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So I've switched to lemmy since the reddit meltdown started, experienced quite some withdrawal symptoms, occasionally turned back to reddit, more often logged out than logged in. Now I am merely using Lemmy occasionally and by far not as often as I used reddit before. No more doom scrolling.

So far so good.

Today I went on reddit for the first time in like 3 weeks straight (I couldn't do that for the last years... yeah, I was very addicted in hindsight). I just... I don't know what it is.

Reddit just isn't fun anymore.

I turned away after maybe 5 minutes. There were maybe 2-3 repost-worthy pics, one interesting video and a few small niche discussions that all went straight tits up within a few replies.

If I ask a question on lemmy, it usually is a straightforward, honest discussion. Almost no blaming of the posters or answerers misunderstandings or senseless answers. It goes a bit back and forth usually and people tend to thank each other for corrections. I can't remember when that happened on a reddit discussion. Maybe years back? Anyway, I'm not going back there anymore, not because I hate the CEO, but because reddit is not fun anymore. Lost all interest in it.

Did anyone of you have a similar experience?

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[–] SgtSilverLining@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
  • there's half a dozen sewing communities, but no one posts in them
  • fashion communities are also barren
  • pretty sure I'm the only person posting in !DCComics@lemmy.ml out of 200 subscribers. I'm not a mod there (the og mod is an empty account with no comments/posts) and it's not a community I want to recreate on my instance.
[–] maniel@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

same with food, apparently there's no foodies here, as there is a serious lack of burgers/pizza/ramen/pho communities, people shared their photos, recipes etc on reddit

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you have a look at !foodporn@lemmy.world ? I see it popping in my feed every day

[–] maniel@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah, i'm subscribed, but it's a minor fraction of what it was on reddit, people discussed there their pizza/burgers recipes/techniques, fought over burger/pizza/ramen/pho definitions etc

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Indeed, Lemmy is a minor fraction of Reddit population wise, there's not much that can be done around it unfortunately

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

You should ask an admin to be a mod.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

What fashion communities exist? Just curious, that's a topic I'm really not familiar with