Was already a Linux user and tech nerd
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
What are you missing?
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.
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 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.
