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.
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.
This is a very honest and cool answer, thanks. I feel much the same way.
Ned?! Ned Ryerson?!
Bing!
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.
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.
For me it was great. I’ve been trying to leave that shithole for years; Lemmy got enough content quantity and diversity to keep me entertained.
I do miss a few niche subs; mostly r/conlangs, game-specific subs, and a few subs for anime/manga/LN series. But I don’t really feel missing out.
I also miss behaving like a shit-flinging monkey and chimping out. I don’t do this here in Lemmy, but I did it all the time in Reddit. I guess that I contributed to what you call “hateful people”? Perhaps not, you don’t look like the sort of user that I’d chew on.
The issue I have with Reddit - it’s full of hateful people and most content is just bots karma farming.
My issue with Reddit is also the userbase. But it’s on another level: the local culture of Reddit encourages braindeadness, disingenuousness, entitlement, and circlejerking.
the local culture of Reddit encourages braindeadness, disingenuousness, entitlement, and circlejerking
I feel like I see more of that here, at least because there are no active replacements yet for the niche subreddits I used to participate in which were actually moderated to remove low-effort comments. I would never have posted in /r/politics if I wanted to discuss a controversial topic, but here I feel like that’s the only option.
That’s a good counterpoint - in Reddit, large subs often work as containment cages for the morons; Lemmy is simply not large enough to have this distinction yet. And perhaps the topic also has some influence, I feel like people in Lemmy are emotionally more strongly attached to their political views than in Reddit, this is not bad per se but people often get irrational when they’re emotionally attached to a subject.
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.
Cold turkey is the only way, for your mental health and the quicker demise of the cesspit that is reddit.
No FOMO, haven’t really missed anything personally. The way I used reddit transferred perfectly to lemmy
Id been there 16 years, fuck em. Cold turkey and haven’t been back. Making new habits is hard, take the help you get is my advice and make a better habit. I’ve been programming more and uh uh refining my porn consumption lol
It’s been bad for me.
All those hate filled posts everyone talks about? I never saw those on Reddit, because I had a couple dozen technical subs (r/emacs, r/PLC, etc.) that I’d browse and rarely if ever strayed from those. Reddit was big enough that the specialized subreddits generated enough content for my use case.
Some of those communities exist here, but they’re practically empty. So I wind up doom scrolling on All, which is full of tankie garbage and political propaganda.
I dunno, while I like the idea of Lemmy, I don’t think it’s likely to ever get the traffic you need for my kind of use. I probably just need to diversify my phone use and visit other sites.
You should fill your subscriptions with instances that aren’t lemmy.ml, or browse another instance in its entirety… however that works.
That might help with the tankies, but it won’t fill in for the specialized subreddits I used to visit. There just aren’t enough people on Lemmy.
I’m old enough to have seen fads, social movements, come and go, technology changing constantly. I’ve learned one must adapt, things always change, and one should be careful about what one gets used to, what one depends on. Sometimes you have a good thing, then it dissappears. What matters is how you respond. I’ve learned to prepare for emergencies, what would I do if this is suddenly taken away?
Reddit was where I realized the online world has changed a lot the past 2 or so decades. Back in the day, we’d actively curate, use rss feeds, find a bunch of sites we liked, and create our own customized feeds.
But by the time of reddit, we were no longer doing that work for ourselves. I started to notice a pronounced echo chamber effect, less variety, seeing same stuff over and over.
Fully left Reddit. I don’t miss it at all. I do find it a little annoying when someone links me to a Reddit post just because of how terrible the site looks or how they want you to sign in.
I only go back for the porn and if I need IT based answers. It’s unmatched sadly
You guys sound like addicts
Recovering addict
I haven’t signed into Reddit since the Apollo debacle. No, I don’t miss it at all. Lemmy is maturing. It’s only going to get better from here. Spez is going to do something else and we’re going to get even more migrations.
The FOMO feeling subsides quickly when I pop back over there. It’s all children and bots now.
