I’ll try to dial back my time on lemmy because I’ve noticed that I spend way, way more time here than I ever did back on reddit
Frankly there isn’t as much content. So, no.
But if I’m really honest it’s about equal because all the content is on bluesky and tiktok.
No, the smaller userbase means there aren’t niche communities for my specific interests like games nobody but me like.
I still like Lemmy but those specific connunites I can miss. I completely abandoned Reddit in the APIocalypse anyway
The Sweden board was pretty good too, and there’s no where near similar engagement here.
And I do not have the time, engagement or mental fortitude to make these communities, that would be dead, myself. To be honest I don’t really understand exactly how Lemmy and the Fediverse works - but I think to bring in more people that can’t be expected of users either.
More time than new reddit, less time than old reddit.
I was pretty active in comments for the first 8 years or something. Had a post or two hit front page.
No dinosaurs bringing up Digg?
I spend more time engaging on Lemmy, but I consumed more content on reddit
The time I spent on Reddit was pretty close to zero, except on rare occasions. I used to spend more time on Lemmy, but over the past year, I feel like the vibe has changed and I haven’t been enjoying it as much.
No, there’s way less stuff to engage with and frankly I don’t particularly even like it here.
What don’t you like about it? Not enough content or the politics?
I guess it’s not a Lemmy-specific issue but more of a social media thing in general. I just don’t like being around angry people - even when their anger is aimed at people I don’t like either. It’s the cynicism, the wishing harm, the celebrating death or misfortune. I get where it comes from - I just don’t want to be around it. It poisons my mind too.
What can I say, I’m also here for the memes. But otherwise…I don’t blame you.
I like knowing what’s going on , especially when corpo news sources try to sweep it under the rug, and sometimes comments can be really insightful, but often the discourse is so tribalistically rage-blinded and the line of acceptable extremes keeps getting pushed to frightening degree.
Even the slightest hint of disagreement with the extent of said extremes, even if you’re on the same “side” of an issue, will get you branded and told to face the wall with the rest of the filth…You know, by the types who most loudly proclaim how much they’re against fascists .
(My guess is mostly it’s angy isolated teens with anonymity and hair-trigger emotions paired with drooping history grades. And I say this as an idealistic anarchist lol. But it still hurts. Words are words.)
I was recently downvoted like crazy and attacked quite viciously for merely suggesting that dehumanizing human beings, even enemies, is a dark path. Even the poster I was responding to was like “That’s messed up, you were respectfully discussing. People are crazy.”
I’m more careful now.
It’s beginning to remind me of the apocalyptic world of Metro 2033: On one side, Neo-Nazis want to kill you outright. On the other: the Red army wants to
conscriptcomrade you to their frontlines to hurl at their enemies.…and most people are just caught in the middle trying to survive.
Sorry for the long reply. Let’s stay safe, sane, and keep touching grass. Take good care out there. ❤️
Thanks for the thoughtful response - the timing was impeccable. I guess it’s not all bad in here after all.
I’m sincerely glad you appreciated it. I worry I ramble a bit too much sometimes! :)
In some ways Lemmy can still feel like the “Old Internet”, for better and worse haha, but there’s still people like us that appreciate small moments of genuine connection with people.
We can be revolutionaries by making those positive connections in the communities we visit. :D
I hope you’re doing okay and have a good one today.
I’m on lemmy BECAUSE there is less. Trying to become and ostrich.
Less, because there’s still a lot less content here. I check what’s new on the communities I’m subscribed to, and that doesn’t take long.
I try to because I want to support the FediVerse
Same. But honestly reddit was more fun than here.
I’m stuck here & loyal now. Because am irreversibly permabanned from Reddit.
Let’s make Lemmy fun.
Most of the “fun” on reddit was fake because 85% of all posts & users are bots.
So Lemmy is a breath of fresh air from all that mental manipulation.
Same! Wild how they went from throwaway accounts being part of the culture to banning people forever and employing techniques beyond what Facebook does to control accounts.
I’m pretty sure they ban anyone who says anything remotely human, and only bots are allowed on Reddit anymore.
Yes.
I have an app on my phone for usage limits, and for social media I have that set for 1 hour. I rarely hit the limit nowadays, but Lemmy is more than capable of taking up that time unless I have a super specific question in a niche hobby
Nope. Making Reddit as mildly addictive as it was likely took more than just a generic application of the type.
In that way, Lemmy’s development motivations make this platform (IMO) a lot healthier, because it wasn’t purposefully tweaked into something addictive by a group of sociopaths holding boring dystopia meetings looking to appease the shareholders or the ownership.
I read comment sections to the end on lemmy, which I haven’t done on reddit in probably a decade
Because there are fewer comments? Or because they’re more worthwhile?
For me it’s because I’m not reading the same top comment on virtually every post. I used to always skip top comment because it was just a copied comment to a repost, but eventually it got so silly I had to read halfway down to get any original thoughts. Now that we’re in a world where there’s so much bot generated content and it isn’t affecting lemmy in largely the same way as the other social media platforms, it’s even more apparent.
To the other repliers point, contrarian commentary isn’t censored as heavily and power tripping mods to get named and shamed from what I’ve seen from my perspective - that said I am a heavy reader instead of commentator so I have my own set of biases.
yes
lemmy def lacks mutli paragraph comments threads. more than two sentences here is a long comment.
i liked reading thought out ideas and opinions. very few threads i’ve seen here have those. and often they are downvoted because they are not supporting the lemmy default viewpoints… which are mostly of the soundbite length.
that said, people aren’t getting banned for those comments like they would on reddit. and i’m not getting banned for replying to them.
Less time on Lemmy cause there’s less to see. I spend more time on other websites now, when previously reddit used to take up all of my web browsing time.
What kind of other websites?
Imgur and YouTube mostly. I spend more time on forums too.
Deleted my reddit account a couple days after discovering Lemmy. I’ve been to their website a couple times since because it often appears in search results and if I don’t see a less shit option I’ll dig through the comments of whatever post my search pulled up, but that’s the extent of my activity there.
I will never make another reddit account. Fuck spez.
Greedy little pig boy
I actually answer questions and post here unlike when I used RIF, where I just lurked.
I guess that’s spending more time? (active participation?)
I engaged a lot early on, but later reddit I just lurked because you could say the same one time and drown in upvotes as another in another post and be flooded with hate a vitriol. It got to the point that it was like Twitter. The only safe places were like specific topics, how to, DIY, certain enthusiast pages. It had to be pretty niche to keep from wading in shit.
People were just mad and wanted to take their anger out on someone, even if they almost entirely agree with you, they’d hammer on one sentence of a 4 paragraph post until you just didn’t want to argue the point anymore. That occasionally happens here but it’s much more rare, and since there aren’t karma hunters looking for easy points here you don’t get the dog piling that you did there. By the end of my time there, you could make one unpopular sentence in a post and be hounded for it for DAYS.
By the end of my time there, you could make one unpopular sentence in a post and be hounded for it for DAYS.
Yeah, for good or ill, I notice threads on Lemmy run their course pretty quickly, and replying on something more than a week old feels increasingly pointless.
But also hey, not getting dogpiled for too long is also nice lol.
That’s my situation as well. Was only a reddit lurker, but I spend more time talking with people here as there’s room for me to be heard through the crowd.
People can still doomscroll here if they choose, but my participation here has led to me doing volunteer work and having countless unique experiences. All I got from reddit was a solid coffee setup.
