Really? I left on blackout day and haven’t been back. I thought that was normal.
I used RIF up until the moment it stopped working. Literally reading posts, refreshed and… nothing.
I’m not deleting my account purely because I hope that they realise they are burning down the house to stay warm and reverse course. There were some great niche subs that just arent here yet.
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I haven’t been back since RIF went down
Same here. I stopped the day of the blackout and stayed off. It sucked, but I figured it was better in the long run. And when Apollo went down it wasn’t like I was going to download the fucking app of theirs.
Since June 12th it’s been nothing until about a week and a half ago, when it’s been Lemmy only.
Lemmy doesn’t have nearly enough people to be worth using as the only platform people are on unless you never engaged with any niche subreddits. I was pretty active on subs where only like 100 people participated, so finding things like that on Lemmy are impossible. Lemmy is only decent for tech people at this point, it needs to get a tremendous amount of extra people joining to be good enough for anyone else to drop Reddit entirely. And even then, lots of info exists on Reddit and nowhere else that still make it a useful tool for other purposes.
Sorry I just don’t buy that a large portion of people are already using Lemmy and nothing else (you might be, idk) unless they only care about memes of beans and nothing else.
I loved my small community subreddits, which is why I’m trying to grow them here. Reddit has shown that it doesn’t care about its users, which means that sooner or later those small subs will need to go elsewhere or be trapped on a site that just continues to get worse for its users. If you actually care about the communities you’re a part of, and not just about the content they produce for you, then help grow and uphold them here.
I don’t have anywhere close to enough time to actually be the person who starts and moderates communities. If enough people start them and start participating in them then I’ll start participating again, but “be the change” only works when people have free time to do it. I would love for Lemmy to take off, don’t get me wrong, but all I was saying is that it hasn’t yet and the claim people try to make here that it’s already good enough to replace Reddit is pure cope.
I don’t have anywhere close to enough time to actually be the person who starts and moderates communities. If enough people start them and start participating in them then I’ll start participating again, but “be the change” only works when people have free time to do it. I would love for Lemmy to take off, don’t get me wrong, but all I was saying is that it hasn’t yet and the claim people try to make here that it’s already good enough to replace Reddit is pure cope.
But you do have enough time to assume that your personal opinion on a matter speaks about everyone’s else. It doesn’t.
Chill out, I never said it did.
While I disagree with the other commenter’s position, wtf are you on about? So posting about your opinion is trying to speak for everyone else now?
people try to make here that it’s already good enough to replace Reddit is pure cope.
It’s good enough for me, and apparently others. And his replies reek of /iamverysmart
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I didn’t say you did? Weird response.
Meeh, I visit it cuz of the NSFW subs, but that’s about it.
Yeah that is the also reason for me. My other fav subs already come to lemmy (FMHY, Android, Piracy)
I removed all of my history and left when they announced the API day.
I’ve been back a few times from Google searches looking for a specific data on things that don’t exist elsewhere.
I poked around a little today to see what the temperatures like, feels like it’s at least 2/3 more toxic, course it could just be The first people out were the least tolerant of toxicity.
I’ve left the first moment Apollo went down, and I deleted the account I had for 11 years. I’m not caving in. Fuck that site.
What? It was the easiest move I’ve ever made. Deleted a 13+ year old account. I’m loving it here. Fuck Reddit.
I didn’t want to leave any of my content behind, because deleting your account still leaves all your content up. That took a while because I had to fix some bugs in an OSS tool so I wouldn’t need to delete tens of thousands of posts and comments by hand. The script took days to run with a 2s rate limit.
IMO, it’s pretty creepy that they try to keep your content when you request a GDPR deletion. That stuff could contain pii and they should be required to delete it, too.
I haven’t been back since. No Apollo is as good as no Reddit, as far as I’m concerned.
As someone who also moved over from Reddit but has not deleted their account, I also find it hard to find good communities that are not meme or porn.
Throw on a decent client like connect,wefwef (now Voyager), or sync/boost(soon).
Change your feed to all in the fediverse.
Change the sort to hot or top.
Go exploring on the communities that post and see if you like them. There’s a lot of similar communities here like there was on Reddit, such as programming, Android, aww, dogs, world, no stupid question, ask lemmy, etc… You can hide the nsfw and block the porn community or just block the porn instance entirely.
It takes some poking around, but the committee you like are there most likely.
I’m loving it here
I find that hard to believe. lemmy right now is worse than reddit ever was
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I see.
For someone who’s into niche tech stuff, I found myself going back to Reddit from time to time when I’m looking for info. I wish this isn’t the case.
I appologize for deleting all my posts. And I don’t at the same time. Maybe try asking here in more general communities? Everything doesn’t have to come from a boutique subreddit.
Who were you, DENVERCODER9?! WHAT DID YOU SEE!?
I was talking about stuff that was already there. A bunch of specific questions that most people wouldn’t think of.
An example would be Thinkpad. More often than not, when you search for a solution for your problem, it would yield some Reddit links on the first page.
I’ve found that my friends who don’t use Reddit, rarely see Google results linking to Reddit. I always see them, but I use Reddit a lot so.
Let’s be realistic. Reddit have years of post and discussion saved who are very useful for research. So the answer is simple, use Reddit as a Wikipedia and Post new content here or on any other free platform. (Well technically new. Some meme i saw here are older than me 😅).
I deleted my Reddit account when I moved to Lemmy, but I do go back to Reddit if a Google search leads me there. You’re right, the wealth of knowledge remains there but I no longer wish to participate in the conversation there.
After all, why not, why shouldn’t I?
16 years on Reddit and probably waiting the last 10 for a decent alternative. It wasn’t hard at all. I do go back sometimes to debunk Lemmy FUD though.
I just want a little more content in my feeds.
And I just want a little less of my PII on reddit’s servers.
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