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Is anyone else having trouble giving up Reddit due to content? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by DolphLundgren@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I’m not trying to cause an argument but when Reddit pulled it’s bs - I said that’s enough. I gave up my Reddit addiction and didn’t open it or visit the site for over 30 days.

The tone and people on Lemmy is great. I don’t miss Reddit. But I miss the content types. For me Reddit was a topic related news source, a place for great discourse about those news pieces, a place where community members asked constructive questions or shared ideas/projects - and lastly a place for some very specific community types.

Over the last few days I noticed that the first 2 categories of content came over to Lemmy no problem. But the second 2 types I outlined above don’t seem to have come. I went back to Reddit this morning and it’s all still there. Certain types of posts just don’t happen on Lemmy, and on top of that many communities never came over (street_photography is a great example. They literally shut down a subreddit with thousands of users and created a new location in Lemmy/kbin, and instead of coming over the community just evaporated). Other communities are also non existent and some that do exist are simply just not enjoying the same types of posts. I like it here, I want to stay - but it’s difficult. Is anyone else having this issue?

Thanks for hearing me out.

TLDR: all of my communities seem to link posts only, many types of posts just don’t seem to happen here.

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[–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's a couple of sports and tech subs I have bookmarked via old.reddit that are still the de facto place for the community, all in a browser with aggressive privacy measures. I check in on them when "stuff happens" in that area, but don't post and don't hang around.

Otherwise from the odd search hit, I made a clean break back in June and haven't really looked back.

[–] iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is pretty much me as well. I may use results from a search, but, for the most part, I'm never signed in and I haven't commented or voted on anything for quite a while.

The comments seem less helpful or on point with new content from that site anyway, so whenever I am on it, it's usually like a problem solving thread that was posted a year or more back.

Edit: I'm only signed in on my main computer as I still have that login running, I guess.

Also, idk what people are talking about with lack of content. It's not oversaturated to the point that new posts get lost in the churn, but the communities I subscribe to have a fair amount of posts going on.

I feel like people aren't curating their lemmy feeds well or at all if they're not seeing content. I will say that it takes some time to figure out which communities to subscribe to, but I think the majority of that is behind me and I'm catching up with interesting content through stuff like new community or trending community posts.

[–] relative_iterator@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah the only thing I’ve gone back to Reddit for is some sports subs and like you said, only when something specific is happening.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Same. I only check back for r/nba and my city’s sub, because the lemmy equivalent isn’t as active yet.