Reddit

I had fully left Reddit ever since the API changes but checked in very very rarely every now and then whenever I googled something and Reddit results were the only results actually answering my questions. I don't really miss it, and I found that I do spend way less time scrolling mindlessly, so that helped.

What kind of killed me was my deleting my account. I had been starting up PowerDeleteSuite in the last couple of months to get rid of my comments and posts, but I didn't leave my PC running for long enough to delete everything whenever I actually remember to start it up. Now, I finally deleted everything and deleted my account too. I wasn't using the account at all, but it made really sad to see the account go for good this time. Similar feeling to when I deleted RIF off my phone.

It was a good run.

No FOMO, I was able to switch my addiction over to Lemmy. But I really miss the CFS/ME and Long Covid subs. There are some communities here, but they have almost no traffic. I am still subbed through lemmit.online, but I usually can't be bothered to reply to something through reddit.

I bet others with niche subs have the same problem.

I didn't leave immediately, but then my account got banned and having started using lemmy made me not bother making a new one. I may have to eventually venture back to reddit for the occasional niche community, but otherwise lemmy is just as good for getting my posting and scrolling done.

I'm a heavy poster and posting things I read to the appropriate subreddit has been a part of my internet process for a long time, so it was key to have a new place to keep doing that. Though that has resulted in there being several subs on here where I have made a large majority of the posts... but I tell myself it's more worthwhile to be posting things here where they'll be seen by fewer people but will contribute to this community existing rather than giving free content to reddit.

I check in way fewer in Lemmy and I'm done faster because I you get to the old posts pretty quickly. But I see this as a good thing.

I really, really miss one sub in particular, /r/AcademicBiblical

Other than that I haven't looked back at all. Lemmy's smaller size does mean there's a bit less expert commentary on a lot of topics, and I miss that, but not enough to put up with the dystopian crap spez is trying to establish.

How has it been for you? Do you get FOMO feeling sometimes?

It's been great. FOMO? Nah. I don't really feel like I'm missing anything.

The issue I have with Reddit - it’s full of hateful people and most content is just bots karma farming.

For me, it was this, and the consequences of the API nonsense for my user experience, as well as for people who have disabilities. On Lemmy, I'm not forced to use a black-box algorithm to try to drive my engagement without regard for its impact on my health. Nor am I forced to view any communities when browsing All.

Unfortunately I'm still forced to go back now and then for specific gaming subreddits and such. And when I'm digging down a rabbit hole of software/hardware issues on my system. All in all though I probably go back once or twice a week though, so it's not that bad.

The only time I remember reddit is when I find the answer to what I'm looking for in Google there.

There are still things I use reddit for, but only because Google sucks so much now. Like if I'm looking for the best something to buy, I'll add "reddit" at the end so I don't get pages and pages of ads.

Otherwise, all my previously reddit-based entertainment comes from Lemmy, especially since all the activists seemed to have gone back. Lemmy is now fun again!