I missed the quantity of content on reddit, but I do not miss the quality of replies on reddit.
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They perm-banned me and I kept getting pissed off when I would want to reply to something.
Pretty easy when they took away my favorite app and tried to force me into their ad-riddled POS - along with their hostile treatment and shuttering of subs that didn’t conform. It was already getting to the point that, after a decade plus of being a “redditor”, the place was wearing thin. The constant reposts and karma whoring, the hive mind, the low-hanging fruit of quips getting the most upvotes vs a well-thought out reply, the shills and bots, they were killing Reddit IMO. The action against third party apps was the final straw.
I wanted to switch from a proprietary centralized platform to a free federated one. The only inconvenience is that I find a group with same name on multiple instances, each with its own content. Instead of one containing them all.
Get yourself permabanned on Reddit.
I came over here when they cut off 3rd party apps. I wasn't going to browse reddit without Boost, and theres a Boost app for Lemmy, so staying here was easy. I have gone back to reddit twice since, and both times were to check if GeForce Now was broken or if the problem was on my end. Unfortunately Nvidia is pretty terrible at keeping people updated when something is wrong with GFN, so the GFN subreddit is really the only way to find out what's going on. If I found an active GeForce Now community here I'd never go back.
I kinda had to accept that Lemmy wouldn't have the same hooks to trigger impulsive scrolling because Lemmy isn't a corporation desperate to mine you for every ounce of data you can provide.
Also took me a while to find a group of communities with content I like.
I sometimes reinstall Reddit just see what's happening over there, whenever I open it, it feels like I'm being inundated with ads, both obviously and via the ingenuine comment threads.
Was already a Linux user and tech nerd
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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.
In the beginning, I wanted to go back to reddit so much. But then I remembered what a shitstain company reddit is, and I reminded myself of that. Now I don't even WANT to go back to reddit. Fuck them.
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.
This is the thing I notice the most whenever I check back into reddit. So much bot & ai bullshit.
I also agree with u/Xylight@lemdro.id that several of the subs I subscribed to have no equivalent here yet.
That’s true there are no replacements for many subs and you just have to ask yourself how much you need them.
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.
What are you missing?
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.
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”.
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.
Fellow 2 year 3 month lemmy user, your anger nourishes my soul.
My how time flies. Reddit was already trash at that point, it was mostly habit keeping me going there, but I think it's gotten a lot worse. Either that or I forgot just how bad it was.
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.
I browse exclusively on my phone, so deleting reddit apps and installing Lemmy apps was the biggest step for me.
I primarily browsed All, so setting my default sorting to All Top 12 Hours was key.
Finally, I made a point to comment and post more. This is where Lemmy beats Reddit hands down in my opinion. You can comment on posts that are hours old on All and still have meaningful discussions. Trying that on Reddit is like screaming into the void.
Edit: I also forgot to mention that I upvote almost everything. If you made a post that I read and it's not complete trash, you're getting an upvote. Same with comments. I upvote almost every comment I read - especially ones in response to my posts or comments. I feel like it let's people know they're being seen.
Your edit is a bit like that in the Fediverse in general. Since there's no algorithm, liking a post in Mastodon does nothing beyond letting op know you appreciate them. I like that.
I hate this phrase. There are several algorithms. There's new, hot, rising, etc. There's no company manipulating content discovery. That's the difference. Algorithms are great. For-profit companies with an incentive to control content is bad.
RIF stopped working so I started using Liftoff for Lemmy instead.
Don't really use the desktop site.
just deleted my account and all reddit apps. quit cold turkey. there's less on Lemmy. but I'm happier, and more productive 🙂
Cold turkey basically.
For me, the realization of how toxic Reddit can be combined with how lost in the crowd I felt was enough. I enjoy the smaller feel to the communities and that I can actually have a conversation instead of getting buried in comments was just the right combo.
Participating has really helped. I'm still struggling to post, but I try to comment wherever I feel I can add value, however small.
Build the platform you want to be part of.
It took some time for me to realize that not finding a continuous stream of new content was a feature and not a flaw. It meant that there was no algorithm feeding me an endless stream of crap in hopes of keeping me glued to the screen. It meant I could close the app and move on with my day and check back much later. That realization made me embrace it.
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?
The API charade was more than enough to push me over. At that point, I was banned multiple times because that platform had become a cesspool of its own toxicity. You just couldn't escape it for long, no matter where you posted. When you got people dogpiling you just for complaining about work in a subreddit where it is completely warranted and acceptable to do it in, then that's a problem.