Reddit

During the APIcalypse I deleted my glorious multireddits and unsubscribed from nearly all the subreddits. This way I’ve intentionally made my Reddit experience very boring. Now that my favorite Reddit app is dead, I have to use a mobile browser, and the experience is… well not as bad as with the official app, that’s for sure. But it it’s still unpleasant or boring.

Because of all that, I don’t visit Reddit anywhere as often as I used to. Nowadays I check Reddit maybe once a week, browse for a few minutes, get infuriated by the ads and move on to something nicer like doing the dishes or folding my laundry.

Don't be too complacent, of course. I've seen people on the Fediverse turn feral and Reddit-esque during discussions of particular culture war issues. It's not completely peachy here all the time; there are some subjects about which some people can't help losing their composure.

My problem here is the amount of folks whose only post or comment is to complain about the lack of content. You want that niche community experience well someone has to lay the cement. Don’t just sit there expecting to be entertained by others

I still use it from time to time because sometime I just need the information I'm looking for. I've justified it telling myself that I'm using it 1/100th of the time I used tt and only use it when necessary.

The don't miss the "Popular" of reddit, but the small specialized communities are not present here. I'm still using reddit for r/clashofclans, r/thedivision, r/printedcircuitboards, r/gradschoolmemes, r/phd and the discussion threads on r/movies about the movies I have watched. The community didn't move here.

I logged out and deleted it from my bookmarks. I avoid it unless I absolutely don't have any other sources.

I pop on the every so often for one specific subreddit because there's no alternative anywhere sadly. I don't log in or interact with anything though.

The vibe I get from a lot of the political and antiwork stuff is astroturfing and/or highschoolers. It's a bunch of meme-driven babble that started as a solid pro union anticapatilistic sentiment that grew into nonsense.

I also find it harder to isolate communities I don't care to be brigaded by. I politically involved enough in my own life. Memes on memes on memes.

Same here. Hell even Lemmy doesn't quite scratch that itch, all the niche communities are gone and all thats left are communists, old memes, basic porn, and generally low quality posts.

Yes I have gotten back from time to time, mostly because my Sync for Reddit app is still patched and makes it easier to not use their garbage app (which I don't even have installed).

And no, it still feels interesting to me, not with r/all nor my frontpage with best sort (this was my main page) but my handhelds multi reddit.

I am subbed to similar communities here, but it is just not the same... Yet.

I only go for one community surrounding a book series, and only on Mondays when there are weekly discussion threads for new chapters. I found reddit pretty easy to cut out when I just stopped using it on mobile entirely.

It was that way for a bit at the beginning. I found the quality of discussion here was much better, and reddit was just super toxic by comparison.

I've noticed the general toxicity has creeped into Lemmy now though, so it's kinda the same either way for me now.

Logged in yesterday, with the intent of deleting it.

It welcomed me as usual, I had notification for a reply on a thread I was participating and a PM, pluss there were a few interesting title on some subs I was in.

The reply was someone just spewing I was wrong and everything I had said was bullshit.

The PM was some random invitation from someone telling me to join their OnlyFans page.

And the general feel of the threads I snooped was all doom and gloom and 3 out 5 comments just dripping of poisounous sarcasm.

After that sample, I was done.

I'm still having a hard time adjusting, to be honest. Granted much of reddit is full of reposts, even so there's still just a lot more content and interaction. I could and did spend all day on one or two subreddits, but here it's kind of checking in one a day and seeing maybe a few new posts. I don't have anything else though, so I'm just often left starving for content. But I just can't give spez the satisfaction of returning.

The only time I go to reddit is to look at r/redditalternatives and witness whatever drama is going on within the newest centralized attempt at reddit that week

Their app is terrible so I keep to only checking my favorite communities that sadly haven't moved over at all.

Reddit since changed the UI again which killed my interest in scrolling r/all. I still have to go there to view r/localllama, r/singularity and r/UFOs, none of which have a sizeable Feddit equivalent. I could do without the speculation of the latter 2 in my life, but I need LocalLlama because it is a great source for news and advice on LLMs.

I only go back sometimes because I find more cute anime content there than here.

I do both, but the reposts and karmafarming make Reddits Popular or All options terrible while Lemmy's is just... weird but interesting. Plus, I like Linux, Star Trek and D&D. Hell, even the random porn, why not. Nobody's looking.

Granted, I'm also the kind of guy who despises wholesome crap, and would take random fringe tankie posts over wholesome (really orphan crushing machine) posts any day. No karmafarm1988, your repost about the dog that was rescued did not make my day. I'd much rather hear for the twentieth time how the dog was only homeless because of capitalism, lol.

It's also no longer personal when even in my less popular communities there's like 4000 comments, almost all of which are karma farming. No reason to chime in most the time. On Lemmy I've encountered jerks, main characters, and holier than thou type users, but it's less often. That's a feature of humanity, not a bug.

But, I do still have some subreddits I'll lurk, via Infinity (no ads, no data mining). I haven't seen a good alternative to r/comics or r/idiotsincars, unfortunately. Can't replicate the former since it's up to the artists, and can't replicate the latter because it benefits from a huge userbase. There's always someone who lives near an accident and can give solid context, even if it's bumfuck nowhere.

I went back in during some of the recent current events to see how the discussions were. Plenty of quantity, not much quality, imo. There wasn't much in the way of thoughtful commentary or discussion that interested me.

every time i go back to reddit there's a blacklog of content waiting that somehow never makes it to the fediverse and a few things that were earth shaking and the fediverse didn't pickup on at all.