Is anyone else having trouble giving up Reddit due to content?

Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 794 points – 1 years ago

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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I’m using kbin, lemmy, and reddit for context. IMO reddit has started to turn sour. Kinda hard to explain, but it’s like nobody reads what you say for context anymore. They immediately twist what was said or use specificity (or lack thereof) as some way to discredit your point while ignoring the whole. It’s getting frustrating to try to have a conversation there.

It makes the content in reddit far less enjoyable.

OTOH cruising around lemmy and kbin I get shocked by the extremists posting fascist, pro-russian, or other political extremes, yet you can find a lot of the (reasonable) people here actually want to have a conversation.

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I’m using kbin, lemmy, and reddit for context. IMO reddit has started to turn sour. Kinda hard to explain, but it’s like nobody reads what you say for context anymore. They immediately twist what was said or use specificity (or lack thereof) as some way to discredit your point while ignoring the whole. It’s getting frustrating to try to have a conversation there.

yup, this is what drove me away the most. I was even in one of those private subs that only invites people who are active on reddit and you have to stay active to stay in the sub - but even there, the people who claimed to have a nice little community were doing exactly that. They would hone in on one phrase or one term and twist everything that was said. No one was reading anything it seemed.

So I just stopped going on there. Now I'm gonna delete my account when I get a chance. Apparently you can't do so on mobile? Just another dumb reddit feature.