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submitted 1 year ago by waka@feddit.de to c/reddit@lemmy.ml

So I've switched to lemmy since the reddit meltdown started, experienced quite some withdrawal symptoms, occasionally turned back to reddit, more often logged out than logged in. Now I am merely using Lemmy occasionally and by far not as often as I used reddit before. No more doom scrolling.

So far so good.

Today I went on reddit for the first time in like 3 weeks straight (I couldn't do that for the last years... yeah, I was very addicted in hindsight). I just... I don't know what it is.

Reddit just isn't fun anymore.

I turned away after maybe 5 minutes. There were maybe 2-3 repost-worthy pics, one interesting video and a few small niche discussions that all went straight tits up within a few replies.

If I ask a question on lemmy, it usually is a straightforward, honest discussion. Almost no blaming of the posters or answerers misunderstandings or senseless answers. It goes a bit back and forth usually and people tend to thank each other for corrections. I can't remember when that happened on a reddit discussion. Maybe years back? Anyway, I'm not going back there anymore, not because I hate the CEO, but because reddit is not fun anymore. Lost all interest in it.

Did anyone of you have a similar experience?

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[-] Sev@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’m back to Reddit, I kinda gave up here, but I’ll look a couple of times a week.

Too much politics. Linux. Privacy. Bidet talk. ADHD. Bad memes. Techbabble. Snore

No matter the filters I just can’t get an interesting feed, I just blocked about 6 political subs just today - it’s kinda shitty content imo (for me anyway)

I’m happy this exists but the rage honeymoons over for me. Old habits die hard I guess …..now……..back to arguing with bots!!

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Do you consider anything that mentions politics boring? Do you have no interest in international relations? I understand if you're not from the US, but there's a lot of good information in those posts.

[-] Sev@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago

Yep! I don't care about trump, elon musk and what lame alternative to discord there is. Slowly blocking stuff will be the way I guess

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Fair enough. Then I imagine c/Everything would be a drag.

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