It helped that Reddit got rid of 3rd party apps.
Because I only used Reddit 100% on mobile, and their app is horrendous.
Fellow 2 year 3 month lemmy user, your anger nourishes my soul.
My how time flies. Reddit was already trash at that point, it was mostly habit keeping me going there, but I think it’s gotten a lot worse. Either that or I forgot just how bad it was.
Never look back, keep fighting the good fight my friend
Wow, has it really been that long?
Right? What the heck
yep, this, cold turkey ragequit. Have since had to go back for the odd super niche technical question/subject/area, but now I’m thinking I’ll keep that readonly and delete my account (after trashing everything on it, ofc, which I did a week ago after a Reddit-typical terrible interaction with a terrible human.)
I browse exclusively on my phone, so deleting reddit apps and installing Lemmy apps was the biggest step for me.
I primarily browsed All, so setting my default sorting to All Top 12 Hours was key.
Finally, I made a point to comment and post more. This is where Lemmy beats Reddit hands down in my opinion. You can comment on posts that are hours old on All and still have meaningful discussions. Trying that on Reddit is like screaming into the void.
Edit: I also forgot to mention that I upvote almost everything. If you made a post that I read and it’s not complete trash, you’re getting an upvote. Same with comments. I upvote almost every comment I read - especially ones in response to my posts or comments. I feel like it let’s people know they’re being seen.
Your edit is a bit like that in the Fediverse in general. Since there’s no algorithm, liking a post in Mastodon does nothing beyond letting op know you appreciate them. I like that.
I hate this phrase. There are several algorithms. There’s new, hot, rising, etc. There’s no company manipulating content discovery. That’s the difference. Algorithms are great. For-profit companies with an incentive to control content is bad.
In the Lemmy word, sure. I was referring to Mastodon where there is no hot or rising. It’s just based off of who you’re following and when you check. Hence likes doing nothing but informing the poster of your appreciation.
I guess fair enough, though every other federated site I know of uses some other algorithm, and you seem to have been talking about the fediverse in general, not Mastodon, except for the example. Still, Mastodon’s sort is still an algorithm. You can’t display anything without an algorithm. That word just means a set of rules to complete a task. Mastodon uses one that only uses who you’re following and time to decide what to display.
Algorithms aren’t the issue. We can have sophisticated algorithms that help users find the content they want. That’s great. It’s when there is an incentive, and ability, to influence the algorithm by the platform controllers when there’s an issue. The fediverse solves this not by ditching algorithms, but by having no singular controller.
On the web client, if you go to Trending, you will see “hot” posts (I have no idea how they’re ranked) by folks you’re not following. The official Android client has this too. It’s where I spend most of my Mastodon time.
Edit: I also forgot to mention that I upvote almost everything. If you made a post that I read and it’s not complete trash, you’re getting an upvote. Same with comments. I upvote almost every comment I read - especially ones in response to my posts or comments. I feel like it let’s people know they’re being seen.
Oh hell yeah, me too. I browse all a lot (sometimes sorted by scaled) and even if something isn’t for me, if it seems like something others would like, it’s getting an upvote.
RIF stopped working so I started using Liftoff for Lemmy instead.
Don’t really use the desktop site.
Same except Jerboa
I now use Voyager because the liftoff Dev had twin kids and naturally they take priority.
Is it good? I’ll change if it’s better than Jerboa.
The default ui is heavily based upon the Apollo app and iOS design. There is an option for a more android-like approach however.
I also recommend Summit, Thunder, and Connect.
I made this comment on Sync but it’s hard to recommend at present.
I prefer Voyager personally, been using it for years.
My Reddit app stopped working, and the official app is dogshit; Reddit kind of made the switch for me
Same for me. When the third party API fiasco happened, Reddit was dead to me.
If I can’t engage on my terms, I don’t want to engage at all
Cold turkey basically.
Participating has really helped. I’m still struggling to post, but I try to comment wherever I feel I can add value, however small.
Build the platform you want to be part of.
“be the change you want to see in the world”, or in this case, “go ahead and post stuff. Nobody here is superhuman, but we try to do the right thing and be chill with people who also aren’t quippy dickholes” aka, be human.
I’m sure this won’t last, but for now it seems to be better than Reddit, at least. The way I’ve thought about it is that this takes a certain level/threshold of technical know-how/problem-solving to enter, so it filters out the most casual of thoughtless people (for now). Like if you can’t put some serious thought into morality or slightly deeper rationality into a situation, you probably can’t jump the bridge to fediverse-lemmy.
Also, as time goes on, I’m noticing all kinds of communities fragmenting into smaller, more specialized communities. Hopefully, Lemmy can be the platform/community of thoughtful considerates who are slightly tech elevated and more social.
Commenting always has value dude! Even small ones are like having a passing conversation in line at a coffee shop.
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Have a great day buddy!
just deleted my account and all reddit apps. quit cold turkey. there’s less on Lemmy. but I’m happier, and more productive 🙂
Same here, I forced myself away from that platform. Took me a few weeks to get settled and find all the right communities, but it worked out well!
Ditto. Voyager is as close to the AlienBlue experience as I’ve seen.
Reddit made it simple for me; they banned the app I browsed it with (Boost, along with every other 3rd party app).
I don’t browse on my desktop, and I refuse to use their 1st party app, so using Reddit became too inconvenient.
Same here, as I only use open-source clients on the phone. It’s been obvious for many years that the apps made by the social media companies are spyware, so I’ve stayed away from them.
But also I use the web mostly, and “switching” on the web just means closing one tab and opening another to visit a different URL. It’s sad that many folks who use the Internet don’t understand how or try to avoid the hellscape of app lock-in. The web is here for our open usage just as it has been for decades.
It took some time for me to realize that not finding a continuous stream of new content was a feature and not a flaw. It meant that there was no algorithm feeding me an endless stream of crap in hopes of keeping me glued to the screen. It meant I could close the app and move on with my day and check back much later. That realization made me embrace it.
Agreed. Reddit became worse when it started forcing unrelated content on you at every opportunity. It became hard to recommend to friends when each time I would realise I had forgotten what new reddit and the official app were like.
For me, it’s the fact that while I dont always see eye to eye with the people here the fact is every account is almost certainly an actual person and not a bot. I want to hear other’s experiences and perspectives and Reddit will not provide that.
I also like the fact that there is an end to the content here. It’s not endless scrolling.
This is the thing I notice the most whenever I check back into reddit. So much bot & ai bullshit.
I also agree with u/[email protected] that several of the subs I subscribed to have no equivalent here yet.
That’s true there are no replacements for many subs and you just have to ask yourself how much you need them.
Yep. Its definitely a nice to have, not a need to have.
I just uninstalled Reddit and installed Sync for Lemmy. I’ll still end up on reddit occasionally from a Google search result or something, but I don’t go there intentionally.
Unfortunately Sync has been abandoned, so you might want to look for a new app soon.
That’s sad. I’ll keep using it until it stops functioning. Don’t like my cheese moving unless it has to
I use Jerboa and it’s not too shabby.
For anyone interested: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jerboa
I’ll try it out, don’t like the icon as much haha.
No kangaroo mouse for you then! I feel like Muad’dib!
It’s been 2 years on Lemmy for me. I was on Reddit for 12 years prior.
I never looked back. I didn’t have a hard time at all really. Comment sections are so nice here usually. I only spend maybe 30 mins on here daily and never run out of content. But I’m a reader. I read articles and comments fully so I only get through a dozen posts or so.
What are you having a hard time with?
For me the content is just not quite there on Lemmy. Less stuff overall and less interesting and active communities. I wish Lemmy became a lot more popular because Reddit is firmly in an enshittification phase.
The moment old.reddit.com is gone, I’m done with it.
Less stuff overall and less interesting and active communities
Once you realize that 1) like 80% of reddit is just bot slop and 2) a handful of accounts post the majority of “content”, you kind of don’t care that reddit has seemingly “more active” communities.
Embrace the fact that there is a limit to the amount of new content and do something else with your time.
Reddit banned all the subreddits I actually enjoyed so I stopped participating altogether. It’s helpful to recognize that reddit’s structure leads to total stagnation in the content. I haven’t been active for years, but I still end up on a reddit thread from time to time to get answers to questions that Google should be answering (that’s another topic altogether) and I see the same stake jokes being made, the same arguments being had, the same mediocre insights from the same dull people, and it makes me so glad that I left. I don’t begrudge younger people going through the process of figuring out how to engage with the world, but I also don’t want to participate.
