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submitted 1 year ago by SurpriZe@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Just making sure I'm in the right place. I cannot see any developed communities here so I've started wondering, what's the real place everyone from Reddit has moved to? I've heard something about Discuit, but never tried it.

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[-] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Still here. I'm making it work. The very dominant focus on particular topics and views is readily apparent and somewhat lessens the experience compared to the variety I was used to on Reddit, but I don't mind Lemmy's predilections so much as those were areas of interest for me anyway, just not areas that I'd focussed on so heavily, or areas that I had been more interested in in the past and drifted from with age. This makes it kind of nice to kind of reconnect and re-engage with those topics, even if it does make things a little bland overall.

What I'm missing most is the ability to just assume, correctly, that whatever I need information on at that moment will have a sub dedicated to it already and I just need to correctly guess the name of the sub. This was especially handy for technical questions.

[-] FullFridge@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would say 99.9% of people are still on Reddit. I mainly use Lemmy to get the bigger news stuff and the gaming community is pretty active here too. Also I use Lemmy on mobile only really since the Reddit app is still terrible.

If I want to read about one of my other interests I'll go to the specific subreddit on my desktop browser and use old Reddit but with no account since I deleted mine a few months ago. Sometimes I'll post or comment on one of those smaller communities here but I don't want to be someone who posts tons of things to a community. Too much work for me.

Hopefully the user base and engagement will grow over the next few years. Welcome to being an early adopter!

[-] porkins@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

I only go to Reddit for porn since they lose money when I do that.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Someone posted an article recently that suggested they lost way more than 0.1%.

[-] FullFridge@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I'd be interested in reading that. Do you have a link to the article?

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[-] Skkorm@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Honestly if the Nuzlocke community had migrated to Lemmy, I'd never go back to Reddit at all. I'm just waiting for Lemmy to develop enough critical mass for those more niche communities to populate.

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[-] Wahots@pawb.social 9 points 1 year ago

Still here, and happy. Most of my communities made the cut. I use social media a bit less often now, which is probably healthier too.

[-] Monster96@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Still here. All my spent on lemmy is just browsing my subscribed communities by hot and the occasional comment here and there.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

startrek.website is the biggest concentration of them I've seen, but since reddit forced its subreddits to reopen, plenty of people continued visiting there, or, like me, visit both.

I spend significantly less time on reddit, but lemmy is still missing the sheer volume of interaction that reddit offers by mere virtue of its size. I have to search here for episode reaction threads for stuff like Foundation and Trek, because it doesn't usually land on my home page, and though the comments are always thoughtful and worth reading, there are like ten of them total, if that - as opposed to the dozens if not hundreds of reactions on any comparable thread over on reddit.

I hate to say it, but the exodus failed. I'm glad to have discovered Lemmy, but it simply doesn't have anywhere near the numbers to compete.

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hate to say it, but the exodus failed. I’m glad to have discovered Lemmy, but it simply doesn’t have anywhere near the numbers to compete.

I think "failed" is a little strong, and that we have to remember two things, here: 1) Lemmy wasn't in ideal position to handle a major Rexxitor exodus at the time, and 2) Lemmy is best looked at as a long-term project that will ultimately have higher quality of infrastructure, user rights, and users themselves. Much of that is already true, arguably.

What's helped me personally is to start a community where one was needed in the FV, posting regular content there. Others are joining in, and it's fun to see our little community grow. It also means a lot to me that I don't have to worry about a corporation one day arbitrarily fucking with our community to suit their own ends.

That said, if you're simply a content-devourer, then I agree that Lemmy is going to be less useful than Reddit for the time being. But there's also a fairly unique opportunity to help change that, as many are doing here. <3

[-] CarGoFast23@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

You are disingenuous.

[-] pseudonym@monyet.cc 8 points 1 year ago

I'm here from reddit

[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

I came here for video games and dank memes, but most of the website devolved into a political shitshow.

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[-] ericatty@infosec.pub 7 points 1 year ago

I'm here and on Mastodon. I really like Mastodon. (I still have my old twitter account, but have not posted or commented for years. I never really used it anyway. Now I use it to see the occasional newsworthy linked tweet since they require a login now to view anything. I'm purposely ignoring its attempt to rebrand)

I still go to old.reddit and lurk on slow news days. But my feed isn't as robust or interesting as it was before the exodus. It's still good for historical help on certain topic. So I will keep checking it probably.

But to me it looks like Lemmy and Mastodon are getting slow, steady, but high quality growth overall. I think the fediverse in general may be the saving grace of the internet. It looks to me like the "main stream" internet is becoming one voice, much like Clear Channel taking over and homogenizing the eclectic voices of regional radio.

[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I'm never going back to that cesspool.

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Here despite the lack of content/content I can't get here on Lemmy. Still, generally I'd say it's a little better on this side of things.

[-] girltwink@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is super uncomfy for women right now. The women i know are either still on reddit or just gave up on social media altogether.

[-] DeadWorld@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Out of curiosity, what changes would you suggest to make it a more welcoming place for women?

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[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I'm here. I'll still go on Reddit if I'm on desktop (which is rare) but when on my phone, Lemmy does the job fine.

[-] StuffYouFear@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Stull here, but I mostly stay quite

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[-] itsmaxyd@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I'm here, reading hacker news and slashdot. Trying to learn AI, ML and cloud technologies 😊 out of work but going with flow of life

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[-] Scarronline@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yep I'm here

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

I looked at Reddit for the first time in a long while yesterday. I had trimmed my subscribed subs to just essential, this is the only place on the web with this community like things.

So I look at my front page and I am still subscribed to more then 20 subreddits. But what is my #3 link but a 0 score off topic post. WTF reddit? Why is that even being promoted by your algorithm? I laughed at it and showed my wife and then closed the site without even looking at anything else.

what a shitty web site

[-] Arfman@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Still here though to be fair I haven't been that active for the last few years as I'm been spending more time on discord.

[-] zeusbottom@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I’ve never wanted or needed to go back, if that’s what OP is asking. SNR is higher, less to scroll through.

[-] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Still here. Getting ready to maybe create a post or two.

First I need to spend weeks upvoting shitposts, however.

[-] deus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

If I had to bet I'd say most migrated to Discord. Many Reddit refugees are here and some more are on kbin. A lot of people went to squabbles.io and tildes.net too, apparently, but I've never used those since I'd rather stay within the fediverse.

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[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I'm generally browsing the news subs which is usually what I did on reddit. I also check out All but comment less often in things I find there because it is just filled with memes after I blocked all the hexbear garbage.

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