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

Make the posts you want to see. I’ve posted some questions in some niche communities here and I get well thought out responses and discourse.

A lot of people (like myself) need to step out of their comfort zones if we want Lemmy to get more conversations going. Yesterday I made a game thread in the community for my favourite NFL team; I was the only one who commented. But I’m going to try and make one for the game next week.

Not at all. The only thing taking time to build here are the art communities, but they're growing. So I'm patient and am trying to contribute

Doesn't matter how good the content is if I have to fight the interface to get to it.

EXACTLY

there's just not enough in depth stuff on here. i love shitposts, i love memes, i love a chill tone. but we need people posting interesting posts, you know. i'm not even sure how to put my finger on what's different or why, but there's just less....stuff here. it needs to be seasoned, or something.

Lemmy has enough to keep me entertained, and I did successfully finally break my years-long habit of going to reddit. However there are still some subs I look at occasionally since they can provide valuable information, like city-specific and subs about certain video games.

because low density of content, i browse lemmy by all and just block spammy communities im not interested, my home looks too empty for now, but still don't feel the need to hang out on reddit

I understand it but personally I got so disgusted by the owners behavior that I will never use that site again.

So yeah, I'm missing out on some things I guess but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

I'm not having trouble giving up Reddit. I've given it up. And I've definitely noticed the lower volume of content here on Lemmy/the fediverse, but:

• it's getting better pretty much daily; and
• the percentage of good quality content here far exceeds Reddit, so I still feel better off.

Haven't gone back to Reddit since. But what I do miss most is the sorting algorithm. I don't know if it was just the abundance of posts, or better sorting. But on lemmy I keep seeing the same posts over and over again, regardless of my sorting setting. But I'll be patient and hope that it gets better.

Its still early. This is the first time there has been a legitimate alternative to reddit and thats honestly only because 3rd party apps like sync have made it usable.

Reddit started when Digg changed its site and everyone went to reddit. There has also been multiple attempts to leave reddit, but no similar alternatives. Now there is a good alternative and there will be more things reddit does that will make people look for alternatives.

My reddit usage is 99% mobile app and 1% desktop. Since there are no more suitable reddit mobile app. I stopped. The only time nowadays that I visit reddit on desktop is google search and reddit is on top result.

No, I don't use reddit anymore. Kinda. I sometimes visit Reddit due to search results. Otherwise there is not much I miss or care about.

The content isn't as plenty here, but it is still giving me my mindless scrolling fix.

Reddit basically doesn't exist to me anymore. Lemmy is hardly a substitute but it's the best there is (because reddit doesn't exist) so it'll have to do. Every now and then I manage to bait someone debate me here but unless that happens I go thru the content pretty quick and then just have to come up with something else to do. It's not what I would have wanted but it's probably good for me. Social media is just entertainment. It's in no way essential and probably has net-negative effect on society.

I was very bolshy in deleting my reddit account and made a real solid commitment to only use Lemmy the instant that the api changes where announced, .. Two months later and I started feeling a bit stranded, at times it seems like there's nothing but content about programming, Linux, Foss, privacy, and Ukraine but at other times it can be really engaging..

However I have ended up making a new reddit account just so I can lurk from time to time

Nope. The only time I use Reddit is when a search leads me there. I deleted my account and open it in a container tab in Firefox so they can't track me and I have ublock origin running to block their bullshit ads. I suggest everyone do that. I feel like lately even Google takes me there less often, and when they do, the content is shittier than it used to be.

Fuck reddit. I don't need it, it's dead to me.

I was disappointed the first couple of weeks after I moved here, but the communities that interest me have filled in quite well and I feel quite at home now.

Good luck.

Here's a little known secret: you can still enjoy Lemmy without giving up reddit. I use both. There are some sports subreddits that I am not prepared to walk away from.

The most sticky subreddits have been ones that are niche and not tech-related. The most likely users to make their way over to Lemmy have been technically inclined ones who were using third-party apps.

I'm about 90% all in on Lemmy. The only thing I go to Reddit for now is old posts with useful information about tech stuff or some random things.

I basically use it as a knowledge base now, instead of using it to interact with others, post stuff, or follow the daily feed.

All my active/daily posting, reading, and news stuff is on Lemmy & Mastodon now.

I still have a Reddit account, but I only subscribe to the communities that aren't replaceable yet.

But I refuse to use the Reddit app, so I only access on desktop, with adblock, maybe 3 times a week just to check in.

Being unsubscribed from the mains keeps it from being a rabbit hole.

There were some niche subs that I miss but I haven't looked back since migrating here. It's really not an option anyway. They removed any usable way to view their content so that is that.

I just use reddit for basic news on specific products I'm looking forward to, and the occasional time I need to search a specific question on it.

After trying out Lemmy, I used a script to delete mass edit/delete all my stuff in reddit, deleted the account, and never went back. I find no enjoyment in commenting on reddit anymore so it was an easy decision.

I agree Lemmy has a long way to go, but I only see it getting better from here which is enough for me to stick with it.

Now that you mention it though, communities do kinda feel empty. Not as in a lack of users/content, but that theres nothing in them that try to promote discussion like "weekly discussions" you would see on reddit. Its more or less entirely some random post by someone, or a news post.

As someone who only cares about news and the discussion around that news, Lemmy satisfies me pretty well. But for people who want a more social experience (probably most people), Lemmy begins to fall apart quickly.

Right now, I think the memes community is really the only active social one.

There's a reddit archiver instance of lemmy: lemmit.online. It's a good solution if you only want to access posts from a subreddit without commenting on them or creating traffic for reddit. You can either look for a particular existing subreddit or request one if it's not being archived at the moment.

I don’t miss it one bit as a social platform. I just wish that search engines wouldn’t prioritise it as much when I try to find a “how to do….” guide. It’s insane how many Reddit threads (half deleted and otherwise) dominate the results. Just show me a nice webpage please.

Without Adblock detection. And no bloody “how to” videos either. I just want to read it through, thank you.

I don't mind having less fun content, the content that's here is good enough for me as far as scrolling a feed goes. My main problem is that every source of actually good information and good community-sourced solutions to things is still on reddit. You want to figure out why your game is acting weird? Check out for config issues that people mention on reddit. You're trying to decide between two solutions/softwares/products? Yeah, you're gonna get all the info you need on reddit. Tutorials, guides, recommendations, fixes, solutions, it's all better when it's communities talking about them, and all of that information is still over on reddit, better indexed, more condensed, the whole nine yards.

I have made ONE post on reddit since things went to shit, and it was to ask redgifs for better lemmy support. I don't add anything to reddit otherwise, but it is still impossible to find good information without relying on reddit.

A huge part of Reddit for me were my small communities. Lemmy just isn’t big enough for the small communities the same way. I miss my bumpers group that were women from all over the world who went through pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting around the same time with me. I miss my teacher groups. I miss my roller coaster groups. Lemmy has replaced the “popular” tab, but not the “home” tab. I also miss the long text posts. I liked relationship advice, aita, tifu, casual conversation. While smaller, it feels more impersonal here. When I left Reddit I deleted everything so I’m not having trouble giving it up, because there’s nothing to go back to. But I miss what I had.

I've given Reddit basically zero of my traffic since I quit it during the "Big Reddit Boycott Of 2023."

But there's definitely stuff I miss. Probably my favorite subreddit was /r/BestOfLegalAdvice. There's a !bestoflegaladvice@lemmy.online here on Lemmy, but all the posts link to Reddit. There would have to be a thriving /c/LegalAdvice on the Fediverse for any /c/BestOfLegalAdvice to thrive without linking to Reddit. So, !bestoflegaladvice@lemmy.online most definitely doesn't scratch the same itch.

Not the only example, but the most poignant for me.

I'm not planning to go back, though. I just can't squint hard enough to justify ending my boycott of Reddit to myself. And how are we supposed to get the big companies to quit enshittifying unless we punish them when they do stupid shit.

I use Reddit as a source for answers to questions. Nothing more. I don’t post or interact beyond that.

I'm having the same problem. I want more /askphilosophy /askhistorians but good answers require expertise which you don't get over here if the experts don't migrate

A little. I miss the movie and show discussions. Also the smaller community subreddits for specific things/people I like to follow there's not nearly as much or in some cases nothing on Lemmy.

The thing with reddit is that it loaded with stuff that is easily searched for on search engines. I know if I search for something, i'll be ending up at the big R. I have been going out of my way asking relevant questions on Lemmy communities instead of using a search engine (much to the annoyance of the 'Did you do a search first?' crew) I'm hoping this helps build communities here.

My niche hobbies are largely not tech related at all, so a lot of the participants have no knowledge or interest in learning about lemmy or learning about why leaving reddit would be a good thing in the long run. Even some of the subreddits rely on a really dedicated group of regulars to keep them alive, since for especially one of them, facebook is where the online community lives and thrives. And I'm also unfortunately not much of a content creator...

I’m using it much less than Reddit for that reason but less social media is a good thing in my book, so not complaining.

I still visit posts from search, but I've given up most of the logged-in experience (upvoting, commenting, submitting on a weekly basis). 99% of my previous activity was via third party apps on mobile, so I have little incentive to go back and contribute content. I don't feel like contributing for free to some portal run by a private company. Reddit used to be a steward of their community but now feel they own it. I don't need to work for them for free

I haven't been back, and honestly I don't care. I don't miss it. Do I wish there was more here? Yeah but it's not a deal breaker.

For me it's become the opposite. I open reddit /all and see twenty adds for joining the US Army, US navy, I see a few posts with 9k comments. I feel bored. I close it and look on lemme and there's always at least as much if not more content, and the sheer mass of it isn't overwhelming to me at all. People are stupid on both platforms, but for me this one has become a less stressful alternative.

The advertising on reddit is quickly getting out of hand.

Lemmy hasn't really expanded in it's content umbrella to the point where it can really fill the same gap. I've instead just spent more time on other apps and don't open Lemmy often.

When I do open it and sort by all it's usually the same kinds of topics on top, not simply reposts, but just really focused on metadiscussions about the viability of the fediverse. I'm not here to make a change, I'm just a consumer looking for mildly interesting distraction. The audience for discussions of the fediverse is incredibly small, while the audience for mild distraction is the majority of the internet.

Nope.

Not at all. I went cold turkey and have been off reddit and exclusively on Lemmy and Mastodon for the past 6 weeks. I don't have the app installed so it's easy.

I didn't specifically give up reddit completely, but I have drastically reduced my time on the site, especially since I only ever go onto it when I'm sitting at my desktop and I go to Lemmy first.

It sucks that a lot of communities aren't large enough to sustain content and have remained on Reddit. Even the larger communities tend to get stuck on the same few posts for multiple days without new things pushing them down the list (e.g. the recent LTT drama just would not leave my feed for far too long). For sorting Active is far too sticky, even Hot doesn't clear out posts fast enough.

I find that while I get votes on my comments, the amount of replies and such have definitely reduced, indicating there is less engagement going on within the comments on Lemmy to me than when everyone was moving over.

Nope. I can still find someone saying something stupid and bully them for it. You just have to be more patient.

Definitely less infinite scrolling, which has probably been good for me time management wise.

But yeah, just generally less content and posts. Also find myself ending up on reddit when doing internet searches for questions.

I wouldn't say it's a problem for me but I see what you see. We have to be patient, building a community is one of those things that you have to do carefully, taking your time.

I don't know if you tried in other instances. I just subscribed to many more communities than I did in Reddit, no matter the instance.

I never left. What I did is I browse and do what I did regularly on Reddit on Lemmy, except when I want to search for a really specific information about a thing, which can't be done here.

If I want to post something, that's on Lemmy (even if it doesn't get any reaction) and also Reddit if I need replies

Well, no.

Since their shitty app is the only app, the only time encounter reddit is in search results.

Since there's plenty of ways to avoid interacting with the actual site, I do that and never have to deal with the bullshit.

However, I did try to make a post on a niche sub I created for the small number of users. A couple of days ago, I tried logging in to make that post, and got captcha cycled through five damn screens worth before I quit and counted it as a lost cause.

Fuck reddit, fuck their shitty app.

I miss the r/Hinduism community quite a bit. It was a real help for me when I first started following that particular path. Lots of friendly, helpful people.

Thing is, when the whole api fracas happened, I deleted my account and vowed not to use that site again.

"I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful. One hundred percent!" -Horton the Elephant

I said it on Reddit (and the comment got removed of course) and I'll say it here. Until Lemmy becomes the go-to for short form adult content most users will stay in Reddit.

Reddit's street photography subreddit wasn't that great to be honest. I'm trying to curate a street photography community here, but it is a slow process. !streetphotography@lemmy.world .

But I agree, I still go back for some niche content like the editors' subreddit.

There's more than one way to boycott something. I still search stuff there, but giving nothing back, i block ads and trackers, do not post, comment, or vote. For them, i am just a waste of server resources.

Not really, because my primary means of browsing Reddit was taken from me. If baconreader was still up, sure. Maybe.

I miss r/nba

For casual browsing I've given up Reddit. Like a lot of people I used Reddit on mobile 99% of the time so when the apps died I just uninstalled. The only thing I use Reddit for now is when I'm struggling with a research or technical problem. Honestly don't miss the front page at all.

Yes. I follow the same small sub here for my favorite sports team, but there are simply not enough people to have many. posts and great discussions. So I still read the Reddit sub. But I don’t have their app, so it is only from my gaming pc, which severely limits my time there.

Nope. Quit on June 30 and I’ve never been back.

Yes, it is a bit frustrating... I also don't really understand how it all works. I know that for some reason I need to make the same account over and over.

It's been easy.

Every time I think about going there I just remind myself that the people that run that site actively hate their users.

I feel the struggle too, but I’m refusing to go back, unless it’s some google result to help with something I’m doing.

But ya, it depends on how much you relied on niche communities in your daily life. I can see missing some of that here. I still push this platform when I share links in Discord or to my family and friends though.

The only time I have ever gone back is when I'm looking something up and everything else that isn't a r€ddit link doesn't have the info I'm looking for, so I haven't found it that hard to stay away since even then I'm not looking up much where a r€ddit link is necessary.

Nope. Two months of not using reddit. Not doom scrolling, not feeling that heart rate lift when I see I've had a bunch of new replies and wondering whether I said something wonderful, or something dumb and a hundred people are now calling me an arsehole.

I do get your point about some reddit communities being genuinely nice places with great content, and if it was just that I'd still be there. But my mental health is better through having left it. Also, having read the posts about Reddit's attitude to its users and supporters during the Apollo posts made me realise just how toxically they view us. Fuck them, they can go to hell without me.

I spend more time here than reddit. I never 'go' to reddit. I end up on reddit occasionally when looking up a question and the search engine takes me there. Often, i need to login to view, so i move on, as I deleted my account.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm

One approach is to focus on the different kinds of users (early adopters vs pragmatists vs mass appeal etc) and their needs, one at a time.

I just use both lemmy and reddit

I have enough of the superiority complex of some lemmy users who think they are better than others for using a certain website

No just went ....that's it I'm done. Deleted my account and moved across to the fediverse, haven't looked back

I migrated from Reddit during the Reddit protests. Most days I forget that I left and that it was a thing. I use the Lemmy app now and it’s indistinguishable from Apollo.

I’ve had no problems with content, although I’m a casual user. I subscribed to a dozen things, and it’s enough to keep my page fresh. I’m probably only on here 30-60 mins per day tho.

I stopped using Reddit on June 30 because without the RiF app it is absolutely awful to use. Haven't been back except for the occasional search for information that leads me there.

Yeah, there's an amount of niche content that's just not here (yet). I'm not devoting my time to build a community here myself, but I'm also not gonna use Reddit's sad excuse for a mobile app because it literally makes me angry to use that piece of shit. So when I'm bored at work on the desktop, I'll go to reddit, but my traffic is probably down like 60-70%.

There's a couple of sports and tech subs I have bookmarked via old.reddit that are still the de facto place for the community, all in a browser with aggressive privacy measures. I check in on them when "stuff happens" in that area, but don't post and don't hang around.

Otherwise from the odd search hit, I made a clean break back in June and haven't really looked back.

I've been a lot more productive since I joined lemmy - reddit was too addictive in my opinion. I still add 'reddit' to my searches when looking for information, but haven't felt the urge to go back. I'm sure I've missed a lot of news and new techniques for my hobbies, but I also haven't seen a single repost for months. Worth it

These days, Reddit is for fapping only.

I suppose I was lucky in some ways. I stopped using Reddit a few months ago, after 5 years of addiction, but I was on the way out anyway. I had some bad experiences asking for help, never really posted otherwise and just generally the community made me feel like being inexperienced with anything was the same as being an asshole. I moved to lemmy and I instantly started posting more, answering questions and basically just enjoy talking to people on here. I haven't been back and deleted my account months ago.

Started playing baldurs gate 3, and all my questions seem to lead back to reddit. Frustrating. I do sub to a bg3 community on lemmy of course.

I use Lemmy for the "general" undirected browsing when I'm bored. I also increased the friction by removing Reddit from my bookmarks, and adding Lemmy.

I do still use Reddit for the smaller communities that have no realistic alternative on Lemmy.

I haven't really gone back, not in the way I have when I had an app. Basically just for indexed answers on the internet, and once for...art....while the artists rebuild here. They actually have the sub here, it just is only about two weeks old.

Reddit hasn't been TOO bad. What's been harder for me is Twitter, mostly due to all the artists I follow.

I just got into more of the fediverse instead. Firefish.social for example is lovely alongside Lemmy. I miss falling down subreddit rabbit holes sometimes, but instead I just go read a book. It's healthier I think.

I'm spending more and more time on lemmy. I hope it will grow. How can we advertise it on Reddit?

Not really. Sure reddit has more content and users, but for me lemmy has enough of both (and as time goes on I think it'll increase).

Lemmy has no surveillance capitalism and a choice of applications to use.

I suppose currently reddit may be more user friendly than lemmy but I think lemmy will get better in time. Hopefully lemmy gets it's own version of a "multi-reddit"

I ultimately left reddit because they pulled support for third party apps, which got me thinking more about the surveillance capitalism that comes with using reddit and decided I was done with it (except in the way I mention below).

Edit: If a reddit post shows up in a search result I will click on that if I think it'll help me answer my question. That's the only way I'll use reddit.

never really intended to give it up. I don't expect certain communities to move here that fast, and I see no reason not to participate in them

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.

I think I was partially addicted after having used it routinely out of boredom and free time for over a decade...

But once RIF and the other 3rd party apps got strangled out, and RES went into a state of no longer being updated, I couldn't power use Reddit anymore. So once those were uninstalled and removed, I had given myself no choice. Out of principle I couldn't support them and how they treated their mods or communities, nor could I use the site in their epically stupid vanilla default way, I had to just quit.

Cold turkey since.

Will admit, I have to search online for technical help, and a lot of discussion did and still does happen on Reddit, so I'll still occasionally have to use the site for reference. But no interacting with it at all.

I still feel the twitches and urges to use it from so many years of habit, and it's difficult, but I've managed to do it.

Shame there's not as many people so inclined to use Reddit just a little less, doesn't even need to be cold turkey; it WOULD make a difference. But there's nothing wrong with using it, and you shouldn't be judged for it either. It's fine to be anti Reddit, but not anti user... in most cases ha ha! I'm pro voice and choice! ;D

I'm trying to use this as an alternative, and out of necessity as content does run thin sometimes on Lemmy I do end up using it less than I did with Reddit. But that's healthy for me personally.

There's less pressure and competitiveness on here for me, so I try to post better quality comments/content than I may have used to on Reddit. When Lemmy isn't down or breaking my comment/post submissions I'll have a better time engaging with the site, I don't find myself rushing to comment before 400 irrelevant (sometimes one word) comments wash it away and bury it like on Reddit. I don't find myself writing half a comment, and then deciding to quit half way as much.

Plus, people engage with posts and see them much longer than on Reddit, usually after a single day their posts would be entirely dead; guess it's mostly due to less users at this point though.

I go to lemmy first, but it doesn't have nearly enough content to replace the endless scrolling of Reddit.

Trouble completely avoiding it? Yes. I exclusively treat it as a search engine / knowledge resource now though, which I think is reasonable since it's a part of the Internet.

However, I contribute absolutely nothing to it and am now always signed out. Over time this would lead to it becoming an archive while decentralized platforms become the real meeting ground where new knowledge is accumulated. It's a long-term play. There's so much information on Reddit that it would be foolish to completely write it off - this is going to take a really long time, but anyone here knows that.

It took years to build Reddit to its glory and it will take years here - at least there are some awesome apps already and it feels like there is a good head start this time. We should not call out people for using Reddit for information, but we should encourage people to contribute to a more sustainable, community run alternative.

Things take time, getting the momentum moving to another platform is always super hard to do

I’ve gotten around it by just getting more into reading. It’s also healthier and more enjoyable.

That said I sometimes visit Reddit to see more obscure topics or to get first hand research. That said the user interface is so horrible I usually don’t stick around anymore. I just can’t get over how horrible the interface is and it’s a genuine reason for why I can’t use the site as much anymore.

The main subs or sublemmies or whatever they're called on here have enough users that it's a perfect alternative to Reddit.

Little niche subreddits, like my favorite gaybros and askgaybros, just a few dozen users and I'm going back to Reddit for that.

Be the change you want to see. Or come back when everybody else has built it.

Yep... still much more active and more content there. I think Lemmy is great but Lemmy still has a long way to go.

Be the change you want to see.

I just pay for a quality newspaper now. I went to reddit a while back but it's just not doing it for me anymore. And not only because the experience has degraded... The content is just not that interesting? There's so much to do with your time.

i still browse it sometimes when researching something but i use libreddit (when it works) and have yet to interact with anything including posts, comments, or upvotes

I find Lemmy has plenty of content for my level of use but I didn't browse tons of communities back on reddit so my feed was fairly stagnant. I like being able to see peoples opinions and conversations about things going on in the world. I can find news topics elsewhere but no where else but reddit and now lemmy really had any worthwhile discourse about them. I don't mind the same topics showing up in my feed as long as there are new comments that I haven't read. Reddit was getting pretty hard to use for this though honestly, if there were any serious replies they were way down below the jokes and rage bait comments most of the time.

I only open reddit when something there comes up in a search result, and even then only through Libreddit.

Honestly I'm still suprised that Lemmy communities are this active, but I'm very happy.

Make the posts you want to see, that's the key here. I'm posting and making topics in my own communities that I want to thrive. As well, lemmy is still in alpha. There is a lot to improve upon, and it's moving forward pretty rapidly.

I'm annoyed by how often Google sends me to Reddit for my stupid D&D questions.

It is a right bitch that the reason to leave is 100% the bastards in charge. The community was fine. (Okay, giant asterisks all over that, but you know what I mean. The community was not the cause for masses walking away with a sea of middle fingers lit by burning bridges.)

I'm not here because it's better. I'm here because fuck Spez. And fuck enshittification. Fifteen years and these greedy incompetents made it impossible to come back without feeling like betrayal. The only reason I'm not deleting anything is that I don't do that shit. Nothing any human being put effort into deserves to be lost forever.

Elmo did us the favor of turning his stolen harassment engine into an all-stick-no-carrot experience in a fucking hurry.

No content issues for me here. Lemmy has completely replaced reddit for me. Been here since early June. The content is getting better and better. The one thing I do want is a multi-community interface where I can have say all my "news" communities all show up on the same page. I'm a novice programmer but the API documentation doesn't hold my hand enough for me to grasp it or I'd do it myself. Tbf I haven't looked for a month or two.

I need it to steal content from programminglanguages.

No, simply because I don't "have to" have content. If Lemmy lacks interesting content, I go outside for a while.

No, but I would have trouble giving up Lemmy because I am quite content here.

I don't use reddit for doomscrolling anymore and only ever go on that site when I'm struggling to find an answer to a problem (usually coding or tech related) that was answered years ago.

It's a good source for info because the links to it are listed high in search by google, and are way better than stupid articles that repeat the question 10 times and then ask you to sign up.

I will bounce in every week or so, but since I can’t use Apollo for quick, clean, ad-free, non-intrusive browsing, I get sick of it all pretty quickly.

I am trying other sources for news. Someone mentioned GroundNews app, and it’s pretty nifty, even without going to pro version. I am also using The Guardian app more often.

Even FB just sux so bad, I can’t stay on it for long.

Except for the damn reels. Argh.

Anyway, we all need to post more here, and also on other new playforms. Discuit is pretty cool.

I don't want to give up reddit. I use reddit and lemmy, for different purposes.

I use Reddit still for certain kinds of porn. As it was meant to be

I still use reddit for specific communities, but only on desktop. I wasn't intending to 100% quit reddit anyway though, just to primarily use Lemmy (or whatever alternative I liked best, which is Lemmy so far)

I still use Reddit for the small subreddits. Highly focused topics seems to be the only way Reddit is tolerable now.

I also just picked up reading again. Turns out part of my enjoyment of Reddit was reading comments and when that went to shit just reading books worked out for me. On my third book since the fiasco started.

I’ve got a couple communities on Reddit that don’t exist here, so I find myself on Reddit occasionally for those.

I feel the same, but I'm very happy moving away from abusive corps even if I end up looking at the ceiling. At the end of the day in that instance (no pun intended) is were creativity thrives.

It was pretty easy for me. I just needed to get off the habit of swapping R to L, for browser to autocomplete lemmy instead of reddit. Occasionally I go to reddit out of muscle memory, I do check the immediate front page while I'm at it, but there's not much to see these days.

RIF stopped working, so I opened the app a handful of times until I learned it takes me nowhere.

Nah. Reddit content is noticeably worse after the API changes. I don’t find myself going back unless I’m searching for something technical for my job. I’m not actively trying to avoid it, but that’s just how it’s working out.

I Will host a petition to force people to put TLDRs on top of the comment ....

I'm with you especially since what I use Reddit/Twitter for the most is sports highlight clips/discussion during games. Those communities just aren't here. I love chatting with other Orioles/Panthers/Penguins fans in the game threads on Reddit during the game since none of my friends are fans of those teams other than my brother being a Penguins fan too.

Luckily a lot of the Twitter follows I had which were mainly for College Football are on Bluesky so I can use that more but missing out on the rest here. Once Boost for Reddit stops working (still works if you mod a sub) I won't be using Reddit anymore though. The official app is that bad.

As lemmy grows I go on reddit less and less, these past few weeks have been much better for content actually

Reddit is still a year behind Twitter/X on its path of enshittification. So just wait another year or so and you'll probably stop going there.

Your reasons are why i generally still use Reddit (i didnt feel butthurt losing access to most 3rd party apps as im mainly desktop user - however i do frequent Tildes more than Lemmy) - most of the communities i use never left reddit (dont see intention to either) and there isnt comparable equivalents on Lemmy (not on Tildes either but i prefer the more indepth discussions there)

I intentionally locked myself out of reddit to make good on my social media detox and switch to the fediverse fulltime; but I find myself spending more then 5x lurking on reddit as unregistered user then all of the fediverse instances I'm registered to combined everyday.

I wish the fediverse wasn't so vanilla so that it could have some content.

I still go back to Reddit - I don't spend as much time on there as I used to (especially as I don't use the app), but I'm also on lemmy, kbin, discuit (but no longer squabbles).

The use for reddit's general subreddits is completely gone for me, but I do still have some very topic specific (gaming) subs I still visit. I'm not sure if lemmy will ever reach that level of membership with specific topics.

That's not to say it can't, but I think it'll be difficult and maybe even take some concerted effort that wasn't necessary for reddit. I don't think Digg has anything like that.

But I do think reddit probably can't get more profitable if all it has is niche communities. Now if they could be content with whatever profit they get being a collection of niche communities, they'll probably be fine. But if they have demands to increase profit, which I think they do, then inevitably start doing dumb shit that damages the small successful communities, that would probably be the death knell.

I'm of the stance that it doesn't actually matter at all if you give a platform up, it's just the overall amount of time that does. So imo there's no reason to not keep going to reddit for the stuff you can only find there.

Hell, if everyone on Lemmy never went anywhere else, all we've done is doomed the site to die off as no new people ever hear about it.

Only community I truly care about that hasn't budged is the Neovim subreddit still going strong without a care in the world. Everyone's still highly motivated and active there, so it's really the only place to go where I can keep up the the community's momentum.

Yeah, I get the same thing as you. What I've done so far is I made a few communities here and am trying to fairly reliability populate them with content. Some of those communities are niche and I feel like I'm posting into the void sometimes, but occasionally I've gotten someone else actually posting some content in them. It does definitely take some commitment to bootstrap a new community, as people just won't start posting on their own there until there's a critical mass. So you just gotta take the hit, post into the void a while, slowly increase that subscribe count, until finally others start to join in.

It's easiest with communities focused around memes or links, but I think it'll take more effort with more niche hobby or technical communities, e.g., for programming languages or niche hobbies.

Just cut out reddit unless it's information you legitimately need to know. Every time you're mindlessly scrolling on lemmy and not seeing content and thinking to yourself, "I bet reddit would be better right now," just turn off your phone and read a book. I've cut wayyy down on my phone time since I swapped and that can only be a good thing.

I feel the same way. I've been on Lemmy since the Reddit blackout, but went back to Reddit when it ended and barely used Lemmy since. I mean, I dislike spez as much as anyone, but that doesn't mean I suddenly hate the entire Reddit community. I don't know what I'll do once I'm finally forced to use the official app, but for now I'm still happily using Boost as a mod.

I miss reddit sometimes. I actually went back to my favorite sub for the first time just yesterday. It didn't hit the same. I honestly don't know if the sub changed or i have, but the magic's gone. Luckily i thrive on bitterness (it's become a vice at this point but it's a cheap drug) and that means i get a minor thrill in actively not participating in something some piece of shit CEO thinks i can't live without. I am able to get my fill of bittersweet satisfaction from active inaction in this case.

Then i come here and cleanse my palate with the mellow tannins of the metaverse.

This place, I'm excited for this place. Let's make it fucking great. When the "mall" closes it'll be all the sweeter for our participation in its demise.

The only thing I have been going back to Reddit for is the Tears of the Kingdom subreddit. Once I'm done playing through the game I probably won't touch it at all. I haven't logged in for weeks.

At this point Lemmy is giving me what reddit did in smaller, healthier doses. I'm not constantly scrolling like I used to.

Not in the slightest reddit is for plebs and soon it will get purchased by some media conglomerate and continue to die a slow death

I still have to use Reddit for some super niche communities to get answers to questions. Some of those communities don't exist on Lemmy or have far too little people on Lemmy to get any answers when I am looking for an answer within the week.

There are some subreddits for older games that I also use to ask some questions. I am not going to make a community on Lemmy for a game from like 2011 or 2015 to just ask a question about the game mechanics or something.

Also, Reddit still has a lot of good info from a lot of communities to still go back and reference. I still use site:reddit.com in a search engine a lot.

I don't go on Reddit to comment on other people's posts anymore though.

No.

nope

I am in the same boat. The sports subreddits I follow have very few users on lemmy, so it's pointless to follow match threads here. It makes sense to get to do that on reddit where you have thousands of people commenting on the game.

I hear ya. There's just no one here. I don't like anime and I'm not a communist so there goes half of the subs. The other half are either news related or empty. I never engaged in conversation much on reddit but the comments were always where you got the best info and links. That was half the reason I liked reddit and lemmy doesn't have that at all. I'm still here because I'm stubborn but unless there is a growth spurt coming soon I probably won't be much longer.

I only use Reddit on the PC, where the ads are well blocked in Firefox. Lemmy just doesn't have specific content I like, like my city.

Initially I too felt like I was missing out on content, but the more time I spent away from Reddit the easier it feels to stay away.

I have accepted that I will not get certain kinds of content and communities, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make for Kbin / Lemmy. And I believe that slowly, eventually we'll have the quality of the communities we had on Reddit. It just takes time.

There are a couple specific Reddit subs that I use that haven't migrated. They are an app specific and a device specific sub. They are the only reason I still have a Reddit account. There aren't as many posts on Lemmy, but they are increasing. There are also other places like Scored, Raddle, Tildes, Rabbit Hole, Saidit, Kbin, Aether, and Minds. Some of them have seen some growth since Reddit took the plunge off the cliff.

When Reddit decided to backstab its app developers / community, I just full-on deleted my account. Makes it a lot easier to not go back when you actually remove the thing you'd go back to.

Think of it like recovering from alcoholism: are you more prone to relapse if you keep a bottle of some familiar brand of booze in your fridge? Or if you actually get it out of your house?

Sure you could go back to the store and buy another bottle (make a new account), but that hassle will help reinforce your decision not to. Keeping it in arm's reach - different story.

Delete your account. Delete your reddit browser extentions, saved passwords, bookmarks, mobile apps... scrub that shit from your devices. You'll find yourself much less tempted to relapse, and it's liberating as fuck.

I miss a few features from Reddit; but I'm not making a new account and setting RES and such back up again to get them. Fuck that noise.

No, I haven't logged into my main Reddit account that I had subscribed to all the subs that I was interested in pretty much since after the API debacle. I have kept logging into a secondary account only to help other people make the move to Lemmy, Mastodon, and the Fediverse in general. That account is only subscribed to r/redditalternatives, r/fediverse, r/lemmy, and r/mastodon, and I make it a point to not look at anything else. While I miss the niche communities that I had enjoyed there, I figure that they will eventually build here too. I can wait and avoid supporting Reddit and getting sucked back into it. For the time being I can spend my time enjoying what is already here, which is quite a bit.

I logged into reddit the other day, and it was worse than lemmy for content.

I'm technically on Kbin.

I mod a sub, so I will still check in and do a scroll down my page every other day or so, but I was actually banned for horse shit reasons when the implosion happened, and my ban was reversed after the exodus.

During that time I got my "content cravings" in check.

Kbin is mostly feeding me enough memes to be satiated.

Yeah I have some niche interests that I still have to go back to reddit to find information on. Give it time though, remember reddit had years to grow and the migration to lemmy is relatively new.

I have gotten back to Reddit eventually, mostly because it is hard to say no when my patched Sync for Reddit app still works lol.

Anyway I think my frontpage/best sort is fucked up because the algorithm just throws me stuff that isn't too interesting to me, maybe because I am so little time there it doesn't feed me with "the best of the best".

On the other hand, my personal multireddits are still relevant to me and always find cool stuff, I usually go back to it when I get bored of Lemmy (yeah, I go from Sync for Lemmy to Sync for Reddit lol).

Apropos of little - how long ago did Sean Hannity say he'd get waterboarded?

just one sub. there's an alternative available but it would require associating a public forum account with a game account (my in-game name gets plastered on the web) and i won't do that

No but my account is banned so it's pretty easy. I just spend way less time on the internet overall now.

There's definitely some Reddit communities I miss. In fact, I recently redownloaded Reddit on my phone to get my fix. Granted, a lot of the communities I miss are NSFW anyway, so Reddit doesn't get any money from me using them.

I think it's interesting that people say all third party apps for Reddit are dead because not all of them are dead.

I observed the blackout but Relay kept going for a few weeks. When Relay said they were going to a tier based subscription model, I gave it all up. Uninstalled that moment and haven't been back.

I miss the number of active communities but it's just going to take time.

Nope but I aint lying that there are communities that are not here that I do miss (since they never left Reddit).

Yes, and no. For me personally, I tended to use Reddit to follow a lot of tech news - whether that be about programming, Linux/Open Source Software, gaming, etc which from what I've seen personally, is certainly an abundance in The Fediverse. Otherwise I'll sometimes discuss some TV shows on Reddit, but most of mine are in their off-season so it hasn't mattered as much.

That being said, I do recognize that its a problem - but I don't know how to begin trying to do my part to fix that problem. I participate where I can. I don't really have many friends who would be interested in The Fediverse and they generally don't use Reddit (Lemmy) / Twitter (Mastodon/Firefish/Calckey/etc) / Instagram (Pixelfed) either way, aside from on the one off occasion that they're linked to something. I made my instance public in order to try to contribute, but no one is interested in joining small instances (and it was delisted from the join-lemmy site once they changed their user count requirement, which killed its only chance to organically grow so I don't think my "effort" will help much there anymore). The only subreddit that I created and moderated was r/moddedmc which I'm still surprised even had people posting on it (since I didn't ever advertise it, I suspect Modded Minecraft was a big enough subject on Reddit to carry its own discoverability) but a community for that already exists here and I don't play much Minecraft these days to contribute all that much.

I did a couple of small contributions to the Android Lemmy client Jeroba a few months ago, but my Android development experience is no where near equipped to provide any significant contributions to Jerboa or any of the other (amazing!) Lemmy Android (and from what I've seen, but don't own any devices that run, iOS) apps. Similar story for my knowledge of Rust to be able to contribute to Lemmy's backend itself... and don't even get me started on my absolute lack of ability to make anything that looks good on the frontend side of things. I created a small utility and a corresponding Grafana dashboard to allow instance admins to keep track of some stats regarding their instance, I see it has a few stars on GitHub though no one has provided any direct feedback on it so perhaps there are at least a few people getting some use out of it. I stay in the Lemmy Admin Matrix rooms to try to provide support to others where possible, but there are far more people who have way more experience (both professionally and on an instance level) than I do. Then finally, I do try to directly donate to Lemmy itself when I can.

So all in all, I'm at a bit of a loss as to what more I could potentially do to help. I don't mean for this to come off as a rant by any means, but I do honestly feel bad that no matter what I do that I think would help, it makes no difference in the grand scheme of things. There are way better devs out there, way bigger instances, people with larger groups of friends who'd be interested, people with more interesting things to share, people who can probably donate more than the $5 than I get to (and probably more consistently), people with more knowledge on how to help other admins, and people who speak/write anything other than English. I'd say that at least I'm "here", but as someone who lives in the US based off the things that I do see on the Fediverse sometimes I get the impression that even this itself isn't well liked. So in the grand scheme of it all it sucks that I really enjoy the Fediverse and I wish more of the internet operated on open standards, and yet I can't find a meaningful way to give back.

I literally only ever use it if I do a search and a Reddit link pops up in the results. Even then, I try to avoid it if possible. I don't post on Reddit or interact with it in any other way.

I still use Reddit, and I'm not trying to quit yet. You're right that Lemmy doesn't have the depth of content right now. My issue with completely switching is, I want to contribute to a much larger migration away from Reddit, so I want to stay in touch with communities there for now.

I frequently go to the soccer subreddit in a browser because there's nothing like it out there, the speed with which people upload highlights, the match threads, the official announcements are all there if you care about high level soccer. It's the only thing I really couldn't replace

I browse on lemmy now but I still use my reddit account for a few subs like r/crtgaming and r/toonami

I just haven't been on it since some time before the API debacle.

I like the content on Lemmy, and I've had much better experiences here in terms of discussion. But I suspect it really depends on your interests. Tech folks seem to be better represented at the moment, especially for historical reasons.

But as others said, post content!

The only reason I honestly go back is purely for the destiny 2 related subs.

I went from being on reddit daily to not opening it for almost 2 or 3 weeks now. I haven't had an issue content wise, sure there is some decent informational on the site but, I find a lot of information on it to be outdated anyway

There are a couple of subreddits that I still visit. My usage has dropped to a tiny fraction of what it used to be. In fact I think Reddit shitting the bed has been good for me overall as I'm spending a lot less time scrolling random shit.

I agree 100%. I set up a home server after reddit fell, and unfortunately I've been having to use reddit to ask a lot of my questions. The communities for the stuff I need to ask here on Lemmy just don't exist, and on reddit they do, and you'll get responses pretty quickly.

For any kind of programming questions reddit has been far better than lemmy simply because it is significantly more populated.

DDG search still pull it up, so I have to go out of my way to search for stuff here first

I did reinstall Infinity a few times. But the limit on viewed posts is a good way to keep me away.

When I finish watching a tv show, I go to the related sub to see best memes. Nobody can take that away from reddit.

lately I read some post after googling for howtos but without logging it, blocking trackers and ads as always; I go there only if it's the only resource I find

No. With a Lemmy account, and some careful bookmarks, I am fully entertained here.

There is one short story author on Reddit I like to follow. Likely to follow them on another site instead.

the only content im missing is from 1001albumsgenerator subreddit because that was already a pretty small subreddit and theres no way itll get to that size on here. so i check every few days to see whats on there

Only problem i have with lemmy is that after scrolling for a bit i end up wading through posts with 0 comments and 2 upvotes, which are inevitably just links to something i do not give a singular toss about.

But that's honestly kinda just good, it forces me to not just stare at my computer nonstop.

Nope. I actually post link instead of just waiting for people to post them.

Also, sorting by "new" helps a lot

Haven't been back

No, but I still very occasionally check it but only every couple of days for the niche communities, but only because my reddit app of choice still works - but as soon as it stops I will not miss it.

I still browse reddit occasionally to watch videos like/r/crazyfuckingvideos or to read discussion on thr war /r/credibledefense or certain game subs like /r/chess or /r/slaythespire

I haven't made a comment or voted on anything since the API change though. All of the content I generate going forward will go exclusively to Fediverse.

Just visit the specific subreddits with content that your after using bookmarks while you also use Lemmy. There's no sides to this stuff that you have to choose between.

I think the main search engines redirect a lot of traffic to R. Not sure why, but its apparant.