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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.

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[–] soumerd_retardataire@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Have a look at lemmit.online, it copies reddit's content through a bot and deserves to be more known.

[–] limerod@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, I noticed it when i saw multiple bot posts in a short amount of time. Spamming posts within minutes without engagement, sounds like throwing junk. Better would be to have organic discussions.

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I think it's interesting that people say all third party apps for Reddit are dead because not all of them are dead.

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[–] paddytokey@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

I frequently go to the soccer subreddit in a browser because there's nothing like it out there, the speed with which people upload highlights, the match threads, the official announcements are all there if you care about high level soccer. It's the only thing I really couldn't replace

[–] ComeHereOrIHookYou@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Nope but I aint lying that there are communities that are not here that I do miss (since they never left Reddit).

[–] devious@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, but I still very occasionally check it but only every couple of days for the niche communities, but only because my reddit app of choice still works - but as soon as it stops I will not miss it.

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] devious@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Relay for Reddit - but I am guessing the move to the paid subscription is due any day now.

[–] kava@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I still browse reddit occasionally to watch videos like/r/crazyfuckingvideos or to read discussion on thr war /r/credibledefense or certain game subs like /r/chess or /r/slaythespire

I haven't made a comment or voted on anything since the API change though. All of the content I generate going forward will go exclusively to Fediverse.

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[–] twistypencil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Haven't been back

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Just visit the specific subreddits with content that your after using bookmarks while you also use Lemmy. There's no sides to this stuff that you have to choose between.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I went from being on reddit daily to not opening it for almost 2 or 3 weeks now. I haven't had an issue content wise, sure there is some decent informational on the site but, I find a lot of information on it to be outdated anyway

[–] mayo 1 points 2 years ago

I was lemmy only for a couple weeks but now I'm 50/50. I'd say overall my time on social media is way down, and I'm still not commenting/posting on reddit at all.

I prefer spending time here, but reddit still has most of the content I want.

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I agree 100%. I set up a home server after reddit fell, and unfortunately I've been having to use reddit to ask a lot of my questions. The communities for the stuff I need to ask here on Lemmy just don't exist, and on reddit they do, and you'll get responses pretty quickly.

For any kind of programming questions reddit has been far better than lemmy simply because it is significantly more populated.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

DDG search still pull it up, so I have to go out of my way to search for stuff here first

[–] doc@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I added some small/niche subs to my RSS reader. If something gets posted I'll take a look, but I'm not spending time browsing and getting sucked in anymore.

[–] markr@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There is technical content on Reddit that is higher quality than stackoverflow and the rest of the internet has been enshittified. So I’ll still take Reddit search hits over most anything else.

[–] saplyng@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

This has always been the hardest part for me; the amount of technical information on Reddit is so valuable and trumps the rest of the Internet in it's esoteric specifics. It makes not looking through it's threads when I'm looking for specific information feel nigh impossible...

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