Did anyone try to return to reddit and notice it just didn't do it for you anymore?

So I’ve switched to lemmy since the reddit meltdown started, experienced quite some withdrawal symptoms, occasionally turned back to reddit, more often logged out than logged in. Now I am merely using Lemmy occasionally and by far not as often as I used reddit before. No more doom scrolling.

So far so good.

Today I went on reddit for the first time in like 3 weeks straight (I couldn’t do that for the last years… yeah, I was very addicted in hindsight). I just… I don’t know what it is.

Reddit just isn’t fun anymore.

I turned away after maybe 5 minutes. There were maybe 2-3 repost-worthy pics, one interesting video and a few small niche discussions that all went straight tits up within a few replies.

If I ask a question on lemmy, it usually is a straightforward, honest discussion. Almost no blaming of the posters or answerers misunderstandings or senseless answers. It goes a bit back and forth usually and people tend to thank each other for corrections. I can’t remember when that happened on a reddit discussion. Maybe years back? Anyway, I’m not going back there anymore, not because I hate the CEO, but because reddit is not fun anymore. Lost all interest in it.

Did anyone of you have a similar experience?

fsxylo,

Reddit is still a much larger archive of crowd sourced knowledge, so until Lemmy becomes more comprehensive there’s still some reason for me to use reddit. Though I don’t actively participate anymore.

R4iNO,

The don’t miss the “Popular” of reddit, but the small specialized communities are not present here. I’m still using reddit for r/clashofclans, r/thedivision, r/printedcircuitboards, r/gradschoolmemes, r/phd and the discussion threads on r/movies about the movies I have watched. The community didn’t move here.

qyron,

Logged in yesterday, with the intent of deleting it.

It welcomed me as usual, I had notification for a reply on a thread I was participating and a PM, pluss there were a few interesting title on some subs I was in.

The reply was someone just spewing I was wrong and everything I had said was bullshit.

The PM was some random invitation from someone telling me to join their OnlyFans page.

And the general feel of the threads I snooped was all doom and gloom and 3 out 5 comments just dripping of poisounous sarcasm.

After that sample, I was done.

DrMango,

Ah, the sarcasm.

It kind of makes sense that everyone grew to be highly sarcastic when you think about how no matter what you say someone’s going to jump down your throat about it. Much easier to avoid all that by dropping a “/s” at the end of your comment or saying something so outlandish that no one could believe you were being serious (as an added bonus, if someone does take the bait then YOU get to jump down THEIR throat!)

It’s a kind of defense mechanism in toxic communities.

cum_dragon,

Lol yeah, I just couldn’t take the echo chamber of radical Lefties anymore. I’m by no means a Trump-voting conservative but if you even hinted at an opinion that didn’t fit the narrative you got piled on with downvotes and abuse like some kind of bigoted leper.

eldavi,

every time i go back to reddit there’s a blacklog of content waiting that somehow never makes it to the fediverse and a few things that were earth shaking and the fediverse didn’t pickup on at all.

HellAwaits,

I love Lemmy and reddit, but I couldn’t stand how reddit was data harvesting if you looked at how many trackers were being blocked. Like literally in the thousands. It was completely out of control.

I would by lying if I said I didn’t miss it. There’s far more content on there and far more engagement. Lemmy is cool and all, but it doesn’t even remotely compare.

Dinodicchellathicc,

I got ip banned so all my muti year accounts were toasted. Kinda took the joy out of it for me. I made new accounts but they’d get banned too for a while. I have one still but it’s inactive. The users there feel so fake, constantly on a high horse or acting like victims. I don’t find the people there to be reasonable and the communities i liked are here on lemmy now. Lemmy people are less like bots, and are more inviting to conversation

ImpossibilityBox,

My trouble at the moment is that I am reaching myself 3d modeling and texture skinning for trackmania.

Wanna take a guess where the largest repository of blender/substance painter tutorials and trouble shooting is?

DragonTypeWyvern,

I finally got around to Red Dead 2. Guess where all the good information is that doesn’t try to fill my phone with full screen ads? (Try being the operative word, get fucked IGN)

We really need a better gaming community to start building up a knowledge base.

coys25,

There is !reddead, but it’s pretty quiet. You could try posting there to get some of that content going. It’s a bit of a vicious cycle, though - the lack of content drives people away, leading to less content.

I will say that even in smaller communities I find that people are quite helpful here with questions, which is great.

It does seem like the post reddit boom of interaction and growth has waned, thought, and many of the communities that were starting to grow are now much quieter than they were a few weeks ago. I think that the lemmy.world downtime for so long really drove people away, which is a shame.

ZombiFrancis,

It’s been a pretty clean break for me. The only times I have found myself in reddit the last few months was just for some archived post that answered a question I had.

Nothing feels like it was lost.

regalia,

I pop on the every so often for one specific subreddit because there’s no alternative anywhere sadly. I don’t log in or interact with anything though.

psion1369,

There are a few subreddits that don’t have a counterpart on lemmy, or the counterpart isn’t as active yet. But when I go on Reddit, I’m spammed with posts I’m not subscribed to, nor really have a want to be subscribed to. As more communities become more active on lemmy, the less I will need Reddit.

Jah348,

The vibe I get from a lot of the political and antiwork stuff is astroturfing and/or highschoolers. It’s a bunch of meme-driven babble that started as a solid pro union anticapatilistic sentiment that grew into nonsense.

I also find it harder to isolate communities I don’t care to be brigaded by. I politically involved enough in my own life. Memes on memes on memes.

yoz,

I downloaded infinity for reddit. Scrolled few post and deleted the app. Back to lemmy.

7eter,

BTW: Infinity for exists!

yoz,

Yeap,already downloaded. Its new name is eternity.

NevermindNoMind,

Reddit isn’t fun anymore, I agree with that. I checked /r/all for this first time today in months. I haven’t logged in or browsed since the blackout, but there are a few communities I miss and was thinking about going back over for those, so I checked r/all out of curiosity to see how things have been. The content was just so much trash, and I don’t even think it’s that much worse. It’s just that I’ve been away for so long that I’m looking at it now like “how did I spend my days scrolling through this garbage for hours?” It’s just boring, it’s like just interesting enough to keep you scrolling hoping to find something actually interesting.

Here on lemmy there is far fewer users and far less content. But I’m starting to see that as a good thing. I pop by and scroll, but I don’t spend hours here like I did on reddit. The discussions are smaller, but more engaging and thoughtful. I remember before I left there were certain threads I’d see and just skip because I already knew exactly what all the comments would be. Also, I’m actively engaging more here, so there is actually some “social” in my social media use, instead of just passively consuming like I mostly did on reddit.

Overall I think ithe switch to Lemmy has been good, for me at least. It’s like I’ve broken the reddit addiction, and looking at it now I can’t understand why I got so caught up with it in the first place. To me, reddit just isn’t fun anymore.

Globulart,

Did you scroll through r/all previously too though?

It’s always been a hot mess to me, without my curated subs reddit isn’t much better to me than Facebook or Twitter.

taiyang,

I do both, but the reposts and karmafarming make Reddits Popular or All options terrible while Lemmy’s is just… weird but interesting. Plus, I like Linux, Star Trek and D&D. Hell, even the random porn, why not. Nobody’s looking.

Granted, I’m also the kind of guy who despises wholesome crap, and would take random fringe tankie posts over wholesome (really orphan crushing machine) posts any day. No karmafarm1988, your repost about the dog that was rescued did not make my day. I’d much rather hear for the twentieth time how the dog was only homeless because of capitalism, lol.

It’s also no longer personal when even in my less popular communities there’s like 4000 comments, almost all of which are karma farming. No reason to chime in most the time. On Lemmy I’ve encountered jerks, main characters, and holier than thou type users, but it’s less often. That’s a feature of humanity, not a bug.

But, I do still have some subreddits I’ll lurk, via Infinity (no ads, no data mining). I haven’t seen a good alternative to r/comics or r/idiotsincars, unfortunately. Can’t replicate the former since it’s up to the artists, and can’t replicate the latter because it benefits from a huge userbase. There’s always someone who lives near an accident and can give solid context, even if it’s bumfuck nowhere.

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