I’m not trying to cause an argument but when Reddit pulled it’s bs - I said that’s enough. I gave up my Reddit addiction and didn’t open it or visit the site for over 30 days.

The tone and people on Lemmy is great. I don’t miss Reddit. But I miss the content types. For me Reddit was a topic related news source, a place for great discourse about those news pieces, a place where community members asked constructive questions or shared ideas/projects - and lastly a place for some very specific community types.

Over the last few days I noticed that the first 2 categories of content came over to Lemmy no problem. But the second 2 types I outlined above don’t seem to have come. I went back to Reddit this morning and it’s all still there. Certain types of posts just don’t happen on Lemmy, and on top of that many communities never came over (street_photography is a great example. They literally shut down a subreddit with thousands of users and created a new location in Lemmy/kbin, and instead of coming over the community just evaporated). Other communities are also non existent and some that do exist are simply just not enjoying the same types of posts. I like it here, I want to stay - but it’s difficult. Is anyone else having this issue?

Thanks for hearing me out.

TLDR: all of my communities seem to link posts only, many types of posts just don’t seem to happen here.

  • DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.comEnglish
    10·
    11 months ago

    I’m not having trouble giving up Reddit. I’ve given it up. And I’ve definitely noticed the lower volume of content here on Lemmy/the fediverse, but:

    • it’s getting better pretty much daily; and
    • the percentage of good quality content here far exceeds Reddit, so I still feel better off.
  • chrizbie@lemmy.nz
    10·
    10 months ago

    I was very bolshy in deleting my reddit account and made a real solid commitment to only use Lemmy the instant that the api changes where announced, … Two months later and I started feeling a bit stranded, at times it seems like there’s nothing but content about programming, Linux, Foss, privacy, and Ukraine but at other times it can be really engaging…

    However I have ended up making a new reddit account just so I can lurk from time to time

  • sugarcake@lemm.ee
    0·
    10 months ago

    The thing about social media, is that once enough content and eyeballs are on a platform, it pulls in even more. Posters and audiences are drawn to wherever everybody else is, like a massive object draws things in with gravity.

    Currently reddit is drawing people in by its mass, not because people care about the platform. This can shift to lemmy, but it will take years. And dedicated posting😉

  • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netEnglish
    0·
    11 months ago

    Yes, and no. For me personally, I tended to use Reddit to follow a lot of tech news - whether that be about programming, Linux/Open Source Software, gaming, etc which from what I’ve seen personally, is certainly an abundance in The Fediverse. Otherwise I’ll sometimes discuss some TV shows on Reddit, but most of mine are in their off-season so it hasn’t mattered as much.

    That being said, I do recognize that its a problem - but I don’t know how to begin trying to do my part to fix that problem. I participate where I can. I don’t really have many friends who would be interested in The Fediverse and they generally don’t use Reddit (Lemmy) / Twitter (Mastodon/Firefish/Calckey/etc) / Instagram (Pixelfed) either way, aside from on the one off occasion that they’re linked to something. I made my instance public in order to try to contribute, but no one is interested in joining small instances (and it was delisted from the join-lemmy site once they changed their user count requirement, which killed its only chance to organically grow so I don’t think my “effort” will help much there anymore). The only subreddit that I created and moderated was r/moddedmc which I’m still surprised even had people posting on it (since I didn’t ever advertise it, I suspect Modded Minecraft was a big enough subject on Reddit to carry its own discoverability) but a community for that already exists here and I don’t play much Minecraft these days to contribute all that much.

    I did a couple of small contributions to the Android Lemmy client Jeroba a few months ago, but my Android development experience is no where near equipped to provide any significant contributions to Jerboa or any of the other (amazing!) Lemmy Android (and from what I’ve seen, but don’t own any devices that run, iOS) apps. Similar story for my knowledge of Rust to be able to contribute to Lemmy’s backend itself… and don’t even get me started on my absolute lack of ability to make anything that looks good on the frontend side of things. I created a small utility and a corresponding Grafana dashboard to allow instance admins to keep track of some stats regarding their instance, I see it has a few stars on GitHub though no one has provided any direct feedback on it so perhaps there are at least a few people getting some use out of it. I stay in the Lemmy Admin Matrix rooms to try to provide support to others where possible, but there are far more people who have way more experience (both professionally and on an instance level) than I do. Then finally, I do try to directly donate to Lemmy itself when I can.

    So all in all, I’m at a bit of a loss as to what more I could potentially do to help. I don’t mean for this to come off as a rant by any means, but I do honestly feel bad that no matter what I do that I think would help, it makes no difference in the grand scheme of things. There are way better devs out there, way bigger instances, people with larger groups of friends who’d be interested, people with more interesting things to share, people who can probably donate more than the $5 than I get to (and probably more consistently), people with more knowledge on how to help other admins, and people who speak/write anything other than English. I’d say that at least I’m “here”, but as someone who lives in the US based off the things that I do see on the Fediverse sometimes I get the impression that even this itself isn’t well liked. So in the grand scheme of it all it sucks that I really enjoy the Fediverse and I wish more of the internet operated on open standards, and yet I can’t find a meaningful way to give back.

  • relative_iterator@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    53·
    11 months ago

    Make the posts you want to see. I’ve posted some questions in some niche communities here and I get well thought out responses and discourse.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      26·
      11 months ago

      Best answer, Lemmy, like all social media follows the 90-9-1 rule of social media. Of 100 people, 90 will lurk, 9 will comment, and only 1 will actually post anything.

      There are people in the communities that want to talk, but you gotta be the one to post.

      Hey take it as your opportunity to become a name in a community!

      • austin@aussie.zone
        41·
        11 months ago

        I don’t know how someone can lurk without the urge to post something or comment, that must take willpower

        • sparky1337@ttrpg.network
          6·
          11 months ago

          Was on Reddit 15 years, left in June. It was definitely a build up, but I eventually posted every day.

          Not healthy, so I scaled back. I post when I have something worthwhile. Otherwise I just contribute comments. And even then I erase half of them because they aren’t helpful or contributive.

        • freebee@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          10 months ago

          Sometimes just trying to avoid “someone on the Internet is wrong!!!” anger engagement tbh. Lurk, think react, think again and just scroll on instead

        • TheLemming@feddit.de
          1·
          10 months ago

          Or, like, not really knowing how to express oneself. I’ve got a lot on my mind to share in specific subs communities though it’s difficult as I don’t feel like knowing who I’m talking to

    • mrgreyeyes@feddit.nl
      1·
      10 months ago

      For me the same. It also acts as a really strong reminder that I just wasted so much valuable time. It’s good that Lemmy for now is not as addictive.

  • VCTRN@programming.devEnglish
    14·
    10 months ago

    Nah, it’s true that Lemmy has less content, no matter how many communities I join. And I also feel Lemmy has slowed down a bit in the last days/weeks. But I still won’t return to reddit. It feels overwhelming, and also I think I got over FOMO. Lemmy will keep growing, I’m in no rush. Leaving reddit was definitely good for me.

  • SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org
    10·
    11 months ago

    Nope. The only time I use Reddit is when a search leads me there. I deleted my account and open it in a container tab in Firefox so they can’t track me and I have ublock origin running to block their bullshit ads. I suggest everyone do that. I feel like lately even Google takes me there less often, and when they do, the content is shittier than it used to be.

    Fuck reddit. I don’t need it, it’s dead to me.

  • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml
    9·
    11 months ago

    Not at all. The only thing taking time to build here are the art communities, but they’re growing. So I’m patient and am trying to contribute

  • 1984@lemmy.today
    101·
    11 months ago

    I understand it but personally I got so disgusted by the owners behavior that I will never use that site again.

    So yeah, I’m missing out on some things I guess but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.

  • wildcardology@lemmy.world
    9·
    11 months ago

    My reddit usage is 99% mobile app and 1% desktop. Since there are no more suitable reddit mobile app. I stopped. The only time nowadays that I visit reddit on desktop is google search and reddit is on top result.

  • Swiggles@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    9·
    11 months ago

    No, I don’t use reddit anymore. Kinda. I sometimes visit Reddit due to search results. Otherwise there is not much I miss or care about.

    The content isn’t as plenty here, but it is still giving me my mindless scrolling fix.