Where are all of the reddit refugees these days?

Lots are here. I joined a while ago on a different server and the content was slow. But by now it's like always fresh content.

I can tell you the traffic rose up.

This is probably where most of them ended up, a few communities here are the official replacements too.

The problem is that Reddit is MASSIVE compared to any of the alternatives. More people are moving over slowly, it just takes time. As for why you aren't seeing much, maybe your feed is set to 'local'?

You can also subscribe to communities you like. Try looking for topics here: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

Just browsing /c/everything top-6 hrs and then getting into arguments in the comments.

It's like I never left.

Well I don't really consider myself a refugee so much anymore is the thing, it just feels like home here now

Another ex redditor here. The issue seems to be that a lot of people created communities but never bothered to post something. Even my little ubuntu server community has nearly 90 subscribers by now.

We should work on more visible „you‘re here, what to do next“. Something like „go to communities tab, all, subscribe to each one you like“, missing any? Make them yourselves, but dont forget to post on them since very few people will subscribe to an empty community. 10-20 posts over a month should be a good start. Generally avoid bots since they dont boost interaction at all (my personal impression).

Or a reminder for people who have made communities but no posts. That would stress them a bit I suppose but I thought I‘d bring the idea to the table.

Anyway, have a good one. :)

Lurking, just like I did on reddit. Lemmy is amazing and scratches most of the same itch reddit did for me, but I just read, vote, and move on.

Most of us are here! If you're just joining us, Welcome to the Party!

I'm here!! And there are 'developed communities'... Lots of them. Keep looking and you'll get how things work here.

Lemmy is getting a lot of content these days. So I'm happy with it.

Lemmy is kinda nice but still kinda quiet, also as a 30 something I feel that the crowd here is quite young and immature which isn't that great

Present. Using this as I did reddit. It’s like browsing a lot of the smaller subreddits I enjoyed, but all the time.

Downsides are less content, and definite growing pains. I think there are some aspects of the platform severely limiting its growth at this time, and I’m not sure how it’s going to tackle them yet. But I’m along for the ride.

I'd rather not browse Reddit if it means having to use the official dumpster-fire of an app... since that's the only option now, I just deleted my account.

Lemmy definitely scratches the itches I used to rely on Reddit for - I've had zero urge to relapse.

I'm here, but barely. I've not went back to Reddit (got IP banned during the migration), but Lemmy is too focused on certain topics for me to enjoy it.

Mainly FOSS and Linux community FLOCKED to Lemmy. You really can't say anything about anything without people coming out of the woods screaming about how stupid you are, how FOSS is better, and Linux is superior.

Remember the backlash over Sync for Lemmy? Massive hate from the Lemmy community because it wasn't FOSS. Wouldn't be shocked if the Boost for Lemmy dev stopped developing his app after seeing that. I feel like Lemmy is shooting itself in the foot and pushing people away.

EDIT: case in point. https://lemmy.ca/comment/3131292

https://sub.rehab is a good place to look for former Reddit communities that made the move.

I'm here. I left reddit for good, I don't even lurk it anymore.

A lot of communities went to Discord for some reason. I don't get it, its not the same as reddit at all.

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!

I am on Lemmy (here and a few other instances) but when I get into discussions in comments here I am starting to wonder if I should just quit the whole social media concept altogether. So far I have mostly stayed since I still need to get some news from somewhere but RSS might be a better option in the long run.

I’m here! How did you not see me?

I'm here still. It is much slower here than reddit, but there are some upsides to that. One is that I spend way less time on my phone, scrolling

Discuit seems to offer nothing new but more promises of not falling down the same buisness practice pitfalls as reddit. I am sure they are well intentioned. But intentions are not enough.

I am on Lemmy for one simple reason. I am done trusting corporations to run projects for any extended poeriod of time without succumbing to corruption, greed, or missmanagement.

Spend a few minutes going through the all communities here, a number of active communities moved across, you just have to look for them.

Not every community made the move. Tech related ones are definitely here, not so much for games or anything in humanities unless we're counting very small communities. But it's a start.

Reddit is old enough to vote and has several orders of magnitude more users. You can't create that much content organically overnight. As more content gets added it will attract more people who are interested in that content. In turn those users will contribute even more, even if it's just in the form of engagement and upvoting posts they like.

Lemmy is already experiencing some growing pains because the decentralized, user hosted nature of the platform will never be able to react quickly across all instances. We deal with it because we don't want to be controlled by one overarching entity and this is the ONLY alternative. Are there issues? Yes. Are there fewer issues than other social media sites? I don't know, but the problems are at least different and potentially more fixable in the long run.

You don't find this one to be developed? Well, they might not be establishments like on Reddit but there's definitely activity on many communities.

I am here. I managed to not return to Reddit, and now would only go there to look up something specific, and not as a signed up member. I make do with Lemmy. I am hoping it grows too.

lurking

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.

I log on about one a week. I forgot why I showed up. I replied to replies and then started scrolling.

Goddamn it. I came here do do something. Fuck.

Yep this is the right place. But we are still building it, with only our own efforts. Without data mining nor investors.

I've just been here since the API change. I've been more or less happy with it. Some things are dissapointing, like there being just as much of a hive-mind mentality as reddit. But I guess that's probably just inherent to online vote-based communities.

I also wish there were an easier way to find new communities - and good ones. I don't want to browse shitty memes. I want stuff where people are participating in good faith genuine discussion about meaningful topics.

I've found some of that here so far.

At the end of the day though, this is open source and decentralized. It's everything a social media should be. To me, anything less than that is a waste of time. There is zero reason to spend your personal time creating content for a company to profit off of.

I think most of them are back on Reddit.

They're all over commenting, posting, and such. I'm one of them, though I mostly lurk. There's plenty of developed/developing communities here on lemmy

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.

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.

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.

I'm here from reddit

Reporting in

Still here

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.

You are disingenuous.

I'm here!

hexbear.net

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.

I'm never going back to that cesspool.

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

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.

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.

I'm assuming Discuit is a private company using proprietary software? If that's the case, may as well just crawl back to Reddit and gently place the boot back on your neck.

The ex-reddit users who choose to not let sociopath scumbags golden shower them can still be found here.

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.

Oh you are in the right place! Once people figure out how to use the fediverse its jover for reddit.

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

Still here. Never went back, but it's so hard not to.

Reporting in. Once you spend a bit of time here you will find the things you are familiar with in a different form, Lemmy has its own culture going. Though there are also a bunch of sub replacements, or at least very similar communities.

Though it is of course true that reddit was the internet culture place for a good decade, and that reverberates through to how people communicate, what humor and references they have and make, and so on.

Over time more and more people will migrate, and help to foster new communities here. The fediverse is still in its pioneering stage, so naturally the content is less varied than on reddit, and there are still the occasional technical issues to work out, but overall it’s been a fun two months here. I actually haven’t missed reddit much, just for the occasional ultra specific answer I am looking for.

Also, welcome!

Yeah it's something that'll take time... reddit had years of activity to give it the beef of info and content. Lemmy will get there, just going up steadily :) (reddit refugee)

Greetings from kbin.social

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.

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

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

Here

probably in some kind of camp

Stull here, but I mostly stay quite

I think the biggest sub I'm on here is all of 5000. Ouuuu.

Obviously not even 5% of reddit transitioned over. I know a lot of my favourite subs went to discord.

But discord - to my knowledge - doesn't have a 'front page' of subs... Making it hard to find new subs.

https://redditmigration.com/

Still around, and possibly outnumbered the non refugees already. But we haven't yet reached critical mass, so there is a lot less content (with few exceptions such as the piracy and foss communities which are solid and potentially better than what you may find on Reddit)

TL;DR Tbh I think most people just stayed on reddit or are here.

Totally gave up reddit in favour of kbin/lemmy and discuit. I'm quite happy using both at the moment as they serve different purposes: kbin gives access to a lot more content, especially memes and news related so I'm 99% of the time a lurker here.
Discuit is still a very small community and favours more discussion based content, but since they just added image post support that will probably change. There's only 4k or so accounts and a lot of people who migrated from Squabblr due to the main admin's attitude or something. It's mostly a pretty relaxed place with a few rocky moments and the admins are nice, anyone harassing other users gets dealt with pretty quick as it's still small.

Hereee!

Here

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

I moved herr, just to different communities.

What sort of communities are you looking for, OP? Maybe we can give you a hand getting settled in.

Hey there, also calling back from kbin.social as some of the commenters in this mini-raft.
Although most of the politics posts can be a bit of an eyesore to most of us here, I found comfort in this instance, even going so far as to establish some new mags for my ephemeral interests, one for the musico-archivist Derivakat herself, of which I have grown tired of continually building as my college era began to set in, up until this point.

As for private small-group convos, I'm also mulling moving on to revolt.chat along with a few others in my own Discord server if ever its fires start blazing forth.

In think the key to helping those stuck in the Reddit world is to cross post Lemmy/kbin links to Reddit. You can even get any url to a post via the share feature on the apps. Let’s make them aware there is a place where they are not just making money more money.

still here

Still here my man

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.

I'm primarily on my Blahaj account but I'm currently using one of my alts as Jerboa is crashing when I try to log into my Beehaw account (which requires me to clear the app storage to switch accounts) and Blahaj is currently having server issues again.

Personally I dig the vibes of the Blahaj folks

Mostly I sub to communities all over the fediverse, though this alt is a bit more bare as I mostly keep them separated in terms of where I interact.

still here

Hexbear

It's paradise for lost Redditors.

I'm not technically a refugee as I'm happy to use both websites, but I'm here.

I'm here!

However, I can't seem to create communities that are missing from lemmy. Maybe an instance problem?

👋

They're right here on the threadiverse

Yeah, nowhere near the size of reddit, but who wants that? Easier to have discussions without bazillions of people posting crap like "works for me" or being dicks.

I don't really trust other alternatives. Being unfederated, they rely on a closed source solution maintained by a single person or very small group of people. There's nothing in place if the plugs ever get pulled, everything is lost and like reddit, whose to say these owners won't turn their website slowly into the cesspit reddit is?

Yeah, an instance owner of lemmy/kbin could theoretically pull the plug on their instance or enshitify it, but you can just switch to a different instance and keep accessing the content you were.

We all went here

I’m here!

They went back to reddit or scatter around other social networks or ultimately ended up turning into floating balls of nostalgia.

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

First I need to spend weeks upvoting shitposts, however.

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HOOOOTIE WHOOOO

We exist!

Hii

am here

Aloha.

here from Reddit my main community (uselessserver093) could've benefited from lemmyshitpost incident but didn't

Boost for reddit still works so 🤷‍♂️ I just use both. once Boost goes away then maybe I'll try the main app again but probably not much

Sup dood.

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Many are around. All ? May-be not, some people would have moved to other places (discord, Mastodon, and more)

Welcome here, looks like you already got the federation concept and how to access communities which aren't on your home instance, congrats. Remember that you're part of the community and be the change you want to see

Sometimes, it's a bit messy as you get 3 communities with the same name on different instance and only one of the 3 is active, but in general it's works

My account is older than the Reddit exodus, but I did started to use it after the Reddit's 3rd party app drama.

Hello from artemis.camp (kbin fork for app)!

Discord, Telegram, old style forums, and some on Lemmy.

Hey, wassup

Most are probably talking to chatbot on Reddit. I'm here though. I was never that into Reddit to start with though. I just need a platform to wind people up on. And Lemmy has plenty of hankies and buthurt capitalists. Both are just as easy to wind up.