I miss reddit

Warning: This is a rant.

I don’t really know how to describe it but the content isn’t quite where reddit had been for me. Also the comments are kind of weird at times, like they type of person here doesn’t quite seem as ‘normal’ as what I’m used to from reddit.

There’s a lot more open source and privacy focused people and conversations. A lot of people seem to hate on big tech and big companies in a sort of toxic-ish feeling way to me (not to say the other relationship isn’t toxic… just saying). Random conversations go into: “omg your privacy is lost cause you used a Google service.” Then we have the ‘if we don’t defederate with Meta the world ends’ conversations. I personally would like to see what Meta does in the fediverse… maybe it will make it more normalized…idk. Then the: “if your app isn’t open source its awful and terrible for the world” people.

Like that stuff is all fine, but it just isn’t quite my cup of tea.

These things remind me of that one person in my comp sci classes in college who I just couldn’t stand talking to. He would try to make you feel like an idiot by trying to sound all self righteous and smart. (Honestly he would fail and would generally look like a dingus).

The bulk of the content that gets comments seem to be mostly meme atm. At least on all (7/10 of the current top for me are memes). I like my memes, but would like some more breadth/depth.

Like I hope Lemmy continues to grow and hope it gets better, but it leaves me missing reddit at the moment.

In a perfect world I wish reddit corp wasn’t such assholes and this whole thing didn’t happen the way it did.

I’m completely skipping the UI and stuff not being as familiar and the various outages/bugs/etc since that’s to be expected with something at this stage.

Please don’t hate me :) Just sharing my unpopular opinion. Though I genuinely wonder if others feel the same way.

/Rant

bulwark,

Yeah, I missed Digg when I switched to Reddit back in 2011. It took a few years before I got comfortable there. I assume the same will happen here on Lemmy.

AlexKingstonsGigolo,

I think your assessment is spot on. I find a lot of such individuals, if not worse, in various posts. While I encourage redditors to migrate here, when they get here and see shit like what you describe, it's no surprise if they go back.

ZombiFrancis,

Reddit (overall and subreddit) culture and discourse always had an ebb and flow to it. Any off feelings about however you’re accessing the Fediverse are both fair and not unlike the Reddit experience to begin with.

TeryVeneno,

I’m actually surprised to see an actual unpopular opinion, this was super uncommon on Reddit. I actually disagree with you on most things being someone who hates big tech and loves open source. But yeah you do have a point that a lot of people take things too far when it comes to that. But to be fair people have been burned and seriously hurt because of big tech and privacy issues so it’s a sensitive topic. A lot of these companies and especially Meta have some very serious issues that honestly should probably be treated as international crimes.

CriticalMiss,

Just go ahead and block them if you want. I block a lot of the accounts that repost news articles that talk about Reddit’s latest shenanigans. I don’t care, I deleted my reddit account, our relationship is over.

pyromaster55,

Lemmy right now feels like reddit from the early 2010s. The community is still quite small, it’s mostly still early adopters and folks looking for an alternative to big social medias, which attracts a different crowd than the mainstream.

It’s actually a hit of nostalgia for me, I’m kind of into the weirdness and intimacy of a smaller community, but I certainly understand where you’re coming from.

One of my favorite niche subreddits has over 600k members, the biggest equivalent community has about 350ish users here, there’s a certain quality that comes with that quantity of users.

But if we stick with it more folks will join and we can make this place into what we want it to be, and that’s pretty cool imo. Lemmy is still in it’s infancy compared to reddit, and it’s not perfect, but I think we can build it into something even better, and missing the good parts of reddit can inspire us to make sure that we incorporate them into lemmy in the future.

sachasage,

I’ve been embracing the weirdness of multiple platforms with distinct cultures and equally enjoying going to different parts of the internet again after quite some time! I do miss the sense that in browsing Reddit you could sample the cultural pulse of a particular demographic cluster.

user1919,

find the communities you like.

csm10495,
@csm10495@sh.itjust.works avatar

I’ve found quite a few, but the content is a bit slow. I also mod a few as well. Shoutout to !cats and !squaredcircle . Hoping it becomes more/more over time.

BettyWhiteInHD,

Also the comments are kind of weird at times, like they type of person here doesn’t quite seem as ‘normal’ as what I’m used to from reddit.

The “normal” top comments on Reddit aren’t normal to people in real life and the typical puns, lame dead jokes and other “Redditisms” were grating a decade ago, let alone these days. I’m ok with Lemmy or other similar services being different and hopefully having a different culture more akin to forums than the circle jerk dipshit fest that Reddit always had.

If you miss Leddit, go back. Nobody’s forcing you to be here and nobody in the real world actually cares if you use Reddit or not. If it makes you happy, do what makes you happy.

momoo,

I won’t miss the Redditisms, award speeches and lame unoriginal jokes (variations of “how can he walk with such huge balls hyuck hyuck”).

Homer,

Ok, Zuckerberg. You can just go back to reddit.

csm10495,
@csm10495@sh.itjust.works avatar

… thanks?

reclipse,
@reclipse@lemdro.id avatar

I have been subjected to a bunch of comments like that.

TORFdot0,

I like this as I think it actually is pretty unpopular. A lot of people are here on the merits of the fediverse and decentralization but I will be honest, I’m here because Apollo doesn’t work any more. I probably would have stayed at Reddit had they just worked out reasonable API pricing.

I enjoy the benefits of the fediverse now that I’m here but I’m not here for ideological reasons either

lvxferre,
@lvxferre@lemmy.ml avatar

I don’t feel the same as you feel, for two reasons:

  1. I feel myself at home with all those discussions about open source, privacy, and “shit corporations do”. I enjoy those things.
  2. I got so many bones to pick against Reddit, for years, that even without lemmy I wouldn’t miss that shithole.

However I can understand your feel. Those discussions are nice if you like them (like I do), but if you don’t, they feel like unprompted preaching about things that are contextually irrelevant. And since Reddit is bigger, for now it’s easier to find “your turf” there.

I think that it’ll get better over time; if you stick around, you’ll miss Reddit less and less. New comms will pop up, old comms about other topics will grow, and people will eventually distribute themselves better across instances, based on their likes/dislikes. It’ll become easier to avoid this talk about open source and privacy, or to embrace it if someone else so desires. And as the platform aggregates more content, other people will come in due to network effect, and those new people will probably talk more about other stuff than “we” older users do. Including the depth that you (and I) want for discussions.

Ibaudia,
@Ibaudia@lemmy.world avatar

I circumvent the endless discussion about the platform by just sorting by Hot under “All”. I’m totally with you though, there are some seriously insufferable people who meta-post about Lemmy crowding the front page. I just want to ignore that and see how it goes. If I don’t like Threads or whatever, I can just move instances to one that blocks them. No big deal. I’m just trying to get my fix of conetct and connect with people.

desmondjones,

My hope is eventually the smaller communities grow and can be just as if not more reliable, but a lot right now is a replacement scroller

thebigstump,

The memes are so stale here.

user1919,

but some of them made me laugh, so I guess i like stale meme.

incogtino,

Fresh memes are bread, stale memes are croutons. There’s a time and place for each

BrokebackHampton,
BrokebackHampton avatar

It took me only half a day of never ending beans posts to filter out lemmyshitpost, I say good riddance.

Widowmaker_Best_Girl,

The poop posts and the bean posts almost made me give up on Lemmy till I blocked that community. Good God those were dumb af

moosh,

I get where you’re coming from and I’d have to agree. Soooo many memes right now. Wish they were fewer and further between.

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