It’s been 2 years on Lemmy for me. I was on Reddit for 12 years prior.
I never looked back. I didn’t have a hard time at all really. Comment sections are so nice here usually. I only spend maybe 30 mins on here daily and never run out of content. But I’m a reader. I read articles and comments fully so I only get through a dozen posts or so.
Are you having a hard time adjusting?
For me the content is just not quite there on Lemmy. Less stuff overall and less interesting and active communities. I wish Lemmy became a lot more popular because Reddit is firmly in an enshittification phase.
The moment old.reddit.com is gone, I’m done with it.
I wasn’t going to install the app on my phone, so that made the transition easier.
Subscribe to communities and/or utilize the ‘random’ search to find communities (be warned that nsfw stuff up though if your setting isnt filtered). Sort by new sometimes. Lemmy is more user-directed whereas reddit is company-directed. No more force-feeding you sponsored content - you can search out and eat what you like!
I really want some of my niche subreddits. They’re like crack.
Obligatory fuck spez.
Sort by top 24 hours and theres much more activity than any of the sorting algorithms.
Honestly, after some time, I just started realizing how shitty reddit posts are, and specially how toxic comments and the overall environment is…
So, i don’t miss it.
Just like Reddit, you have to add your personalized subs before you can really start enjoying it. Start looking for subs you like.
The bottom line is that there isn’t enough content to last all day like Reddit, but I see that as a good thing. I wrap up on Lemmy and then I can dig myself into a Wikipedia hole and learn something.
Best part about Lemmy is my comments actually get seen and responded to and it can take a couple days before a post is dead, unlike Reddit where if I comment 4 hours after it’s posted, it’s dead and there’s no activity on my comments.
Reddit feels like I’m a dog hanging out a car window trying to bite at the air as it whips past me but never getting anything of substance. Lemmy feels like I’m in an AA support group and we’re all sitting in a circle communicating and sharing our addiction together.
I stopped using reddit when I realized most of it’s content was sponsored.
In the beginning it was hard, but I’ve come to love that it isn’t an endless scroll
I got banned for “inciting violence” even though I never really did, but it could be construed that way so, here I am. I still go lurk as some content you can’t find over here, but I do enjoy the differences. I’m learning a whole lot about Linux and ditching the mega tech corpo bs.
Similar story here. Fourteen years with only a one day suspension from r/ politics for telling an asshat “you are a child.” Then suddenly warned for “inciting violence” for saying “sometimes you have to punch the bully in the nose.” I appealed, it was denied, deleted everything and asserted my right to be forgotten as an EU person. I quit almost all American software in January of this year and moved to Linux.
They killed RiF, and I wasn’t about to use their shitty app.
I was perma banned for showing support to our Saint, Luigi Mangioni.
praise be
What are you finding difficult?
My Reddit app stopped working, and the official app is dogshit; Reddit kind of made the switch for me
I didn’t have a choice. They banned my account and instantly shadowban any new account I make. Even if I use a VPN or agent spoofer.
i tried to get myself banned, but i suspect that i was on there for so long and it would take years for each subreddit to ban me.
also; this implies that the other sites your using are sharing your data with google; which reddit uses heavily.
Reddit made it simple for me; they banned the app I browsed it with (Boost, along with every other 3rd party app).
I don’t browse on my desktop, and I refuse to use their 1st party app, so using Reddit became too inconvenient.
