How has it been for you? Do you get FOMO feeling sometimes?
I use Reddit less and less but haven’t fully quit yet. Always have this odd feeling of FOMO regards content.
Not only that, some subreddits haven’t migrated to any other platform unfortunately. Or they have but the content is very little compared to Reddits content.
Note - wasn’t sure where to post this. So if this wasn’t the right place, apologies!
The issue I have with Reddit - it’s full of hateful people and most content is just bots karma farming.
EDIT: Thanks for all the responses!
EDIT 2: Thanks for the ones that mentioned RSS-Feed. Just got it and it’s amazing. Still manage to only follow the subreddits that I like without crapads.
Fully left Reddit. Hate that they killed Sync so bounced. Don’t miss it at all.
The flip side is Lemmy is meh. Every damn post is Linux shilling. We get it. Lemmy users like Linux. At least Sync works on this site.
Ultimately, I guess I just don’t care about either site. I just want something to mindlessly browse for a few minutes every day when I’m shitting, and Lemmy is fine.
It’s not true that every post is Linux chilling.
Half are “piracy good” and “google is so evil for having ads”.
Don’t forget about “every problem in existence is because of capitalism.”
Well this is looking like a slippery slope. Next comment is just going to be something like “I actually kind of like the far right.”
After reading your comment I had to fight an almost overwhelming urge to buy a Nazi flag and rent out my house for the simple pleasure of screwing over renters. That’s how fast it happens.
I always find it funny when people use the phrase slippery slope, not realizing that it is literally a logical fallacy.
The far right can get bent for what it’s worth, but most of the issues people attribute to capitalism are very far from exclusive to capitalism. No matter what socioeconomic framework you go with, you’re probably still going to need to go to work, deal with shitty bosses, insane bureaucracies, mid life crises, not having the motivation to read that book you bought 3 years ago, your furnace dying in the middle of winter, etc.
Shitty bosses are probably less likely if your boss is ultimately democratically accountable to you and not to the some alien legal party that is your employer
Democratically elected/accountable doesn’t necessarily beget quality. See: politicians.
Point is, people act like moving away from capitalism would suddenly fix all life’s ails. Sure, it would probably fix some stuff, it would probably cause some problems capitalism doesn’t too. It’s much more effective to focus on tackling specifically scoped issues rather than whinging about capitalism and proposing no solutions other than tearing down the entire system and hoping whatever rises from the ashes is better.
To make some very specific points, I believe that if we simply fixed outrageous housing and healthcare costs, the overwhelming majority of domestic complaints about the USA would be solved. No need to ditch capitalism to fix those problems.
If given a choice between democratically elected politicians and unaccountable dictators and autocrats, I would choose politicians.
By capitalism, I mean specific institutions. I have specific solutions in mind such as recognizing the inalienable right to workplace democracy, and common ownership of land, natural resources, and the means of production.
Land’s inelastic supply, which can only be solved by socializing it, plays a role in housing costs.
Work issues remain unsolved by those two
Damn, how could I. In that same line though there is the variant about how anything non free open source is shit, and that copyrights shouldn’t exist.
I think Lemmy has some decent posting and thoughtful comments.
BTW I use arch.
On the contrary, there are more posts here that shill for MS too, than on Reddit. But that’s probably because of too much Linux.
FOMO is a silly and manipulative phenomenon, I encourage you to try to figure out how you can break it. I left the day Apollo stopped working
Same. Left when Apollo shut down. Also someone(a) is regularly scraping segments of Reddit and uploading here for our viewing pleasure.
I wish apollo would make lemmy client like the sync dev did
Check out Memmy!!! I’m using it now and love it
Is Memmy being updated again? I loved it but it got janky, so I switched to Voyager.
Yes - developers did a big refresh recently. Closest thing to Apollo I’ve seen
How does it compare to Voyager? Because that’s pretty much just Apollo with an AGPL-3.0 license
There is one! Called Voyager, it’s open source too: https://vger.app/
Not by Christian though. It does have a lot of the features, recently they added account age markers next to new accounts!
I went from maybe 1 - 2 hours of reddit use per day for years to 0 the day 3rd party clients were turned off.
I don’t feel fomo, but I only use lemmy maybe 15 - 30 minutes per day on average, and I am happy about that
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Honestly, I haven’t missed it. I’m no longer doom-scrolling an eternal screen of karma-farming bullshit.
I took part in the blackout protest and tried Lemmy at the same time. When Reddit proved they didn’t give a shit, I went back long enough to scrub my post and comment history, before deleting my ~15yo account entirely. Sure, they could probably recover the data, but why would they?
I use Pihole for DNS and a private searx-ng instance for web search, so I just block all Reddit domains in DNS and search results, and it’s genuinely like it doesn’t exist for me any more.
Also, the pace on Lemmy is much nicer, IMHO. I find a lot of days I only look at Lemmy a couple of times, and very quickly move on if there’s no posts of interest to me.
Life’s been nice here. It was uncomfortable losing all the stuff I’d subbed, the content was slim when I first switched… But I knew it would be.
You adjust, you find new things to enjoy around here even when you lose things that as yet have no replacement from Reddit.
But I’m serious about the need for privacy and escaping ads. I have no regrets.
I totally quit reddit and I miss it. I miss it so much, in fact, that I tried to go on there like nothing ever happened- but it sucks so bad that I still missed Reddit, even when I was literally using it. It’s just terrible now. Lemmy is mad decent, and I really like how it isn’t run for profit. Still a little janky in some regards, and it’s definitely skewed toward certain demographics, but it’s definitely my favorite social platform.
I miss it. It makes me angry, and a little sad, and definitely lonely. I miss the community and the friends I had (which accounted for too much of my social interaction). But I still feel like it was the right move.
It is a toxic place in many ways, but there are communities there that are hard to replace. I ignored much of what was happening for far too long, and a lot of my pain now comes from a failure to deal with that reality when I should have done
Instead I moved with the masses, at least in theory. I hate that it was necessary, but I would do it again.
I’ve only gone back to reddit anonymously a few times for technical information or guides. I do miss it in some ways but I don’t miss how toxic it could be.
Ned?! Ned Ryerson?!
Bing!
This is a very honest and cool answer, thanks. I feel much the same way.
The issue I have with Reddit - it’s full of hateful people
I left two or three years before the big wave, for precisely this reason. It really is a toxic culture – it seeps into your brain that you cannot say something mildly wrong or controversial without the mob snowballing your comment to death.
No one affords others any goodwill, because not doing so makes their own number go up.I was on Mastodon for quite a while, because Lemmy wasn’t a thing yet. And over there, you can only make people’s numbers go up and the culture reflects that.
I do feel like the Lemmy model works better for unearthing content (Mastodon is more about people), but I can’t help but feel like there ought to be a path in the middle.it seeps into your brain that you cannot say something mildly wrong or controversial without the mob snowballing your comment to death.
It wasn’t like that over here a few months ago, but unfortunately that’s starting to change.
From my view the more of Reddit that comes here the farther right we go. My first experiences on Lemmy were somewhat off-putting because it was so far left I couldn’t relate, like literally just ignorant anarcho-commie shit that doesn’t have any basis in reality. Now I’m seeing more and more centrist and far-right-too-comfortable-with-fascism shit that I also can’t relate to and feel repulsion from. Not sure what the perfect balance would be, but I think there was a day or so there where it might have existed on Lemmy.
Huge swathes of Lemmy are deeply transphobic. I’ve never seen such bullshit on Reddit. I agree there are more communists, and that’s great, but unfortunately there are a lot of politically engaged and deeply ignorant people running large instances.
You missed it then because it was definitely there.
Yeah, that big wave brought a lot of that culture over here and it might be self-sustaining…
I miss some of the niche communities but I’m less addicted to social media these days so it seems like a step in the right direction
The FOMO feeling subsides quickly when I pop back over there. It’s all children and bots now.
I wouldn’t call it FOMO, but I am sad about not seeing a lot of smaller niche communities that haven’t made the switch. Maybe eventually stuff like USB C hardware will be popular enough to have the same community.
I only go back for the porn and if I need IT based answers. It’s unmatched sadly
Yep. But I refuse to use their damn app. And they deliberately make the interface on the mobile site cumbersome. It’s tons of fun.
I just google and go to the web page with adblock
old.reddit is difficult to use on a mobile browser, but it’s still the only way I browse it on my phone. It pushed me to basically only browse Reddit on my laptop, so that helped to break my Reddit addiction.
18 year reddit veteran.
I haven’t contributed or actively browsed Reddit since moving to Lemmy. Three visits from a google search for a specific problem.
I don’t get FOMO - too long in the tooth for that, but I do miss the center ground politically on Lemmy, which despite my best attempt of locating I haven’t found here. I sometimes feel like I’m the only one to frown at both nazis and tankies here.
You aren’t alone.
I don’t have FOMO for reddit. I am held hostage by r/HonzukiNoGekokujou but I try to build bookwormstory.social and make a nice place for them.
Oh neat. I watched the anime version a while ago, but I didn’t read the original. If I ever get back into the series I’ll check your community out.
Ah hello there. At least the discord is nice enough to compile memes that I may be missing
I’m similar, it’s just r/warthunder that keeps me stuck.
There’s a couple lemmy comms for it but they have basically no userbase.
