Asklemmy

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 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.

No, but I would have trouble giving up Lemmy because I am quite content here.

I don't want to give up reddit. I use reddit and lemmy, for different purposes.

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

No content issues for me here. Lemmy has completely replaced reddit for me. Been here since early June. The content is getting better and better. The one thing I do want is a multi-community interface where I can have say all my "news" communities all show up on the same page. I'm a novice programmer but the API documentation doesn't hold my hand enough for me to grasp it or I'd do it myself. Tbf I haven't looked for a month or two.

I still use Reddit for the small subreddits. Highly focused topics seems to be the only way Reddit is tolerable now.

I also just picked up reading again. Turns out part of my enjoyment of Reddit was reading comments and when that went to shit just reading books worked out for me. On my third book since the fiasco started.

As lemmy grows I go on reddit less and less, these past few weeks have been much better for content actually

Make the posts you want to see, that's the key here. I'm posting and making topics in my own communities that I want to thrive. As well, lemmy is still in alpha. There is a lot to improve upon, and it's moving forward pretty rapidly.

Your reasons are why i generally still use Reddit (i didnt feel butthurt losing access to most 3rd party apps as im mainly desktop user - however i do frequent Tildes more than Lemmy) - most of the communities i use never left reddit (dont see intention to either) and there isnt comparable equivalents on Lemmy (not on Tildes either but i prefer the more indepth discussions there)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

No.

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

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.

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.

I Will host a petition to force people to put TLDRs on top of the comment ....

I didn't leave Reddit because of the API changes. I left it because the content was repetitive and community I followed turned into groupthink circle jerk.

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.

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.

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.