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.
Best answer, Lemmy, like all social media follows the 90-9-1 rule of social media. Of 100 people, 90 will lurk, 9 will comment, and only 1 will actually post anything.
There are people in the communities that want to talk, but you gotta be the one to post.
Hey take it as your opportunity to become a name in a community!
I don’t know what our percentages are, but I think we’re much more content skewed then the rest of socal media
I don’t know how someone can lurk without the urge to post something or comment, that must take willpower
idk where these statistics come from, but the 90/9 ratio may come from the fact we don’t comment on every thread we read, and not that 90% of users never comment
Or, like, not really knowing how to express oneself. I’ve got a lot on my mind to share in specific
subscommunities though it’s difficult as I don’t feel like knowing who I’m talking to
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
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.
The only reason I honestly go back is purely for the destiny 2 related subs.
Doesn’t matter how good the content is if I have to fight the interface to get to it.
Lack of search really makes it hard to find a discussion on anything, which is what I used reddit for. I hope its a thing that gets implemented eventually.
https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym
several lemmy instances host this port of the old reddit interface at old.example.com
The lemmy interface is fine. It’s the reddit one I’m sick of dealing with.
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.
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.
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.
Only problem i have with lemmy is that after scrolling for a bit i end up wading through posts with 0 comments and 2 upvotes, which are inevitably just links to something i do not give a singular toss about.
But that’s honestly kinda just good, it forces me to not just stare at my computer nonstop.
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.
Nope. Two months of not using reddit. Not doom scrolling, not feeling that heart rate lift when I see I’ve had a bunch of new replies and wondering whether I said something wonderful, or something dumb and a hundred people are now calling me an arsehole.
I do get your point about some reddit communities being genuinely nice places with great content, and if it was just that I’d still be there. But my mental health is better through having left it. Also, having read the posts about Reddit’s attitude to its users and supporters during the Apollo posts made me realise just how toxically they view us. Fuck them, they can go to hell without me.
It’s been about a month for me too and I HATE having no content to look at, but my last health checkup at my doctor’s office proves that the lack of doom scrolling REALLY has an impact.
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.
These types of posts feel like they need a density of users to emerge and lemmy might just not have hit that tipping point yet. I have see it in non-reddit niche forums and I think it will just take some time.
I agree. Lemmy is the first federated app that i check regularly. Nothing has stuck for me before. I think there is staying power and the community will grow.
Not in the slightest reddit is for plebs and soon it will get purchased by some media conglomerate and continue to die a slow death
I’d imagine a tech company would find it more interesting, it has a lot of user generated content to feed AI training (admittedly there is a lot of bot content, but they’d have tools to detect humans I guess?)
it will continue to be a net loss for whoever decides to purchase it. there are no novel ideas left to try for these companies trying to turn user count for free services into revenue. the model is a failure.
Yes. I also quit R after all the bs. There a hole in my internet heart and nothing to fill it with
