So I’ve switched to lemmy since the reddit meltdown started, experienced quite some withdrawal symptoms, occasionally turned back to reddit, more often logged out than logged in. Now I am merely using Lemmy occasionally and by far not as often as I used reddit before. No more doom scrolling.
So far so good.
Today I went on reddit for the first time in like 3 weeks straight (I couldn’t do that for the last years… yeah, I was very addicted in hindsight). I just… I don’t know what it is.
Reddit just isn’t fun anymore.
I turned away after maybe 5 minutes. There were maybe 2-3 repost-worthy pics, one interesting video and a few small niche discussions that all went straight tits up within a few replies.
If I ask a question on lemmy, it usually is a straightforward, honest discussion. Almost no blaming of the posters or answerers misunderstandings or senseless answers. It goes a bit back and forth usually and people tend to thank each other for corrections. I can’t remember when that happened on a reddit discussion. Maybe years back? Anyway, I’m not going back there anymore, not because I hate the CEO, but because reddit is not fun anymore. Lost all interest in it.
Did anyone of you have a similar experience?
Did you ever get into a huge fight with a partner, then patched things up, except your feelings had changed as a result of the fight?
That’s how I feel about Reddit. It’s the same place, but the magic is gone for me.
I don’t think Lemmy fills that void entirely, but it does a good enough job. I miss some communities, but I like that the big communities are small enough here that I can reply to any one I choose and get meaningful discussions out of it. It’s tiring to always come too late into interesting topics on Reddit and just throw my comments into the void.
Still plenty of space for Lemmy to grow, but I’m already content with what’s here. I don’t really go back to Reddit unless I want to discuss a niche topic in a sub that hasn’t migrated to the Fediverse.
Completely agree. I used to scroll reddit for hours a day, for the last 10-15 years. I had many accounts and thousands of comments. I deleted everything in July but continued to use libreddit and teddit daily for a few weeks, until both of those were also killed.
Reddit is dead for me now. I still check in to old every few days, but as it’s shit on mobile I only view the front page for 10 mins and go back to hacker news or here. The 3rd party clients were really the only reason I got hooked and used it for so long. When spez kills old my usage will stop completely… I suspect that’ll happen before the years end.
I’ve noticed Reddit is full of people who just don’t understand how Reddit is supposed to work. Comments stopped being fun and it just feels like Facebook now
Too much rage bait, also after a time in here it’s quite apparent how much the algorithm tries to push you to addiction.
I miss the niche communities tho.
Reddit isn’t fun anymore, I agree with that. I checked /r/all for this first time today in months. I haven’t logged in or browsed since the blackout, but there are a few communities I miss and was thinking about going back over for those, so I checked r/all out of curiosity to see how things have been. The content was just so much trash, and I don’t even think it’s that much worse. It’s just that I’ve been away for so long that I’m looking at it now like “how did I spend my days scrolling through this garbage for hours?” It’s just boring, it’s like just interesting enough to keep you scrolling hoping to find something actually interesting.
Here on lemmy there is far fewer users and far less content. But I’m starting to see that as a good thing. I pop by and scroll, but I don’t spend hours here like I did on reddit. The discussions are smaller, but more engaging and thoughtful. I remember before I left there were certain threads I’d see and just skip because I already knew exactly what all the comments would be. Also, I’m actively engaging more here, so there is actually some “social” in my social media use, instead of just passively consuming like I mostly did on reddit.
Overall I think ithe switch to Lemmy has been good, for me at least. It’s like I’ve broken the reddit addiction, and looking at it now I can’t understand why I got so caught up with it in the first place. To me, reddit just isn’t fun anymore.
Did you scroll through r/all previously too though?
It’s always been a hot mess to me, without my curated subs reddit isn’t much better to me than Facebook or Twitter.
Idk I don’t exactly find Lemmy a bastion of my interests. It’s very clear the community is far smaller. The niche communities of topics im interested are mostly nonexistent and it’s largely a sea of memes and references I don’t remotely understand or care to. Something about communists or some shit? What? Pass.
The reason is because people aren’t creating those communities on here. If you want a community, the best step is to do it yourself, unfortunately.
You can try to talk to subreddit admin or mod team about it, but I think it’s just that Lemmy needs more people to “do” than “want” if you understand what I’m saying.
The don’t miss the “Popular” of reddit, but the small specialized communities are not present here. I’m still using reddit for r/clashofclans, r/thedivision, r/printedcircuitboards, r/gradschoolmemes, r/phd and the discussion threads on r/movies about the movies I have watched. The community didn’t move here.
There are a few subreddits that don’t have a counterpart on lemmy, or the counterpart isn’t as active yet. But when I go on Reddit, I’m spammed with posts I’m not subscribed to, nor really have a want to be subscribed to. As more communities become more active on lemmy, the less I will need Reddit.
I still use it from time to time because sometime I just need the information I’m looking for. I’ve justified it telling myself that I’m using it 1/100th of the time I used tt and only use it when necessary.
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Red Reader is pretty good. I moved to it from Bacon Reader years ago.
I’m still having a hard time adjusting, to be honest. Granted much of reddit is full of reposts, even so there’s still just a lot more content and interaction. I could and did spend all day on one or two subreddits, but here it’s kind of checking in one a day and seeing maybe a few new posts. I don’t have anything else though, so I’m just often left starving for content. But I just can’t give spez the satisfaction of returning.
That weird need for content gets to me as well. I went looking for meme sites and… well, what I found cannot be described as the bottom of the barrel, but more like the rotten carcasses of barrels in an old disused moldy cellar. My god that was horrifying. Even 4chan feels better in comparison in that regard.
It sound weird, but give reading a try. I went for Mangas using the Tachiyomi-App. Whenever I feel the need, I just read a chapter or two and that is all I need. Most will want to read books or articles, whatever helps. I also discovered news.google.com to be a great alternative for getting news, once you put all the bad sources on “do not show” one by one. Local news are often more interesting than you might think.
Go ahead, look for such things. Reddit was a giant tent you let into your life and now that the tent is garbage and gone you have a dead garden to replant with things because if you don’t plant what you like, wild groth happens and you won’t like most of it and then you’ll be unhappy all the time.
Thanks for the advice! I’ll certainly give it a try. And if there’s one thing I appreciate here that I didn’t get to have on Reddit, it’s user interaction. I’d rarely ever hear back from a comment on Reddit, and if I did chances were it was someone with an attitude. People seem really nice here
I only go for one community surrounding a book series, and only on Mondays when there are weekly discussion threads for new chapters. I found reddit pretty easy to cut out when I just stopped using it on mobile entirely.
Don’t be afraid. There’s the two of us now.
My trouble at the moment is that I am reaching myself 3d modeling and texture skinning for trackmania.
Wanna take a guess where the largest repository of blender/substance painter tutorials and trouble shooting is?
It was that way for a bit at the beginning. I found the quality of discussion here was much better, and reddit was just super toxic by comparison.
I’ve noticed the general toxicity has creeped into Lemmy now though, so it’s kinda the same either way for me now.
My problem here is the amount of folks whose only post or comment is to complain about the lack of content. You want that niche community experience well someone has to lay the cement. Don’t just sit there expecting to be entertained by others
