Maybe I just miss Reddit is Fun, not Reddit, but I still have RiF installed (I just can't delete it) and it still "works". I can't sign in or participate, but fuck I miss browsing everything. I've definitely replaced it with Kbin, but opening the RiF app just gives me sadness. Fuck spez.
I'm having fun helping build new communities here. I only miss it when I can't find a community with sufficient participation or when I have a specific question that was previously discussed on Reddit. For those cases, I'm willing to still use Reddit.
Not really. By and large I’m happier here. Reddit was so negative and toxic that despite the abundance of quality niche content it always left me with a sour taste in my mouth. Didn’t realize how bad it was until I quit cold turkey.
@bbplay13 yes, I miss the good parts as well...I used to be able to ask a question on how to repair something and get 20 solid responses in under an hour. There may be a corner of the fediverse that will fill a similar niche, but so far I haven't found it. I spend most of my time over on Mastodon.social , now, which seems to have more traffic, and maybe more niches. We'll see. I'm certainly NOT going back to reddit, but I do indeed wish it hadn't gone so pear-shaped, so quickly.
No, because I'm still using it.
Also, it's just a website. I'm using it only to get interesting content, not even to engage with other users, because that's usually hostile and toxic. I couldn't be emotionally invested in a website, even less in one that has such a shitty userbase.
No. I am sick and tired of toxic-ass trolls with nothing better to do than make other people miserable, and those seem to be rare on the fediverse, so I'm staying here. The last half decade of Reddit got worse and worse and worse with this, especially during and after the 2016 US presidential election.
I've also noticed that the "caliber" of people that post here is quite different than your average Reddit user. On Reddit, I'll often try to have a serious conversation only to find out the person I'm talking to is just a teenage troll just looking to get a rise out of people for kicks. That has not happened to me here yet. When I migrated over, it's like all the children and toxic people vanished.
No, I was already checking out by the time the API shit happened; it just gave me an opportunity to drop everything without feeling emotionally attached.
I miss the niche subreddits. When googling they still come up with good answers. I have reddit blocked in my pihole but sometimes I just disable it to view a solution to my problem. But then I feel dirty 😉
This is my biggest complaint too. Certain topics have all search results with good data on reddit, so I still have to give them traffic when I'm trying to figure something out
I really miss the dog videos, took me a week or so to notice that lemmy doesn’t have any, all the porn is garbage because we can’t have videos and none of the apps (except kinda liftoff) have in-app video players for sites like redgifs.
But no one is posting videos because most people aren’t going to watch them if they have to go to a website, I won’t.
I hope boost releases with in-app support and the option to hide certain posts like it used to. Then I can just tick videos and go on my merry way.
Video hosting is one of the most bandwidth-intensive things you can do on the Internet. Most of these fediverse admins are hobbyists running servers from their basement or on cloud hosting from money out of their own pockets.
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