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.
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.
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.
I put a Lemmy widget on my phone’s homescreen (using Boost, but probably many apps can do it), my widget is for Subscribed + New Comments sort
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.
There I commented. Hate how they phasing out r/all.
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.
Dunno, I rather enjoy interacting with other humans.
Its people that fuck things up, broadly speaking. I don’t particularly love people, but humans are alright in my book. Unfortunately, people are everywhere.
To define terms a little more clearly, humans recognize things like “the other human” and “do unto others” and such. People, broadly, are greedy selfish creatures that will step on your feet without a second glance but be utterly appalled should anybody have the unmitigated gall to treat them in kind.
These definitions transcend all political divisions and ideologies and belief systems, for the record. I have known some lovely religious conservative humans and some genuinely awful and repulsive progressively-minded people.
I always try to be a human. Emphasis on try, as people make it difficult sometimes.
Every place has assholes, there are fewer on Lemmy. Block and move on.
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.
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’d wanna be south of the arctic circle, though. I need something resembling seasons and am absolutely certain I would go genuinely insane with six month intervals of night and day. As long as those conditions are met, I’m down with that too.
I also read somewhere that Britons might wanna consider starting vineyards as the climate there is likely to become more Mediterranean. Also something to consider.
I’m sorry to hear that happened to you
As was pointed out, that’s the nature of the internet and those who inhabit it.
Broadly, though, I enjoy my time here. I wouldn’t remain otherwise.
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. Cold turkey.
Only Reddit if I need to look something up, and that’s only through libredirect.
Same as well, RiF was what used. I didn’t download their app so it was a little easier not to go back.
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.
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
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 joined “thelemmy.club” today! I am trying out lemmy because at Reddit, for no reason given to me, I am shadow banned (if it is the proper term for it). Whenever I post a new topic, even on issues that may help other users in the future, my post is immediately removed/deleted by the “Reddit filters…”. And, I get “Rate limit exceeded…” when I reply to comments within a few minute after my successful reply. I don’t know! I hope I will find the communities here in thelemmy.club those subs that I joined in on Reddit - that would be nice.
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
There are still niche communities there that don’t exist here.
After getting banned for saying it’s ok to punch nazis in the face. 12 year account I just stopped cold turkey. I refuse to even click reddit links.
Actually it’s been quite good for me. I realize I had an addiction to the site. My social media time has went down dramatically
I kept using Reddit to browse for a while years back, and decided I’d just stop using it when the API no longer let me read stories. Evenrually… It stopped working. The end.
Lemmy is much smaller but it also has more engaged community discussions imo (but yea, it is another echo chamber - its hard to avoid that with such a niche tech/privacy/anti-corporate network).
It reminds me of old school forums where you’d know most of the regulars, and I don’t mind that.
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.
