How has it been for you? Do you get FOMO feeling sometimes?
I use Reddit less and less but haven’t fully quit yet. Always have this odd feeling of FOMO regards content.
Not only that, some subreddits haven’t migrated to any other platform unfortunately. Or they have but the content is very little compared to Reddits content.
Note - wasn’t sure where to post this. So if this wasn’t the right place, apologies!
The issue I have with Reddit - it’s full of hateful people and most content is just bots karma farming.
EDIT: Thanks for all the responses!
EDIT 2: Thanks for the ones that mentioned RSS-Feed. Just got it and it’s amazing. Still manage to only follow the subreddits that I like without crapads.
Fully left Reddit. Hate that they killed Sync so bounced. Don’t miss it at all.
The flip side is Lemmy is meh. Every damn post is Linux shilling. We get it. Lemmy users like Linux. At least Sync works on this site.
Ultimately, I guess I just don’t care about either site. I just want something to mindlessly browse for a few minutes every day when I’m shitting, and Lemmy is fine.
It’s not true that every post is Linux chilling.
Half are “piracy good” and “google is so evil for having ads”.
Don’t forget about “every problem in existence is because of capitalism.”
Well this is looking like a slippery slope. Next comment is just going to be something like “I actually kind of like the far right.”
I always find it funny when people use the phrase slippery slope, not realizing that it is literally a logical fallacy.
The far right can get bent for what it’s worth, but most of the issues people attribute to capitalism are very far from exclusive to capitalism. No matter what socioeconomic framework you go with, you’re probably still going to need to go to work, deal with shitty bosses, insane bureaucracies, mid life crises, not having the motivation to read that book you bought 3 years ago, your furnace dying in the middle of winter, etc.
Shitty bosses are probably less likely if your boss is ultimately democratically accountable to you and not to the some alien legal party that is your employer
Democratically elected/accountable doesn’t necessarily beget quality. See: politicians.
Point is, people act like moving away from capitalism would suddenly fix all life’s ails. Sure, it would probably fix some stuff, it would probably cause some problems capitalism doesn’t too. It’s much more effective to focus on tackling specifically scoped issues rather than whinging about capitalism and proposing no solutions other than tearing down the entire system and hoping whatever rises from the ashes is better.
To make some very specific points, I believe that if we simply fixed outrageous housing and healthcare costs, the overwhelming majority of domestic complaints about the USA would be solved. No need to ditch capitalism to fix those problems.
If given a choice between democratically elected politicians and unaccountable dictators and autocrats, I would choose politicians.
By capitalism, I mean specific institutions. I have specific solutions in mind such as recognizing the inalienable right to workplace democracy, and common ownership of land, natural resources, and the means of production.
Land’s inelastic supply, which can only be solved by socializing it, plays a role in housing costs.
Work issues remain unsolved by those two
Damn, how could I. In that same line though there is the variant about how anything non free open source is shit, and that copyrights shouldn’t exist.
I think Lemmy has some decent posting and thoughtful comments.
BTW I use arch.
The FOMO feeling subsides quickly when I pop back over there. It’s all children and bots now.
reddit isn’t verbotten - hell, I still have a myspace account… This “place” will grow. Let it. Then someday everyone will say “fuck lemmy - let’s move to scritum” or something as cryptic. Probably using hieroglyphics, err, I mean emojis.
I mean, face it… reddit was fine up until a few years ago - well - five or more. Then the musk wannabee bought it and it turned to shit. Before then it was okay. a bit prudish for the 21st century but still workable.
Ten years ago it was way neato - just like Lemmy is now. So, moral of this story is let Lemmy grow without using a crowbar.
: )
Lemmy may die, everything will. But as long as it is not for-profit, I think it will be good. Everything that venture capital touches turns into shit.
Agreed. I hope the developers don’t get tired of it and sell it off.
That’s the beauty of open source, if they do that, others can continue the work without the original* authors.
Yeah, but then someone buys it, decides to “sell one thing and retire forever”, and turns it into facebook. Ver 3.9838
Then the musk wannabee bought it
I hate spez as much as the next guy, but this is inaccurate. He is literally one of the founders of reddit, he didn’t bought it.
If anything he sold it, then came back as a CEO.
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Yes Steve Huffman is Spez
What happened to the fucker? Is he so wannabee Zuckerberg that he’s turned that fish tank into Teen Beat meets Gameboy Furries?
You guys sound like addicts
Recovering addict
I’m old enough to have seen fads, social movements, come and go, technology changing constantly. I’ve learned one must adapt, things always change, and one should be careful about what one gets used to, what one depends on. Sometimes you have a good thing, then it dissappears. What matters is how you respond. I’ve learned to prepare for emergencies, what would I do if this is suddenly taken away?
Reddit was where I realized the online world has changed a lot the past 2 or so decades. Back in the day, we’d actively curate, use rss feeds, find a bunch of sites we liked, and create our own customized feeds.
But by the time of reddit, we were no longer doing that work for ourselves. I started to notice a pronounced echo chamber effect, less variety, seeing same stuff over and over.
I’ve been using Lemmy exclusively for social media for a few months after being hooked on Reddit for a decade. Lemmy feels much more higher quality - there’s real conversation happening here. It reminds me of how great the Internet was in the early 00s.
I only use Reddit for work resources when troubleshooting an issue. It’s certainly handy for that, and I think the world would lose a lot of knowledge if Reddit shuts down.
I left reddit totally when I made my account here. Lemmy has been great, but it’s not a full replacement per se. Most often I’ve just decided I can live without the niche reddit content. Lemmy has plenty of its own content, and it’s enough for me to fill that “hole”.
As I’m sure many are aware, reddit has addictive qualities that aren’t always serving your best interest. Just because there’s a subreddit for
r/breadstapledtotreesdoesn’t mean you should dedicate time out of your day to look at it. All the important discussions to me have mostly moved over here, and all the people who are posting and commenting on Lemmy have a much much higher level of aptitude on these topics than redditors (I like that you can go into a random meme community on Lemmy and pick a fight about filesystems).We still need to create and fill a lot of niche communities here, but Rome wasn’t built in a day and we’re making great progress here in just a few months. Lemmy feels viable and sustainable and I think we’re past the hard part of gaining critical mass and making daily Lemmy use a habit. My call-to-action would be to stop searching reddit for answers to things and start posting those questions on Lemmy. There are so many smart people here waiting to infodump their experience onto you.
If something is worth sharing there, it will come here or somewhere else where you can see it eventually. The only thing you are really missing, is some content from a creator you like. But usually they have their own platforms where you can find them.
I fully quit Reddit in June when Sync couldn’t access Reddit anymore. I sometimes miss aspects of it. I’m trying to do things in the real world more. I’m on Lemmy a few times a week. For a while I was on Lemmy every day, but the content didn’t keep up with my consumption. I do like the content better, but there’s less of it. I’m trying to replace these things with better habits. I spend time online looking for local events and looking up tutorials on YouTube (NewPipe). I’m actually trying to do those events and follow those tutorials. The less content I take in, the better I feel. Trying to develop real world ambitions. It’s a little tricky.
I stopped using reddit regularly when sync for reddit went down. I was curious and checked to see if sync came back, maybe the API war subsided, but instead I saw sync for lemmy.
So this is day 2. Haven’t figured everything out yet.
Seems like you use /c for “community” (?) Instead of r for subreddit.
Welcome!
Fully left Reddit. I don’t miss it at all. I do find it a little annoying when someone links me to a Reddit post just because of how terrible the site looks or how they want you to sign in.
Reddit kill my favorite subreddits with their api changes, the minimun I could do is leave reddit, if they care more about their profit than the people that make reddit what it is, i fully refuse to use it anymore
i left reddit mainly because of chasers being creeps at me and also because of how right wing the site was, and ngl, i havent really missed it that much - like, i’ll miss some of the smaller communities and band subreddits and stuff but otherwise i dont really mind not using it anymore
I dunno, Reddit was pretty overtly hostile to righties. The bot-riddled rightoid echo chambers were relatively small, but loud. Aside from “I want to murder this specific person with a thousand lifetimes of wealth” being removed as a threat of violence, and the awful admins, I can’t actually think of any rightwing trends. Sorry people were gross, though. That’s undeniably visible.
I have completely stopped using reddit as a social media and deleted all of my content; I only use it for if I have to research something, and I make sure that they get no money because of my visit.
I fully left Reddit. I don’t miss Reddit at all.
Before that I fully left Digg, before that MySpace, before that Geocities.
I do still miss Geocities and MySpace.
Digg was the peak of the internet as far as I’m concerned, its gone downhill ever since
