It helped that Reddit got rid of 3rd party apps.
Because I only used Reddit 100% on mobile, and their app is horrendous.
I missed the quantity of content on reddit, but I do not miss the quality of replies on reddit.
I just stopped using reddit. I was so mad about having my 12 year old account perm banned for talking shit about Nazis I swore the entire place off.
Did you consider the feelings of the nazis before talking shit about them? They are very sensitive, you know.
For me, it’s the fact that while I dont always see eye to eye with the people here the fact is every account is almost certainly an actual person and not a bot. I want to hear other’s experiences and perspectives and Reddit will not provide that.
I also like the fact that there is an end to the content here. It’s not endless scrolling.
This is the thing I notice the most whenever I check back into reddit. So much bot & ai bullshit.
I also agree with u/[email protected] that several of the subs I subscribed to have no equivalent here yet.
That’s true there are no replacements for many subs and you just have to ask yourself how much you need them.
Yep. Its definitely a nice to have, not a need to have.
I came over here when they cut off 3rd party apps. I wasn’t going to browse reddit without Boost, and theres a Boost app for Lemmy, so staying here was easy. I have gone back to reddit twice since, and both times were to check if GeForce Now was broken or if the problem was on my end. Unfortunately Nvidia is pretty terrible at keeping people updated when something is wrong with GFN, so the GFN subreddit is really the only way to find out what’s going on. If I found an active GeForce Now community here I’d never go back.
My Reddit app stopped working, and the official app is dogshit; Reddit kind of made the switch for me
Same for me. When the third party API fiasco happened, Reddit was dead to me.
If I can’t engage on my terms, I don’t want to engage at all
I stopped using reddit, and started using lemmy. It’s not hard.
I kinda had to accept that Lemmy wouldn’t have the same hooks to trigger impulsive scrolling because Lemmy isn’t a corporation desperate to mine you for every ounce of data you can provide.
Also took me a while to find a group of communities with content I like.
I sometimes reinstall Reddit just see what’s happening over there, whenever I open it, it feels like I’m being inundated with ads, both obviously and via the ingenuine comment threads.
This is it. Lemmy just isn’t designed the same as reddit and its gonna take a bit for you to find and explore different communities on here before your feed has a steady flow of new stuff, and even then it won’t be as much as reddit.
I love when I see the same article posted in both places. The comment sections are vastly different. I feel better knowing it’s actual people here.
Lemmy doesn’t have most of the communities I need, so I still end up using Reddit a lot and sometimes other sites/forums. I use Lemmy for casual browsing though because Reddit’s main subs are complete ass and the politics on Lemmy and its focus on Linux discussion is a lot better.
Consider making one or two of those communities. There’s no shame in sourcing articles/content from reddit and posting it here (direcelt links to source, not links to reddit) . A post or two every few days will quickly round up others.
The majority of the communities I visit on reddit have no real equivalent on Lemmy. The only things in Lemmy are politics, open source, linux, android, anti ai, immediate downvote of the majority of news, etc.
Lemmy feels more like an individual community rather than a real platform, like lobste.rs with more emphasis on politics.
It’s been 2 years on Lemmy for me. I was on Reddit for 12 years prior.
I never looked back. I didn’t have a hard time at all really. Comment sections are so nice here usually. I only spend maybe 30 mins on here daily and never run out of content. But I’m a reader. I read articles and comments fully so I only get through a dozen posts or so.
What are you having a hard time with?
For me the content is just not quite there on Lemmy. Less stuff overall and less interesting and active communities. I wish Lemmy became a lot more popular because Reddit is firmly in an enshittification phase.
The moment old.reddit.com is gone, I’m done with it.
Embrace the fact that there is a limit to the amount of new content and do something else with your time.
Less stuff overall and less interesting and active communities
Once you realize that 1) like 80% of reddit is just bot slop and 2) a handful of accounts post the majority of “content”, you kind of don’t care that reddit has seemingly “more active” communities.
Pretty easy when they took away my favorite app and tried to force me into their ad-riddled POS - along with their hostile treatment and shuttering of subs that didn’t conform. It was already getting to the point that, after a decade plus of being a “redditor”, the place was wearing thin. The constant reposts and karma whoring, the hive mind, the low-hanging fruit of quips getting the most upvotes vs a well-thought out reply, the shills and bots, they were killing Reddit IMO. The action against third party apps was the final straw.
Reddit made it simple for me; they banned the app I browsed it with (Boost, along with every other 3rd party app).
I don’t browse on my desktop, and I refuse to use their 1st party app, so using Reddit became too inconvenient.
Same here, as I only use open-source clients on the phone. It’s been obvious for many years that the apps made by the social media companies are spyware, so I’ve stayed away from them.
But also I use the web mostly, and “switching” on the web just means closing one tab and opening another to visit a different URL. It’s sad that many folks who use the Internet don’t understand how or try to avoid the hellscape of app lock-in. The web is here for our open usage just as it has been for decades.
I never really posted on reddit. The apps I used to lurk all stopped working to one degree or another, and more and more of the content on reddit is just bots karma farming with AI slop and reposts.
Made it pretty easy to stop going there.
Cold turkey basically.
