Asklemmy

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.

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.

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

Doesn't matter how good the content is if I have to fight the interface to get to it.

Lemmy has enough to keep me entertained, and I did successfully finally break my years-long habit of going to reddit. However there are still some subs I look at occasionally since they can provide valuable information, like city-specific and subs about certain video games.

I'm not having trouble giving up Reddit. I've given it up. And I've definitely noticed the lower volume of content here on Lemmy/the fediverse, but:

• it's getting better pretty much daily; and
• the percentage of good quality content here far exceeds Reddit, so I still feel better off.

I understand it but personally I got so disgusted by the owners behavior that I will never use that site again.

So yeah, I'm missing out on some things I guess but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

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

No, I don't use reddit anymore. Kinda. I sometimes visit Reddit due to search results. Otherwise there is not much I miss or care about.

The content isn't as plenty here, but it is still giving me my mindless scrolling fix.

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.

Nah, it's true that Lemmy has less content, no matter how many communities I join. And I also feel Lemmy has slowed down a bit in the last days/weeks. But I still won't return to reddit. It feels overwhelming, and also I think I got over FOMO. Lemmy will keep growing, I'm in no rush. Leaving reddit was definitely good for me.

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.

Nope. The only time I use Reddit is when a search leads me there. I deleted my account and open it in a container tab in Firefox so they can't track me and I have ublock origin running to block their bullshit ads. I suggest everyone do that. I feel like lately even Google takes me there less often, and when they do, the content is shittier than it used to be.

Fuck reddit. I don't need it, it's dead to me.

I was very bolshy in deleting my reddit account and made a real solid commitment to only use Lemmy the instant that the api changes where announced, .. Two months later and I started feeling a bit stranded, at times it seems like there's nothing but content about programming, Linux, Foss, privacy, and Ukraine but at other times it can be really engaging..

However I have ended up making a new reddit account just so I can lurk from time to time

Haven't gone back to Reddit since. But what I do miss most is the sorting algorithm. I don't know if it was just the abundance of posts, or better sorting. But on lemmy I keep seeing the same posts over and over again, regardless of my sorting setting. But I'll be patient and hope that it gets better.

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.

Reddit basically doesn't exist to me anymore. Lemmy is hardly a substitute but it's the best there is (because reddit doesn't exist) so it'll have to do. Every now and then I manage to bait someone debate me here but unless that happens I go thru the content pretty quick and then just have to come up with something else to do. It's not what I would have wanted but it's probably good for me. Social media is just entertainment. It's in no way essential and probably has net-negative effect on society.

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.

I'm about 90% all in on Lemmy. The only thing I go to Reddit for now is old posts with useful information about tech stuff or some random things.

I basically use it as a knowledge base now, instead of using it to interact with others, post stuff, or follow the daily feed.

All my active/daily posting, reading, and news stuff is on Lemmy & Mastodon now.

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 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.

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.

Not at all.

I spend 6+ hours a day browsing Reddit for many, many years and when Apollo shut down I never went back.

It’s not like I spend all that time on Lemmy now as there isn’t as much content, but I’m happy to get some more time back and not be on my phone so much.

I’m happier for it, even if my Google searches are a bit poorer now I don’t append Reddit.

I don’t miss it one bit as a social platform. I just wish that search engines wouldn’t prioritise it as much when I try to find a “how to do….” guide. It’s insane how many Reddit threads (half deleted and otherwise) dominate the results. Just show me a nice webpage please.

Without Adblock detection. And no bloody “how to” videos either. I just want to read it through, thank you.

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.

A huge part of Reddit for me were my small communities. Lemmy just isn’t big enough for the small communities the same way. I miss my bumpers group that were women from all over the world who went through pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting around the same time with me. I miss my teacher groups. I miss my roller coaster groups. Lemmy has replaced the “popular” tab, but not the “home” tab. I also miss the long text posts. I liked relationship advice, aita, tifu, casual conversation. While smaller, it feels more impersonal here. When I left Reddit I deleted everything so I’m not having trouble giving it up, because there’s nothing to go back to. But I miss what I had.

I’m using it much less than Reddit for that reason but less social media is a good thing in my book, so not complaining.

The most sticky subreddits have been ones that are niche and not tech-related. The most likely users to make their way over to Lemmy have been technically inclined ones who were using third-party apps.

I didn't specifically give up reddit completely, but I have drastically reduced my time on the site, especially since I only ever go onto it when I'm sitting at my desktop and I go to Lemmy first.

It sucks that a lot of communities aren't large enough to sustain content and have remained on Reddit. Even the larger communities tend to get stuck on the same few posts for multiple days without new things pushing them down the list (e.g. the recent LTT drama just would not leave my feed for far too long). For sorting Active is far too sticky, even Hot doesn't clear out posts fast enough.

I find that while I get votes on my comments, the amount of replies and such have definitely reduced, indicating there is less engagement going on within the comments on Lemmy to me than when everyone was moving over.

Nope, I go back from time to time and realize it's the same repetitive bullshit I've been scrolling for 6 years.

Yeah I'm done.

I haven't been back, and honestly I don't care. I don't miss it. Do I wish there was more here? Yeah but it's not a deal breaker.

Lemmy hasn't really expanded in it's content umbrella to the point where it can really fill the same gap. I've instead just spent more time on other apps and don't open Lemmy often.

When I do open it and sort by all it's usually the same kinds of topics on top, not simply reposts, but just really focused on metadiscussions about the viability of the fediverse. I'm not here to make a change, I'm just a consumer looking for mildly interesting distraction. The audience for discussions of the fediverse is incredibly small, while the audience for mild distraction is the majority of the internet.

There's a reddit archiver instance of lemmy: lemmit.online. It's a good solution if you only want to access posts from a subreddit without commenting on them or creating traffic for reddit. You can either look for a particular existing subreddit or request one if it's not being archived at the moment.

For me it's become the opposite. I open reddit /all and see twenty adds for joining the US Army, US navy, I see a few posts with 9k comments. I feel bored. I close it and look on lemme and there's always at least as much if not more content, and the sheer mass of it isn't overwhelming to me at all. People are stupid on both platforms, but for me this one has become a less stressful alternative.

The advertising on reddit is quickly getting out of hand.

I use Reddit as a source for answers to questions. Nothing more. I don’t post or interact beyond that.

I still visit posts from search, but I've given up most of the logged-in experience (upvoting, commenting, submitting on a weekly basis). 99% of my previous activity was via third party apps on mobile, so I have little incentive to go back and contribute content. I don't feel like contributing for free to some portal run by a private company. Reddit used to be a steward of their community but now feel they own it. I don't need to work for them for free

I'm having the same problem. I want more /askphilosophy /askhistorians but good answers require expertise which you don't get over here if the experts don't migrate

Not at all. I went cold turkey and have been off reddit and exclusively on Lemmy and Mastodon for the past 6 weeks. I don't have the app installed so it's easy.

I wouldn't say it's a problem for me but I see what you see. We have to be patient, building a community is one of those things that you have to do carefully, taking your time.

I don't know if you tried in other instances. I just subscribed to many more communities than I did in Reddit, no matter the instance.