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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by DolphLundgren@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I’m not trying to cause an argument but when Reddit pulled it’s bs - I said that’s enough. I gave up my Reddit addiction and didn’t open it or visit the site for over 30 days.

The tone and people on Lemmy is great. I don’t miss Reddit. But I miss the content types. For me Reddit was a topic related news source, a place for great discourse about those news pieces, a place where community members asked constructive questions or shared ideas/projects - and lastly a place for some very specific community types.

Over the last few days I noticed that the first 2 categories of content came over to Lemmy no problem. But the second 2 types I outlined above don’t seem to have come. I went back to Reddit this morning and it’s all still there. Certain types of posts just don’t happen on Lemmy, and on top of that many communities never came over (street_photography is a great example. They literally shut down a subreddit with thousands of users and created a new location in Lemmy/kbin, and instead of coming over the community just evaporated). Other communities are also non existent and some that do exist are simply just not enjoying the same types of posts. I like it here, I want to stay - but it’s difficult. Is anyone else having this issue?

Thanks for hearing me out.

TLDR: all of my communities seem to link posts only, many types of posts just don’t seem to happen here.

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[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

I still use Reddit, and I'm not trying to quit yet. You're right that Lemmy doesn't have the depth of content right now. My issue with completely switching is, I want to contribute to a much larger migration away from Reddit, so I want to stay in touch with communities there for now.

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I have gotten back to Reddit eventually, mostly because it is hard to say no when my patched Sync for Reddit app still works lol.

Anyway I think my frontpage/best sort is fucked up because the algorithm just throws me stuff that isn't too interesting to me, maybe because I am so little time there it doesn't feed me with "the best of the best".

On the other hand, my personal multireddits are still relevant to me and always find cool stuff, I usually go back to it when I get bored of Lemmy (yeah, I go from Sync for Lemmy to Sync for Reddit lol).

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 2 points 1 year ago

if for some reason you were looking for uselessserver093 were on lemmy,kbin and fling up

[-] xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

No, I haven't logged into my main Reddit account that I had subscribed to all the subs that I was interested in pretty much since after the API debacle. I have kept logging into a secondary account only to help other people make the move to Lemmy, Mastodon, and the Fediverse in general. That account is only subscribed to r/redditalternatives, r/fediverse, r/lemmy, and r/mastodon, and I make it a point to not look at anything else. While I miss the niche communities that I had enjoyed there, I figure that they will eventually build here too. I can wait and avoid supporting Reddit and getting sucked back into it. For the time being I can spend my time enjoying what is already here, which is quite a bit.

[-] hglman@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I logged into reddit the other day, and it was worse than lemmy for content.

[-] DocBlaze@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I got relay but I didn't make an account. I just go to the specific sub that there aren't enough people for here and lurk. I occasionally forget where I am and try to upvote something and it tells me to make an account for that, after which I just chuckle and continue reading. no more reddit account, my previous one I nuked to hell after it got hacked.

[-] z00s@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Stop talking about it.

[-] Durotar@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

When I finish watching a tv show, I go to the related sub to see best memes. Nobody can take that away from reddit.

[-] wolf6152@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. I also quit R after all the bs. There a hole in my internet heart and nothing to fill it with

[-] markr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

There is technical content on Reddit that is higher quality than stackoverflow and the rest of the internet has been enshittified. So I’ll still take Reddit search hits over most anything else.

[-] saplyng@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

This has always been the hardest part for me; the amount of technical information on Reddit is so valuable and trumps the rest of the Internet in it's esoteric specifics. It makes not looking through it's threads when I'm looking for specific information feel nigh impossible...

[-] doc@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I added some small/niche subs to my RSS reader. If something gets posted I'll take a look, but I'm not spending time browsing and getting sucked in anymore.

[-] kucuva@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think the main search engines redirect a lot of traffic to R. Not sure why, but its apparant.

[-] xaxl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Just visit the specific subreddits with content that your after using bookmarks while you also use Lemmy. There's no sides to this stuff that you have to choose between.

[-] iortega@lemmy.eus 1 points 1 year ago

I used to use libreddit or teddit. But they are unviable now because of the amount of requests. So I sometimes try to check if there is something interesting about SSBM, which is the only subreddit that is not on lemmy which I'm kind of interested in, but I get the same error many of the times. But it doesn't really matter, if you ignore reddit's existence, you will feel no attachment to it.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah. 99% of the time, I can use Lemmy for everything I used to use Reddit for, but if I miss a goal in the games of my favourite football club, I still turn to r/soccer to watch the replay before the disgustingly overzealous Premier League lawyers pounce..

[-] mikwee@lemmyverse.org 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not giving up Reddit purely because it's more fun, more diverse and better designed.

[-] twistypencil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Haven't been back

[-] konijnwillem@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Nope. I actually post link instead of just waiting for people to post them.

Also, sorting by "new" helps a lot

[-] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago
[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

the only content im missing is from 1001albumsgenerator subreddit because that was already a pretty small subreddit and theres no way itll get to that size on here. so i check every few days to see whats on there

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 1 year ago

I did reinstall Infinity a few times. But the limit on viewed posts is a good way to keep me away.

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