YoUlL bE bAcK In A wEeK they said. I was not back, ever, unless you count an occasional Google search for specific info, with account remaining deleted
48I stuck around read-only on old.reddit.com after about a month of not using it. Then they changed that on mobile, so then I migrated to Lemmy.
It doesn't have the same level of content or communities...seems like far fewer "normies" have found their way here. In some ways, that's nicer. In some ways, it's worse.
But I don't think I could go back to Reddit. Lemmy scratches that same itch, and it'll likely only get bigger as time goes on. Probably not as big as Reddit was though.
8I'm kind of okay with Lemmy, or at least this instance of it, not becoming quite as big as reddit. Reddit was just an absolute firehose of bullshit by the end, and you had to wade through so many posts worth of crap, spam, Onlyfans shilling nonsense, reposts, and so on and so forth before you found anything interesting in most of the general subs. While the volume of content on Lemmy is obviously lower, I think the quality of it is noticeably higher. In my experience, anyhow.
People seem to make posts about things because they actually care about whatever it is -- or just making Lemmy a more active platform -- and not because they want to algorithmically please the hivemind and garner a shitload of upvotes, or have some chump award them gold, or whatever.
4We like it here. 😁
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What's Reddit like nowadays?
Haven't been over there since the apps died.
38A lot of niche subreddits still dark honestly. I still run into it when searching obscure things (the only reason I ever go to Reddit)
10Pretty much the same.
9Bots galore.
And mods who are still banning everyone who breathes.
The only people left over there are the ones with their heads in the sand.
6Depends on the subreddit and how the mods reacted.
For mainstream users nothing changed. There’s two subreddits I stay active on. But I’m trying to make a point to make keep creating content on activity protocol.
5My teen is a big Redditor and definitely notices poorer quality content. He knows my choice to no longer be there, but it’s not like I tried to be evangelical about it: he needs to decide for himself what values he stands up for, how he chooses to spend his entertainment time and attention.
He’s fascinated by human motivations and is a big reader of r/AmITheAsshole. It used to lead to some great discussions. We have t noticed whether there are less frequent postings but there are definitely a lot fewer worth discussing.
Unfortunately last timeI checked on Lemmy, there was a fledgling community but neither the scale nor the cultivation to be interesting.
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Bob knows what's up. That's my boy Bob Burgers! That's his name. Bob Burgers.
32Ok yes but where's our Bob's burgers community then?
24Grill it and they will come.
Also it’s here bobsburgers@lemmy.world
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Never thought reddit would turn ass
7Really? It’s been turn ass for 10 years. Being ass shouldn’t be surprising
5They became Chive lol
2I believe reddit jumped the shark after the obama ama. Too big a surge of users to keep the cultural norms and enough mainstream media attention for the admins to start seeing dollar signs. Thanks Obama!
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Narrator: And this post contributed less than nothing to everyone's time.
If you're mad at me being right and replying to this, I'm glad I could participate in the time-wasting bullshit train and make you mad!
-3Sir, this is /c/shitpost.
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You people are like a jealous ex partner that you just shit talk all day. But you'd take them back the second you had the chance.
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