I’m mostly just happy to be off reddit, the blackout day showed me how much of a compulsive behaviour looking at reddit had become and since then I started reducing my time there before dropping it entirely when the API changes kicked in. Thankfully I’ve also managed to not replace it with a Fediverse compulsion and so I actually have time to do stuff I enjoy rather than just doomscrolling. Frankly I kinda wish reddit had done it sooner
I’ve muted and or blocked about 200 places so far. As long as you don’t go into anything political or religious it’s okay. Of course, just like Reddit, Lemmy is dominated in those categories by extreme leftist authoritarians and edgy atheists
Unfortunately I still have two subs that I check out - one of them being r/HFY, which has ongoing stories that are being posted there and nowhere else. Though I haven’t written a comment or (intentionally) [up|down]voted anything out of principle.
Other than that, Lemmy’s fine for casual shitposting and for now I don’t regret the migration.
There is so much less pretentious misleading alienated crap here. Love that. I’d like some more non-repost interesting videos, that’s something I miss… But totally worth the tradeoff of not getting pissed at how dumb of shit you can post and still get positive mass response. Plus the feed here has an end. No more oops I spent an hour looking at shit
@kwomp it might depend on the instance that hosts the community and/or you?
Votes are not treated the same way across the fediverse and we're not actually all seeing the same vote scores.
For example, beehaw doesn't have downvotes, full stop. Kbin has downvotes but doesn't federate them - if you downvote me I won't see it, and vice versa.
I’ve only ever lurked on reddit and here I’m actually interacting, which I enjoy. Still, the feddiverse would profit from some more users and content creators, and it doesn’t really have an advertisment budget. So keep telling your friends (in a non-anoying way, of course).
Yes, somehow the barrier to actually engaging with others is lost in the fediverse. The guilt of posting on Reddit has been swapped by some strange feeling of obligation and/or pride when posting on here.
I still have a foot in both worlds, but my usage of Reddit has gone way down. I've always said that I'll quit Reddit when Old Reddit goes away, and I think that's still a reasonable threshold for me.
I spend most of my time on here browsing through All - as long as you're willing to wade through Linux and Star-trek memes, there's still an awful lot to see in the Fediverse.
I don't think the Fediverse is populated enough at the moment that niche subs can be as active as they were on Reddit. Best you can for now is keep your niche alive and spread the word of it's existence
I made an effort to interact with one community in particular to get it going and it actually started getting a tad more lively recently. So maybe there’s hope if we play our parts.
This is me. I no longer scroll Reddit. I only go over there to browse the nursing and Boston subreddits occasionally because I can’t get that same interaction here. Everything else I do here now.
Miss the niche, enjoying it otherwise. Easier to name and shame the fascists and the tankies and just chill with people in discussion about media or what have you
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