Asklemmy

I intentionally locked myself out of reddit to make good on my social media detox and switch to the fediverse fulltime; but I find myself spending more then 5x lurking on reddit as unregistered user then all of the fediverse instances I'm registered to combined everyday.

I wish the fediverse wasn't so vanilla so that it could have some content.

I only open reddit when something there comes up in a search result, and even then only through Libreddit.

Honestly I'm still suprised that Lemmy communities are this active, but I'm very happy.

I will bounce in every week or so, but since I can’t use Apollo for quick, clean, ad-free, non-intrusive browsing, I get sick of it all pretty quickly.

I am trying other sources for news. Someone mentioned GroundNews app, and it’s pretty nifty, even without going to pro version. I am also using The Guardian app more often.

Even FB just sux so bad, I can’t stay on it for long.

Except for the damn reels. Argh.

Anyway, we all need to post more here, and also on other new playforms. Discuit is pretty cool.

It was pretty easy for me. I just needed to get off the habit of swapping R to L, for browser to autocomplete lemmy instead of reddit. Occasionally I go to reddit out of muscle memory, I do check the immediate front page while I'm at it, but there's not much to see these days.

RIF stopped working, so I opened the app a handful of times until I learned it takes me nowhere.

I use Reddit still for certain kinds of porn. As it was meant to be

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’ve got a couple communities on Reddit that don’t exist here, so I find myself on Reddit occasionally for those.

It is a right bitch that the reason to leave is 100% the bastards in charge. The community was fine. (Okay, giant asterisks all over that, but you know what I mean. The community was not the cause for masses walking away with a sea of middle fingers lit by burning bridges.)

I'm not here because it's better. I'm here because fuck Spez. And fuck enshittification. Fifteen years and these greedy incompetents made it impossible to come back without feeling like betrayal. The only reason I'm not deleting anything is that I don't do that shit. Nothing any human being put effort into deserves to be lost forever.

Elmo did us the favor of turning his stolen harassment engine into an all-stick-no-carrot experience in a fucking hurry.

I need it to steal content from programminglanguages.

The use for reddit's general subreddits is completely gone for me, but I do still have some very topic specific (gaming) subs I still visit. I'm not sure if lemmy will ever reach that level of membership with specific topics.

That's not to say it can't, but I think it'll be difficult and maybe even take some concerted effort that wasn't necessary for reddit. I don't think Digg has anything like that.

But I do think reddit probably can't get more profitable if all it has is niche communities. Now if they could be content with whatever profit they get being a collection of niche communities, they'll probably be fine. But if they have demands to increase profit, which I think they do, then inevitably start doing dumb shit that damages the small successful communities, that would probably be the death knell.

Only community I truly care about that hasn't budged is the Neovim subreddit still going strong without a care in the world. Everyone's still highly motivated and active there, so it's really the only place to go where I can keep up the the community's momentum.

There are a couple specific Reddit subs that I use that haven't migrated. They are an app specific and a device specific sub. They are the only reason I still have a Reddit account. There aren't as many posts on Lemmy, but they are increasing. There are also other places like Scored, Raddle, Tildes, Rabbit Hole, Saidit, Kbin, Aether, and Minds. Some of them have seen some growth since Reddit took the plunge off the cliff.

I miss reddit sometimes. I actually went back to my favorite sub for the first time just yesterday. It didn't hit the same. I honestly don't know if the sub changed or i have, but the magic's gone. Luckily i thrive on bitterness (it's become a vice at this point but it's a cheap drug) and that means i get a minor thrill in actively not participating in something some piece of shit CEO thinks i can't live without. I am able to get my fill of bittersweet satisfaction from active inaction in this case.

Then i come here and cleanse my palate with the mellow tannins of the metaverse.

This place, I'm excited for this place. Let's make it fucking great. When the "mall" closes it'll be all the sweeter for our participation in its demise.

Apropos of little - how long ago did Sean Hannity say he'd get waterboarded?

I'm with you especially since what I use Reddit/Twitter for the most is sports highlight clips/discussion during games. Those communities just aren't here. I love chatting with other Orioles/Panthers/Penguins fans in the game threads on Reddit during the game since none of my friends are fans of those teams other than my brother being a Penguins fan too.

Luckily a lot of the Twitter follows I had which were mainly for College Football are on Bluesky so I can use that more but missing out on the rest here. Once Boost for Reddit stops working (still works if you mod a sub) I won't be using Reddit anymore though. The official app is that bad.

I feel the same way. I've been on Lemmy since the Reddit blackout, but went back to Reddit when it ended and barely used Lemmy since. I mean, I dislike spez as much as anyone, but that doesn't mean I suddenly hate the entire Reddit community. I don't know what I'll do once I'm finally forced to use the official app, but for now I'm still happily using Boost as a mod.

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.

Nah. Reddit content is noticeably worse after the API changes. I don’t find myself going back unless I’m searching for something technical for my job. I’m not actively trying to avoid it, but that’s just how it’s working out.

Just cut out reddit unless it's information you legitimately need to know. Every time you're mindlessly scrolling on lemmy and not seeing content and thinking to yourself, "I bet reddit would be better right now," just turn off your phone and read a book. I've cut wayyy down on my phone time since I swapped and that can only be a good thing.

I still go back to Reddit - I don't spend as much time on there as I used to (especially as I don't use the app), but I'm also on lemmy, kbin, discuit (but no longer squabbles).

Yeah, I get the same thing as you. What I've done so far is I made a few communities here and am trying to fairly reliability populate them with content. Some of those communities are niche and I feel like I'm posting into the void sometimes, but occasionally I've gotten someone else actually posting some content in them. It does definitely take some commitment to bootstrap a new community, as people just won't start posting on their own there until there's a critical mass. So you just gotta take the hit, post into the void a while, slowly increase that subscribe count, until finally others start to join in.

It's easiest with communities focused around memes or links, but I think it'll take more effort with more niche hobby or technical communities, e.g., for programming languages or niche hobbies.

The only thing I have been going back to Reddit for is the Tears of the Kingdom subreddit. Once I'm done playing through the game I probably won't touch it at all. I haven't logged in for weeks.

At this point Lemmy is giving me what reddit did in smaller, healthier doses. I'm not constantly scrolling like I used to.

No.

I'm of the stance that it doesn't actually matter at all if you give a platform up, it's just the overall amount of time that does. So imo there's no reason to not keep going to reddit for the stuff you can only find there.

Hell, if everyone on Lemmy never went anywhere else, all we've done is doomed the site to die off as no new people ever hear about it.

Not in the slightest reddit is for plebs and soon it will get purchased by some media conglomerate and continue to die a slow death

I don't use reddit for doomscrolling anymore and only ever go on that site when I'm struggling to find an answer to a problem (usually coding or tech related) that was answered years ago.

It's a good source for info because the links to it are listed high in search by google, and are way better than stupid articles that repeat the question 10 times and then ask you to sign up.

I still have to use Reddit for some super niche communities to get answers to questions. Some of those communities don't exist on Lemmy or have far too little people on Lemmy to get any answers when I am looking for an answer within the week.

There are some subreddits for older games that I also use to ask some questions. I am not going to make a community on Lemmy for a game from like 2011 or 2015 to just ask a question about the game mechanics or something.

Also, Reddit still has a lot of good info from a lot of communities to still go back and reference. I still use site:reddit.com in a search engine a lot.

I don't go on Reddit to comment on other people's posts anymore though.