit that doesn’t have any basis in reality. Now I’m seeing more and more centrist and far-right-too-comfortable-with-fascism shit that I also can’t relate to and feel repulsion from. Not sure what the perfect balance would be, but I think there was a day or so there where it might have existed on Lemmy.
Huge swathes of Lemmy are deeply transphobic. I’ve never seen such bullshit on Reddit. I agree there are more communists, and that’s great, but unfortunately there are a lot of politically engaged and deeply ignorant people running large instances.
You missed it then because it was definitely there.
I miss it. It makes me angry, and a little sad, and definitely lonely. I miss the community and the friends I had (which accounted for too much of my social interaction). But I still feel like it was the right move.
It is a toxic place in many ways, but there are communities there that are hard to replace. I ignored much of what was happening for far too long, and a lot of my pain now comes from a failure to deal with that reality when I should have done
Instead I moved with the masses, at least in theory. I hate that it was necessary, but I would do it again.
Ned?! Ned Ryerson?!
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