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.
Make the posts you want to see. I’ve posted some questions in some niche communities here and I get well thought out responses and discourse.
Don’t let your dreams be memes as they say it today
A lot of people (like myself) need to step out of their comfort zones if we want Lemmy to get more conversations going. Yesterday I made a game thread in the community for my favourite NFL team; I was the only one who commented. But I’m going to try and make one for the game next week.
I’ll join you during regular season.
I ended up subscribing to the Athletic since they have a discuss section. Any sports threads on lemmy are small af rn unfortunately
Not only are they small, they keep appearing in feeds and people downvote them because they don’t want to see sporting content instead of just blocking the community.
Not at all. The only thing taking time to build here are the art communities, but they’re growing. So I’m patient and am trying to contribute
EXACTLY
there’s just not enough in depth stuff on here. i love shitposts, i love memes, i love a chill tone. but we need people posting interesting posts, you know. i’m not even sure how to put my finger on what’s different or why, but there’s just less…stuff here. it needs to be seasoned, or something.
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because low density of content, i browse lemmy by all and just block spammy communities im not interested, my home looks too empty for now, but still don’t feel the need to hang out on reddit
I’ve tried to do that so many times, but I just get inundated with such a massive volume of porn that it’s difficult to wade through to get to discussion communities I’m interested in.
Sure, Lemmy allows you to block NSFW content as a whole, but I don’t like doing that. I still want to see things like NSFW memes or NSFW discussion topics. Going nuclear and blocking all NSFW doesn’t really help the problem.
Try sync, there’s a multitude of block options. By instance, domain, user, community, etc.
There’s the porn, and then there’s some bot instances, right? And then there’s the pornbots that bring you a little mix of both.
Maybe it’s a lesser issue on world, but on some other instances I’ve found that bot instances are arguably worse than porn by sheer volume of posts, but they can be pretty close.
Its still early. This is the first time there has been a legitimate alternative to reddit and thats honestly only because 3rd party apps like sync have made it usable.
Reddit started when Digg changed its site and everyone went to reddit. There has also been multiple attempts to leave reddit, but no similar alternatives. Now there is a good alternative and there will be more things reddit does that will make people look for alternatives.
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I was disappointed the first couple of weeks after I moved here, but the communities that interest me have filled in quite well and I feel quite at home now.
Good luck.
My reddit usage is 99% mobile app and 1% desktop. Since there are no more suitable reddit mobile app. I stopped. The only time nowadays that I visit reddit on desktop is google search and reddit is on top result.
I still have a Reddit account, but I only subscribe to the communities that aren’t replaceable yet.
But I refuse to use the Reddit app, so I only access on desktop, with adblock, maybe 3 times a week just to check in.
Being unsubscribed from the mains keeps it from being a rabbit hole.
You can still use TPAs (Boost at least) if you’re a mod. Just create a subreddit, set it to private and NSFW if you want and enjoy your fully functional TPA.
Redreader still works, apparently they could prove their indispensability for the blind community.
Here’s a little known secret: you can still enjoy Lemmy without giving up reddit. I use both. There are some sports subreddits that I am not prepared to walk away from.
I just use reddit for basic news on specific products I’m looking forward to, and the occasional time I need to search a specific question on it.
After trying out Lemmy, I used a script to delete mass edit/delete all my stuff in reddit, deleted the account, and never went back. I find no enjoyment in commenting on reddit anymore so it was an easy decision.
I agree Lemmy has a long way to go, but I only see it getting better from here which is enough for me to stick with it.
Now that you mention it though, communities do kinda feel empty. Not as in a lack of users/content, but that theres nothing in them that try to promote discussion like “weekly discussions” you would see on reddit. Its more or less entirely some random post by someone, or a news post.
As someone who only cares about news and the discussion around that news, Lemmy satisfies me pretty well. But for people who want a more social experience (probably most people), Lemmy begins to fall apart quickly.
Right now, I think the memes community is really the only active social one.
There were some niche subs that I miss but I haven’t looked back since migrating here. It’s really not an option anyway. They removed any usable way to view their content so that is that.
A little. I miss the movie and show discussions. Also the smaller community subreddits for specific things/people I like to follow there’s not nearly as much or in some cases nothing on Lemmy.
I don’t mind having less fun content, the content that’s here is good enough for me as far as scrolling a feed goes. My main problem is that every source of actually good information and good community-sourced solutions to things is still on reddit. You want to figure out why your game is acting weird? Check out for config issues that people mention on reddit. You’re trying to decide between two solutions/softwares/products? Yeah, you’re gonna get all the info you need on reddit. Tutorials, guides, recommendations, fixes, solutions, it’s all better when it’s communities talking about them, and all of that information is still over on reddit, better indexed, more condensed, the whole nine yards.
I have made ONE post on reddit since things went to shit, and it was to ask redgifs for better lemmy support. I don’t add anything to reddit otherwise, but it is still impossible to find good information without relying on reddit.
Just go read old stuff where it’s hosted. Post new stuff in places you actually like to be.
