Did anyone try to return to reddit and notice it just didn't do it for you anymore?

Idk I don't exactly find Lemmy a bastion of my interests. It's very clear the community is far smaller. The niche communities of topics im interested are mostly nonexistent and it's largely a sea of memes and references I don't remotely understand or care to. Something about communists or some shit? What? Pass.

I've noticed Reddit is full of people who just don't understand how Reddit is supposed to work. Comments stopped being fun and it just feels like Facebook now

Nope. Their app and their CEO are both garbage, I'm not supporting either

Too much rage bait, also after a time in here it's quite apparent how much the algorithm tries to push you to addiction.

I miss the niche communities tho.

Reddit isn't fun anymore, I agree with that. I checked /r/all for this first time today in months. I haven't logged in or browsed since the blackout, but there are a few communities I miss and was thinking about going back over for those, so I checked r/all out of curiosity to see how things have been. The content was just so much trash, and I don't even think it's that much worse. It's just that I've been away for so long that I'm looking at it now like "how did I spend my days scrolling through this garbage for hours?" It's just boring, it's like just interesting enough to keep you scrolling hoping to find something actually interesting.

Here on lemmy there is far fewer users and far less content. But I'm starting to see that as a good thing. I pop by and scroll, but I don't spend hours here like I did on reddit. The discussions are smaller, but more engaging and thoughtful. I remember before I left there were certain threads I'd see and just skip because I already knew exactly what all the comments would be. Also, I'm actively engaging more here, so there is actually some "social" in my social media use, instead of just passively consuming like I mostly did on reddit.

Overall I think ithe switch to Lemmy has been good, for me at least. It's like I've broken the reddit addiction, and looking at it now I can't understand why I got so caught up with it in the first place. To me, reddit just isn't fun anymore.

I've occasionally ended up on Reddit accidentally when following a search link. Which immediately blasts me with notifications and pushy requests to browse in some other way than I want to. After using Lemmy for this long, which lets me peacefully do my thing my way, it comes off as really rude even before I get to the comments.

At this point, I've actually started actively avoiding Reddit links in my searches. I can generally find the info I need somewhere else without getting yelled at by the website.

I went over for an article I found. Scrolled out of morbid curiosity. It's just awful. Ended up commenting about it and was down voted back to hell, apparently where I'm told o belong.

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Yeah, I still exist on reddit for news or a few niche communities. I see a lot of the recycled memes and point gaming. The few discussions get no traction or an overwhelming response. You can't really argue with anyone. It becomes ad-hominem and hurt feelings.

Depending on which subs you see, the assholes have won. Holy shit the amount of right wing bullshit that got into the place. Like wallstreet silver. I didn't much give a shit before it started looking like the front page of diet stormfront.

The remaining mods are at large, S class window lickers and ableist who have been applying to get a position for years and just now get their chance to goatse the corpse of what was once a great website. Started seeing tons of people getting banned for the most petty of shit. Buddy of mine got a 30 day ban for linking another sub reddit in his comment.

Of course, I got banned too. on my 12th cake day no less, for saying a kids attitude was going to get him beat up in high school or worse.

But if anything, there are so many folks out there that can say they were there before they got spez'd and the assholes took over. It was nice for a while, but in the end, fuck reddit.

I’m back to Reddit, I kinda gave up here, but I’ll look a couple of times a week.

Too much politics. Linux. Privacy. Bidet talk. ADHD. Bad memes. Techbabble. Snore

No matter the filters I just can’t get an interesting feed, I just blocked about 6 political subs just today - it’s kinda shitty content imo (for me anyway)

I’m happy this exists but the rage honeymoons over for me. Old habits die hard I guess …..now……..back to arguing with bots!!

I think for the way I personally used Reddit, Lemmy still feels lacking, and I'm excited for it to grow. The good news is it's getting bigger every day and niche communities are being created all the time, so we'll get there. But there's no doubt a treasure trove of question and answer posts on Reddit that I still need to access at times, so it's still useful to me in that regard, but I'm not actively checking it at all anymore.

Honestly, the main reason is no fun anymore is the lack of a decent app (I loved BaconReader - YMMV). Since the UX has been downgraded severely (most have lost their preferred app), the user base, community and content have suffered.

I'd have been content to pay a reasonable subscription fee to keep using BaconReader. I'd even pay for ad removal - I'm not after a free ride. However, an enjoyable ride is now unavailable be it free or paid.

So, here's Lemmy. I hope it works out long term, but the growing pains associated with scaling are not to be underestimated. I suspect the challenges will be less technical in nature than in user wrangling and moderation. (though running the tech ops mustn't be underestimated).

TLDR - Yes.

There are a few subreddits that don't have a counterpart on lemmy, or the counterpart isn't as active yet. But when I go on Reddit, I'm spammed with posts I'm not subscribed to, nor really have a want to be subscribed to. As more communities become more active on lemmy, the less I will need Reddit.

Reddit is still a much larger archive of crowd sourced knowledge, so until Lemmy becomes more comprehensive there's still some reason for me to use reddit. Though I don't actively participate anymore.

It's been a pretty clean break for me. The only times I have found myself in reddit the last few months was just for some archived post that answered a question I had.

Nothing feels like it was lost.

I only check back once in a while for my city’s sub because the lemmy equivalent isn’t as active yet. I no longer have an interest in checking out r/all or the frontpage.

It's really different, that's for sure. The front page is full of subreddits I've never seen much (or any) of before. Comments on posts seem lower by an order of magnitude on the most popular ones. I don't know about site visits but engagement seems way down. How u/spez will spin it for the IPO remains to be seen.

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The only thing I miss is HighStrangeness which was fun to go through every once in a while. The rest of reddit isn't really worth looking at. But here there are tech nerds and Linux enthusiasts and pirates everywhere! I am among my people.

I occasionally go there but for specific reasons. No more late night browsing for me.

My trouble at the moment is that I am reaching myself 3d modeling and texture skinning for trackmania.

Wanna take a guess where the largest repository of blender/substance painter tutorials and trouble shooting is?

During the APIcalypse I deleted my glorious multireddits and unsubscribed from nearly all the subreddits. This way I’ve intentionally made my Reddit experience very boring. Now that my favorite Reddit app is dead, I have to use a mobile browser, and the experience is… well not as bad as with the official app, that’s for sure. But it it’s still unpleasant or boring.

Because of all that, I don’t visit Reddit anywhere as often as I used to. Nowadays I check Reddit maybe once a week, browse for a few minutes, get infuriated by the ads and move on to something nicer like doing the dishes or folding my laundry.

Don't be too complacent, of course. I've seen people on the Fediverse turn feral and Reddit-esque during discussions of particular culture war issues. It's not completely peachy here all the time; there are some subjects about which some people can't help losing their composure.

My problem here is the amount of folks whose only post or comment is to complain about the lack of content. You want that niche community experience well someone has to lay the cement. Don’t just sit there expecting to be entertained by others

I still use it from time to time because sometime I just need the information I'm looking for. I've justified it telling myself that I'm using it 1/100th of the time I used tt and only use it when necessary.

The don't miss the "Popular" of reddit, but the small specialized communities are not present here. I'm still using reddit for r/clashofclans, r/thedivision, r/printedcircuitboards, r/gradschoolmemes, r/phd and the discussion threads on r/movies about the movies I have watched. The community didn't move here.

I pop on the every so often for one specific subreddit because there's no alternative anywhere sadly. I don't log in or interact with anything though.

The vibe I get from a lot of the political and antiwork stuff is astroturfing and/or highschoolers. It's a bunch of meme-driven babble that started as a solid pro union anticapatilistic sentiment that grew into nonsense.

I also find it harder to isolate communities I don't care to be brigaded by. I politically involved enough in my own life. Memes on memes on memes.

Same here. Hell even Lemmy doesn't quite scratch that itch, all the niche communities are gone and all thats left are communists, old memes, basic porn, and generally low quality posts.

I logged out and deleted it from my bookmarks. I avoid it unless I absolutely don't have any other sources.

Yes I have gotten back from time to time, mostly because my Sync for Reddit app is still patched and makes it easier to not use their garbage app (which I don't even have installed).

And no, it still feels interesting to me, not with r/all nor my frontpage with best sort (this was my main page) but my handhelds multi reddit.

I am subbed to similar communities here, but it is just not the same... Yet.

It was that way for a bit at the beginning. I found the quality of discussion here was much better, and reddit was just super toxic by comparison.

I've noticed the general toxicity has creeped into Lemmy now though, so it's kinda the same either way for me now.

The only time I go to reddit is to look at r/redditalternatives and witness whatever drama is going on within the newest centralized attempt at reddit that week

Logged in yesterday, with the intent of deleting it.

It welcomed me as usual, I had notification for a reply on a thread I was participating and a PM, pluss there were a few interesting title on some subs I was in.

The reply was someone just spewing I was wrong and everything I had said was bullshit.

The PM was some random invitation from someone telling me to join their OnlyFans page.

And the general feel of the threads I snooped was all doom and gloom and 3 out 5 comments just dripping of poisounous sarcasm.

After that sample, I was done.

I'm still having a hard time adjusting, to be honest. Granted much of reddit is full of reposts, even so there's still just a lot more content and interaction. I could and did spend all day on one or two subreddits, but here it's kind of checking in one a day and seeing maybe a few new posts. I don't have anything else though, so I'm just often left starving for content. But I just can't give spez the satisfaction of returning.

I only go for one community surrounding a book series, and only on Mondays when there are weekly discussion threads for new chapters. I found reddit pretty easy to cut out when I just stopped using it on mobile entirely.

I do both, but the reposts and karmafarming make Reddits Popular or All options terrible while Lemmy's is just... weird but interesting. Plus, I like Linux, Star Trek and D&D. Hell, even the random porn, why not. Nobody's looking.

Granted, I'm also the kind of guy who despises wholesome crap, and would take random fringe tankie posts over wholesome (really orphan crushing machine) posts any day. No karmafarm1988, your repost about the dog that was rescued did not make my day. I'd much rather hear for the twentieth time how the dog was only homeless because of capitalism, lol.

It's also no longer personal when even in my less popular communities there's like 4000 comments, almost all of which are karma farming. No reason to chime in most the time. On Lemmy I've encountered jerks, main characters, and holier than thou type users, but it's less often. That's a feature of humanity, not a bug.

But, I do still have some subreddits I'll lurk, via Infinity (no ads, no data mining). I haven't seen a good alternative to r/comics or r/idiotsincars, unfortunately. Can't replicate the former since it's up to the artists, and can't replicate the latter because it benefits from a huge userbase. There's always someone who lives near an accident and can give solid context, even if it's bumfuck nowhere.

Their app is terrible so I keep to only checking my favorite communities that sadly haven't moved over at all.

I only go back sometimes because I find more cute anime content there than here.

Reddit since changed the UI again which killed my interest in scrolling r/all. I still have to go there to view r/localllama, r/singularity and r/UFOs, none of which have a sizeable Feddit equivalent. I could do without the speculation of the latter 2 in my life, but I need LocalLlama because it is a great source for news and advice on LLMs.

I still go there when I want to answer something that I know there are posts there. Also some products run their user communities on Reddit but I have a much more utilitarian attitude towards Reddit. My focus on participation is over here.

every time i go back to reddit there's a blacklog of content waiting that somehow never makes it to the fediverse and a few things that were earth shaking and the fediverse didn't pickup on at all.

Yeah, I'm really not a fan of it anymore. After several post removals, and a unwarranted warning on my account, I am just done with it.

I went back in during some of the recent current events to see how the discussions were. Plenty of quantity, not much quality, imo. There wasn't much in the way of thoughtful commentary or discussion that interested me.

I check it frequently but I only check my fave music subs, and even so I don't watch/listen to everything posted there. For me, the main difference has been the heaven sent lack of engagement on mostly trivial topics that seem to appear every single day on the rest of the subs I used to follow.

I still go there because of all the firearms related content but on the whole I'm using both Beehaw and reddit a lot less than I was using Reddit before.

Not sure if Lemmy is better or if reddit has just fallen so hard over the years. There's either been a stark decline recently or some time away has given me fresh eyes to see how bad it is. It's just a social media feed like any other now. The comments are noticably dumber and low effort rains supreme.

I got ip banned so all my muti year accounts were toasted. Kinda took the joy out of it for me. I made new accounts but they'd get banned too for a while. I have one still but it's inactive. The users there feel so fake, constantly on a high horse or acting like victims. I don't find the people there to be reasonable and the communities i liked are here on lemmy now. Lemmy people are less like bots, and are more inviting to conversation

I downloaded infinity for reddit. Scrolled few post and deleted the app. Back to lemmy.

I didn't return, don't want to...

Lol yeah, I just couldn't take the echo chamber of radical Lefties anymore. I'm by no means a Trump-voting conservative but if you even hinted at an opinion that didn't fit the narrative you got piled on with downvotes and abuse like some kind of bigoted leper.