Don't be too complacent, of course. I've seen people on the Fediverse turn feral and Reddit-esque during discussions of particular culture war issues. It's not completely peachy here all the time; there are some subjects about which some people can't help losing their composure.
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I logged out and deleted it from my bookmarks. I avoid it unless I absolutely don't have any other sources.
Yes I have gotten back from time to time, mostly because my Sync for Reddit app is still patched and makes it easier to not use their garbage app (which I don't even have installed).
And no, it still feels interesting to me, not with r/all nor my frontpage with best sort (this was my main page) but my handhelds multi reddit.
I am subbed to similar communities here, but it is just not the same... Yet.
My problem here is the amount of folks whose only post or comment is to complain about the lack of content. You want that niche community experience well someone has to lay the cement. Don’t just sit there expecting to be entertained by others
The vibe I get from a lot of the political and antiwork stuff is astroturfing and/or highschoolers. It's a bunch of meme-driven babble that started as a solid pro union anticapatilistic sentiment that grew into nonsense.
I also find it harder to isolate communities I don't care to be brigaded by. I politically involved enough in my own life. Memes on memes on memes.
My trouble at the moment is that I am reaching myself 3d modeling and texture skinning for trackmania.
Wanna take a guess where the largest repository of blender/substance painter tutorials and trouble shooting is?
I finally got around to Red Dead 2. Guess where all the good information is that doesn't try to fill my phone with full screen ads? (Try being the operative word, get fucked IGN)
We really need a better gaming community to start building up a knowledge base.
There is !reddead@lemmy.world, but it's pretty quiet. You could try posting there to get some of that content going. It's a bit of a vicious cycle, though - the lack of content drives people away, leading to less content.
I will say that even in smaller communities I find that people are quite helpful here with questions, which is great.
It does seem like the post reddit boom of interaction and growth has waned, thought, and many of the communities that were starting to grow are now much quieter than they were a few weeks ago. I think that the lemmy.world downtime for so long really drove people away, which is a shame.
I'm still having a hard time adjusting, to be honest. Granted much of reddit is full of reposts, even so there's still just a lot more content and interaction. I could and did spend all day on one or two subreddits, but here it's kind of checking in one a day and seeing maybe a few new posts. I don't have anything else though, so I'm just often left starving for content. But I just can't give spez the satisfaction of returning.
Good on you for being principled. I experience the same sort of feeling, and I've tried to just redirect that need for content into other media.
That weird need for content gets to me as well. I went looking for meme sites and... well, what I found cannot be described as the bottom of the barrel, but more like the rotten carcasses of barrels in an old disused moldy cellar. My god that was horrifying. Even 4chan feels better in comparison in that regard.
It sound weird, but give reading a try. I went for Mangas using the Tachiyomi-App. Whenever I feel the need, I just read a chapter or two and that is all I need. Most will want to read books or articles, whatever helps. I also discovered news.google.com to be a great alternative for getting news, once you put all the bad sources on "do not show" one by one. Local news are often more interesting than you might think.
Go ahead, look for such things. Reddit was a giant tent you let into your life and now that the tent is garbage and gone you have a dead garden to replant with things because if you don't plant what you like, wild groth happens and you won't like most of it and then you'll be unhappy all the time.
Thanks for the advice! I'll certainly give it a try. And if there's one thing I appreciate here that I didn't get to have on Reddit, it's user interaction. I'd rarely ever hear back from a comment on Reddit, and if I did chances were it was someone with an attitude. People seem really nice here
It was that way for a bit at the beginning. I found the quality of discussion here was much better, and reddit was just super toxic by comparison.
I've noticed the general toxicity has creeped into Lemmy now though, so it's kinda the same either way for me now.
The only time I go to reddit is to look at r/redditalternatives and witness whatever drama is going on within the newest centralized attempt at reddit that week
I only go for one community surrounding a book series, and only on Mondays when there are weekly discussion threads for new chapters. I found reddit pretty easy to cut out when I just stopped using it on mobile entirely.
Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.
I pop on the every so often for one specific subreddit because there's no alternative anywhere sadly. I don't log in or interact with anything though.
Logged in yesterday, with the intent of deleting it.
It welcomed me as usual, I had notification for a reply on a thread I was participating and a PM, pluss there were a few interesting title on some subs I was in.
The reply was someone just spewing I was wrong and everything I had said was bullshit.
The PM was some random invitation from someone telling me to join their OnlyFans page.
And the general feel of the threads I snooped was all doom and gloom and 3 out 5 comments just dripping of poisounous sarcasm.
After that sample, I was done.
Ah, the sarcasm.
It kind of makes sense that everyone grew to be highly sarcastic when you think about how no matter what you say someone's going to jump down your throat about it. Much easier to avoid all that by dropping a "/s" at the end of your comment or saying something so outlandish that no one could believe you were being serious (as an added bonus, if someone does take the bait then YOU get to jump down THEIR throat!)
It's a kind of defense mechanism in toxic communities.
I only go back sometimes because I find more cute anime content there than here.
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Reddit since changed the UI again which killed my interest in scrolling r/all. I still have to go there to view r/localllama, r/singularity and r/UFOs, none of which have a sizeable Feddit equivalent. I could do without the speculation of the latter 2 in my life, but I need LocalLlama because it is a great source for news and advice on LLMs.
Their app is terrible so I keep to only checking my favorite communities that sadly haven't moved over at all.
I do both, but the reposts and karmafarming make Reddits Popular or All options terrible while Lemmy's is just... weird but interesting. Plus, I like Linux, Star Trek and D&D. Hell, even the random porn, why not. Nobody's looking.
Granted, I'm also the kind of guy who despises wholesome crap, and would take random fringe tankie posts over wholesome (really orphan crushing machine) posts any day. No karmafarm1988, your repost about the dog that was rescued did not make my day. I'd much rather hear for the twentieth time how the dog was only homeless because of capitalism, lol.
It's also no longer personal when even in my less popular communities there's like 4000 comments, almost all of which are karma farming. No reason to chime in most the time. On Lemmy I've encountered jerks, main characters, and holier than thou type users, but it's less often. That's a feature of humanity, not a bug.
But, I do still have some subreddits I'll lurk, via Infinity (no ads, no data mining). I haven't seen a good alternative to r/comics or r/idiotsincars, unfortunately. Can't replicate the former since it's up to the artists, and can't replicate the latter because it benefits from a huge userbase. There's always someone who lives near an accident and can give solid context, even if it's bumfuck nowhere.
I still go there when I want to answer something that I know there are posts there. Also some products run their user communities on Reddit but I have a much more utilitarian attitude towards Reddit. My focus on participation is over here.
I went back in during some of the recent current events to see how the discussions were. Plenty of quantity, not much quality, imo. There wasn't much in the way of thoughtful commentary or discussion that interested me.