Since the blackout, I only use reddit when it pops up in search results regarding a special problem. No “open reddit and scrolling” anymore. It would be stupid to 100% boycott it and make my life harder just because, but they don’t get more traffic from me than necessary.
Same with me. I’ve removed all the apps from my phone and I’ve moved to Lemmy for all my doom scrolling.
I third this
Fourth!
And no up/downvoting anything while there. I minimize my engagement as much as possible.
Mainly for niche communities that haven’t gained traction here yet, and for my city’s subreddit, which does have a community here but it’s completely inactive so far.
I created like 3 communities and I’ve got around 20 subscribers on each, but no one is posting so I’ve been using reddit here and there to cross post content from the original subs to kinda just have something there as an example.
My country and city subs mostly. I still visit covidlonghaulers a bit, because it’s nice to hear from people in the same boat when everyone seems to be acting like it’s all over. I also have a frankly unhealthy addiction to publicfreakout, which I’m working on.
Unfortunately only content. I spent some time subscribing to similar Lemmy communities that I had on Reddit and many of them just don’t have the content yet and I can’t exactly generate it alone.
You could make the absolute best software platform (not saying Lemmy is it, it’s somewhat buggy), but if people don’t adopt it, it won’t succeed.
The “winner” is often not the best platform either. WhatsApp is popular but kinda shit, same for Instagram, Tiktok etc. Threads might win over Mastodon for a Twitter replacement, just because it comes from a huge entity like Meta and people can use their existing accounts.
Unlike Twitter, Reddit has not yet fallen off the deep end where using it on e.g old Reddit on desktop computer is a terrible experience. I think the upcoming months will show if replacing mods etc ends up biting it in the ass.
With Boost finally closing, I am without Reddit on my phone. I’ll have to see if losing the “let’s browse Reddit a bit on my phone because I’m bored” option does good things for my mental health and daily life overall.
Infinity for Reddit still works. Once it stops, Reddit will become a site I may only visit on my desktop, which is not a common event.
Specific subs that don’t exist on Lemmy, especially Q&A-type subs with no equivalent (or very few members). Things like AskPlumbers. It’ll just take time to build those communities here.
more niche / specific communities are just starting here but on reddit they’re already thriving. I’ll visit reddit from time to time to keep up with the latest thing in those, though my time there has been cut significantly.
in other hand, I really wish we could stop with reddit-related questions in this community… ask those in /c/reddit instead
r/padres r/baseball and r/fantasyfootball
If I could get even a fraction of the discussion those subs have here I would have no reason to go back
Fellow Compadre! 🤙🏽
Literally same along with /r/NBA
Basically, sports subreddits are keeping me on Reddit. I did try to get something going over on /c/padres but as you said, discussion isn’t quite there 😮💨
Hopefully more of us make our way over to Lemmy!
Nothing. I miss being more informed on what’s going on in the world but I don’t miss mindless Reddit discussion about it. I miss a lot of subs though. If AskHistorians goes back to normal, I might pop in for that occasionally.
This is getting better and better though, I’d rather ride out our awkward phase than get sucked back in to the Reddit cesspool and drift away. Although we really need to stop talking about Reddit so much.
What is going on with ask historians? Last I heard they seemed to just be shutting down entirely rather than relocating, very odd move for a forum many people really appreciate and would probably follow.
They haven’t shut down entirely. They’re in this weird restricted state where flairs can respond to old unanswered comments and they have these daily themed discussion threads. But you can’t ask new questions right now.
The mods seem pretty committed to Reddit and not moving. Their goals aren’t quite in line with the third party app devs and they’ll probably get enough of what they want eventually to come back. They want better mod tools and Reddit will give them a few minor improvements which they’ll call a win and turn back on. They’re not holding out for third party apps to come back or anything like that.
I find this really disappointing, they should find more meaningful ways to at least spread out from Reddit. They could mirror questions and answers in the fediverse at least which would give them a foothold outside of Reddit when it does eventually implode. But the mods are somewhat hostile towards these kind of ideas. But I don’t have any insight in to their private conversations so I could be off base. They just get kinda snippy with people who suggest anything besides hope Reddit improves.
In fairness to them, they’ve massively outgrown the subreddit format and are only there because of legacy reasons and inertia.
It’s so uniquely and heavily moderated, it’s one of the few communities where it would make more sense to spin off into it’s own site where everything is custom made for them as opposed to continuing to jam reddit’s square mod tools into their circular requirements.
I like Lemmy for the few weeks I’ve been here, but the nascent moderation tools are even less appropriate for that particular sub than even reddit post-July 1st nerf.
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