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The majority of the communities I visit on reddit have no real equivalent on Lemmy. The only things in Lemmy are politics, open source, linux, android, anti ai, immediate downvote of the majority of news, etc.
Lemmy feels more like an individual community rather than a real platform, like lobste.rs with more emphasis on politics.
Was already a Linux user and tech nerd
For me, it's the fact that while I dont always see eye to eye with the people here the fact is every account is almost certainly an actual person and not a bot. I want to hear other's experiences and perspectives and Reddit will not provide that.
I also like the fact that there is an end to the content here. It's not endless scrolling.
I didn't, really. Barely ever used Reddit to begin with. I just wanted a platform to chat and engage with every now and then, and this federated, decentralized alternative is principally superior and is a historical necessity. The reason you "struggle" is because Reddit wants to keep you trapped in its ecosystem and addicted by centralizing online communication spaces.
Already wrote this somewhere else, but might well share it here: Reddit is a cesspool US deep state cut-out propaganda and censorship platform like all of these US-based platforms are, they answer to the US state dept and empire and we all know it. Doesn’t matter if it’s META, X or Reddit (and fuck, Google and YouTube obviously) - they all follow the same line. They’ll crack down on leftist subs, even r/russia due to the official US position, yet keep racist Western subs around (like r/europe) and other liberal shitholes of all kinds I don’t give a shit to even name or remember, even fascist subs and of course the genocide apologists on r/“israel”.
Back when reddit banned 3rd party apps, I just left. My account is still there, once in a while I check something on reddit instead of lemmy due to number of people.
Despite having some good karma and many years, I never felt like reddit "had" anything I'd miss by leaving. You know the "just go outside and touch grass" thing? Literally just leave the place for a week, uninstall any apps, block the site on /etc/hosts, make it enough of an annoyance to sidestep your own blocks and it'll help you.
What are you missing?
For me, it's the fact that while I dont always see eye to eye with the people here the fact is every account is almost certainly an actual person and not a bot. I want to hear other's experiences and perspectives and Reddit will not provide that.
I also like the fact that there is an end to the content here. It's not endless scrolling.
I never really posted on reddit. The apps I used to lurk all stopped working to one degree or another, and more and more of the content on reddit is just bots karma farming with AI slop and reposts.
Made it pretty easy to stop going there.
It was quote easy tbh. It imoroved since the First Wave actually.
Also people are more honest and caring from my pov. That doesnt gonfor everyone, but thats society.
It feels more Home than what reddit became.
It was straight up half broken during the APIcalypse when I came over.
The way I switched was getting banned from Reddit for 7 days wrongly. It then took me two days or 3 days to get unbanned and for them to apologize for the original band. By then I said fuck it and decided to come over here and search for alternatives since I've been on Reddit for like 16 years now or something like that and it's getting a little old and repetitive. Then fortunate part about this place is that there's not enough post and so it's a lot of repetition. But it also allows me to go visit other sites because there is so much repetition here.
don't worry. if you go back to reddit you'll get banned again in a few months anyway for the same reasons.
this place is rapidly become reddit though... same folks who who just want to harass and ban anyone whose comments they disagree with. good news is here you can see someone falling you around downvoting all your comments and block them.
at least people aren't sending me PMs constantly on this site about how i should die and/or trying to get me to sub to their onlyfans. for now.
It’s been 2 years on Lemmy for me. I was on Reddit for 12 years prior.
I never looked back. I didn’t have a hard time at all really. Comment sections are so nice here usually. I only spend maybe 30 mins on here daily and never run out of content. But I’m a reader. I read articles and comments fully so I only get through a dozen posts or so.
What are you having a hard time with?
For me the content is just not quite there on Lemmy. Less stuff overall and less interesting and active communities. I wish Lemmy became a lot more popular because Reddit is firmly in an enshittification phase.
The moment old.reddit.com is gone, I'm done with it.
Embrace the fact that there is a limit to the amount of new content and do something else with your time.
Less stuff overall and less interesting and active communities
Once you realize that 1) like 80% of reddit is just bot slop and 2) a handful of accounts post the majority of "content", you kind of don't care that reddit has seemingly "more active" communities.
It gets easier when Reddit bans you for debunking bot comments.
that or pointing out viral marketing posts.
If you're feeling the itch for more social media just keep it off the corp owned stuff, piefed, mastodon, etc. If it's for news and current events rss feeds are great for that.
my itch is for thoughful debate and discussion... usually on place I find it anymore is podcasts. i miss being able to participate in it, but reddit was great for it years ago. social media basically is anti-thoughtful because it all designs to appeal to raw emotions and bias confirmation.
Subscribe to communities and/or utilize the 'random' search to find communities (be warned that nsfw stuff up though if your setting isnt filtered). Sort by new sometimes. Lemmy is more user-directed whereas reddit is company-directed. No more force-feeding you sponsored content - you can search out and eat what you like!
I really want some of my niche subreddits. They're like crack.
Obligatory fuck spez.
Yeah, Lemmy isn’t quite at that critical mass where the niche stuff is active. That’s one thing Reddit was truly wonderful at, because it had enough people that even the niche stuff stayed active. Like if only 0.01% of people are interested in something, and a service only has 1000 users, there‘s a good chance that you’ll be the only poster.
I've found some super cool niche communities using the 'random community' search, which i think is a Voyager app specific option cause I'm not seeing it on desktop. I definitely recommend the Voyager app
Sort by top 24 hours and theres much more activity than any of the sorting algorithms.
I do this as well. Works great for both serving me the most interesting content and limiting how much time I spend on Lemmy.
Oh I use the “auto hide read posts” feature of Voyager so the posts are always fresh. With that combination of settings Lemmy has enough content to spend a few hours every day on if you want to haha.
I like discussion and hearing different point of views. Lemmy is great for one side but i've supplemented it with reading HackerNews. I find the discussion on there way more good faith and even though its stupidly pro AI I still like reading why people like AI and posts about how they are using it.
Mostly im just hear for Tech and Linux and memes. After leaving Reddit I barely ever return. Sometimes i open up a sub to scroll the top posts of the month to see if anything was missed
Yeah Lemmy is egregiously one sided and many users here harass you for not being part of the groupthink.
It is way too tech focused and tech people are incredibly insular in their perspective and think anyone who doesn't think they way they do is stupid. Which is infuriating and why most non tech people hate tech people.
Linux is great for servers and technical work, but it's never going to be a useful OS for the vast majority of people.
Honestly, after some time, I just started realizing how shitty reddit posts are, and specially how toxic comments and the overall environment is...
So, i don't miss it.
I wasn't going to install the app on my phone, so that made the transition easier.
Just like Reddit, you have to add your personalized subs before you can really start enjoying it. Start looking for subs you like.
The bottom line is that there isn't enough content to last all day like Reddit, but I see that as a good thing. I wrap up on Lemmy and then I can dig myself into a Wikipedia hole and learn something.
Best part about Lemmy is my comments actually get seen and responded to and it can take a couple days before a post is dead, unlike Reddit where if I comment 4 hours after it's posted, it's dead and there's no activity on my comments.
Reddit feels like I'm a dog hanging out a car window trying to bite at the air as it whips past me but never getting anything of substance. Lemmy feels like I'm in an AA support group and we're all sitting in a circle communicating and sharing our addiction together.
My Reddit app stopped working, and the official app is dogshit; Reddit kind of made the switch for me
Same for me. When the third party API fiasco happened, Reddit was dead to me.
If I can't engage on my terms, I don't want to engage at all
They killed RiF, and I wasn't about to use their shitty app.
I stopped using reddit when I realized most of it's content was sponsored.
I got banned for "inciting violence" even though I never really did, but it could be construed that way so, here I am. I still go lurk as some content you can't find over here, but I do enjoy the differences. I'm learning a whole lot about Linux and ditching the mega tech corpo bs.
Similar story here. Fourteen years with only a one day suspension from r/ politics for telling an asshat “you are a child.” Then suddenly warned for “inciting violence” for saying “sometimes you have to punch the bully in the nose.” I appealed, it was denied, deleted everything and asserted my right to be forgotten as an EU person. I quit almost all American software in January of this year and moved to Linux.
I just uninstalled Reddit and installed Sync for Lemmy. I'll still end up on reddit occasionally from a Google search result or something, but I don't go there intentionally.
Reddit made it simple for me; they banned the app I browsed it with (Boost, along with every other 3rd party app).
I don't browse on my desktop, and I refuse to use their 1st party app, so using Reddit became too inconvenient.
I was perma banned for showing support to our Saint, Luigi Mangioni.
praise be
In the beginning it was hard, but I’ve come to love that it isn’t an endless scroll