honestly it's replaced reddit for me in a good way, because it has just enough new content that I can check it before bed every day and scroll for a bit, but not enough to where I spend entire lunch breaks on it. sometimes I go days without even checking it. if anything it's made my relationship with my browser / phone healthier than reddit.
Exactly. Lemmy is an anti-doomscrolling platform and that's very healthy and amazing.
I somehow replaced reddit with instagram reels and youtube shorts.
100%, all I really want is something I can look at and perhaps sensibly chuckle at when I have a few minutes... Not a pasasitic brain worm that really wants me to pay attention to it.
The only problem I have, is that I can't seem to find the porn.
There's hundreds of us! Hundreds!
But hey, apparently that's enough, I haven't been bored on Lemmy yet. And as the enshittification of Reddit continues there might well be some other exodus.
Honestly there are enough quality posts and comments here that keep me engaged. It feels like a lot of creative people made the move.
Honestly, good. The Internet was better when people were spread out across many small message board and chat rooms. The golden age of the Internet was when you'd do a search for something and 500 different forms and little websites would pop up.
Now's it's all reddit, "X," and shitty corporate owned nonsense. We turned 2020 Internet into 90's cable TV.
Gonna add a comment to my upvote: I agree with this so fucking much. I look back at the joyous days when I had... fuck if I know how many websites, each dedicated to its own thing, most with its own userbase, so unique and so defined. The only good thing about Reddit for me was gaming communities that, unfortunately, replaced actual forums that once allowed me to engage with passionate people and look for relevant info, even if it's been years since its creation.
It's probably just me being unaware, but gaming communities these days feel dead outside their respective subreddits and some Discord servers - and the latter is an even worse experience because the form factor of an endless IRC-clone that actually seems to save chat history is pretty fucking dumb more than it is convenient. If anyone has any suggestions there, shoot.
Fuck u/spez and fuck Tencent.
You know what? Fuck the enshittification of the internet too.
How many of those that we’re losing are dead alts, bots, and trolls? I’m not that alarmed.
Some of you who are complaining Lemmy are seeing though rose-tinted glasses about what reddit was like back in the day. The majority of the site was never good, and it had always had plenty of embarassing/messed up things on there that you had to sift through, but it's a different, sterile kind of bad now.
Here are a couple of reminders of what reddit was actually like, in no particular order.
This is why I would never admit to using reddit in public, and until recent years, I would imagine most people won't.
So if anyone complains about how the current content on Lemmy is driving people away, remember, Lemmy is positively TAME compared to this supposedly "Golden Era" of reddit.
Reddit Atheists make me wish there was a God
IMO the constant posts about users dropping aren't from people who want Lemmy to succeed. Anecdotally I haven't noticed a major change, still seems as active if not more than when I joined. Reddit has gotten worse and worse in that time period. I have faith.
I don't even understand where that is coming from, even if the user numbers change the experience could still be the same
I’ll be honest I still use Reddit when I’m trying to solve problems or look up niche stuff. But the iOS app is garbage… on my phone I only use Lemmy.
Reddit is still super useful for information you can't find elsewhere. But its only for as long as old.reddit still works for me. If that disappears then i don't think I'll be back on Reddit again.
Reddit for porn and porn only.
Lemmy is really lacking in that department. But I'm OK with reddit being just a porn site.
Alright I just created my own server with my own lemmy instance and created my first account. Let's stop lurking and push this number!
I never used Reddit other than the rare view via a search-engine when trying to find something. I now lurk Lemmy daily but barely ever post. I read so many enlightening things here. Not leaving.
I just check every few hours instead of doomscrolling. It'd be nice to have more content and more active niche communities, but somehow I think this is better for me lmao. Anyways it feels cozier but not on the decline imo
Blocked reddit on my router, to prevent accidental clickage - no intention of going back there at all
Fuck Spez, Fuck Musk too. Lemmy's better now than reddit ever was.
Umm this is a Wendy's drive thru sir...
I dunno, do we actually care about people who would leave here and go back to Reddit?
Eh, not really. As long as there are still people here to talk to I'm good 👍
People make it look like it's over for Lemmy, but this is only the beginning. Don't worry, Reddit will fuck things up again. The Fediverse will win in the long run. Maybe Lemmy doesn't have the momentum yet that we want it to have. At the same it's grown so much. I mean, not that long ago there were almost only communists on this thing...
Something I used to do on Reddit was find a new community, and binge the top posts from the last year. I've started being able to do that on Lemmy, which is a huge win in my books
I should post more than I do. My engagement rate is low. Reddit is no longer an option.
Cool story. What are ads?
I'm actually, honestly enjoying this more. Yes, pretty much every niche community I joined has died now, and that's unfortunate, but it's quite certainly alive anyway.
Reminds me a bit of earlier Digg, and the culture here varies a lot but I see a wide range of political opinion and cultural frames of reference compared to what Reddit was, which was a near monoculture.
I prefer this not being guided by a single company.
Lemmy feels more alive than Reddit imo
Reddit just feels like hive mind jokes and reposts, but on lemmy people are genuinely interacting so it feels more engaging (which don't get me wrong, happens on reddit too, you just have to sift through all the stupid marinara flag jokes)
anyone who wants to leave can go. Hell, I'm responsible for two of the lost users because when i first came over here I misunderstood how this works and made a new account on each instance. what's up @reverendsteveii@beehaw.org and @reverendsteveii@sopuli.xyz?
It's okay, you can swear on the internet.
same tbh
Meh don't worry. Those users were never going to stay anyway. The dumb herd loves strong leaders even if they are unjust.
Considering the cesspool that reddit has become, good riddance.
Plus Reddit Ads Personalization are'nt avoidable anymore
Go back with ad block so they loose money on data and power
But don't participate. Don't vote, don't comment. Optionally don't login as well. You get free entertainment and they loose money.
Mandatory FUCK REDDiT!
I've been away awhile but I haven't been using reddit either which is probably the best outcome tbh
I actually don't care about what reddit did. But I care about that the client is so much faster without all the ads, bloat they put in. Here Lemmy wins and it is Reddit fault they are so greedy and not caring about the user.
As soon as reddit links fall out of Google, I won't even have to think about seeing it anymore. I also have it DNSBlocked because that's the only way I am going to stay off of it. X too.