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I am in the same boat. The sports subreddits I follow have very few users on lemmy, so it's pointless to follow match threads here. It makes sense to get to do that on reddit where you have thousands of people commenting on the game.

I agree 100%. I set up a home server after reddit fell, and unfortunately I've been having to use reddit to ask a lot of my questions. The communities for the stuff I need to ask here on Lemmy just don't exist, and on reddit they do, and you'll get responses pretty quickly.

For any kind of programming questions reddit has been far better than lemmy simply because it is significantly more populated.

The only time I have ever gone back is when I'm looking something up and everything else that isn't a r€ddit link doesn't have the info I'm looking for, so I haven't found it that hard to stay away since even then I'm not looking up much where a r€ddit link is necessary.

Yes, and no. For me personally, I tended to use Reddit to follow a lot of tech news - whether that be about programming, Linux/Open Source Software, gaming, etc which from what I've seen personally, is certainly an abundance in The Fediverse. Otherwise I'll sometimes discuss some TV shows on Reddit, but most of mine are in their off-season so it hasn't mattered as much.

That being said, I do recognize that its a problem - but I don't know how to begin trying to do my part to fix that problem. I participate where I can. I don't really have many friends who would be interested in The Fediverse and they generally don't use Reddit (Lemmy) / Twitter (Mastodon/Firefish/Calckey/etc) / Instagram (Pixelfed) either way, aside from on the one off occasion that they're linked to something. I made my instance public in order to try to contribute, but no one is interested in joining small instances (and it was delisted from the join-lemmy site once they changed their user count requirement, which killed its only chance to organically grow so I don't think my "effort" will help much there anymore). The only subreddit that I created and moderated was r/moddedmc which I'm still surprised even had people posting on it (since I didn't ever advertise it, I suspect Modded Minecraft was a big enough subject on Reddit to carry its own discoverability) but a community for that already exists here and I don't play much Minecraft these days to contribute all that much.

I did a couple of small contributions to the Android Lemmy client Jeroba a few months ago, but my Android development experience is no where near equipped to provide any significant contributions to Jerboa or any of the other (amazing!) Lemmy Android (and from what I've seen, but don't own any devices that run, iOS) apps. Similar story for my knowledge of Rust to be able to contribute to Lemmy's backend itself... and don't even get me started on my absolute lack of ability to make anything that looks good on the frontend side of things. I created a small utility and a corresponding Grafana dashboard to allow instance admins to keep track of some stats regarding their instance, I see it has a few stars on GitHub though no one has provided any direct feedback on it so perhaps there are at least a few people getting some use out of it. I stay in the Lemmy Admin Matrix rooms to try to provide support to others where possible, but there are far more people who have way more experience (both professionally and on an instance level) than I do. Then finally, I do try to directly donate to Lemmy itself when I can.

So all in all, I'm at a bit of a loss as to what more I could potentially do to help. I don't mean for this to come off as a rant by any means, but I do honestly feel bad that no matter what I do that I think would help, it makes no difference in the grand scheme of things. There are way better devs out there, way bigger instances, people with larger groups of friends who'd be interested, people with more interesting things to share, people who can probably donate more than the $5 than I get to (and probably more consistently), people with more knowledge on how to help other admins, and people who speak/write anything other than English. I'd say that at least I'm "here", but as someone who lives in the US based off the things that I do see on the Fediverse sometimes I get the impression that even this itself isn't well liked. So in the grand scheme of it all it sucks that I really enjoy the Fediverse and I wish more of the internet operated on open standards, and yet I can't find a meaningful way to give back.

I did reinstall Infinity a few times. But the limit on viewed posts is a good way to keep me away.

I browse on lemmy now but I still use my reddit account for a few subs like r/crtgaming and r/toonami

I miss reddit sometimes. I actually went back to my favorite sub for the first time just yesterday. It didn't hit the same. I honestly don't know if the sub changed or i have, but the massive gone. Luckily i thrive on bitterness (it's become a vice at this point but it's a cheap drug) and that means i get a minor thrill in actively not participating in something some piece of shit CEO thinks i can't live without. I am able to get my fill of bittersweet satisfaction from active inaction in this case.

Then i come here and cleanse my palate with the mellow tannins of the metaverse.

This place, I'm excited for this place. Let's make it fucking great. When the "mall" closes it'll be all the sweeter for our participation in is Denise

When I finish watching a tv show, I go to the related sub to see best memes. Nobody can take that away from reddit.

I observed the blackout but Relay kept going for a few weeks. When Relay said they were going to a tier based subscription model, I gave it all up. Uninstalled that moment and haven't been back.

I miss the number of active communities but it's just going to take time.

Only community I truly care about that hasn't budged is the Neovim subreddit still going strong without a care in the world. Everyone's still highly motivated and active there, so it's really the only place to go where I can keep up the the community's momentum.

I'm not giving up Reddit purely because it's more fun, more diverse and better designed.

No. Reddit was trash, there really is good content here, so why go back to the trash?

It was pretty easy for me. I just needed to get off the habit of swapping R to L, for browser to autocomplete lemmy instead of reddit. Occasionally I go to reddit out of muscle memory, I do check the immediate front page while I'm at it, but there's not much to see these days.

RIF stopped working, so I opened the app a handful of times until I learned it takes me nowhere.

OP, make some more recommendations for communities you want to see. Ask instance admins for help grtting those communities to start being active. And crosspost them to "discovery" boards.

I am sorta having this issue - some boards I like don't wanna have deep discussions, and I do. I'm like, so lame, if you tell me to watch a show or read a book to come back and discuss, you're probably doing me a favor.

No, but I still very occasionally check it but only every couple of days for the niche communities, but only because my reddit app of choice still works - but as soon as it stops I will not miss it.

I am about to go back to reddit because Lemmy users suck as human beings. I can't believe the user base that was here before Reddit users think they are somehow fucking better.

They think they are alternative to an average person somehow. Constant posts about how they are different but after seeing a post of them comparing trans protesting to the extremism of the KKK and seeing the comments be full of people talking about how they are "middle people" they "stay on the fence" and are "different" because they don't believe in being extremist. I think I am done with this fucking place.

Nope, checked out July first and never looked back.

Yeah. 99% of the time, I can use Lemmy for everything I used to use Reddit for, but if I miss a goal in the games of my favourite football club, I still turn to r/soccer to watch the replay before the disgustingly overzealous Premier League lawyers pounce..

Yes. I also quit R after all the bs. There a hole in my internet heart and nothing to fill it with

It's always the same thing, why is there no post aging ? Is there just not enough content ? Lemmy needs a better sorting algorithm with more options for control by the user. Something to control the aging value. Also automatically aggregate communities from several servers, like every /c/book community on the fediverse.

I used to use libreddit or teddit. But they are unviable now because of the amount of requests. So I sometimes try to check if there is something interesting about SSBM, which is the only subreddit that is not on lemmy which I'm kind of interested in, but I get the same error many of the times. But it doesn't really matter, if you ignore reddit's existence, you will feel no attachment to it.

if for some reason you were looking for uselessserver093 were on lemmy,kbin and fling up

Most Reddit content is repost bots and stormfront.