Are you 100% lemmy/mbin/piefed for your forum/thread life or are you still using reddit for something?
self abuse
For example discussions about specific games or series because Lemmy just doesn’t have any of that. It seems to be only interested in Linux, politics and general news.
I created a lurker account for Reddit after I deleted my main, so I can visit all subreddits. But I don’t subscribe to anything and don’t really hang out there a lot.
Like a lot of others here, I still add “reddit” to my searches when doing research on products or troubleshooting.
Porn.
Though they got rid of my favorite category so I’ve been using it less.
the day Apollo stopped working I deleted the account and quit cold turkey; now only if I find something there while researching a problem I read a thread anonymously and that’s it
I need a steady drip feed of bonehurtingjuice that Lemmy has not been able to sufficiently provide
I no longer use my reddit accounts. But still do some tech searches with “reddit” at the end.
Pretty much everything remotely niche. Subs devoted to individual video games, for instance. The only game I play that’s on lemmy is https://lemmy.world/c/pixeldungeon.
Some technical topics
Most of my limited reddit usage is for work. I do IT work,and sometimes solutions can be found there, or at least hints. It’s still pretty low, maybe 10% or less of stuff I search for find actionable hit on reddit. Only other thing is stuff like comments on Tom Carey videos, which I do like to see. I know stuff like YouTube, insta,tiktok, etc will have em too, but sometimes I’m in the mood to see from multiple sources, and I don’t usually find those type of niche reactions on Lemmy. I do see fans of course, but not as often.
It’s just objectively true that a very specific type of person makes up most of Lemmy, which results in the only active communities being either very broad topics, or the handful of interests common to the kind of people who use Lemmy. I don’t fit into any of these.
I don’t fit into any of these…yet
Can I interest you in Linux Mint, today?
I am joking.
Unless you want to try Linux, in which case let me (or any of us) know…
I actually just tested Linux Mint again recently.
Music production holds me back. Didn’t test gaming, but I have faith that it’s more or less the same experience as the Steam Deck, and that would tie into a general sentiment I’ve seen around that gaming is no longer the biggest barrier to Linux adoption.
A. FL Studio runs like shit on WINE for me. Maybe it’s usable on a CPU under ten years old (I’m currently on an FX-8320) because I’ve heard others claim it runs at near-native speeds for them, but on Windows I only have performance issues on a project file that has every reason to be intensive. Even if I switched DAWs to something Linux native I’d still need FL Studio to work so I can open my old project files.
B. Two of my most used VST plugins don’t work, and I didn’t even test all of them so others might not work. One I can’t install because the installer doesn’t work, but the other is a free plugin, and that one’s GUI just doesn’t render (and last time I tested Linux it didn’t render under LMMS either, so it has to be a problem with WineVST.)
I don’t
Video game info. Otherwise nothing. Can’t post I’m very perma banned. They really hate it when you agitate for the left.
Niche subs
I’m mostly ok with it for topics that are sufficiently distanced from politics. Subs having an explicit “no politics” rule is a bonus.
