People who still use both Reddit and Lemmy and are slowly leaving Reddit. How do you do it?
I have noticed that I’m very often on Reddit through either Apollo or the website out of mere habit (possibly even addiction). However, I have also noticed that the more I use Reddit, the more I feel agitated by all the negativity and toxicity from the users.
This is pretty much in all subreddits I’m active in. Mostly in piracy and piratedgames, people quarrel over the most trivial things and downvote each other for no reason at all.
Unfortunately, Lemmy has less content than Reddit. Though, I can’t call what is on Reddit content anymore.
Lemmy definately has less content, but it feels like the old internet. People are just friendlier here. My biggest recommendation is to post/comment a lot; I think things like that really help the platform grow. I can honestly say I’ve never received any negative feedback here, so its a pretty safe space.
My experience has been very different, especially yesterday. My reddit account had plenty of trolls on the blocklist, but I encountered an individual here who made several snap judgments about me based on an innocent response to a question and then demanded an apology from me for their hurt feelings when I said nothing targeted at anyone and they initially inserted themselves with arrogance and vitriol.
As well, if you’re not full on tankie/anarchist or at least more than halfway to either one, prepare for people to take issue with your stances. Vehemently. As if you were personally attacking them for having the audacity to, you know, be an individual.
However I still prefer this experience to whatever it is Reddit has become and agree with your suggestions for how to make it more engaging.
Expecting positive interactions with other humans, that is your problem right there ha
Everyone romanticizes the “old” Reddit and the old internet quite a bit. There were always trolls, fake accounts, a holes and whiny jerks. The ads, bots, and all the more recent issues just tipped reddit over the edge.
I felt bad leaving a 15 year old account but it wasn’t hard. I hadn’t enjoyed Reddit in a while. I uninstalled the client and installed mlem. It also helped me to temporarily switch browsers so I’m not getting Reddit threads as part of the search results. If I want Reddit in my search results then I will look for that intentionally.
i automatically block those people on lemmy, sorry but a political statement based on opinion and attitude is an immediately block. as is ones that make very condescending ones.
blocking on reddit seems futile, since alot of them are bots/propaganda bots, theres for every troll blocked, another 10 pops up. also reddit stops blocking thier comments if you go over 1000 users. it only works if its a small subreddit. politics, news, sports, movies, ask reddit,etc impossible to block them all.
Every place has assholes, there are fewer on Lemmy. Block and move on.
if you’re not full on tankie/anarchist or at least more than halfway to either one, prepare for people to take issue with your stances.
Ahh yes, tankies and anarchists, famously the only political ideologies that “take issue with your stances.”
This is totally an echo chamber. Just look around. Its part of what drew us all here at the end of the day.
And for the record, I prefer that flavor of madness over whatever the US is voting in around the country right now, so maybe take my observations as nothing more or less than just that - observations.
Not saying we in the united States aren’t to blame for a lot of what’s going on but its starting to become global. Migration/race issues are becoming hot everywhere and at the same time everyone is rushing in the new era of survalience on the level, or surpassing that of 1984.
I always used to imagine that I could just flee my country when things got too bad, but increasingly it seems like its spreading every where.
I am more and more convinced we need to build a commune somewhere in New Zealand and do our best to ride out the climate wars in the most resilient part of the world. What are the weed laws in NZ and how seriously do they take them?
The epstine class have already beat you there, majority of them plan on moving there including Gabe newel. So hope you like working as a servant or a house keep.
I am entitled to land in Alaska and been considering that more and more lately.
That area is supposed to shift in the upcoming decades and be more mild and similar to the pnw if I understood what I was reading correctly.
I think to survive on Lemmy (all social media tbh) you need two things.
One is the ability to disengage when it’s no longer fulfilling. I see reports from people saying they are being harassed by someone in a thread and I can’t help but wonder why they didn’t stop replying to the bad faith comment about 17 replies earlier.
The second is that you should block what you don’t want to see. Block communities where you know you’ll never be interested. Block users who reply in bad faith. Block instances where you see bad faith commenters a lot.
Do these two things, and comment a lot, and I think you end up with a much better experience.
Funny enough, I made a post in another community specifically about blocking. On the one hand I agree with you as for the curated experience, on the other hand echo chambers are unhealthy.
Its a very difficult balance to strike. Thus far I have only blocked communities which have zero bearing in my life - languages I don’t speak, kinks I simply don’t share, etc. However, blocking individuals is something I frankly hesitate to do because even the literal worst POV out there is useful; its good to know where the extremes lie and to be prepared for that level of madness.
At least, that’s my opinion. And thankfully I find so far that even the most absurd hot take that I disagree with wildly on this site is still more palatable to me than half the crap that was out there on reddit before I left. And even those with snark are often kinder about it than reddit, I find.
In fact, I seem to be the barely-palatable-hot-take here as often as not, but given upvotes are entirely meaningless in all ways and especially to my actual daily life I generally am not bothered by it.
I second this so hard, I remember being a kid and going on the Ask.com forums… it was really special how tight the circle felt. I could just see the same users again and again, and you never ran into slurs or offensive comments just because of how well we all knew each other. It was like a town
Now me, I’ve been sitewide banned from Reddit for some ban evasion bullshit that I didn’t even do, and I’m still sad about that. But here, I’m getting that same feeling back after having learned long ago that Ask.com was history
There I commented. Hate how they phasing out r/all.
I recently discovered I’ve been shadowbanned, with zero idea why. Appeals vanish into the void without an answer… So I can read, but not participate. Feels pretty hostile towards users. Maybe they’re doing me a favor?
many dont know either, others had bans in the past that were lifted, but the filters still assume they are evading bans. or your accounts could be lumped up with others in the same subs(as bott)
I just… left.
I came here during the API change drama. Started to get acquainted with the platform before Apollo stopped working. And when it did, I never came back. Didn’t even bother deleting my few hundred comments or give them the chance to ban me for not being a nazi propagandist cunt.
Same as well, RiF was what used. I didn’t download their app so it was a little easier not to go back.
Same. Cold turkey.
Only Reddit if I need to look something up, and that’s only through libredirect.
Put your Lemmy app in the spot of wherever your Reddit app is. Make the Reddit app take much more effort to get to. I used to have mine on my home screen so it is one click to get to it after unlocking. Now that’s where my Lemmy app is and RedReader is in a folder off to the side. (I suppose I could go one step further and just remove the Reddit app from the home screen folder.) I end up checking Lemmy first now.
The nice part is that Lemmy is getting big enough that I end up seeing a lot of the same news when I run out of content on Lemmy (start getting into more obscure posts) as when I switch to Reddit. So I find myself thinking “I’ve already seen that” so it makes the Reddit app feel more “stale” and easier to leave.
This is what I did too
Uninstall any apps for Reddit and decide that you are not ok with the data harvesting those apps do in you phone. Then set your browser to auto delete Reddit cookies. You will soon find yourself so annoyed using their webpage, that you will stop. Allow yourself to be subjected to their incessant cookie whining and dark patterns and hostile design, intended to push you to install their app.
or skip to account delete and never go there again.
i think most people are lurking on reddit now, most of them said they did it to avoid the bannings. hence why reddits is try to force people to use the app. The HORRID UI on new reddit on the browser on mobile is kinda unusable, i use an extensions, to force it to old reddit and make it properly resize on a mobile phone.
There are still niche communities there that don’t exist here.
getting a permanent account suspension certainly helps.
No content is better than crap content, and I can spend that time doing something else and not just wasting the same amount of time on lemmy.
I still have a throwaway account for one off comments/posts for some really niche stuff where I’m looking for info, otherwise the major subs I used to hang around in were either lobotomized or cracked apart with new mods or spam bots.
same here, i made an acc again recently, after waiting a year+ from last years ban, i rarely go on it for my niche content. Major subs are heavily politicized and monitored by the filters, i avoid those.
Now that old.reddit is account-walled, its become reeeeaal easy to not go there at all
yep. I’m slowly corrupting my posts to contribute to their google ai training.
its already working, alot of the posts are AI reposting, or posting comments. hence why they are trying to force real users.
Hehe yeah I already got banned from subs by changing my posts to gibberish.
I used to use a browser add on to redirect links to old reddit. After the wall they just updated it to display new reddit as old
I started when the API thing went down… exploring other sites with Lemmy among them. After continued enshitification I slowly started manually deleting 13 years of posts. Some here, some there. When I ran out of posts to delete I killed my account and just would occasionally browse old reddit. Now after they killed old reddit without logging in. (Which I will not do again). That was it. You get way better conversations here with mostly real people … Honestly feels like the old days of reddit. I’ve had to find other places for niche forums and stuff for my hobbies but I’d rather do that then to go back to that shit pile.
I have been opening Lemmy for about two months now, browsing the communities and reading users’ comments, and yesterday I decided to create an account.
Honestly, as someone who has only been on Reddit since 2018, I am curious to know what Reddit looked like in its early years, and Lemmy is a really good opportunity for that.
The content is limited? One day Reddit’s content was limited too and then it grew! + Platforms and communities don’t grow on their own. they grow because of the people in them.
I don’t still use Reddit. I bailed back when they took ownership of all of my content. I did go through some withdrawals. Would constantly open my phone to open Reddit and remember that I had uninstalled and closed my account. Now a few years later I don’t have anything like parity in Lemmy compared to my Reddit experience. Ultimately, I decided to not try and chase that. Lemmy is not Reddit, And the Reddit that I loved back in the day, is completely gone anyway, replaced by some corporate bullshit, bolstered by bad actors and robots.
What I love about Lemmy, in contrast, is smaller communities and more genuine engagement. There are still bots and bad actors. Regardless of its flaws though, I’m about as likely to go back to Reddit as I am to creating a Facebook account. I’m on my phone less and more engaged with the actual people in my life now. Maybe we all need less social media, not better social media.
This is also exactly my experience
By replacing reddit shortcut with Lemmy shortcut on my front page/screen. Muscle memory is helluva drug
The subs I know on reddit are politically operated and the rest are leecher people who just want to get things out of you
alot of the subs are AI posted too.
I still also browse Reddit some but I’ve been using it a lot less since they banned me and cut off old.reddit
