I don't miss Reddit at all.

Cinnamon@beehaw.org to Chat@beehaw.org – 236 points –

I've been really enjoying my time here lately and I have noticed things.

  1. discussions are more chill. On Reddit people would get into flame wars over things and here while it happens it's not as bad, and I actually enjoy spending time here.

  2. people are nicer.

  3. moderation is amazing.

  4. diversity in thoughts is also amazing.

EDIT:

Image is made by me, please credit me if you use it. Other than that, it's on a 'do what you fucking want' license. Meaning, have fun and do what you want with it, I'm not your mom!

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I don't know, it's been difficult to access a lot of information without reddit, especially when reddit makes up half my google results. I hope people start using the fediverse to share information, but we'll have to see if it catches on.

This is true. But you can use Reddit just as a source of information. You can always bring that back here and share/contribute that info with others.

Reddit has had a good decade of a head start over Lemmy instances. It's no surprise there's so much more information indexed.

I also read somewhere that kbin/lemmy etc are not indexed in search engines.

That's true for some Fediverse platforms (Mastodon for instance opts users out of search engine indexing by default, though they can opt in if they wish), but doesn't seem to be the case with Lemmy.

We just need to post tons about our niche interests until fediverse sites start ranking higher, bringing us back to the time where search results yielded hits from a range of specialized forums, except this time they're all connected.

So true. I add reedit at the end of my query to get solutions for very specific problems. Now after that whole fiasco, it feels wrong to do that anymore. I hope this gets good traffic in the future.

You can try "forum" or "forums" instead and it'll pull from Reddit, official MS boards, and sites like Tomshardware. Since all those things come up in the search engine as forums.