I'll be honest I have spent the last couple months laughing my ass off at /c/risa since I jumped ship.
Yes lemmy is rough as a badgers arse but I'll take this over endless streams of how fucked we all are or wall to wall yank politics.
That post seems to be missing.
MataVatnik 59 points 3 years ago
People keep saying lemmy is rough, but so far it's running just as well for me as reddit with the exception of a few hiccups. It actually has more features for navigation
Z3k3 22 points 3 years ago
When I say rough ideas qol stuff not stability. I have a couple instance accounts for the hiccups. Things like blocking communities I am not interested not being fed wide. Its kinda like plying wakamole.
Illegal_Prime 20 points 3 years ago
My biggest issue is that community discovery is difficult. I browse through the Memmy app and joining communities that are new or niche is really hard. Often times links just don’t work, it might be because I’m on a smaller instance, but it’s difficult to find communities targeting my interests because of this.
MataVatnik 4 points 3 years ago
Maybe I'm just terminally online but on lemmy.world I just go on /all instances and browse by top last hour and I easily get to the end of the stack.
RaincoatsGeorge 9 points 3 years ago
Ive been using memmy and do not notice any significant problems, it feels roughly like RIF did before it got shut down. Yeah there’s some small things that need to be fixed but it’s scratching the exact same itch.
MataVatnik 3 points 3 years ago
I'm on mobile Firefox browser
Illegal_Prime 5 points 3 years ago
To be honest there’s an annoying about of cynical politics here too, I’d debate these people, but I often don’t have the energy.
Sincerely -a yank
circuitfarmer 5 points 3 years ago
c/Risa is hands down my fav community! And very active.
Lemmy is kind of rough, but I've started to love it. I definitely think that I get the same content satisfaction I had at reddit -- I think it's more true of niche communities on Lemmy at the moment.
MarmaladeMermaid 4 points 3 years ago
!fuckcars would like a word.
northendtrooper 27 points 3 years ago
14 year redditor and I go back and forth (only for 2 subreddits) but majority of reddit, including the news portions are completely dead. RIP r/pbsnews. I vow not to comment or submit any new links for them.
LuckyCharmsNSoyMilk 16 points 3 years ago
Same. I will say though, my phone usage overall has gone wayyyyy down. So. Thanks, Reddit?
DeadlineX 1 point 3 years ago
I do a lot more reading books when I want stimulation now. I still browse lemmy if I’ve only got a few minutes, like waiting for a build to finish in Visual Studio, but I’ll grab my ereader for anything longer than that.
lvxferre 15 points 3 years ago
Ditto. Lemmy could see more content, but the current amount is enough to keep me entertained.
Frankly the only two situations nowadays when I open Reddit is 1) cross-checking stuff posted in this comm, and 2) copypasting stuff from Reddit to Lemmy to avoid giving it more pageviews.
makingStuffForFun 6 points 3 years ago
I never knew this. I tried with https://www.reddit.com/r/watercolour/.rss as a test. I can the the images are in the feed. But, my readers are not showing them. Do you have any suggestions on getting image previews to work?
makingStuffForFun 2 points 3 years ago
that's what I use yes. Do you get images for that URL? If you don't mind a quick check? Then at least I can dig into feeder.
Whirling_Ashandarei 3 points 3 years ago
I wish I could but there's not much of a sports community in here yet. Trying to sub and contribute where I can to change that tho.
FrostyTrichs 1 point 3 years ago
Lemmy can feel slow at times but the byproduct is that I find myself searching for new communities, not just replacements for my old reddit favorites.
The_Picard_Maneuver 304 points 3 years ago
Because the most active contributing users left. I used to comment a lot on reddit, but I've been exclusively on Lemmy since my 3rd party app was axed.
And I've been very active here. Like, even on this alt account that I made 16 days ago, my app says my post "karma" is already higher than my reddit comment karma was from over a decade.
I feel more willing to contribute because there's a sense of community, and I'm not just providing free entertainment for a company to profit off of.
NoIWontPickaName 57 points 3 years ago
Between you and @RandalThor must cover 50% of stuff I see
The_Picard_Maneuver 47 points 3 years ago
I've been having fun doing it. I just post a few memes throughout the day whenever I think about it, and I also try to spread it out among some smaller communities that I want to help grow.
So, memes and a handful of communities that I'm personally interested in.
PrincessLeiasCat 13 points 3 years ago
I feel like I see you a lot, too. I don’t remember where, but it’s probably because I always notice the great username :)
The_Picard_Maneuver 14 points 3 years ago
RandAlThor 9 points 3 years ago
There's another Rand? I must meet this man over at Wheeloftime!
averagedrunk 9 points 3 years ago
I win again, Lews Therin.
Mr_Buscemi 4 points 3 years ago
Hell yeah another place to subscribe to!! Thanks for linking it
nutbiggums 37 points 3 years ago
I've commented more on lemmy in 3 months than the last 10 years on Reddit
The_Picard_Maneuver 14 points 3 years ago
Glad you're here, nutbiggums!
teft 24 points 3 years ago
I used to comment a lot on reddit
Same. I had a 15 year account with a couple hundred thousand karma and commented and posted a lot. If you piss off the people who actually use the site you will reap what you sow. Reddit should have known that since the exact scenario happened fir Digg when everyone migrated to reddit.
lvxferre 13 points 3 years ago
They looked at the leaves, and failed to see the forest, thinking that simply not killing old.reddit was enough to avoid Digg-ing the grave. Because from their view that's how Digg died - v4 happened, users couldn't go back, they got pissy, and they left.
@megane_kun@lemm.ee is also right when he says that they compared Reddit with other social media platforms and took the wrong conclusions. What keeps people in Facebook aren't "content creators" or what have you, but their relatives and friends; in Reddit there's no such thing, people weren't there because of more people but because of the content that those people created, so their connection with the platform is considerably weaker.
I also think that the trust thermocline played a role. It wasn't the first time that the platform pissed its own users.
megane_kun 5 points 3 years ago
Agreed on the reasons why FB stayed relatively strong despite its reputation going down the drain. What kept many people from leaving FB for good is actually network effects: that one's friends and family, coworkers and colleagues, are more likely to be in FB than not in it. Huffman's site? Not so much. I don't care if someone I know IRL is in it, and I sure as hell wouldn't want them to know I used it.
The platform formerly known as Twitter is a more apt comparison, to be honest, but it's still way too early to tell if it has actually weathered the storm, or has become so rotten on the inside that it'd spectacularly fail in the near future.
lvxferre 4 points 3 years ago
Perhaps Twitter is a third can of worms, it's neither about content (as Reddit) nor the users' social circles (as FB), more like a few anchor people keeping the others there. Due to that Musk's idea (to pay creators to stay there) might actually help.
I still think that it'll fail due to other decisions Musk took, but less spectacularly than Reddit. Musk is at least trying to think by himself, Spez is simply following others.
The_Picard_Maneuver 9 points 3 years ago
I'm always happy to see a Teft post pop up in my feed.
CopernicusQwark 3 points 3 years ago
Life before death, Radiant.
megane_kun 3 points 3 years ago
It's easy to argue why they thought it's not going to happen to them. They saw Facebook shrug off all of its scandals, and thought that being in a similar position, network effects are going to help them weather any storm. And it can be argued that Steve Huffman and his site did weather this particular storm. But like Facebook, trust in Huffman's site have taken a blow, and in the demographic that they would ill afford to antagonize.
That we're starting to see its effects as early as now should scare any sane person in Huffman Inc.
6daemonbag 3 points 3 years ago
Wow I was on there longer than you and I don't think I broke 10k haha
RaincoatsGeorge 20 points 3 years ago
I had over 300k comment karma, on the site every single day for about 10 years. Comparing the comments here vs there it’s crazy I hung around so long. It’s like getting out of an abusive relationship, you don’t realize how much you’re being mistreated until you’re out from under them.
Hyperreality 2 points 3 years ago
Same. Thing is, I would usually get gold like once or twice a month. I would post well sourced, long and often highly upvoted comments. Try to be genuinely helpful or insightful. I used to be a journalist, it was an outlet for me.
Not that they were that great, redditers upvoting stuff doesn't make a comment right or interesting, and wasting too much time there was really not something to be proud of, but if just ten thousand users like you and me quit reddit, that leaves mainly teenagers, bots and 'comedians' rehashing the same tired puns.
It can effectively kill smaller subreddits, as has quite obviously happened in some cases.
We weren't just customers, we also produced a disproportionate amount of the content on reddit. More than our relatively small numbers would suggest. IRC the 1% rule states that only 1% of users actively post/comment. If you're posting relatively coherent or thought out comments, you're the 1% of that 1%.
Spaghetti_Hitchens 18 points 3 years ago
I've been very active here
I've noticed your posts almost every day and appreciate them
The_Picard_Maneuver 12 points 3 years ago
Thank you, 🍝
Nepenthe 18 points 3 years ago
I'm sure the notifications are annoying you by now, but I'd like to borrow the moment to agree with everyone else. You're one of the users who have ended up becoming this place's lifeblood somehow, and I pretty much always enjoy whatever you post. Or at least, a ton of what I enjoy ends up having your name on it.
I heavily appreciate seeing you around and while you are allowed to slow down for the sake of your sanity, I would notice and miss it.
The_Picard_Maneuver 11 points 3 years ago
Not an annoyance at all! I don't have push notifications on, so I just check whenever I open the app next.
And I really appreciate the kind words. I'm just happy to support lemmy growing, one dumb meme at a time.
The_Picard_Maneuver 9 points 3 years ago
🫡
AWizard_ATrueStar 15 points 3 years ago
No offense I thought you were a bot given how often I see your username haha. Good on you! You are helping to make this a better place
The_Picard_Maneuver 11 points 3 years ago
Beep boop, I like sharing memes
(Thanks!)
Rentlar 8 points 3 years ago
I've definitely seen you around a lot lately. 😁 Thanks for the joy and memes.
I was never famous on Reddit but I was a prolific commenter for six years. I gradually phased out from Reddit as I got into Lemmy until July, when I pledged not to comment or vote on Reddit ever again. I've since kept my word.
The_Picard_Maneuver 3 points 3 years ago
Thanks!
And yeah, I've checked reddit a few times for niche things, but it would just feel dirty to contribute there now.
The_Picard_Maneuver 3 points 3 years ago
For Lemmy?
Some apps add it up for you. One of the apps I use frequently is Voyager (on Android), and it shows it on the profile page.
For example, here's yours: (I assume I can't see 100% of the votes though, in case your instance is federated with any that mine's not"
The_Picard_Maneuver 1 point 3 years ago
Oh that's cool. I may have to check that out on desktop.
Hamartiogonic 4 points 3 years ago
You’re not alone. Just check https://subredditstats.com/r/technology or any other sub you used to visit and you’ll see a clear drop in comments/day. After the APIcalypse, so many people just left and never came back.
Hamartiogonic 3 points 3 years ago
Well, the site says it shouldn’t be used for serious purposes, but I would say it’s still safe to consider it semi-quantitative. If you see a drop like that, there really is a drop. What the exact value was before or after might not be that reliable, but it’s not even important in this case.
The_Picard_Maneuver 3 points 3 years ago
Wow, this is really interesting! I checked a few, and you can see a severe drop in activity.
Hamartiogonic 2 points 3 years ago
Every sub I cheked got totally nuked to oblivion. No wonder why people are complaining about the quality. Hardly anyone is there to comment or vote.
The_Picard_Maneuver 3 points 3 years ago
I opened reddit on desktop yesterday for the first time in a while, and I had received a survey from the Admins.
I've never received something like that before. The questions made it seem like they're trying to figure out why people are unhappy.
Lazylazycat 3 points 3 years ago
Wow, that's a serious drop off! I looked at a few of my old fave subreddits and they're all the same. It's like one of those old towns in the US that was once on a main highway before a new route was built. Once bustling, now dead.
Hamartiogonic 3 points 3 years ago
They don’t call it the APIcalypse for nothing. Reddit got totally nuked and it hasn’t recovered.
Hamartiogonic 2 points 3 years ago
Oh, that is a good point actually. However, drop in comments is probably also associated with a drop in quality posts and the number of people who upvote them.
timicin -6 points 3 years ago
Because the most active contributing users left.
could have fooled me; my biggest issue with the fediverse is the lack of content and reddit's content just keeps getting bigger and bigger by the day.
fortunately it works for me since i want to detox myself from all social media and the fediverse has so little content to i'm done after 30/45mins per day; in fact, i can still spend hours on reddit unregistered lurker and get more content every day than the entirety of the fediverse since its creation, combined.
airportline 249 points 3 years ago
I never thought it would be so easy to stop going on Reddit, but this place is good enough
spaghettiwestern 87 points 3 years ago
good enough
IMO the users here are way more pleasant to spend time with than those on Reddit. The level of hostility in some areas of Reddit was off the charts and it seems the trolls are staying put. This definitely /mademesmile.
fckreddit 18 points 3 years ago
I really avoided unpleasant subreddits. There were many smaller subreddits that were genuinely fun to be in. I miss those communities here. One that comes to mind is r/gintama. That sub was a great source of joy for me. Unfortunately, I couldn't find one here.
spaghettiwestern 7 points 3 years ago
If you build it they will come...
Can you create your own?
GreatGrapeApe 4 points 3 years ago
Be the change you want to see and create that community.
pleasemakesense 4 points 3 years ago
you cant really expect anything else from chapotraphouse, the reason they're on lemmy (also why lemmy even is a thing to begin with) is because they got banned off reddit together with other far left subs
lvxferre 3 points 3 years ago
Oh, that reminds me the discussion I had with two nationalists here in Lemmy. Apparently, unless I pretend that fermented and then distilled sugar cane is "magically" different depending country, I'm assumed to be from a nearby country. The whole thing sounded a lot like "gravity doesn't work on Fridays, and if you say that it does I'm going to pretend that I'm an illiterate and not read it", i.e. typical Reddit lack of character/rationality/decency.
I'm saying this because I've found this behaviour usually peaks when there's a large-ish influx of Redditfugees, then it tones down. So it's likely most the result of recent immigrants; I think that the most obnoxious/Reddit-like ones will end back in Reddit, while the others will learn to not behave like morons.
GreatGrapeApe 3 points 3 years ago
Rum can be very different regarding the nation is comes from because the various Rhum Agricoles are not made the same way Jamaican rum is made and that is due to laws surrounding production.
For example in Martinique all sugar cane is cut once and then the field is burned and replanted. This means the cane has less wood to it and as a result less wood sugar. In addition you cannot add sugar back into Rhum Agricole to cover faults like you can in most nations.
There can be very distinct differences but those are entirely due to laws and traditions. There is no notion of terroir, that is that the climate and soil provide unique elements, in sugar cane.
Meowoem 6 points 3 years ago
Yeah I've had some really good conversations here, I had a lot of great little friend groups on Reddit over the years but being here made me realise I haven't had a really good chat with someone that I genuinely enjoy talking to on there for about five years. I'd honestly just assumed it was me but here I've had so many great conversations, I don't know why but possibly it's that the good interesting people aren't drowned out and beaten down by a sea of hostility.
Little1Lost 1 point 3 years ago
i think most apps have a word filter that you could use.
if you generally want the content but not the spam way you are experiencing you could have another app without filters.
jotadeo 22 points 3 years ago
Totally agree. And I'm now using more of my time to relearn all the Spanish I've forgotten over the last 20 years and even improve beyond my previous level.
I also made the decision to try to use my social media/YouTube/web-browsing time on learning new things. When I'm in the mood for more mindless activities, I generally opt for watching videos where people bring positivity into the world in some way or another.
I pop on here once a day or every couple of days to fart around a very short while and then I'm back to doing my thing.
I occasionally end up on Reddit because a web search had results from there that were intriguing for whatever I was looking up. I never go in as a registered user anymore and those few times I do end up there, I'm in and out without going any farther than the thread that came up in the search results.
Thanks, Spez, for helping me take back my life!
Fapper_McFapper 7 points 3 years ago
Good enough, that’s our motto.
Karyoplasma 4 points 3 years ago
We have a saying im German that encapsulates that notion: Ein gutes Pferd springt nur so hoch, wie es muss (A good horse only jumps as high as it has to.)
PersnickityPenguin 2 points 3 years ago
Agreed, and it seems to be evolving over time.
tacosplease 181 points 3 years ago
I was on reddit for 11 or 12 years. Commented several times a day. Voted 100 times or more per day. Left mid June and haven't been back once. Now I do that shit here instead.
gamer 54 points 3 years ago
Turns out that Reddit is a lot easier to quit than most people claim or realize. I still end up there from web searches occasionally, because some communities just don’t exist in lemmy (also lemmy frankly sucks as a place for finding niche communities due to fragmentation and shitty search tools). But besides that, there’s nothing particularly compelling about reddit anymore.
I wonder where people are going though? They’re definitely not coming here unless they’re an adult male technology/linux nerd.
thegiddystitcher 7 points 3 years ago
Um excuse me we also have knitters .
Emotional_Series7814 7 points 3 years ago
I’m a woman, and although some technological things are interesting I’m not quite a tech nerd and definitely not a Linux one. Linux seems cool but I’m too lazy to make the jump. MacOS and/or Windows serve well enough for me.
I also have several different Threadiverse accounts and try to post frequently in niche communities I’m interested in, although not so frequently I become the only contributor and it feels spammy.
chiliedogg 6 points 3 years ago
I'll be the first to say that if they rolled back the changes I'd return in a heartbeat.
I miss reddit a lot, but I decided to leave if they went through with the API changes and I stand by that decision. But I definitely miss it and Tildes and Lemmy simply don't replace it.
Gullible 168 points 3 years ago
I wanted to call bullshit but they’re entirely right.* Comments per day took a nosedive. Now if only more hobby communities would lift off, I’d be able to abandon Reddit entirely. I’m up to my tits in Linux and privacy guides but I still know nothing of mushroom picking. Nothing!
Edit: *some users pointed out that subredditstats is no longer capable of accurately tracking comment numbers. I was wrong.
MentalEdge 10 points 3 years ago
The beauty of a federated social network, is that even if it becomes mainstream as a whole, there will always be smaller niche instances for us to get away from the big ones on.
BackOnMyBS 27 points 3 years ago
I’m up to my tits in Linux and privacy guides
omg I'm seriously loling rn 😆 there's so much fucking linux on this site. ive been using linux for ~14 years (exclusively for 2), and i have no idea what most linux posts are going on about, nor do i know anyone with a linux pc in my real life. us on lemmy have somehow managed to find each other.
i give it a few months until i have my own instance, a pi hole (whatever tf that is), and completely blocked google from tracking me in any way.
Gullible 12 points 3 years ago
I still love seeing them despite lying outside my interests. Seeing someone’s passion project or troubleshooting session from the outside is interesting, if only thanks to their enthusiasm inspiring novel approaches and clever workarounds.
BackOnMyBS 3 points 3 years ago
yeah, it's engaging and entertaining. i spent half an hour yesterday going through a thread where OP argued for the use of linux in business settings and the comments were reaming OP for his arguments. i was like, "jeez. dont make a mistake on this site. people will let you have it." OP should wait a few weeks, make an alternate account, and argue for the use of Win over linux in business settings to get the other end covered. 😆
Alterforlett 5 points 3 years ago
Pi hole is brilliant
DynamicBits 4 points 3 years ago
path: 0 3413216 3416535 3418719 3425026 3426813, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 0
You set it up to be your local DNS server and it will support all devices on your network.
BackOnMyBS 2 points 3 years ago
see‽ im already getting sucked in
Potatos_are_not_friends 2 points 3 years ago
Pi-hole isn't a complicated tech thing!
It's just a raspberry pi with a piece of software that you attach to your router and set up block lists that...
Well shit, maybe it is.
boogetyboo 23 points 3 years ago
Thanks for the giggle. Coffee wasn't helping that much but the thought of someone just standing near some mushrooms and dramatically throwing their hands in the air pepped me right up
remotelove 10 points 3 years ago
We have mycology and a few shrooms communities. Just browse my history for the exact links and some neeto grow pics.
remotelove 5 points 3 years ago
Personally, since it isn't Reddit, yes.
The communities here are small, unfortunately. Once more people migrate over here, it has the potential to be much better. Without a doubt, the communities aren't large enough to have a ton of accurate knowledge sharing.
Until then, we should just keep contributing! While I am likely a "top poster" on the shroom communities, I do have some good conversations in the comments. Many people are just lurking and that is totally cool!
remotelove 6 points 3 years ago
Yeah, the myco communities are coming to life for sure.
Rentlar 13 points 3 years ago
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!fungusid@mander.xyz needs some love... pick random mushrooms you find, say you're thinking of eating it and wait for a lot of "NONOONOOOOOO"s in the comments. Next step is ????, then profit!
spaghettiwestern 12 points 3 years ago
You could always try some of the AI content:
HobbitFoot 26 points 3 years ago
Yeah. Reddit seemed to view users like every other social media app without realizing that a lot of the successful apps compensate those who add value to the app.
The official app seems ok for consuming content, but it was dogshit for meaningful interaction.
gogorocketpower 95 points 3 years ago
The completely unblockable hegetsus ads were really what made me switch to Apollo from the official Reddit app. Then killing third party apps made me leave for good. Bravo, Reddit
Piemanding 65 points 3 years ago
They could have done so much. Force third party apps to use their ads or make a reddit premium subscription. Instead they decided to destroy all their free labor.
Quill7513 26 points 3 years ago
There was an appropriate balance of API fees, returning adds in the API calls, and charging subscription fees to remove ads that would have generated maximum profit by milking the ecosystem from multiple places without ever pissing off users bad enough to make them leave. Complain? Oh sure, users would have done that plenty. On reddit. Where it made reddit monet. Reddit instead elected to simply shit the bed.
PersnickityPenguin 7 points 3 years ago
That's called idiocy
Seasoned_Greetings 20 points 3 years ago
Greed comes for every company eventually.
Seasoned_Greetings 19 points 3 years ago
Greed comes for all companies eventually. That doesn't mean they always fail, it just means they aren't going to act ethically over potential profit. That can cause companies that are held afloat by a community to fail (like reddit). It has already happened to Nestlé. They crossed that line a long time ago, they just have better PR.
ComradePorkRoll 4 points 3 years ago
Not to be a raging communist but capitalism really turns everything we like into shit.
Fapper_McFapper 1 point 3 years ago
See, he does get us…
systemglitch 1 point 3 years ago
What were the ads about?
Spellinbee 2 points 3 years ago
They were just religious ads, that would say things like Jesus loved his neighbors #hegetsus. The biggest complaint I saw about them was at some point, that was literally the only ad you would see on reddit.
gravitas_deficiency 73 points 3 years ago
Honestly, I’ve enjoyed Lemmy far more since joining than I had been enjoying reddit for at least a couple years.
BrainisfineIthink 19 points 3 years ago
Same. The meme overload on the /all/ sort can be kind of obnoxious but it's so easy to block communities that it's a minor nuisance.
dystop 16 points 3 years ago
lemmy has become much tolerable after i blocked all the meme communities.
i also block hexbear and beehaw for separate reasons.
The problem is - on reddit, the userbase is large enough that I can decide what I want to talk about. If i want to discuss underwater basket weaving, there will be communities talking about that. lemmy is nowhere near big enough - there's traction on /all/ but not on the smaller communities.
Rentlar 6 points 3 years ago
I think we're still a ways away from that... there's still many technical, moderation, and social feature hurdles we need to get over.
I'm pretty happy we're even as lively as we are.
PorthosAteMyCheese 67 points 3 years ago
If you open Reddit without an account on a browser, it will automatically create a username for you when you are on site now. Hopped on to look at a post on a semi active subreddit and saw I was somehow logged in, but it was an auto generated account name. Wonder if they are trying to boost numbers that way as well
TheLowestStone 20 points 3 years ago
Just tried it and that did not happen. There was a pop-up asking me to sign in via Google though so I'm going to guess you accidentally clicked yes on that at some point.
PorthosAteMyCheese 1 point 3 years ago
It was actually on a work computer using chrome that absolutely no one uses, I'm not even logged in on that machine nor is chrome. This happened a few days ago now, let me see if it will do it again.
Here's what popped up
petrol_sniff_king 2 points 3 years ago
Is this where all those auto-generated-ass names were coming from when I was arguing with anti-protesters?
doom_and_gloom 7 points 3 years ago path: 0 3412137 3414346, hotness: undefined, score: 7, children: 1
Hamartiogonic 4 points 3 years ago
It’s the birthplace of all the quality memes after all. Reddit clearly saw that as more of an opportunity rather than a risk.
kale 26 points 3 years ago
I haven't posted once since RIF was disabled. I think my account is up to 16 years now. I've been on a subreddit if Google brought me there, but I don't browse anymore.
Jerboa is pretty similar to RIF so it's been great.
shortwavesurfer 1 point 3 years ago
Going to put a plug here for Thunder. I used RedReader as my reddit app of choice and Thunder in compact mode is almost exactly the same as how i used RedReader. Love it.
BackOnMyBS 3 points 3 years ago
yo, i just left Jerboa for Sync. i second the other commenter by suggesting you give Sync a shot.
XPost3000 1 point 3 years ago
Infinity just moved to a subscription model, so i don't have to check anymore
Even though I've already been using the Lemmy fork, Eternity, its nice to know that I'm basically never gonna have to use that god forsaken site ever again
AWizard_ATrueStar 20 points 3 years ago
I still can't bring myself to delete it. It just sits there on my phone, all sad.
AWizard_ATrueStar 5 points 3 years ago
I was so mad about AB….until Apollo came along
negativeyoda 6 points 3 years ago
Yup. Every so often I click the wrong one
Lazylazycat 1 point 3 years ago
Same for me and baconreader 😭
PrincessLeiasCat 5 points 3 years ago
All my homies hate Reddit.
nexguy 52 points 3 years ago
r/AskReddit posts or day
https://i.imgur.com/sNJEHHQ.jpeg
What's going on there? Really the api change did this?
lvxferre 61 points 3 years ago
Really the api change did this?
Kind of. It wasn't just the change itself, but also how it was done.
Reddit showed complete lack of care about its own userbase (specially blind people and moderators) and that it's an extremely scummy company, even for company standards. It could've pulled the unreasonable API prices to kill off 3PA but it would need smarter people in charge of the decision than the ones who did it.
BaronVonBort 32 points 3 years ago
I’m no business expert, but the thing is I was a heavy user. Had they made the API changes reasonable and worked with the devs, I would have been happy to pay for the service i used so much (I already paid for the app, what’s a few more bucks a month?)
But them to charge such exorbitant fees, be dicks to users and creators, then treat those who were upset like the bad guy? That’s a spectacularly bad approach to business.
Skies5394 9 points 3 years ago
Had they made it part of the original Reddit Gold subscription, or worked that into a new subscription for roughly the same price (~$60 a year) I would have been all over that, no questions asked.
You would have kept most of the power users/mods/whatever and had them be a revenue stream in the process.
Instead they lost both the potential for earnings and the contributions they brought to the site. How stupid did they have to be?
Draghetta 23 points 3 years ago
Their official app is utter garbage, if it weren’t I may have stayed. People like me have decided that if the Reddit experience has to be so bad, it’s better not to be on reddit at all.
Imagine your favourite burger joint from now on only allowed you to enter from the back alley where it smells like piss and walls are mouldy - then once you get in all burgers have an added layer of spam and Nutella that you can’t opt out of.
The_Picard_Maneuver 19 points 3 years ago
Damn! If I remember right, that's always been one of their most active subs.
They sold out their core product for a short term gain, and I hope it's biting them in the ass now.
SkyeStarfall 2 points 3 years ago
And people think billionaires are smart
They're not even good at business
PrincessLeiasCat 14 points 3 years ago
That and spez was a total ass about the whole thing, lying to app devs & just being a fucking jerk.
He did an AMA & fucked that up with either answering no questions or copying & pasting canned responses to obvious plants.
Then the admins started forcefully removing & replacing mods who were protesting by making their subs private and not reverting them. So yeah, you can imagine how well that went over when the new mods had no prior mod experience and/or knew nothing about the topic of the sub they were now modding.
It was a shitshow all around.
HobbitFoot 7 points 3 years ago
It is probably that those who used third party apps were those more likely to try to get karma and engage with the site. The switch wasn't worth it for the heavy users making posts, so posts fell.
Karyoplasma 50 points 3 years ago
I would probably still post on reddit if I could do it from my phone in an app that actually works instead of being a glorified ad platform. They killed 3rd party apps to bully users to switch to the official app to boost the usage stats to have a better angle to haggle for their IPO. Problem is that the official app is just excruciatingly painful to use if you are accustomed to a proper reddit browsing tool.
The backhanded, sneaky way they did it with all the denial and lies was just the straw that broke the camel's back. Instead of being upfront and calling a spade a spade, they commited to a hostile takeover and removed all doubt that reddit is going to stay a platform for the people.
If they would have been honest from the get-go I might have continued posting.
maniajack 14 points 3 years ago
A lot more tiktok for me. Say what you will of the platform, it's at the beginning of the enshittification spectrum and has a ton of original and interesting content.
I do use Lemmy every day too tho.
Corkyskog 0 points 3 years ago
I feel like the vast majority of tiktok haters never tried it. The algorithm works really well, and it's no where near as addictive as people claim. Could it be bad for children, sure. But you could say the same for a lot of other social media.
It's also the only major platform that has limiting features built into it, if you do have a social media problem.
Classy 4 points 3 years ago
Way more grass touching for me. Down on YouTube activity, Discord, Lemmy, all of it. Turns out picking up a botany hobby can be INCREDIBLY ADDICTIVE and every waking moment will be spent wading through prairies and forests hunting for rare Asclepias species.
hiramfromthechi 47 points 3 years ago
I never participated on Reddit, but I used it to check in on tech stuff and other various interests. I didn't spend a lotta time on it, but it was definitely the platform that I spent time on the most.
When all the third-party stuff started happening, I decided to take the principled stand and quit using it, but I was worried it was gonna be difficult.
I was wrong. It was super easy ditching it.
Even though it was the "social" platform I was spending the most time on, it also felt like the easiest to replace—mostly because that content could be found elsewhere. This kinda made me realize that Reddit doesn't have a moat, and it confirmed what I knew all along—the value of the platform is derived from its users. So when there's enough collective will to do something (in this case, fight against network effects), it's incredibly powerful.
So I used this free tool I built called Reddit Account Manager to gather all my subscriptions, bookmarks, etc., and then Power Delete Suite to delete all my accounts.
I noticed that my time spent online in general had also decreased.
10/10 would recommend.
lvxferre 7 points 3 years ago
Regarding Power Delete Suite, this fork (from deestan) is recommended over j0be's (the one that you linked), if you're editing the content before/instead of removing it. That's because Reddit added a timer between comment editions (to be fair spammers were using it).
Karyoplasma 6 points 3 years ago
I missed browsing reddit for about a week after almost a decade of using it multiple times a day. They made the decision to leave very easy for me with how they handled the protests.
tias 42 points 3 years ago
Yeah I went to subredditstats.com and checked out a few of the subreddits with a lot of subscribers. They all show a huge drop both in number of comments and number of posts per day. This is the first time I saw some hard evidence that people have moved away, and it's a lot more than I thought.
Caspase8 3 points 3 years ago
It looks like a lot more people left Reddit than joined Lemmy or the other Reddit alternatives. I reckon most people who left didn't actually seek out an alternative and are just spending more time on Facebook/Tiktok/forum sites etc. Or they might be being productive with the time that they would've otherwise spent on Reddit lol.
DogMuffins 1 point 3 years ago
Where did they go?
uncouthterran 6 points 3 years ago
Outside to touch some grass. Or replaced it with another vice like lemmy. :)
Potatos_are_not_friends 42 points 3 years ago
I refuse to use the reddit app. Theres a lot of features missing that I require.
Disgustoid 26 points 3 years ago
Making the font size adjustable requires hundreds of millions of dollars of investment! /s
I'm not surprised at the statistics. Redditors using third party apps were probably more likely to be hardcore users and contributors and not just consumers/lurkers. Taking away those apps without a suitable replacement was a totally braindead move, especially when your official app is inferior to almost every single third party app out there.
BigBananaDealer 6 points 3 years ago
pretty sure blind people cant even use the official app, which pissed off the blind subreddit for some weird reason when 3rd party apps got nuked
BornVolcano 6 points 3 years ago
And the volunteer community of content transcribers allied with the blind community, who's goal was to ultimately draw attention to the issue to improve accessibility on the reddit app. Go figure.
Potato_in_my_anus 39 points 3 years ago
Well, they did say that about only the 10% of users were the ones who make comments and engage with the communities, and guess what, that 10% did use more likely than not, the third party apps. I've been a redditor for more than 16 years with a lot of karma, I deleted all my accounts but one, the oldest I had. I've been back for a couple of niche communities but I haven't commented nor upvoted anything.
MapleEngineer 39 points 3 years ago
I was a daily heavy user of Reddit. I was an Eternian and a Centurion. I haven't spent an hour total on Reddit since July 1.
Speculater 11 points 3 years ago
I think he's saying he likes horses and centaurs. Not sure how that applies to using Reddit though.
MapleEngineer 2 points 3 years ago
I was being a tool. I was in Eternity Club which is s private sub for people who had hit the front page. I got there by luck. I was also a member of Century Club, a private sub for people who had either 100,000 comment karma or post karma. I got there with comment karma without karma whoring over 7 years. Neither of them means anything. Eternity was kind of cool but very slow. Century was fucking annoying.
Draghetta 13 points 3 years ago
It helps that their app is absolute shit.
No, i don’t want to see whatever popular fluff is out there while I’m browsing the things I’m interested in, fuck off.
I only use Reddit for the nsfw stuff - it’s still the best platform - but every time I’m in between pictures on my account where I’m only subbed to porn and Reddit shoehorns posts of people asking for legal advice, students looking for university housing tips in a city 100 km from here, highly inspiring LinkedIn video from mademesmile or whatever pedestrian trash… man. Just let me wank.
themoonisacheese 4 points 3 years ago
Same here. The only time I've been on reddit since was for tech support.
HobbitFoot 3 points 3 years ago
Being in Eternal Club just means you got lucky once. You need to work for CC.
MapleEngineer 6 points 3 years ago
It wasn't luck! I posted about my maple syrup system and spent 24 hours answering 1,000 comments and questions. It was hard work.
HobbitFoot 2 points 3 years ago
Not combined?
xkforce 5 points 3 years ago
No not combined. I got into CC off my comment karma. I make no effort to get post karma so that is minimal by comparison anyway. Ive just never heard us being called centurions before
AngryCommieKender 24 points 3 years ago
I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the vast majority of "users" either came to Lemmy, Kbin, or Mastodon. There were a surprisingly small amount of users that weren't bots, and were content generators, either in OC, or comments.
I suspect many, if not most, of the bots got turned off, only to be replaced by enshittified bots. It's way too obvious who's a bot on Reddit now. Prior to the migration, it was much more difficult to identify a bot over there.
cantstopthesignal 11 points 3 years ago
That article measured the drop off by comment volume. Going by the 90-9-1 heuristic, the 10% of the really active "power users" left. Also judging by the fact that a dogshit repost sub like mademesmile is what's hitting top of reddit consistently now indicates to me that the 1% of content creators have also peaced out. I see quite a lot of original content on lemmy. Kinda feels like reddit 2012ish levels of content. Not completely endless, but enough to take a good long shit.
isdfoa 4 points 3 years ago
Yeah I've been kind of browsing both reddit and Lemmy for awhile, but over time in getting super tired of the constant boring/obvious AITAH and just teenage relationship advice spam that floods the frontpage. Definitely has made me open reddit less, and really just for specific communities I can't find elsewhere.
pthaloblue 9 points 3 years ago
Lotta people went to Tumblr for a bit, also Discord for sports and live chats
Honestly having a few apps to cycle through has felt pretty good for me
sweetviolentblush 3 points 3 years ago
I tried getting back into tumblr. Then a few weeks ago they just shittified their ugly clunky browser interface so badly I left again. I wish there was a fine arts reblogging substitute. Having a feed full of art was my anti-anxiety fix for years
pthaloblue 2 points 3 years ago
Yeah Tumblr was great for that. Most of the artists migrated to Instagram, so sometimes I hold my nose and check them out there, but it's definitely not perfect
FleetingTit 4 points 3 years ago
/r/outside ? I thought people left reddit /s
EnglishMobster 8 points 3 years ago
Yep, I'm pretty confident people went to Discord, TikTok, YouTube, Tumblr, HackerNews, Tildes, Discuit, etc.
Obviously not everyone came here, but it seems people spread out a lot more and don't spend time on any one site.
pineapplelover 6 points 3 years ago
I know one of my friends is using dedicated forums like stack overflow now
theangryseal 2 points 3 years ago
I’ve probably been on Reddit 5 times since they killed the apps.
I’m S ranking Cuphead over and over again on my Steam deck. I’ll probably be doing that 20 years from now.
Nothing soothes me like that game, which is crazy because it’s frustrating as hell. Oh but that feeling when you get hit right after you hear “KNOCKOUT” is unbeatable.
OCATMBBL 7 points 3 years ago
I started learning guitar again with the additional time, after a 13 year period of not taking it seriously.
I've seen improvements in Sight reading General dexterity Fretboard layout comprehension Clarity (less buzz/fuzz)
Thanks for being trash, reddit. It was exactly what I needed to get my ass moving and doing something more worthwhile.
LoganNineFingers 3 points 3 years ago
I read more now tbh
forgotmylastusername 3 points 3 years ago
Private chat rooms has been my guess for a number of years. The internet got too public. Big boards aren't practical anymore.
RagingInside 35 points 3 years ago
So far lemmy sucks for video game news.
s1ndr0m3 28 points 3 years ago
It doesn't help that they are using facebook-like tactics to try and force/coerce you to download and use their app. I recently was trying to find help getting through a difficult part of a game. Reddit seemed to be where most of the good user discussions were at. Reddit's mobile page would give me a pop-up stating that this community was not "trusted" and that I need to view on the app or go to the Reddit front page. There was no option to ignore. Trying to close the pop-up would just send me to the front page. Luckily, I know about old.reddit. That's going to go away eventually though.
ProfessorPuzzleCode 25 points 3 years ago
Whatever you do, don't go back, as it's only the dregs of society left there. Honestly, it's horrible on there now. I permanently left it yesterday.
shortwavesurfer 24 points 3 years ago
I used to use reddit every day for prob a half hour per day. Now i get on reddit for 2 minutes once a week to copy a podcast announcement to /c/monero@monero.town and thats it. All my reddit usage went to lemmy.
Fissionami 7 points 3 years ago
That is THE WAY
Anonymousllama 18 points 3 years ago
Shame Reddit took such a nosedive. It's a good reminder that no good thing last forever when an IPO is announced and it's time to squeeze every last dollar out
ohwhatfollyisman 18 points 3 years ago
I'd say it goes deeper than that. the lack of a proper mobile app has definitely decreased my presence on reddit. but there's more.
i do visit some 'niche' subreddits about once a day from my desktop (hurrah for old.reddit), and i once went to popular+hot -- it was utter rubbish. being here and on mastodon has opened my eyes on how severely the general content on reddit has deteriorated.
jettrscga 9 points 3 years ago
I'm on Lemmy and I'll be honest, I'm still looking for better content here.
There are old memes, comics, Linux memes, and that's about it. If I filter for my subscribed stuff, I get nothing new for 12 hours.
But I'm still not going back to Reddit after fucking over third party apps.
Whirling_Ashandarei 3 points 3 years ago
It will come, just growing pains. But yeah I'm on the equivalent of r/all a lot here just to find new stuff.
iamtrashman1312 9 points 3 years ago
I used sub.rehab to find alternatives to the various subreddit communities, that's partially why I'm on lemmy to begin with
Endorkend 14 points 3 years ago
Hey, at least the attention whoring subs are getting a lot of frontpage time XD
Like the "amiugly" and all its variants, which I didn't even know existed until after the fiasco pushed them to get on the r/all frontpage.
WYLD_STALLYNS 14 points 3 years ago
Shocker, the troll who said Elon Musk was a genius and has sex with an orange cat with silicone implants on the side was wrong??
cryptiod137 9 points 3 years ago
Run that second part by me again?? Spez did what?
Metal_Zealot 14 points 3 years ago
All the people on r/piracy there better jump ship before Reddit sells all their info to Big Brother
lvxferre 12 points 3 years ago
Too late. Thankfully the piracy Lemmy instance is fairly strong.
TomMasz 12 points 3 years ago
It was pretty obvious from looking at /r/all that upvotes and comments are way down. Posts from somewhat obscure subreddits are making it to the front page, something you never saw before. People may be reading, but they're not participating as much as before.
lvxferre 11 points 3 years ago
Yup. Still, having someone to actually measure it is nice.
And based on the Reddark site, obscure subreddits were likely affected even harder, as plenty of them are still restricted or private (since Reddit doesn't care about those).
MBM 1 point 3 years ago
!mealtimevideos@lemmy.world and !mealtimevideos@lemmy.best seem to exist
saltnotsugar 10 points 3 years ago
I’m not surprised. The user interface for mobile has just gotten awful, and losing third party apps was the last nail in the coffin for me. Within a day I couldn’t stand the official app and went to other sites.
FoundTheVegan 8 points 3 years ago
The roof reddit, the roof reddit, the roof reddit is on fire
We don't need no water let the motherfucker burn
greenmarty 7 points 3 years ago
I've left and before i did i used two different automation to clean after myself in multiple ways . No coming back for me :P
AfricanExpansionist 6 points 3 years ago
paddirn 7 points 3 years ago
I cut the cord and deleted every account I had, something like 10+ years and haven’t looked back since then. Could I see myself going back? Maybe if there were substantial changes in leadership and if they took some sort of steps to rectify, but neither of those look forthcoming, soooo… here we are.
JRichardson 5 points 3 years ago
It will be quite a shame to see Reddit gone (like in the way of Myspace). I really read tons of posts hourly and daily on the site. I am still currently a member on the site. Hope there will be better places to go if Reddit is gone.
mexicancartel 2 points 3 years ago
Infinity stopped working too very recently so that i don't even open my account in reddit
thanks for using Leebra!
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I migrated entirely to Lemmy and I don't regret it. I do miss the amount of content on Reddit, but at least I know I'm not supporting them anymore.
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