Anyone here from Reddit?

It's been few months since I last used reddit, because of my mistakes. So I ended up here! Everything looks slightly complicated. It's not giving the vibe of Reddit, but it's good.

What is your experience so far?
Thank you

Practically all of us came from Reddit, I think.
I'm very happy here. I quit cold turkey, during the whole app API thing. And I've never felt the need to go back.

But I do feel I should ask: Since I left, has Reddit fully embraced txtspk?

Lemmy is full of ragebait. People are always "on". You essentially have to be your own moderator and block users, communities, and instances yourself.

But Reddit is full of bots masquerading as users. I get angry when I realize I've been tricked into empathizing with a machine using me to farm content.

Pick your poison I guess.

"Because of my mistakes...I ended up here" kinda makes it sound like purgatory or hell.

But yes, a lot of people here came from Reddit, including me. Some traitors still return in private. We live down here in the sewers now.

It's been almost three years since they killed my favorite app, and aside from the results that pop up when I'm searching for something, I haven't really been back.

It's certainly not as busy as Reddit, but generally it's friendlier. (unless you support AI or fascists)

If Reddit was a packed nightclub, Lemmy would be the quaint coffee shop across the street. Not as crowded and less yelling.

Yeah, a lot of us migrated over. It feels a bit weird at first but you'll get the hang of it pretty quickly. Just have a look at the communities you can join that interest you!

Welcome!👍

Not as slow as some people claim to be - there's enough daily content even filtering a lot.

Also there are different corners of the fediverse. If you don't like one, you can block it on your side.

Also Lemmy allows hiding posts. That sure is nice. =)

I'm here from reddit too.

It's different: Less content and breadth of knowledge, but more... personal?

You have an opportunity to make a difference by contributing to communities.

A big difference is that porn is isolated: Currently on fedinsfw.app after lemmynsfw.com fell into disrepair.

fedinsfw.app actually has a piefed backend, a lemmy-compatible protocol that some people like better.

Its cool here. I find out most stuff I find important. Obviously it isn't as big or active as reddit, but it's real. If you expect it to be reddit, you could be disappointed. If you're open to new interactions with real, engaged people. It's fantastic.

The worst is r/AskReddit for bots. And the worst part of that is that those questions are ridiculously tempting low hanging fruit for people to "self ban." The one that got me was "how do you think the trump administration will end." The amount of [Removed by Reddit] tags was telling, I must say. I've been trying to get to talk with an actual person, but we all know how that goes. 😒