Reddit

FOMO is a silly and manipulative phenomenon, I encourage you to try to figure out how you can break it. I left the day Apollo stopped working

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.

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/breadstapledtotrees doesn'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.

I went from maybe 1 - 2 hours of reddit use per day for years to 0 the day 3rd party clients were turned off.

I don't feel fomo, but I only use lemmy maybe 15 - 30 minutes per day on average, and I am happy about that

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.

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.

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 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.

I don't have FOMO, I feel that there is enough for me to read here and I also use other platforms like https://news.ycombinator.com/ and Mastodon to get info about things which are not that popular here.

TBH it feels like I'm in high school now and going to Reddit is like visiting the middle school.

I miss some of the niche communities but I'm less addicted to social media these days so it seems like a step in the right direction

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 made an account this week.. first time since June 3rd. I used it for 5 mins. Saw ads in the comments I was typing a response to. Deleted the account. The few niche communities I want are just not worth it. Reddit is dead. That was the final test. It shall diminish and go into the west.

I don't have FOMO for reddit. I am held hostage by r/HonzukiNoGekokujou but I try to build bookwormstory.social and make a nice place for them.

I feel more out of touch with current events that aren't related to US politics and I have fewer memes to send in the group chat, but no FOMO. Combined with quitting Twitter, it's been good for focusing more on myself. I think I watch YouTube more than I used to now though.

Every time it shows up in search results, I’m reminded by their terrible UI that I made the right choice

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'm a man of convictions. Im not connected to the internet.

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.

I don't miss that site. There's plenty of other online content. And the bots and trolls were meh.

If something is worth sharing there, it will come here or somewhere else where you can see it eventually. The only thing you are really missing, is some content from a creator you like. But usually they have their own platforms where you can find them.

I was a user for 13 years or so, lurker a few years prior, and a moderator of sizable sub. Leaving reddit was the best decision I've made for my mental health in years. I only wind up there now when I need to get a useful google result. So 20-30s probably 5-6 times a week.

I've been using Lemmy exclusively for social media for a few months after being hooked on Reddit for a decade. Lemmy feels much more higher quality - there's real conversation happening here. It reminds me of how great the Internet was in the early 00s.

I only use Reddit for work resources when troubleshooting an issue. It's certainly handy for that, and I think the world would lose a lot of knowledge if Reddit shuts down.

I've stopped using Reddit unless it comes up in a search for something I am looking for. At that point, I just read that one post and replies to find what I am looking for.

We often forget that sites like Reddit and Facebook could completely be shut down if people stopped using them. The people provide the content for those sites. Those sites need us, but we don't need them!

I'm thinking of leaving lemmy, too.

Information is worthless without context, but that's all that content aggregators seem to like.

Community is worthless without connection, anonymous text isn't much to connect over.

All Reddit had going for it was a wealth of diverse experiences for people to draw from. For Lemmy, this is at best a side dish, a sprinkle of gold over a pile of shit.

I have completely stopped using reddit as a social media and deleted all of my content; I only use it for if I have to research something, and I make sure that they get no money because of my visit.

I only use Reddit for two things these days. Practicing my technical writing skills by offering answers to ELI5 posts, and silently doomscrolling though US politics.

Both of these are theoretically on Lemmy somewhere, but this place really doesn't move fast enough to be fulfilling.

That said, I only access Reddit on desktop PC in old.reddit mode. The third party appocalypse did not make me leave completely, but it did kill off all of my time using it on mobile, at least. The day they take old.reddit from me and force me to use that miserable card view, though, I'm checking out for good.

When that inevitable day arrives, I will not have FOMO over it. Anything positive I'd hypothetically be missing out on would be canceled out by the abysmal way in which they expect me to consume it. I will miss what it was, though. Lemmy just isn't a substitute for it. The Lemmy experience right now is the Miracle Whip to Reddit's mayo.

I miss it, I found more fun stuff, especially comment sections, but I would say my lemmy feed has more quality.

But I tried reading books instead of endless doom scrolling

I'm old enough to have seen fads, social movements, come and go, technology changing constantly. I've learned one must adapt, things always change, and one should be careful about what one gets used to, what one depends on. Sometimes you have a good thing, then it dissappears. What matters is how you respond. I've learned to prepare for emergencies, what would I do if this is suddenly taken away?

Reddit was where I realized the online world has changed a lot the past 2 or so decades. Back in the day, we'd actively curate, use rss feeds, find a bunch of sites we liked, and create our own customized feeds.

But by the time of reddit, we were no longer doing that work for ourselves. I started to notice a pronounced echo chamber effect, less variety, seeing same stuff over and over.

I miss some niche communities but I’ve learned to live without them

I am doing just fine without Reddit. If every social media site disappeared tomorrow (including Lemmy sites), I would go on living feeling just fine. Because I was alive before the internet growth in the 90s, before cell phones, during a time when pay phones and rotary phones existed, and got along quite well.

We don’t need these stupid sites. No offense intended here, but if a person is so addicted to a website, especially a social media site, that they feel FOMO after leaving it, they need to reevaluate their priorities in life.

And note: I created my Reddit account in May, 2008. I eagerly deleted my 15-year account in July, 2023 and have never looked back. And for all the bullshit he did to Christian Selig and others, fuck Spez, in perpetuity.

I sold my account and blocked Reddit at the DNS level. I set up a bunch of feeds in Inoreader to stay on top of topics I care about like local news, gaming, tech, etc.

The only downside has been while playing BG3 and Googling things, Reddit results usually come up first and look the most spot on. Other links are either AI generated garbage or articles that are ten paragraphs when two sentences could have been done.

I left prior to the blackouts (right when kbin was getting off the ground) and haven't looked back.

Back a couple years ago when Reddit was giving out those "year in review" cards you could post images of in response to Spotify doing it (I think Spotify's was something like what songs you listened to most or what genre or something, so they did ones with what subreddits you frequented most, where most of your upvotes came from, etc) I was awarded as someone in the top 3% of active users/contributors to the site - so I assume that means I didn't more time there than the average person (though I know that probably includes all the throwaway accounts and people that made accounts and never came back), so the loss of my contributions have probably taken a toll on the communities I've frequented.

And I certainly miss the niche communities that I loved that haven't made their way here, but I'm finding new things to fill the void. This place has things that are different - it doesn't have to be exactly the same. And kbin/Lemmy is certainly coming up with it's own "had to be there" inside jokes that are making this the place to be.

Yeah i'm totally going to get fomo for "LOOK at this IMMIGRANT STEALING from a STORE" Top comment "I hope they cut his hands off"

No FOMO, but I do miss how had more--and more varied--content. Also, the memes were better.

I got banned. But between Lemmy and mastodon I haven't gone back there.

ones that fully left reddit

Ones who fully left reddit, you mean. We are people, not things.

When I was on Reddit I consumed it fast and often. The bus, the car, the patio, the loo; everywhere.

Now I launch Lemmy and say to myself "oh, right. Less stuff"

I think I need to normalize not checking Lemmy like it's reddit, still. There's definitely some behaviour to unlearn.

I "left" when infinity for reddit stopped working.

On the ocassion I feel like I found everything I had (Top 6h) I will go over to the dark side.
But it's more defeating boredom rather than fomo.