I still use reddit for some niche topics that have like zero activity on Lemmy. But still, I feel kinda bad over it… What about you people?
I don’t browse or even log in to reddit anymore. I don’t feel bad for searching out specific things. Since the audience is so much larger, there’s niches that just haven’t been replaced by Lemmy or other services. Sports, media discussion, and old tech advice threads are the ones I’ll still go over for.
Sports is surprising to me that it hasn’t gotten bigger here. I get that the tech crowd isn’t classically overlapping the sports crowd, but I feel like tech has gotten so mainstream anymore that it’s more sports people into tech than tech people into sports. A lot of the subs and instances are really lacking too, not to comment on the people posting there and doing what they can. It’s a tough landscape right now
Some of us tech people that liked sports, realized during Covid when they went away, that we only actually watched/attended sports to have something in common with others. I realized I didn’t need them, and didn’t miss giving any additional money to billionaires. Also, don’t get me started on tax money and stadiums lol
Oh for sure. There is a definite downside to the leagues that’s becoming increasingly hard to ignore. I live in a large college town, so even outside of the team, it ends up being a community event and it’s nice to have all your friends get together, even if for a superficial reason. Probably 80% of my Reddit use was sports subs and discussions not really for the sport, but because I liked the community aspect of it. I’d like to see that again here, so I’ll keep posting away lol
That makes a big difference then! If i lived in cbus instead of near Cleveland, i might still feel the same 😂
I’m doing my part in the football communities. It is sparse though.
You should plug it in your comment.
Reddit’s sports subs were small for a long time. I think there would need to be either a sports sub exodus or a lot more lemmy users before there are enough active posters into sports discussion/gossip during the week to keep engagement up and lively between games.
I was part of the baseball sub for my local major market mlb team for years and it was really just the last three or four years it was consistently active between games and even when I left (api exodus) it was the same 30 or so people on game threads.
I am hopeful that Lemmy will eventually grow large enough to supply the numerical and geographical base for good sports stuff. It doesn’t take many active participants but the 100 - 10 - 1 rule I think is much more acutely felt in less populous spaces.
Using reddit makes me feel bad. It’s full of such inflammatory rage bate. Even in the niche communities I was part of, there were multiple posts every day just stirring the pot. Lemmy right now reminds me of reddit in its early days, back when people were trying to have actual, meaningful discussions.
After the api-gate, I had a moment where I asked myself “what things have I actually learned on reddit that I otherwise wouldn’t have learned?” And the answer was nothing. Actual, helpful, insightful discussions just don’t get attention over there anymore. I get way more mileage out of my RSS feed than reddit.
I’ve found the tone here on Lemmy to be more positive and more informative. Don’t change, y’all.
It’s full of such inflammatory rage bate
But how is that not just a function of the size of the audience there? We see political trolls crawling out here, too, as the number of commenters increases.
I think you’re right, but I have hope. I believe in us lemmings, lol.
I mean part of the thing is that the federation allows instances to be more strict. Right now, Reddit has a huge financial disincentive for clearing out bots. If these bots bring in attention, and bump up their numbers, then the company looks better. Here, instances can be more aggressive with banning them. I do agree it will be more difficult as there’s not as much money coming in here to help deal with bots as instances get larger, but at least the incentive is there.
You have a point. I would say though that the subreddit mods generally have an incentive to keep their sub running amicably even if the site admins have an incentive to just increase engagement numbers regardless. But we do have the capacity for instances where the admins better support the mods versus Reddit.
Nobody should feel bad for using Reddit to deshittify Google searches. That’s just what has happened.
I do look at r/opera sometimes because there’s no community here, but only once in a great while, and I do look at the monthly list that the ban pit bulls subreddit keeps of pitbull attacks/deaths, because it’s absolutely frightening every month how long if is.
I really hope this place grows and local communities like r/Maine and r/PortlandMe grow here. Talking about local things is my favorite part of reddit.
Also if we could make a post without a link that would be great.
Also if we could make a post without a link that would be great.
Hey, not sure what you mean? Posts can be made without links
Didn’t know. I’m new.
Surprisingly my city has a community here. Not very active but it is here!
That’s cool to see.
Nope. I’m using a hacked third party app which doesn’t load ads, and I shitpost as much as I can to poison their database for LLM use. They can ban me - I have a VPN and plenty of email addresses.
I’ll use them till they don’t serve my needs and then move on.
It’s a website, not a family.
How do you get back on? They banned me but I’d like to do some trolling.
Just register another account. They’ll probably bitch about rules or something but whatever. It’s just a website.
I’ll use them till they don’t serve my needs and then move on.
This. Certain regional and hobby communities need a critical mass that doesn’t exist on Lemmy, and frankly it’s mostly the popular subreddits that are really bad over there anyway. I have reduced my engagement to posting about Mechanical Keyboards and otherwise lurking, I use an app that survived the APIpocalypse because the blind community (of which I am not a member) uses it, and I keep my adblocker and RES on. They’re probably still extracting some value from me, but so are several other companies that are probably even worse.
Lemmy is the community I choose to engage with most directly, and I will shed no tears over the end of Reddit when it comes, but for now I’ve found the middle ground that works for me.
I got banned and any new account I try to make gets shadow-banned. As far as I can tell, my offense was calling Elon Musk a Nazi when he did his Nazi salute during the inauguration. A mod warned me to not call him a Nazi because the ADL said it wasn’t a Nazi salute. Then a few days later he gave a speech for AfD in Germany and I commented “Still think he’s not a Nazi?” Next thing I know, I was banned forever.
Stop signing up with the same email address and you won’t get shadow banned. Your email address is literally the only way they track you. Once I realized this, any new accounts I made with a fake email work just fine.
I’ve never used the same email account. I go to one of those websites that let you create a temporary email address and use that whenever I sign up for a new account. Not just for Reddit, but for most sites. I was very annoyed Lemmy wouldn’t let me create an account with a temp email address.
As another person pointed out, they track cookies too. I never save cookies, which is probably why I was able to create a new account just fine.
After I found out I’ve been shadow banned I got a new browser (Brave) and only access Reddit via incognito mode on Brave. When I first got Brave I created a new account and have never logged into an older account through Brave. I also have never logged into an account I created on Brave in any other browser or device. The only thing I can think of is ISP address?
They track cookies too.
I never store cookies so that might be why I was able to create a new account just fine.
Not used it at all since the API shutdown. Been on lemmy since
Same. Fuck that place. I miss some of the subs, but I’m not going back.
If you keep using Lemmy and spread the world it will grow over time.
No. I use a combination of Mastodon, Lemmy, Bluesky, and Piefed. I refuse to even go back to that Trump Nazi run place.
I do highly recommend upvoting everything you can and if you see a missing group on Lemmy you can always create it.
The only reddit community I’ve yet to find a home for on Lemmy is /r/fountainpens. I don’t post there though. As a lefty getting into underwriting and fountain pens was really good for my penmanship. This in turn was good for my journaling and mental health. I don’t feel bad about it.
IRRC there was a Lemmy channel for it but it was really small.
Fountainpens is one of the view i occasionally lurk by, niche things are really hard to port over i fear
I don’t have so high moral stance to feel bad about using reddit.
Never used Reddit, but I felt bad enough about using that one site that’s owned by a neo Nazi that I nuked my account.
Search results that used to lead me too answers on Stack Overflow now often lead me to Reddit posts.
Aside from this, I do still use Reddit, but mostly for smaller topics. I am on Lemmy daily, Reddit once or twice a week.
I feel dirty when I find the answer to my obscure question on a reddit post (using Kagi’s forum search, btw). I get what I need and close the window quickly, not because it has any actual effect but because there is only so much time on that site until the rage consumes you.
I don’t feel bad, but having moved a few days ago I’ll share my experience.
I try and come here first, will check the one or two things I’ve posted engaged with, scroll a bit - but realise I haven’t quite joined enough communities for there to be novel information each time I check in.
I then default to Reddit, and quickly go into my default auto-scroll passive lurk mode. I see something new - like the most recent Anonymous hack on twitter, and then come back to see if I can find it on Lemmy!
One key difference is I rarely posted on Reddit, but have felt very comfortable posting here. Not sure why!
It so far ( in my very limited experience ) feels like users on Lemmy are more likely to have an actual conversation than immediately slip into the cycle of memes, in-jokes, and other drivel that usually ends up as the top several threads on reddit posts of popular sub-reddits.
It’s kinda nice.
I really hope it stays that way. Large subreddit have been bad for a long time with jokes and memes as comments.
I hope the same. It’s been quite refreshing.
It is nice! Showing my age but reminds me more like forums and chatrooms.
Just posting some lesser known but great communities for you to subscribe to in case you are interested!
I’d suggest that, if there’s a topic over on reddit that has topics you’re interested in, try starting a thread over here on that topic, even if the community here is “dead”. Because “dead” communities can be resurrected, they just need activity. Asking a question on a topic is activity; posting an answer to the question (even if it’s your own question and you had to go to reddit for the answer) is activity and provides a resource here for other people to use. And if it’s something you found out on your own but it’s not new, try posting a YSK or TIL in the appropriate local community. You may not get replies, but we’re not going to become a fully viable alternative unless people contribute little bits where they can.
Trust me, I’m trying! But still, it doesn’t cover everything.
Lurking is ok if you wash your hands afterwards 😉
