And saw a bunch of posts about the third party apps closing down, and lots of negativity about that whole fiasco.
… And I realized I hadn’t been there for a week… And frankly didn’t miss it. I am really loving the beehaw (and Lemmy as a whole) community. Thanks for being open, welcoming, responsive, engaging, and just generally nice people. I’m happy to be here. :)
I accidentally opened it for a minute today, but honestly I can’t say I miss it that much either.
I am happy to see reddit go. I came in to reddit on the Dogg exodus, tried to leave reddit on one exodus that turned out to be all racist and right wing (voat maybe?) So then went back. If Lemmy doesn’t work I’m just going to have to go outside or something
I recommend going outside anyway. Exercise adds a big chunk of life expectancy and well-being.
The book “The Miracle Pill” is a good read on this topic if anyone’s interested
I’m mostly participating here but I am quite enjoying the absolute train wreck that’s unfolding today over there.
Spez decided he’s doing an AMA tomorrow. Oh boy I don’t know if I have enough popcorn… how did his PR team let him do this???
As much as I hate downvoting to disagree in principle, I will be downvoting that thread out of principle.
Because he has admin rights and can literally control the narrative?
Spez decided he’s doing an AMA tomorrow.
Tomorrow? Who wants to bet that the questions and the answers are already written as we speak?
His PR team will be right there with him. Their inflated egos think that all that capital can buy some really good spin. Maybe it’ll work for some, but I’m gone.
I’ll miss what Reddit was but not what it’s become. Good riddance to yet another enshittified social media site.
I’ve been spending way less time on Reddit too since I joined Lemmy. I wanna help spread the word about Lemmy on Reddit, but I don’t know how to do that without having it come across as an advertisement.
And risk getting banned by Reddit 🥶🥶
go to the sub called /r/lemmy, people there are begging for tutorials about lemmy.
Figured out Lemmy in about a day… Trying to setup my own instance… 4 hours of failure so far. Lol
Ya , I was looking into it , but I think you need Sudo admin access ? I have a dreamhost shared server but I don’t think it’ll work
Yes, you need sudo.
I mean, do you really care if people think you’re advertising at this point?
That is a challenge we have, but I think the answer is to just go for it. I’m doing the same here with kbin which is another option for viewing the same content (I’m responding to you from there) but with some extra features. I feel like an advertisement, but at the same time a lot of new people just don’t know what else is out there in the fediverse, so I’m trying to encourage exploring and finding what’s right for you.
Made an account on here years ago when I first heard of lemmy, finally started using it after I heard they were killing API access. Haven’t been on Reddit since. :)
I just registered here after reading the RIF announcement. I won’t be using the official app, so I guess that’s the end of an era for me!
Sync for me. I still browse on my desktop, so once they get rid of old.reddit, that’s the end of the line for me. Niche/local subs are going to be going to be hard to do until a critical mass shows up here.
Same boat here. Been using RiF for almost a decade now and have no intention of using the terrible privacy hell Reddit app. There’s potential here to be a viable alternative.
Reddit gets maybe 15 minutes a day from me at this point. I’m not even sure I want a replacement for it. I’ll be removing my reddit app from the phone on blackout day. Maybe I’ll reinstall, maybe I won’t.
This place seems nice, though.
I haven’t been back to Reddit since I created an account on here a few days ago. I thought I would be going back there regularly to consult my more niche subreddits, but I haven’t been back at all.
I’m happy with where Lemmy is right now. So for me it can only get better here. I think I’m 100% done with Reddit.
RIP Sync for Reddit, you were my go-to for the past decade.
I’ll miss sync a lot too, it is such a great application.
Lemmy is great. It doesn’t need to be the end all to be all, and it doesn’t need to be a reddit killer. It just needs to be around for whoever wants to congregate and discuss.
I’m pretty new here myself. I’ve already started to migrate myself off of Reddit completely and start engaging here more. So far I have to say that I’m loving this community as well. Definitely seems to be more inviting here. At least I can post right away without having to have a certain amount of karma or whatever. This is kinda refreshing!
I think I’m going to still use reddit to solve certain problems when googling. It’s still a good resource for solving specific problems. Just won’t spend any browsing time there. Just in an out.
Same here, for porn only.
Definitely relate to this! If I google something and one of the top results is a Reddit post, I’m usually pretty excited because it means other people having similar issues will be able to offer advice on my particular use case. And there’s so much content already on Reddit that you’re very likely to find something helpful!
Yeah, it’s so useful because you get suggestions from real users along with discussion and a voting system. You’re not just relying on an algorithm to point to a poorly written list with the right keywords stuffed in. Oh, you’re looking for the best xyz? Here’s a list of Amazon affiliate links chosen by an “expert.” No thanks.
Same here, Google has slowly become unusable for certain topics if you don’t append “reddit” to your search.
I started using DuckDuckGo actively in 2014. It has since been my primary search engine. It used to be very similar to google: minimalist, an ad placed as the first search result and that’s it. DDG has stayed pretty much the same. The few times I now wander on google to try to get different results, I just find it so unusable. Search results are swimming in an ocean of suggested content… I’m never going back.
Brave Search is getting better as well. The browser is already pretty solid, I’m using it now.
I use brave on my phone. It autoblocks youtube ads, which is nice.
I do the same. It feels exactly the same, if not slightly better than, google search, now that search is so drowned in SEO spam anyways.
I’ve noticed I’ll type in the exact name of the website but forget the .com to tell my browser to go directly there, so it will do a search. My results show the site I was looking for halfway down the page, with the first half being ads and even competitors of the site! I’m not searching for items from the site but the site itself yet Google is so useless it shows me a bunch of similar stuff even when I gave it a specific.
It’s way too hard to cut through the search engine optimized spam when googling something now. Especially for product recommendations all you get are random top X lists.
Yes! and when you actually click on them you realize the term you searched was only used by those pages as seo and aren’t actually mentioned anywhere in there.
I’ve pretty much only been there to spread the word about Lemmy.
… And because muscle memory causes me to immediately type in “re” when I want to go to a link aggregator.
Happy to be here as well. Hopefully we can see beehaw grow to be great!
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I won’t miss the nth screenshot of a tweet of a tiktok.
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R/all and the default subs have been trash for years, but it was still possible to have a decent experience on Reddit after curating your subscriptions to your own interests, and using 3rd party apps. I’m slowly moving my browsing over to here especially given the recent news, but it is difficult to give up the niche subreddits I enjoy that don’t yet have comparable communities here.
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3rd party filter options and Reddit enhancement is incredibly useful and what made it so preferable over all the social media options with the power it gave to curate instead of having to rely on an algorithm.
I hope lemmy gets those type of third party apps and tools to make it possible.
