Really? I left on blackout day and haven’t been back. I thought that was normal.
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Meeh, I visit it cuz of the NSFW subs, but that’s about it.
Fair
Yeah that is the also reason for me. My other fav subs already come to lemmy (FMHY, Android, Piracy)
Likewise, I’m into tech, and most moved here, so… here is OK now 👍.
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I haven’t been back since RIF went down
Same here. I stopped the day of the blackout and stayed off. It sucked, but I figured it was better in the long run. And when Apollo went down it wasn’t like I was going to download the fucking app of theirs.
Since June 12th it’s been nothing until about a week and a half ago, when it’s been Lemmy only.
Lemmy doesn’t have nearly enough people to be worth using as the only platform people are on unless you never engaged with any niche subreddits. I was pretty active on subs where only like 100 people participated, so finding things like that on Lemmy are impossible. Lemmy is only decent for tech people at this point, it needs to get a tremendous amount of extra people joining to be good enough for anyone else to drop Reddit entirely. And even then, lots of info exists on Reddit and nowhere else that still make it a useful tool for other purposes.
Sorry I just don’t buy that a large portion of people are already using Lemmy and nothing else (you might be, idk) unless they only care about memes of beans and nothing else.
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I lol’d to myself three separate times before I moved on from this comment.
Make it four.
I didn’t say you did? Weird response.
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Relax
I loved my small community subreddits, which is why I’m trying to grow them here. Reddit has shown that it doesn’t care about its users, which means that sooner or later those small subs will need to go elsewhere or be trapped on a site that just continues to get worse for its users. If you actually care about the communities you’re a part of, and not just about the content they produce for you, then help grow and uphold them here.
I don’t have anywhere close to enough time to actually be the person who starts and moderates communities. If enough people start them and start participating in them then I’ll start participating again, but “be the change” only works when people have free time to do it. I would love for Lemmy to take off, don’t get me wrong, but all I was saying is that it hasn’t yet and the claim people try to make here that it’s already good enough to replace Reddit is pure cope.
I just don’t understand what you mean by “good enough to replace Reddit.” Reddit is a space for a community to grow, one that has shown itself to be toxic.
When you have a farm and find the soil to be toxic, you don’t keep growing new crops on it, you start over in a fresh field with new seeds that grow into a new farm. Yes, your yield will be significantly smaller for a good long time at first, but that’s just the effort required to keep a healthy farm.
That’s what’s “good enough to replace Reddit,” and why Reddit itself isn’t good enough anymore; it’s not about the content the community makes, it’s about the safety and the security of the space in which the community grows. The content is just the byproduct of that growth.
As for what you can do to help it grow, sure, most people can’t run their own community - myself included. But if you have the time to comment on this post, you have time to comment on a post from a growing community with only a couple active users, and maybe make a post every so often.
That simple effort means now that community has a third active user, which paves the way for a fourth, and fifth, and so on. It’s not hours worth of work, it’s really just the same effort you’ve already shown in this one thread.
I don’t have anywhere close to enough time to actually be the person who starts and moderates communities. If enough people start them and start participating in them then I’ll start participating again, but “be the change” only works when people have free time to do it. I would love for Lemmy to take off, don’t get me wrong, but all I was saying is that it hasn’t yet and the claim people try to make here that it’s already good enough to replace Reddit is pure cope.
But you do have enough time to assume that your personal opinion on a matter speaks about everyone’s else. It doesn’t.
Chill out, I never said it did.
While I disagree with the other commenter’s position, wtf are you on about? So posting about your opinion is trying to speak for everyone else now?
people try to make here that it’s already good enough to replace Reddit is pure cope.
It’s good enough for me, and apparently others. And his replies reek of /iamverysmart
Despite sixteen years as an active user, Reddit is dead to me. Even the subreddits I miss because there aren’t as active related communities here (yet) aren’t worth using that fucking app.
Exactly
I was actively involved in a lot of niche subreddits including modding some. But yeah I haven’t been back since the blackout. Idk if I will ever be I always assume I might but the desire keeps waning. I’ve been reading books and writing more actually.
Unfortunately I still have to use Reddit for D&D stuff, otherwise I’d be able to switch more easily. Also the subreddits I used to be able to browse for hours just don’t exist here so I can only basically get on Lemmy for maybe 5 minutes at a time before I’m bored and have to close it. Maybe it’ll continue to grow and get better in the future; here’s hoping.
I’m all in on Lemmy, and I think it’s pretty common
I think you should try shopping around on different servers - sorting by all on a server that matches your interests is pretty great
Mostly use it as quora now. Google takes me there, i don’t always remember to use cached version
I used RIF up until the moment it stopped working. Literally reading posts, refreshed and… nothing.
I’m not deleting my account purely because I hope that they realise they are burning down the house to stay warm and reverse course. There were some great niche subs that just arent here yet.
I removed all of my history and left when they announced the API day.
I’ve been back a few times from Google searches looking for a specific data on things that don’t exist elsewhere.
I poked around a little today to see what the temperatures like, feels like it’s at least 2/3 more toxic, course it could just be The first people out were the least tolerant of toxicity.
I’ve left the first moment Apollo went down, and I deleted the account I had for 11 years. I’m not caving in. Fuck that site.
What? It was the easiest move I’ve ever made. Deleted a 13+ year old account. I’m loving it here. Fuck Reddit.
I didn’t want to leave any of my content behind, because deleting your account still leaves all your content up. That took a while because I had to fix some bugs in an OSS tool so I wouldn’t need to delete tens of thousands of posts and comments by hand. The script took days to run with a 2s rate limit.
IMO, it’s pretty creepy that they try to keep your content when you request a GDPR deletion. That stuff could contain pii and they should be required to delete it, too.
I haven’t been back since. No Apollo is as good as no Reddit, as far as I’m concerned.
I sold my accounts after I deleted 99% of my comments manually. Got $1400 for 3 accounts that were 10+ years old with 20,000 or so karma. Even lurker accounts are worth money if they’re old enough
Really? I’m struggling to find good communities. Seems like mostly old memes and political articles. Any recommendations?
As someone who also moved over from Reddit but has not deleted their account, I also find it hard to find good communities that are not meme or porn.
Throw on a decent client like connect,wefwef (now Voyager), or sync/boost(soon).
Change your feed to all in the fediverse.
Change the sort to hot or top.
Go exploring on the communities that post and see if you like them. There’s a lot of similar communities here like there was on Reddit, such as programming, Android, aww, dogs, world, no stupid question, ask lemmy, etc… You can hide the nsfw and block the porn community or just block the porn instance entirely.
It takes some poking around, but the committee you like are there most likely.
I’m loving it here
I find that hard to believe. lemmy right now is worse than reddit ever was
Trolled
I see.
Let’s be realistic. Reddit have years of post and discussion saved who are very useful for research. So the answer is simple, use Reddit as a Wikipedia and Post new content here or on any other free platform. (Well technically new. Some meme i saw here are older than me 😅).
I deleted my Reddit account when I moved to Lemmy, but I do go back to Reddit if a Google search leads me there. You’re right, the wealth of knowledge remains there but I no longer wish to participate in the conversation there.
16 years on Reddit and probably waiting the last 10 for a decent alternative. It wasn’t hard at all. I do go back sometimes to debunk Lemmy FUD though.
I just want a little more content in my feeds.
It’ll come, Lemmy is growing steadily. In the meantime, be the change you want to see and help produce content
Yeah, I’m pumping out as much as I can. I only really lurked on Reddit, so it’s a new experience.
Same here, I still don’t create new posts much but I’m definitely commenting more often, which I hardly ever did on Reddit. It feels like conversations are more real on here, and less gets lost in the noise of thousands of comments per thread
I’ve noticed that commenting on posts without comments seems to trigger more comments. So I’m focusing on those.
o7
And I just want a little less of my PII on reddit’s servers.
Pentium II or RPi II?
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Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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Personal Identifying Information.
Oh…
I’m at the point where I don’t notice a difference. The content here is higher quality so I get more out of it. It took me quite a while to subscribe to all the communities I wanted though.
For someone who’s into niche tech stuff, I found myself going back to Reddit from time to time when I’m looking for info. I wish this isn’t the case.
I appologize for deleting all my posts. And I don’t at the same time. Maybe try asking here in more general communities? Everything doesn’t have to come from a boutique subreddit.
Who were you, DENVERCODER9?! WHAT DID YOU SEE!?
I was talking about stuff that was already there. A bunch of specific questions that most people wouldn’t think of.
An example would be Thinkpad. More often than not, when you search for a solution for your problem, it would yield some Reddit links on the first page.
I’ve found that my friends who don’t use Reddit, rarely see Google results linking to Reddit. I always see them, but I use Reddit a lot so.
I haven’t gone back once.
Good try spezz, just go home
Reddit since 2008, the instant I found out I couldn’t access certain subs I deleted my account and the app. I ain’t no Isildur, bitch. Lemmy4lyfe!
The only subreddit I still go to is for my local city/metroplex. The moment enough people from my area are on Lemmy to where I can keep up with local events and views here is when I’m done with Reddit forever. It’ll happen eventually but it’ll probably be a few more years.
This and the nursing sub are the only two things on Reddit I still check, only like twice since my migration to kbin
I still haven’t been back to Reddit since the switch. Even if everyone else goes back, I’m gonna stay here because this place is small and tight-knit. It reminds me of what Reddit used to be.
I haven’t been back. I deleted the apps. I am keeping the sweet sweet karma on the off chance they eventually fire u/spez and come to their senses.
The only reason I haven’t deleted it is that I have tons of saved bookmarks. Once I finish going over them I’ll delete it.
I did delete all comments at least.
After all, why not, why shouldn’t I?
Holding on to my account until Reddit completes my GDPR “right to erasure” request, I check back in periodically just to get my mail and make sure the mods I’ve left behind don’t need anything from me before I fizzle out of existence.
My precious…
When I decide to abandon something, it’s fairly easy. I had more issues getting an account on Lemmy than anything else.
