My how time flies. Reddit was already trash at that point, it was mostly habit keeping me going there, but I think it's gotten a lot worse. Either that or I forgot just how bad it was.
yep, this, cold turkey ragequit. Have since had to go back for the odd super niche technical question/subject/area, but now I'm thinking I'll keep that readonly and delete my account (after trashing everything on it, ofc, which I did a week ago after a Reddit-typical terrible interaction with a terrible human.)
I browse exclusively on my phone, so deleting reddit apps and installing Lemmy apps was the biggest step for me.
I primarily browsed All, so setting my default sorting to All Top 12 Hours was key.
Finally, I made a point to comment and post more. This is where Lemmy beats Reddit hands down in my opinion. You can comment on posts that are hours old on All and still have meaningful discussions. Trying that on Reddit is like screaming into the void.
Edit: I also forgot to mention that I upvote almost everything. If you made a post that I read and it's not complete trash, you're getting an upvote. Same with comments. I upvote almost every comment I read - especially ones in response to my posts or comments. I feel like it let's people know they're being seen.
Your edit is a bit like that in the Fediverse in general. Since there's no algorithm, liking a post in Mastodon does nothing beyond letting op know you appreciate them. I like that.
I hate this phrase. There are several algorithms. There's new, hot, rising, etc. There's no company manipulating content discovery. That's the difference. Algorithms are great. For-profit companies with an incentive to control content is bad.
In the Lemmy word, sure. I was referring to Mastodon where there is no hot or rising. It's just based off of who you're following and when you check. Hence likes doing nothing but informing the poster of your appreciation.
I guess fair enough, though every other federated site I know of uses some other algorithm, and you seem to have been talking about the fediverse in general, not Mastodon, except for the example. Still, Mastodon's sort is still an algorithm. You can't display anything without an algorithm. That word just means a set of rules to complete a task. Mastodon uses one that only uses who you're following and time to decide what to display.
Algorithms aren't the issue. We can have sophisticated algorithms that help users find the content they want. That's great. It's when there is an incentive, and ability, to influence the algorithm by the platform controllers when there's an issue. The fediverse solves this not by ditching algorithms, but by having no singular controller.
On the web client, if you go to Trending, you will see "hot" posts (I have no idea how they're ranked) by folks you're not following. The official Android client has this too. It's where I spend most of my Mastodon time.
Edit: I also forgot to mention that I upvote almost everything. If you made a post that I read and it's not complete trash, you're getting an upvote. Same with comments. I upvote almost every comment I read - especially ones in response to my posts or comments. I feel like it let's people know they're being seen.
Oh hell yeah, me too. I browse all a lot (sometimes sorted by scaled) and even if something isn't for me, if it seems like something others would like, it's getting an upvote.
It took some time for me to realize that not finding a continuous stream of new content was a feature and not a flaw. It meant that there was no algorithm feeding me an endless stream of crap in hopes of keeping me glued to the screen. It meant I could close the app and move on with my day and check back much later. That realization made me embrace it.
Agreed. Reddit became worse when it started forcing unrelated content on you at every opportunity. It became hard to recommend to friends when each time I would realise I had forgotten what new reddit and the official app were like.
For me, the realization of how toxic Reddit can be combined with how lost in the crowd I felt was enough. I enjoy the smaller feel to the communities and that I can actually have a conversation instead of getting buried in comments was just the right combo.
Heh, on Reddit, I just avoided the larger subs. r/gaming was the worst gaming sub (aside from subs for free competitive games that are playable by children)
I'm curious how the Counter Strike subreddit was. It wasn't that bad I don't think a long time ago, before Reddit was as large as it became, and also before it was free. Now that Reddit is a hell-hole and the game is free, is the subreddit horrible too? I'd imagine it is, but I'd expect it to lean a little toward older audiences than the other games, so there's a chance it's fine.
The moment they announced increasing censorship was what did it for me, basically it was the 'It's only a matter of time before I get banned on here so I might as well nuke my account while I'm still ahead' realization when that went down.
Even just reading Reddit without an account sucks because Redlib is always getting blocked.
Honestly, reddit drove me away. I got tired of being hounded by engagement bots asking inane questions, and in the wake of reddit going public, the comment police regularly were nitpicking my comments, reading into them intolerance that simply wasn't there. I was just sick of it all. Reddit has a much bigger userbase, but lemmy is more friendly. There are occasions where it would be nice to post something niche and have a robust discussion, which requires a site with more mass appeal, but I'm not interested in all the drawbacks of dealing with reddit.
That is what happened to me.. the bots banned me within a minute for a metaphorically based - though salty - post. 14 years.
Thing is, I noticed a change in the algorithm not too long after the IPO since my homepage started in with more rage-bait subs and many were ones I'd not visited or even heard of. It was subtle but also kinda disheartening. I decided to manually delete all of what I could and as I was going through the posts I noticed that the art subs I used to go to had all but disappeared on my home page.
I used to go to photoshopbattles all the time and as I was scrolling my home pages, it was nowhere to be seen. Nor was AppleHelp, VintageApple or MacPro..
It's a bummer because reddit used to be really cool. It's like when you discover a cool little cafe or something that you love going to. Eventually more and more people discover it, and it becomes a bit more crowded, but you still go. Then it gets written up in some magazine or something, and the crowd becomes nuclear. It becomes a tourist trap flogging merchandise, and they turn it into a chain, with the food semi-preprepared for mass consumption. The experience sucks and what was a special spot is ruined.
It will never be exactly the same, but I feel lucky to have found something that captures at least part of the feeling of what Reddit used to be like. There’s the potential for it to grow into something just as cool in its own way, or maybe even better. And for now, it scratches that culture and discussion itch well enough that I don’t feel the need to wade back in to Reddit at all except for searching for specific answers to niche questions.
And I kind of like that there are no total upvote/downvote stats tied to our accounts.
Prevents karma farming so it disinclines the behavior to rage-bait or post controversial items for attention.
(Remember u/unidan? Guy karma farmed hugely and eventually got rumbled creating some brouhaha over the difference between crows and jackdaws. Absolute stupidity that got the better of him..)
Reddit hasn't really been good since the alogorith change that made the front-page stagnate for a day. I got the most out of it when browsing the frontpage was completely different 6 hours later. Once they made it so that everyone who checked reddit that day would get the same experience, the spirit of the site died.
The weird thing is apparently, I wasn't allowed to delete my account last night. I thought I did, but I went back not too long ago and on a lark, signed in again. Account's empty of all my unarchived posts - since I deleted it all, but I still have access. Think I'm going to see if the PM's work and just start hoovering interesting articles and items from there. WTF, it's not like I didn't bring content to the site.. Gonna take the best of it back and bring it here. Fuck it.
"be the change you want to see in the world", or in this case, "go ahead and post stuff. Nobody here is superhuman, but we try to do the right thing and be chill with people who also aren't quippy dickholes" aka, be human.
I'm sure this won't last, but for now it seems to be better than Reddit, at least. The way I've thought about it is that this takes a certain level/threshold of technical know-how/problem-solving to enter, so it filters out the most casual of thoughtless people (for now). Like if you can't put some serious thought into morality or slightly deeper rationality into a situation, you probably can't jump the bridge to fediverse-lemmy.
Also, as time goes on, I'm noticing all kinds of communities fragmenting into smaller, more specialized communities. Hopefully, Lemmy can be the platform/community of thoughtful considerates who are slightly tech elevated and more social.
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 just uninstalled Reddit and installed Sync for Lemmy. I'll still end up on reddit occasionally from a Google search result or something, but I don't go there intentionally.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My best is: just stop. Yes, Lemmy is like the rural version of Reddit. It’s slower, more niche communities, and not a lot of people making content. But screw Reddit. I was a 15 year reader. They’ve destroyed it for corporate greed. I’m all set.
Lemmy has a tiny fraction users compared to Reddit, it took me a while to get used to the new rhythm of things here. But after a few weeks, I realized that this is actually much better for me.
In 2 years I have encountered only one troll. There's a lot less content, yes, but I've learned that it's still more than enough. I do miss some of the active niche hobby communities, but I fixed that by digging up my old hobby forum site profiles. The old school forums are just as active as they ever were and I don't have to expose myself to Reddit's neverending stream of garbage anymore.
The transition was actually pretty painless and I wouldn't go back, even if they magically decided to clean the platform and restore the 3rd party apps. This is a smaller world and it fits me very well.
If you're using the app, uninstall it. Delete your bookmarks, etc. Make it more than an idle thought to be on the site.
Use the time you would normally spend doomscrolling on reddit to do something productive on Lemmy. Look for new communities to join, reply to posts you would normally just upvote, post something to a community that could use a boost, etc. The place is far from empty but more interaction really helps to drive growth and build friendships.
Join a bunch of communities that you may be interested in to fill up your feed with a bunch of stuff to read. That way, if you want to take a break and read stuff, you can look here rather than on Reddit. You can look for communities here that are a close match to what you had on Reddit. Over time, you can dial them in and hopefully not feel the need to go back to Reddit.
I never go back and just to read Reddit. I only go there if a web search looking for something in particular takes me there.
This has been my experience as well. I use to browse reddit for hours every day, and now have some of that time back. The only times I find myself there is through a search result to get information. Logging out and deleting your account helps a lot, because when you instinctively check the homepage when logged out, it's all trash, and doesn't make me want to stay.
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.
Just by keeping at it. Lots of posts don't get a lot of comments, seems like a lot of lurkers. My front page only has one post with >10 comments and the rest are at 3 or fewer. But Reddit is still in the top ten more-visited web sites in the world. So can't expect the same number of comments compared to the bigger subs there.
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.
What part are you struggling with? Not enough content? I get it, but also that's a feature. If you dislike centralized platforms more than you want to rot your brain, it takes zero effort.
Subscribe to communities and/or utilize the 'random' search to find communities (be warned that nsfw stuff up though if your setting isnt filtered). Sort by new sometimes. Lemmy is more user-directed whereas reddit is company-directed. No more force-feeding you sponsored content - you can search out and eat what you like!
Yeah, Lemmy isn’t quite at that critical mass where the niche stuff is active. That’s one thing Reddit was truly wonderful at, because it had enough people that even the niche stuff stayed active. Like if only 0.01% of people are interested in something, and a service only has 1000 users, there‘s a good chance that you’ll be the only poster.
I've found some super cool niche communities using the 'random community' search, which i think is a Voyager app specific option cause I'm not seeing it on desktop. I definitely recommend the Voyager app
Lemmy just isn't that good, you need other stuff too. I highly recommend finding independent niche website forums (the old school ones) for your interests and joining them. These are WAY less likely to have bots (unless political based) than Lemmy, Reddit, etc etc. They have real people, sometimes parroting bot stuff they saw elsewhere, but they are at least real and you can talk to them. And you get to know them because normally there's only like 50 active users on those websites at a time anyway. But damn do those 50 people know a lot about vaccuums, or trains, or magnet fishing or whatever the dedicated topic is for that site. It's the most unfederated you can be
Can you give me a topic or hobby that you'd be interested in joining a forum for? It would be easier to show you with an example and I don't want to doxx the forums I use.
Got permbanned last year for saying tthat NeoNazis like Stonetoss aka Hans Kristian Graebner should be named and shamed. Tbh fuck that place. Reddit admins are Nazi sympathizers.
Reddit kept being shittier and shittier, the people got dumber and dumber, and I kept getting more and more worried about being about to say what I really wanted about magas being fucking terrorists. Then they killed third party apps, and while I tried to make it work for a little while, eventually they killed the workaround, and that was the last straw.
Fediverse/kbin/lemmy has been such a constant breath of fresh air, even if that breath continues to be bad news, that I have literally no reason to go back. The queer techie and neighbor tankies and based non-Americans just make this place so much healthier and positive in a time in history when we really need people who aren't giant assholes and who are awake at all and who make a conscious decision to at least try to do the right thing.
Oh I use the “auto hide read posts” feature of Voyager so the posts are always fresh. With that combination of settings Lemmy has enough content to spend a few hours every day on if you want to haha.
I used to feel dread when I logged into reddit and saw that someone had replied to something I wrote. I no longer have an account there, and I even went for the nuclear option of overwriting all my old messages,
::: spoiler then deleting them in case they chose to restore them, because:
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For me personally it helps that I'm on a dedicated instance for Danes, so that's kind of like a safe haven, or like a kiddie pool where it was easier to get to know lemmy at first.
I no longer dread when someone replies because most of the people here on lemmy aren't assholes. I think it's because there's this barrier to entry which filters out a lot of people, or maybe it's that the assholes are looking for fights to begin with and is therefore attracted to the biggest platforms?
I think it went like this: I was sorting by "top hour" and all I saw was this one person's NSFW posts. I looked at their posts just now and it looks a lot less chaotic than what I branded them as originally, but you know, all it take is just one bad day on main.
Getting permabanned on my main and any secondary accounts I had helped. The app on my phone I use for Lemmy makes it look pretty much exactly like the Reddit app so the only difference for me is less people which means some communities I'd like to talk to people in just has nobody in them.
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 miss the finance communities on reddit. But everything else I looked into on reddit I can mostly find here. I also put the effort into posting when I can't find an existing topic. You have to have a pioneer mentality here to establish your community.
This is good advice. Whenever you find yourself thinking "I wish there was more ____ content" here I guarantee you're not the only one thinking that. It just takes one person to have the initiative to make the community and build it up. In my experience it's surprising how quickly others will follow.
My biggest advice is don't make a community and fill it with everything right away. If you have something you want to share maybe hold onto it. Make a list, post one every few days. These grow over time. One burst of posts fades away after a day or two, but regular, spread out posts keep it in people's feed for longer.
I went from full lurker to participant since I felt like I'm not completely drowned out by others. That made it more fun, since Lemmy all feed is pretty small relatively speaking and lurking gets boring if you're expecting an endless feed of random junk. Plus, since it's small, you can also feel like you're contributing to the Lemmy community, since without your comments and posts, it won't exist.
Although get to the bottom of the all feed and things get wild.
Ugh. The contrarian quippiness there is so FUCKING sophomoric. And everybody being the same authority on everything and all being passive aggressive as shit. It's like a land where nobody wants to build anything and everybody desperately needs validation.
Here, though, we just want validation via trauma bonding.....
.... Wait a minute .... Is Lemmy a ...survivor-platform?
For the Reddit communities that are important to me I use their RSS feeds to keep an eye on new posts though I've logged out of my account and stopped participating. All actual browsing and participation was switched entirely to Lemmy.
I went on a 10 day backpacking trip with no reception. I deleted my reddit apps and bookmarks before I went. So got over the withdrawals during the trip, and there was just enough friction to reinstall when I got back that I never bothered.
I was also very mad about them killing the API for 3rd party mod tools and the resulting slip into AI slop and misogynist claptrap on the sub I helped mod. It's an empty Internet wasteland now; just bots and MAGA incels yelling at each other.
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.
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.
Delete all your Reddit bookmarks and favorites and find a lemmy community to launch yourself into. I picked gaming and a few news ones and so far, it's fine.. Even moreso that I found the old.lemmy.zip page and it's comfortable to me as I was dedicated to old.reddit and RES.
On lemmy I use connect and basically Ive blocked out communities that don't appeal to me / are in languages I don't speak. I started broad and narrowed it down which gives me enough content in a day.
Everybody kinda already said the obvious answers, but I'll pop in to reiterate that my main reason was killing the API (because fuuuuuuck their shitty trash app filled with ads- or any and every app that has ads at all). I got here (Lemmy and piefed and mastodon)as part of the mass exodus that switched when the ax dropped on that.
I had wanted to before that, but addictions are addictions. But killing the app I actually liked using (combined with the dev making a Lemmy version that was extremely similar), I just kinda rode the wave to the Fediverse.
So like others, I still poke in when a search result points there, but I avoid it in general. Getting rid of the app will definitely help because it gets rid of the 1-tap access to shit.
To be honest: I haven't done a complete switch. I still lurk on reddit from time to time.
What I have done however is switched to only actively engage with Lemmy, which imo is the more important part. I sadly don't have much original content to offer, but I try to engage in some comments (like just now)
Same here. I made sure I quit all the drama subs, all the big subs and I only keep my carefully curated niche content communities in my reddit feed. There's really nothing on Lemmy about, say... Elite Dangerous, so I still browse it to keep up on what's new.
What I don't do is engage. Reddit is too full of bots and too full of itself to be of any usefulness in engagement. I can't help them, they can't help me, there's no point in doing anything but reading on Reddit.
Lemmy, on the other hand, is almost all engagement, because without it there's not much else, unless you like memes, which I do. Talking to people here is rewarding and interesting, the exact opposite of reddit, which delights in doing nothing but shitting on your head and being generally insufferable/boring.
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.
New accounts on reddit are heavily restricted making it impossible to share things so I left. Found Lemmy by accident. Instantly way better community and low barrier to contribute has me hereforawhile.
I haven't post in Reddit since they announced the app ban. I found reddit and for me the transition was instant.
I still read reddit for information. But for posting and social media I solely use lemmy.
For me then hardest part was loosing the niche communities. But the UX at reddit is so bad that I prefer loosing those places that having to go through reddit UX to post in them.
Back when reddit banned 3rd party apps, I just left. My account is still there, once in a while I check something on reddit instead of lemmy due to number of people.
Despite having some good karma and many years, I never felt like reddit "had" anything I'd miss by leaving. You know the "just go outside and touch grass" thing? Literally just leave the place for a week, uninstall any apps, block the site on /etc/hosts, make it enough of an annoyance to sidestep your own blocks and it'll help you.
I'm making the same transition kinda. I moved from Digg to Reddit over ten years ago. I was on Lemmy for a while more recently and then Digg rose from the ashes a couple months ago, but I'm realizing I like Lemmy/Piefed much more. I already had a trial run on breaking my social media habits when I left twitter though. I think a big part of it is realizing you don't need a constantly updated firehose of useless information lol I'm still very online but probably like half of what I was when I was using Reddit and twitter. Now I have a blog, read a lot of RSS for that breaking, early news and I go to Lemmy for news with social commentary from normal people who aren't influencers. I comment more here too because I'm not competing with millions of people to have an edgy top rated comment. I think the biggest thing is embracing smaller communities and going from there.
I moved from Digg to Reddit over ten years ago. I was on Lemmy for a while more recently and then Digg rose from the ashes a couple months ago, but I’m realizing I like Lemmy/Piefed much more.
New Digg is supposedly going to use AI for moderation, so why would anyone want to move back there?
And I'm in the same boat, originally fled from Digg to Reddit. I still remember how much I hated how Reddit looked compared to Digg, which is funny, because even though I no longer have an account on Reddit, I still browse certain subreddits there from time to time and I will just not let go of the old.reddit.com layout now.
What is it that you go to Reddit for that you don't get from Lemmy? To me, the only reason someone might look at Reddit instead is if Lemmy lacks the content they seek - do you think that's the case for you? Or maybe it's something else?
I got banned for "inciting violence" even though I never really did, but it could be construed that way so, here I am. I still go lurk as some content you can't find over here, but I do enjoy the differences. I'm learning a whole lot about Linux and ditching the mega tech corpo bs.
I switched during the third party app thing. I still Google "problem reddit" if I need good answers but Lots of stuff from reddit I never needed and some stuff was actually throwing me off. The insanely strict rules, mods on Reddit being assholes (there's less of them on Lemmy I wanna think) and the depression inducing pessimism.
I cut out politics from my feed (works 90% of the time) and always browse "new". Good memes, some niche communities and a very diverse and interesting community. Sometimes a little bit too forceful in their perspective but I love all the lemmings on here.
So how did I do it? I think it was a natural fit for me. But only browsing "new", avoiding politics and joining some niche communities helped.
Also no one is forcing you :)
Take your time and maybe when the time is right you will wanna switch over completely. No one will force you on here, but I think that's exactly why this platform is so good.
I use Sync, which is just like Reddit. So it wasnt a hard transition. The issue is mainly volume and communities. Go start your favorite Reddit community on here. Then grow it up!
I wanted to switch from a proprietary centralized platform to a free federated one. The only inconvenience is that I find a group with same name on multiple instances, each with its own content. Instead of one containing them all.
If you're feeling the itch for more social media just keep it off the corp owned stuff, piefed, mastodon, etc. If it's for news and current events rss feeds are great for that.
my itch is for thoughful debate and discussion... usually on place I find it anymore is podcasts. i miss being able to participate in it, but reddit was great for it years ago. social media basically is anti-thoughtful because it all designs to appeal to raw emotions and bias confirmation.
I was banned for expressing a political opinion. I was annoyed that someone else was trying to shoehorn politics into an art appreciation sub, to which I responded in a visceral way, typical of an alcoholic who had been dry for less than a week.
Just like Reddit, you have to add your personalized subs before you can really start enjoying it. Start looking for subs you like.
The bottom line is that there isn't enough content to last all day like Reddit, but I see that as a good thing. I wrap up on Lemmy and then I can dig myself into a Wikipedia hole and learn something.
Best part about Lemmy is my comments actually get seen and responded to and it can take a couple days before a post is dead, unlike Reddit where if I comment 4 hours after it's posted, it's dead and there's no activity on my comments.
Reddit feels like I'm a dog hanging out a car window trying to bite at the air as it whips past me but never getting anything of substance. Lemmy feels like I'm in an AA support group and we're all sitting in a circle communicating and sharing our addiction together.
I stopped posting, then stopped commenting, then logged in every other day, then deleted Redreader and stopped going regularly.
I joined Lemmy in March 2023 on my six-year Reddit cakeday, API-calypse happened in June, swore never to write a word on Reddit again in July and I've since kept that vow. Now that I'm fully weaned off, maybe next year I'll break it specifically to invite people to Lemmy !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
I have to use old.lemmy to make it not look absolutely terrible. I refuse to check to see if the regular version solves a lot of my problems. But right now the thing bothering me most about Lemmy is the fact that posts with pictures don't expand the picture when I click on the little + icon to expand stuff.
Seems like some basic functionality, and it drives me up the wall that it doesn't just work.
This is my 5th account? I like moving around to different solutions. piefed is the latest and greatest for me, but it doesn't really matter if its fedi.
I like discussion and hearing different point of views. Lemmy is great for one side but i've supplemented it with reading HackerNews. I find the discussion on there way more good faith and even though its stupidly pro AI I still like reading why people like AI and posts about how they are using it.
Mostly im just hear for Tech and Linux and memes. After leaving Reddit I barely ever return. Sometimes i open up a sub to scroll the top posts of the month to see if anything was missed
Yeah Lemmy is egregiously one sided and many users here harass you for not being part of the groupthink.
It is way too tech focused and tech people are incredibly insular in their perspective and think anyone who doesn't think they way they do is stupid. Which is infuriating and why most non tech people hate tech people.
Linux is great for servers and technical work, but it's never going to be a useful OS for the vast majority of people.
Boost app for Android helped by keeping a familiar interface and functionality. Use Alexandrite frontend on PC.
Other than that,you've got to accept that Lemmy is not a direct replacement for Reddit. The population here is way way smaller. Niche interests are non-existant. Subscribing is even pointless to an extent, as there really isn't all that much content posted in total. You're best browsing "all". For content, you get what you get, rather than being able to pick from a wide variety.
It has pros and cons for what it is. But Lemmy certainly isn't a direct replacement for Reddit.
Blorp dev here. Do you mean hide the image posts entirely, or just hide the image from the post? I'm in the process of rolling out an "Extra Compact" post view that renders the image posts without the images. But that won't roll out to iOS and Android for a few days.
here's my reasoning: lots of communities have interesting text/link posts, but are plagued with worthless meme posts. hiding image posts would instantly clear up 100% of that noise.
hiding the thumbnails isn't good enough. I don't want to see thread titles for the hilarious Anakin Skywalker four panel dead horse joke cluttering up half of my feed all the time. a lot of really interesting communities are like 50% meme slop, so it's not insignificant. an anti-idiot filter would make a lot of communities infinitely more tolerable.
I don’t think I’m going to add this feature tbh, BUT
I’m currently collaborating with the Interstellar devs to design a very powerful filter engine for both our apps. This will let you load in one or multiple filter files for complex filtering within the app. The specification we designed would allow you to write a filter that says
IF post.thubnail.url has length > 0 THEN hide the post
You can combine that with other checks
AND post.community.name is in this list
And the best part, these filters will be shareable with other users! You will be able to browse or optionally publish a filter you designed.
Instead of building a dozen niche features like this, we can ship one very powerful filter engine that can handle many use cases. How does that sound?
This is what the new extra compact posts look like. I can probably tune this a little more, but let me know what you think. That’s currently in beta. Idk if you’re using Google Play, but if you are, you can join the beta for immediate access.
The filter system I described will take more time to implement. Probably a few months, but it’s going to unlock filtering that no other Lemmy/PieFed client currently supports
I mean I did not like readdit a whole lot and it was more finding out how much federated social media had matured. went to kbin, then mbin, then piefed but its all the federation. I like it despite not getting my vicarious mmo thrills from seeing communities for them.
I use an app called eternal which is based on my favourite Reddit app (back when they allowed other apps). Plus they perma banned me for a bullshit reason.
The way I switched was getting banned from Reddit for 7 days wrongly. It then took me two days or 3 days to get unbanned and for them to apologize for the original band. By then I said fuck it and decided to come over here and search for alternatives since I've been on Reddit for like 16 years now or something like that and it's getting a little old and repetitive. Then fortunate part about this place is that there's not enough post and so it's a lot of repetition. But it also allows me to go visit other sites because there is so much repetition here.
don't worry. if you go back to reddit you'll get banned again in a few months anyway for the same reasons.
this place is rapidly become reddit though... same folks who who just want to harass and ban anyone whose comments they disagree with. good news is here you can see someone falling you around downvoting all your comments and block them.
at least people aren't sending me PMs constantly on this site about how i should die and/or trying to get me to sub to their onlyfans. for now.
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can@sh.itjust.works · 206 pts · 327d
Anissem@lemmy.ml · 49 pts · 327d
Fellow 2 year 3 month lemmy user, your anger nourishes my soul.
can@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 327d
My how time flies. Reddit was already trash at that point, it was mostly habit keeping me going there, but I think it's gotten a lot worse. Either that or I forgot just how bad it was.
Anissem@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 327d
Never look back, keep fighting the good fight my friend
deranger@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 327d
Wow, has it really been that long?
Anissem@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 327d
Right? What the heck
hyacin@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 325d
yep, this, cold turkey ragequit. Have since had to go back for the odd super niche technical question/subject/area, but now I'm thinking I'll keep that readonly and delete my account (after trashing everything on it, ofc, which I did a week ago after a Reddit-typical terrible interaction with a terrible human.)
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 125 pts · 327d
I browse exclusively on my phone, so deleting reddit apps and installing Lemmy apps was the biggest step for me.
I primarily browsed All, so setting my default sorting to All Top 12 Hours was key.
Finally, I made a point to comment and post more. This is where Lemmy beats Reddit hands down in my opinion. You can comment on posts that are hours old on All and still have meaningful discussions. Trying that on Reddit is like screaming into the void.
Edit: I also forgot to mention that I upvote almost everything. If you made a post that I read and it's not complete trash, you're getting an upvote. Same with comments. I upvote almost every comment I read - especially ones in response to my posts or comments. I feel like it let's people know they're being seen.
TheMadCodger@piefed.social · 42 pts · 327d
Your edit is a bit like that in the Fediverse in general. Since there's no algorithm, liking a post in Mastodon does nothing beyond letting op know you appreciate them. I like that.
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 327d
I hate this phrase. There are several algorithms. There's new, hot, rising, etc. There's no company manipulating content discovery. That's the difference. Algorithms are great. For-profit companies with an incentive to control content is bad.
TheMadCodger@piefed.social · 8 pts · 327d
In the Lemmy word, sure. I was referring to Mastodon where there is no hot or rising. It's just based off of who you're following and when you check. Hence likes doing nothing but informing the poster of your appreciation.
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 327d
I guess fair enough, though every other federated site I know of uses some other algorithm, and you seem to have been talking about the fediverse in general, not Mastodon, except for the example. Still, Mastodon's sort is still an algorithm. You can't display anything without an algorithm. That word just means a set of rules to complete a task. Mastodon uses one that only uses who you're following and time to decide what to display.
Algorithms aren't the issue. We can have sophisticated algorithms that help users find the content they want. That's great. It's when there is an incentive, and ability, to influence the algorithm by the platform controllers when there's an issue. The fediverse solves this not by ditching algorithms, but by having no singular controller.
bradboimler@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 325d
On the web client, if you go to Trending, you will see "hot" posts (I have no idea how they're ranked) by folks you're not following. The official Android client has this too. It's where I spend most of my Mastodon time.
can@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 327d
Oh hell yeah, me too. I browse all a lot (sometimes sorted by scaled) and even if something isn't for me, if it seems like something others would like, it's getting an upvote.
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 60 pts · 327d
RIF stopped working so I started using Liftoff for Lemmy instead.
Don't really use the desktop site.
Xaphanos@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 327d
Same except Jerboa
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 327d
I now use Voyager because the liftoff Dev had twin kids and naturally they take priority.
Xaphanos@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 327d
Is it good? I'll change if it's better than Jerboa.
can@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 327d
The default ui is heavily based upon the Apollo app and iOS design. There is an option for a more android-like approach however.
I also recommend Summit, Thunder, and Connect.
I made this comment on Sync but it's hard to recommend at present.
Thteven@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 327d
I prefer Voyager personally, been using it for years.
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 327d
Never used it so I can't say.
But they are free to try.
Hubi@feddit.org · 1 pts · 327d
gi1242@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 327d
lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 327d
Same here, I forced myself away from that platform. Took me a few weeks to get settled and find all the right communities, but it worked out well!
Veedem@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 327d
It took some time for me to realize that not finding a continuous stream of new content was a feature and not a flaw. It meant that there was no algorithm feeding me an endless stream of crap in hopes of keeping me glued to the screen. It meant I could close the app and move on with my day and check back much later. That realization made me embrace it.
can@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 327d
Agreed. Reddit became worse when it started forcing unrelated content on you at every opportunity. It became hard to recommend to friends when each time I would realise I had forgotten what new reddit and the official app were like.
Anissem@lemmy.ml · 33 pts · 327d
For me, the realization of how toxic Reddit can be combined with how lost in the crowd I felt was enough. I enjoy the smaller feel to the communities and that I can actually have a conversation instead of getting buried in comments was just the right combo.
otp@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 327d
Heh, on Reddit, I just avoided the larger subs. r/gaming was the worst gaming sub (aside from subs for free competitive games that are playable by children)
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 327d
I'm curious how the Counter Strike subreddit was. It wasn't that bad I don't think a long time ago, before Reddit was as large as it became, and also before it was free. Now that Reddit is a hell-hole and the game is free, is the subreddit horrible too? I'd imagine it is, but I'd expect it to lean a little toward older audiences than the other games, so there's a chance it's fine.
DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org · 5 pts · 327d
The moment they announced increasing censorship was what did it for me, basically it was the 'It's only a matter of time before I get banned on here so I might as well nuke my account while I'm still ahead' realization when that went down.
Even just reading Reddit without an account sucks because Redlib is always getting blocked.
N0t_5ure@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 327d
Honestly, reddit drove me away. I got tired of being hounded by engagement bots asking inane questions, and in the wake of reddit going public, the comment police regularly were nitpicking my comments, reading into them intolerance that simply wasn't there. I was just sick of it all. Reddit has a much bigger userbase, but lemmy is more friendly. There are occasions where it would be nice to post something niche and have a robust discussion, which requires a site with more mass appeal, but I'm not interested in all the drawbacks of dealing with reddit.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 327d
That is what happened to me.. the bots banned me within a minute for a metaphorically based - though salty - post. 14 years.
Thing is, I noticed a change in the algorithm not too long after the IPO since my homepage started in with more rage-bait subs and many were ones I'd not visited or even heard of. It was subtle but also kinda disheartening. I decided to manually delete all of what I could and as I was going through the posts I noticed that the art subs I used to go to had all but disappeared on my home page.
I used to go to photoshopbattles all the time and as I was scrolling my home pages, it was nowhere to be seen. Nor was AppleHelp, VintageApple or MacPro..
N0t_5ure@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 327d
It's a bummer because reddit used to be really cool. It's like when you discover a cool little cafe or something that you love going to. Eventually more and more people discover it, and it becomes a bit more crowded, but you still go. Then it gets written up in some magazine or something, and the crowd becomes nuclear. It becomes a tourist trap flogging merchandise, and they turn it into a chain, with the food semi-preprepared for mass consumption. The experience sucks and what was a special spot is ruined.
atomicorange@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 327d
It will never be exactly the same, but I feel lucky to have found something that captures at least part of the feeling of what Reddit used to be like. There’s the potential for it to grow into something just as cool in its own way, or maybe even better. And for now, it scratches that culture and discussion itch well enough that I don’t feel the need to wade back in to Reddit at all except for searching for specific answers to niche questions.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 326d
This is it exactly.
And I kind of like that there are no total upvote/downvote stats tied to our accounts.
Prevents karma farming so it disinclines the behavior to rage-bait or post controversial items for attention.
(Remember u/unidan? Guy karma farmed hugely and eventually got rumbled creating some brouhaha over the difference between crows and jackdaws. Absolute stupidity that got the better of him..)
The content is more the focus here..
can@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 327d
Reddit hasn't really been good since the alogorith change that made the front-page stagnate for a day. I got the most out of it when browsing the frontpage was completely different 6 hours later. Once they made it so that everyone who checked reddit that day would get the same experience, the spirit of the site died.
N0t_5ure@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 327d
I've noticed that the lemmy front page has a much greater turnover than the reddit front page, which is nice.
can@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 327d
The transparent and non user-tailored algorithms, may be Lemmy's strongest asset.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 327d
The weird thing is apparently, I wasn't allowed to delete my account last night. I thought I did, but I went back not too long ago and on a lark, signed in again. Account's empty of all my unarchived posts - since I deleted it all, but I still have access. Think I'm going to see if the PM's work and just start hoovering interesting articles and items from there. WTF, it's not like I didn't bring content to the site.. Gonna take the best of it back and bring it here. Fuck it.
Tronn4@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 327d
Cold turkey basically.
Revan343@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 327d
My Reddit app stopped working, and the official app is dogshit; Reddit kind of made the switch for me
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 327d
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
1XEVW3Y07@reddthat.com · 18 pts · 327d
Participating has really helped. I'm still struggling to post, but I try to comment wherever I feel I can add value, however small.
Build the platform you want to be part of.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 327d
"be the change you want to see in the world", or in this case, "go ahead and post stuff. Nobody here is superhuman, but we try to do the right thing and be chill with people who also aren't quippy dickholes" aka, be human.
I'm sure this won't last, but for now it seems to be better than Reddit, at least. The way I've thought about it is that this takes a certain level/threshold of technical know-how/problem-solving to enter, so it filters out the most casual of thoughtless people (for now). Like if you can't put some serious thought into morality or slightly deeper rationality into a situation, you probably can't jump the bridge to fediverse-lemmy.
Also, as time goes on, I'm noticing all kinds of communities fragmenting into smaller, more specialized communities. Hopefully, Lemmy can be the platform/community of thoughtful considerates who are slightly tech elevated and more social.
Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 327d
Commenting always has value dude! Even small ones are like having a passing conversation in line at a coffee shop.
1 Flat White Please
Have a great day buddy!
chosensilence@pawb.social · 16 pts · 327d
spite, anger.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 327d
WELCOME!
Voyager’s mentioned but unlinked so here ya go, it’s great!
https://vger.app/
some_designer_dude@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 326d
Ditto. Voyager is as close to the AlienBlue experience as I’ve seen.
daBeans@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 327d
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.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 327d
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.
twinklefruit@lemmings.world · 14 pts · 327d
nieminen@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 327d
I just uninstalled Reddit and installed Sync for Lemmy. I'll still end up on reddit occasionally from a Google search result or something, but I don't go there intentionally.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 327d
Unfortunately Sync has been abandoned, so you might want to look for a new app soon.
nieminen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 327d
That's sad. I'll keep using it until it stops functioning. Don't like my cheese moving unless it has to
AlexLost@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 326d
I use Jerboa and it's not too shabby.
nieminen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 326d
For anyone interested: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jerboa
I'll try it out, don't like the icon as much haha.
AlexLost@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 326d
No kangaroo mouse for you then! I feel like Muad'dib!
Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org · 13 pts · 327d
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 326d
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.
chillpanzee@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 325d
This is the thing I notice the most whenever I check back into reddit. So much bot & ai bullshit.
I also agree with u/Xylight@lemdro.id that several of the subs I subscribed to have no equivalent here yet.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 325d
That’s true there are no replacements for many subs and you just have to ask yourself how much you need them.
chillpanzee@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 325d
Yep. Its definitely a nice to have, not a need to have.
locuester@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 326d
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?
laxu@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 326d
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.
silentjohn@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 326d
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.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 326d
Embrace the fact that there is a limit to the amount of new content and do something else with your time.
Fandangalo@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 327d
My best is: just stop. Yes, Lemmy is like the rural version of Reddit. It’s slower, more niche communities, and not a lot of people making content. But screw Reddit. I was a 15 year reader. They’ve destroyed it for corporate greed. I’m all set.
Lorindol@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 327d
I did exactly this, quit after 15 years.
Lemmy has a tiny fraction users compared to Reddit, it took me a while to get used to the new rhythm of things here. But after a few weeks, I realized that this is actually much better for me.
In 2 years I have encountered only one troll. There's a lot less content, yes, but I've learned that it's still more than enough. I do miss some of the active niche hobby communities, but I fixed that by digging up my old hobby forum site profiles. The old school forums are just as active as they ever were and I don't have to expose myself to Reddit's neverending stream of garbage anymore.
The transition was actually pretty painless and I wouldn't go back, even if they magically decided to clean the platform and restore the 3rd party apps. This is a smaller world and it fits me very well.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 325d
I missed the quantity of content on reddit, but I do not miss the quality of replies on reddit.
FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online · 12 pts · 327d
If you're using the app, uninstall it. Delete your bookmarks, etc. Make it more than an idle thought to be on the site.
Use the time you would normally spend doomscrolling on reddit to do something productive on Lemmy. Look for new communities to join, reply to posts you would normally just upvote, post something to a community that could use a boost, etc. The place is far from empty but more interaction really helps to drive growth and build friendships.
See you around mate. 💚
RotatingParts@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 327d
Join a bunch of communities that you may be interested in to fill up your feed with a bunch of stuff to read. That way, if you want to take a break and read stuff, you can look here rather than on Reddit. You can look for communities here that are a close match to what you had on Reddit. Over time, you can dial them in and hopefully not feel the need to go back to Reddit.
I never go back and just to read Reddit. I only go there if a web search looking for something in particular takes me there.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 327d
This has been my experience as well. I use to browse reddit for hours every day, and now have some of that time back. The only times I find myself there is through a search result to get information. Logging out and deleting your account helps a lot, because when you instinctively check the homepage when logged out, it's all trash, and doesn't make me want to stay.
RabbitMix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 326d
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.
baronvonj@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 327d
Just by keeping at it. Lots of posts don't get a lot of comments, seems like a lot of lurkers. My front page only has one post with >10 comments and the rest are at 3 or fewer. But Reddit is still in the top ten more-visited web sites in the world. So can't expect the same number of comments compared to the bigger subs there.
reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 325d
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.
tyo_ukko@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 325d
Did you consider the feelings of the nazis before talking shit about them? They are very sensitive, you know.
obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 326d
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.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 327d
What part are you struggling with? Not enough content? I get it, but also that's a feature. If you dislike centralized platforms more than you want to rot your brain, it takes zero effort.
trk@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 327d
Signed up for Lemmy, participated in things I was interested in.
If you're that addicted to Reddit just stay there. I hate this "please beg me to stay" crap that goes on pretty frequently.
brendansimms@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 326d
Subscribe to communities and/or utilize the 'random' search to find communities (be warned that nsfw stuff up though if your setting isnt filtered). Sort by new sometimes. Lemmy is more user-directed whereas reddit is company-directed. No more force-feeding you sponsored content - you can search out and eat what you like!
pugnaciousfarter@literature.cafe · 8 pts · 326d
I really want some of my niche subreddits. They're like crack.
Obligatory fuck spez.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 326d
Yeah, Lemmy isn’t quite at that critical mass where the niche stuff is active. That’s one thing Reddit was truly wonderful at, because it had enough people that even the niche stuff stayed active. Like if only 0.01% of people are interested in something, and a service only has 1000 users, there‘s a good chance that you’ll be the only poster.
brendansimms@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 326d
I've found some super cool niche communities using the 'random community' search, which i think is a Voyager app specific option cause I'm not seeing it on desktop. I definitely recommend the Voyager app
RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 327d
At first I was petty. Now I have other things to do with my time so Lemmy has more than enough content.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 9 pts · 327d
The API blackout. I said when blackout I'd quit, and I did.
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 327d
Lemmy just isn't that good, you need other stuff too. I highly recommend finding independent niche website forums (the old school ones) for your interests and joining them. These are WAY less likely to have bots (unless political based) than Lemmy, Reddit, etc etc. They have real people, sometimes parroting bot stuff they saw elsewhere, but they are at least real and you can talk to them. And you get to know them because normally there's only like 50 active users on those websites at a time anyway. But damn do those 50 people know a lot about vaccuums, or trains, or magnet fishing or whatever the dedicated topic is for that site. It's the most unfederated you can be
kablez@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 327d
TomArrr@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 327d
Hi, noob here too. How do I find these niche sites. And then, how do I "follow" them?
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 326d
Can you give me a topic or hobby that you'd be interested in joining a forum for? It would be easier to show you with an example and I don't want to doxx the forums I use.
TomArrr@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 326d
Anything D&D, 3d printing or modelling are probably top of my list atm
silentjohn@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 326d
I still get like 50 emails from those old forums on my birthday lol
Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 327d
I just made the account, subscribed to all the equvalent groups and nothing else
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 327d
Got permbanned last year for saying tthat NeoNazis like Stonetoss aka Hans Kristian Graebner should be named and shamed. Tbh fuck that place. Reddit admins are Nazi sympathizers.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 327d
Reddit kept being shittier and shittier, the people got dumber and dumber, and I kept getting more and more worried about being about to say what I really wanted about magas being fucking terrorists. Then they killed third party apps, and while I tried to make it work for a little while, eventually they killed the workaround, and that was the last straw.
Fediverse/kbin/lemmy has been such a constant breath of fresh air, even if that breath continues to be bad news, that I have literally no reason to go back. The queer techie and neighbor tankies and based non-Americans just make this place so much healthier and positive in a time in history when we really need people who aren't giant assholes and who are awake at all and who make a conscious decision to at least try to do the right thing.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 327d
I just don't care for Reddit, or it's redditisms.
Xylight@lemdro.id · 8 pts · 326d
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 326d
Sort by top 24 hours and theres much more activity than any of the sorting algorithms.
jacecomix@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 326d
I do this as well. Works great for both serving me the most interesting content and limiting how much time I spend on Lemmy.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 326d
Oh I use the “auto hide read posts” feature of Voyager so the posts are always fresh. With that combination of settings Lemmy has enough content to spend a few hours every day on if you want to haha.
RedSnt@feddit.dk · 8 pts · 327d
I used to feel dread when I logged into reddit and saw that someone had replied to something I wrote. I no longer have an account there, and I even went for the nuclear option of overwriting all my old messages, ::: spoiler then deleting them in case they chose to restore them, because:
fuck spez
:::
For me personally it helps that I'm on a dedicated instance for Danes, so that's kind of like a safe haven, or like a kiddie pool where it was easier to get to know lemmy at first.
I no longer dread when someone replies because most of the people here on lemmy aren't assholes. I think it's because there's this barrier to entry which filters out a lot of people, or maybe it's that the assholes are looking for fights to begin with and is therefore attracted to the biggest platforms?
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 327d
Fuck Spez.
Edit. Also you can just outright block the shit out of people who you know are problems.
RedSnt@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 327d
::: spoiler Funnily enough, I've mostly blocked NSFW stuff (and I'm not even a prude):
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 327d
A bit too hornyposting hahaha
What did they even say to get considered too hornyposting?
RedSnt@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 326d
I think it went like this: I was sorting by "top hour" and all I saw was this one person's NSFW posts. I looked at their posts just now and it looks a lot less chaotic than what I branded them as originally, but you know, all it take is just one bad day on main.
silentjohn@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 326d
I get that too. I turn off comment notifications now. It's almost always just some negative basement dweller trolling me.
Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 327d
Getting permabanned on my main and any secondary accounts I had helped. The app on my phone I use for Lemmy makes it look pretty much exactly like the Reddit app so the only difference for me is less people which means some communities I'd like to talk to people in just has nobody in them.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 325d
I stopped using reddit, and started using lemmy. It's not hard.
CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 326d
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.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 325d
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.
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 325d
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.
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 327d
I deleted my account and the app
Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 327d
I miss the finance communities on reddit. But everything else I looked into on reddit I can mostly find here. I also put the effort into posting when I can't find an existing topic. You have to have a pioneer mentality here to establish your community.
fossilesque@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 327d
can@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 327d
This is good advice. Whenever you find yourself thinking "I wish there was more ____ content" here I guarantee you're not the only one thinking that. It just takes one person to have the initiative to make the community and build it up. In my experience it's surprising how quickly others will follow.
My biggest advice is don't make a community and fill it with everything right away. If you have something you want to share maybe hold onto it. Make a list, post one every few days. These grow over time. One burst of posts fades away after a day or two, but regular, spread out posts keep it in people's feed for longer.
taiyang@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 327d
I went from full lurker to participant since I felt like I'm not completely drowned out by others. That made it more fun, since Lemmy all feed is pretty small relatively speaking and lurking gets boring if you're expecting an endless feed of random junk. Plus, since it's small, you can also feel like you're contributing to the Lemmy community, since without your comments and posts, it won't exist.
Although get to the bottom of the all feed and things get wild.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 327d
That and everyone on here are not total contrarians to everything you post or comment on
taiyang@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 327d
No, we ARE contrarians. Take that!
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 327d
Ugh. The contrarian quippiness there is so FUCKING sophomoric. And everybody being the same authority on everything and all being passive aggressive as shit. It's like a land where nobody wants to build anything and everybody desperately needs validation.
Here, though, we just want validation via trauma bonding.....
.... Wait a minute .... Is Lemmy a ...survivor-platform?
s3rvant@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 327d
For the Reddit communities that are important to me I use their RSS feeds to keep an eye on new posts though I've logged out of my account and stopped participating. All actual browsing and participation was switched entirely to Lemmy.
Vanth@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 327d
I went on a 10 day backpacking trip with no reception. I deleted my reddit apps and bookmarks before I went. So got over the withdrawals during the trip, and there was just enough friction to reinstall when I got back that I never bothered.
I was also very mad about them killing the API for 3rd party mod tools and the resulting slip into AI slop and misogynist claptrap on the sub I helped mod. It's an empty Internet wasteland now; just bots and MAGA incels yelling at each other.
sudoer777@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 325d
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.
can@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 325d
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.
DegenerationIP@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 326d
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 326d
It was straight up half broken during the APIcalypse when I came over.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 326d
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.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 327d
Delete all your Reddit bookmarks and favorites and find a lemmy community to launch yourself into. I picked gaming and a few news ones and so far, it's fine.. Even moreso that I found the old.lemmy.zip page and it's comfortable to me as I was dedicated to old.reddit and RES.
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu · 5 pts · 326d
Honestly, after some time, I just started realizing how shitty reddit posts are, and specially how toxic comments and the overall environment is...
So, i don't miss it.
Jackcooper@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 327d
On reddit I had my feed of favorite subs
On lemmy I use connect and basically Ive blocked out communities that don't appeal to me / are in languages I don't speak. I started broad and narrowed it down which gives me enough content in a day.
fuckgod@feddit.online · 5 pts · 327d
Everybody kinda already said the obvious answers, but I'll pop in to reiterate that my main reason was killing the API (because fuuuuuuck their shitty trash app filled with ads- or any and every app that has ads at all). I got here (Lemmy and piefed and mastodon)as part of the mass exodus that switched when the ax dropped on that.
I had wanted to before that, but addictions are addictions. But killing the app I actually liked using (combined with the dev making a Lemmy version that was extremely similar), I just kinda rode the wave to the Fediverse.
So like others, I still poke in when a search result points there, but I avoid it in general. Getting rid of the app will definitely help because it gets rid of the 1-tap access to shit.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 326d
They killed RiF, and I wasn't about to use their shitty app.
golli@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 327d
To be honest: I haven't done a complete switch. I still lurk on reddit from time to time.
What I have done however is switched to only actively engage with Lemmy, which imo is the more important part. I sadly don't have much original content to offer, but I try to engage in some comments (like just now)
Supervisor194@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 327d
Same here. I made sure I quit all the drama subs, all the big subs and I only keep my carefully curated niche content communities in my reddit feed. There's really nothing on Lemmy about, say... Elite Dangerous, so I still browse it to keep up on what's new.
What I don't do is engage. Reddit is too full of bots and too full of itself to be of any usefulness in engagement. I can't help them, they can't help me, there's no point in doing anything but reading on Reddit.
Lemmy, on the other hand, is almost all engagement, because without it there's not much else, unless you like memes, which I do. Talking to people here is rewarding and interesting, the exact opposite of reddit, which delights in doing nothing but shitting on your head and being generally insufferable/boring.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 326d
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.
hereforawhile@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 327d
New accounts on reddit are heavily restricted making it impossible to share things so I left. Found Lemmy by accident. Instantly way better community and low barrier to contribute has me hereforawhile.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 326d
Get yourself permabanned on Reddit.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 327d
I haven't post in Reddit since they announced the app ban. I found reddit and for me the transition was instant.
I still read reddit for information. But for posting and social media I solely use lemmy.
For me then hardest part was loosing the niche communities. But the UX at reddit is so bad that I prefer loosing those places that having to go through reddit UX to post in them.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 5 pts · 326d
Back when reddit banned 3rd party apps, I just left. My account is still there, once in a while I check something on reddit instead of lemmy due to number of people.
Despite having some good karma and many years, I never felt like reddit "had" anything I'd miss by leaving. You know the "just go outside and touch grass" thing? Literally just leave the place for a week, uninstall any apps, block the site on /etc/hosts, make it enough of an annoyance to sidestep your own blocks and it'll help you.
gary@piefed.world · 4 pts · 327d
I'm making the same transition kinda. I moved from Digg to Reddit over ten years ago. I was on Lemmy for a while more recently and then Digg rose from the ashes a couple months ago, but I'm realizing I like Lemmy/Piefed much more. I already had a trial run on breaking my social media habits when I left twitter though. I think a big part of it is realizing you don't need a constantly updated firehose of useless information lol I'm still very online but probably like half of what I was when I was using Reddit and twitter. Now I have a blog, read a lot of RSS for that breaking, early news and I go to Lemmy for news with social commentary from normal people who aren't influencers. I comment more here too because I'm not competing with millions of people to have an edgy top rated comment. I think the biggest thing is embracing smaller communities and going from there.
RedSnt@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 327d
New Digg is supposedly going to use AI for moderation, so why would anyone want to move back there?
And I'm in the same boat, originally fled from Digg to Reddit. I still remember how much I hated how Reddit looked compared to Digg, which is funny, because even though I no longer have an account on Reddit, I still browse certain subreddits there from time to time and I will just not let go of the old.reddit.com layout now.
fittedsyllabi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 327d
Want the freedom to speak your mind? Join Lemmy.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 326d
Was already a Linux user and tech nerd
pineapple@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 326d
I've found my twin.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 325d
Yo? Wassup man I love you
Corridor8031@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 327d
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 327d
What is it that you go to Reddit for that you don't get from Lemmy? To me, the only reason someone might look at Reddit instead is if Lemmy lacks the content they seek - do you think that's the case for you? Or maybe it's something else?
DrDickHandler@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 327d
Jerboa app configured to look like Baconreader.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 327d
Rip baconreader. It was the best. I still mourn it and wish they'd adapt the ux to lemmy. I'd buy that.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 327d
Rage. The changes to 3rd party apps really pissed me off and I thought it was best to use my anger productively.
AlexLost@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 326d
I got banned for "inciting violence" even though I never really did, but it could be construed that way so, here I am. I still go lurk as some content you can't find over here, but I do enjoy the differences. I'm learning a whole lot about Linux and ditching the mega tech corpo bs.
hilljack26301@feddit.org · 2 pts · 326d
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 327d
I switched during the third party app thing. I still Google "problem reddit" if I need good answers but Lots of stuff from reddit I never needed and some stuff was actually throwing me off. The insanely strict rules, mods on Reddit being assholes (there's less of them on Lemmy I wanna think) and the depression inducing pessimism.
I cut out politics from my feed (works 90% of the time) and always browse "new". Good memes, some niche communities and a very diverse and interesting community. Sometimes a little bit too forceful in their perspective but I love all the lemmings on here.
So how did I do it? I think it was a natural fit for me. But only browsing "new", avoiding politics and joining some niche communities helped.
Also no one is forcing you :)
Take your time and maybe when the time is right you will wanna switch over completely. No one will force you on here, but I think that's exactly why this platform is so good.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 327d
I use Sync, which is just like Reddit. So it wasnt a hard transition. The issue is mainly volume and communities. Go start your favorite Reddit community on here. Then grow it up!
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 326d
It gets easier when Reddit bans you for debunking bot comments.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 326d
that or pointing out viral marketing posts.
diptchip@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 326d
I stopped using reddit when I realized most of it's content was sponsored.
markz@suppo.fi · 4 pts · 327d
I nuked my account and stopped going there. Just make the decision to never go back and then be done with it.
dragospirvu75@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 325d
I wanted to switch from a proprietary centralized platform to a free federated one. The only inconvenience is that I find a group with same name on multiple instances, each with its own content. Instead of one containing them all.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 326d
If you're feeling the itch for more social media just keep it off the corp owned stuff, piefed, mastodon, etc. If it's for news and current events rss feeds are great for that.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 326d
my itch is for thoughful debate and discussion... usually on place I find it anymore is podcasts. i miss being able to participate in it, but reddit was great for it years ago. social media basically is anti-thoughtful because it all designs to appeal to raw emotions and bias confirmation.
njm1314@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 327d
I dont get the question. Same way you stay off any website. There are millions of sites out there. You stay of 99.9% as is. It's just like that.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 327d
I didn't really, I have 13 Reddit tabs and like 25 Lemmy tabs open in this browser window atm
Proles_Uprising_Now@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 326d
I was perma banned for showing support to our Saint, Luigi Mangioni.
brendansimms@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 326d
praise be
Smeagol666@crazypeople.online · 3 pts · 327d
I was banned for expressing a political opinion. I was annoyed that someone else was trying to shoehorn politics into an art appreciation sub, to which I responded in a visceral way, typical of an alcoholic who had been dry for less than a week.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 326d
What are you missing?
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 326d
Just like Reddit, you have to add your personalized subs before you can really start enjoying it. Start looking for subs you like.
The bottom line is that there isn't enough content to last all day like Reddit, but I see that as a good thing. I wrap up on Lemmy and then I can dig myself into a Wikipedia hole and learn something.
Best part about Lemmy is my comments actually get seen and responded to and it can take a couple days before a post is dead, unlike Reddit where if I comment 4 hours after it's posted, it's dead and there's no activity on my comments.
Reddit feels like I'm a dog hanging out a car window trying to bite at the air as it whips past me but never getting anything of substance. Lemmy feels like I'm in an AA support group and we're all sitting in a circle communicating and sharing our addiction together.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 326d
I wasn't going to install the app on my phone, so that made the transition easier.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 327d
Slowly, over the course of 3 months.
I stopped posting, then stopped commenting, then logged in every other day, then deleted Redreader and stopped going regularly.
I joined Lemmy in March 2023 on my six-year Reddit cakeday, API-calypse happened in June, swore never to write a word on Reddit again in July and I've since kept that vow. Now that I'm fully weaned off, maybe next year I'll break it specifically to invite people to Lemmy !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 326d
It was really easy for me, I logged out of Reddit permanently before I ever even discovered Lemmy.
And that was before all this AI Bullshit and the public offer sales.
Linktank@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 327d
I have to use old.lemmy to make it not look absolutely terrible. I refuse to check to see if the regular version solves a lot of my problems. But right now the thing bothering me most about Lemmy is the fact that posts with pictures don't expand the picture when I click on the little + icon to expand stuff.
Seems like some basic functionality, and it drives me up the wall that it doesn't just work.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 325d
Use a script to rewrite your messages into word salad.
Then get yourself permbanned.
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 2 pts · 327d
Cold tukey. Then spent my time posting here.
This is my 5th account? I like moving around to different solutions. piefed is the latest and greatest for me, but it doesn't really matter if its fedi.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 325d
Stop checking lemmy so often. Or post content.
Auth@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 326d
I like discussion and hearing different point of views. Lemmy is great for one side but i've supplemented it with reading HackerNews. I find the discussion on there way more good faith and even though its stupidly pro AI I still like reading why people like AI and posts about how they are using it.
Mostly im just hear for Tech and Linux and memes. After leaving Reddit I barely ever return. Sometimes i open up a sub to scroll the top posts of the month to see if anything was missed
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 326d
Yeah Lemmy is egregiously one sided and many users here harass you for not being part of the groupthink.
It is way too tech focused and tech people are incredibly insular in their perspective and think anyone who doesn't think they way they do is stupid. Which is infuriating and why most non tech people hate tech people.
Linux is great for servers and technical work, but it's never going to be a useful OS for the vast majority of people.
Auth@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 325d
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 327d
I check in on Reddit occasionally to see what the normies are up to.
But it helps that Reddit is an intolerably shitty platform.
chunes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 326d
I didn't have a choice. They banned my account and instantly shadowban any new account I make. Even if I use a VPN or agent spoofer.
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 326d
i tried to get myself banned, but i suspect that i was on there for so long and it would take years for each subreddit to ban me.
also; this implies that the other sites your using are sharing your data with google; which reddit uses heavily.
pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 327d
Got kicked off Reddit for reporting transphobic harassment, so the decision was easy.
Mrkawfee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 327d
Lemmy on phone. Reddit on desktop. Mostly on my phone so find myself using Reddit less and less.
Helps that Reddit is enshittifying.
cRazi_man@europe.pub · 2 pts · 327d
Boost app for Android helped by keeping a familiar interface and functionality. Use Alexandrite frontend on PC.
Other than that,you've got to accept that Lemmy is not a direct replacement for Reddit. The population here is way way smaller. Niche interests are non-existant. Subscribing is even pointless to an extent, as there really isn't all that much content posted in total. You're best browsing "all". For content, you get what you get, rather than being able to pick from a wide variety.
It has pros and cons for what it is. But Lemmy certainly isn't a direct replacement for Reddit.
moonburster@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 326d
In the beginning it was hard, but I’ve come to love that it isn’t an endless scroll
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 326d
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 322d
It helped that Reddit got rid of 3rd party apps.
Because I only used Reddit 100% on mobile, and their app is horrendous.
confuser@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 327d
Never used reddit but then found lemmy and liked it
Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 327d
If you are struggling with this, then you are struggling in general. Figure out what's going wrong in your life and fix it.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 327d
use a decent app like sync
turdburglar@piefed.social · 2 pts · 327d
blorp has been pretty solid for me and you can also use piefed with it
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 326d
does it allow you to hide image posts? I haven't found a client that allows you to hide image posts.
moseschrute@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 326d
Blorp dev here. Do you mean hide the image posts entirely, or just hide the image from the post? I'm in the process of rolling out an "Extra Compact" post view that renders the image posts without the images. But that won't roll out to iOS and Android for a few days.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 326d
I want to hide the image posts entirely.
here's my reasoning: lots of communities have interesting text/link posts, but are plagued with worthless meme posts. hiding image posts would instantly clear up 100% of that noise.
hiding the thumbnails isn't good enough. I don't want to see thread titles for the hilarious Anakin Skywalker four panel dead horse joke cluttering up half of my feed all the time. a lot of really interesting communities are like 50% meme slop, so it's not insignificant. an anti-idiot filter would make a lot of communities infinitely more tolerable.
moseschrute@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 325d
I don’t think I’m going to add this feature tbh, BUT
I’m currently collaborating with the Interstellar devs to design a very powerful filter engine for both our apps. This will let you load in one or multiple filter files for complex filtering within the app. The specification we designed would allow you to write a filter that says
You can combine that with other checks
And the best part, these filters will be shareable with other users! You will be able to browse or optionally publish a filter you designed.
Instead of building a dozen niche features like this, we can ship one very powerful filter engine that can handle many use cases. How does that sound?
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 325d
yeah that sounds pretty good.
is there any way to get a super compact clean feed
like this?
moseschrute@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 325d
The filter system I described will take more time to implement. Probably a few months, but it’s going to unlock filtering that no other Lemmy/PieFed client currently supports
turdburglar@piefed.social · 1 pts · 326d
i don’t think so.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network · 1 pts · 327d
I decided I was done with reddit. I never used apps so I just signed out of my account and never went back.
Jhuskindle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 325d
Using summit
Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one · 1 pts · 327d
Honestly, just do what you like. You can browse both, too.
CatsPajamas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 327d
Don't fully switch. I only use Lemmy on my phone, and reddit on my computer.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 327d
I mean I did not like readdit a whole lot and it was more finding out how much federated social media had matured. went to kbin, then mbin, then piefed but its all the federation. I like it despite not getting my vicarious mmo thrills from seeing communities for them.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org · 1 pts · 327d
for niche communities so small and so tech-nonliterate that simply have no chance of being on the fediverse i went to tumblr instead
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 1 pts · 327d
It was run by unbearable assholes, that helped a lot. I used Relay exclusively, and when the API changes were announced it was not a hard decision.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 325d
They perm-banned me and I kept getting pissed off when I would want to reply to something.
olbaidiablo@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 327d
I use an app called eternal which is based on my favourite Reddit app (back when they allowed other apps). Plus they perma banned me for a bullshit reason.
titanicx@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 326d
The way I switched was getting banned from Reddit for 7 days wrongly. It then took me two days or 3 days to get unbanned and for them to apologize for the original band. By then I said fuck it and decided to come over here and search for alternatives since I've been on Reddit for like 16 years now or something like that and it's getting a little old and repetitive. Then fortunate part about this place is that there's not enough post and so it's a lot of repetition. But it also allows me to go visit other sites because there is so much repetition here.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 326d
don't worry. if you go back to reddit you'll get banned again in a few months anyway for the same reasons.
this place is rapidly become reddit though... same folks who who just want to harass and ban anyone whose comments they disagree with. good news is here you can see someone falling you around downvoting all your comments and block them.
at least people aren't sending me PMs constantly on this site about how i should die and/or trying to get me to sub to their onlyfans. for now.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 326d
What are you finding difficult?