I was an active redditor for 15 years. I don't miss the platform, because kbin and Lemmy are far superior, but I do miss the volume of subreddits and activity. Maybe we will never have that here, but I'm not going back to that shithole.
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Maybe I'm better at finding communities now, but it feels like the volume is gradually increasing.
I've found tens if not hundreds of communities I'm interested in, but some just haven't moved on from Reddit.
Same for me, i was part of many smaller subreddits that had nothing to do with tech and i think most used the reddit app. They still haven't moved and I don't think they will. They simply don't care(bc they didn't yse 3th party apps)
I miss what it was. But it's dead now, and there's a corpse walking around in its skin, and when I'm away from here and among others who haven't made the switch, I feel like the only person at the party who noticed there's a slimy CEO in an ill-fitting snoo suit pretending to be our friend (sometimes).
Like any other dead thing, I can't bring it back, so I have to move on.
I notice I'm more productive now. That's nice.
I was there 17 years. Can't say I miss it, but I do lament it. The community there helped change my life in some very significant ways. But it became glaringly obvious that the administration have little to no appreciation or respect for their users. I've been enjoying watching them scramble to re-engage lost value in their IPO. I will only return to participate on r/place ... whether that's thru the void or a "Fuck u/spez" ... they will get my traffic for that.
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I miss what Reddit was in 2006. I don't miss what it's become since.
Then you probably will love https://tildes.net, at least it reminds me of that Reddit.
Edit: invite thread is still active as of this writing: https://old.reddit.com/r/tildes/comments/14zpjm5/official_invite_requests_round_24_leave_a_reply/
Thanks! I was curious about Tildes but didn't have an invite the last time I checked it out.
That being said, I'm super happy with Kbin now that I've taken the time to sub to communities and follow folks - my feed here is now as active as Reddit's ever was, and the content is lightyears better.
Kbin reminds me why I liked Reddit.
Did not meant to convince you to drop kbin in favor of tildes, as you can see, I'm on both. Though tildes does have that old reddit feel, the "subreddits" are still fixed (users can't create own ones), they are trying to keep effort to be friendly and accepting (that's why the invites, to prevent people joining massively and drastically changing the culture), it's also run by one of old reddit admins (Deimos). The goal is to have "reddit" that isn't a company seeking profits but a non-profit org living from donations.
But yeah, lemmy/kbin on the other hand has communities/magazines on topics that aren't available on tildes.
Hey so this might come off combative but it's not my goal, I really want info. Why is tildes not just Reddit redux? I could be very wrong here and would appreciate correction but as i understand it tildes is not part of the fediverse and control seems to land in the hands of the few, isn't that what ended up driving most of us here to the fediverse? Maybe I'm wrong about all of this and I'd be thrilled if I was because the person who made RiF said they were moving to tildes and I loved RiF.
So as far as I know Tildes is owned by Spectria which is a Canadian non-for-profit corporation.
It apparently was created, because they didn't like what was happening with reddit.
I don't know how easy/hard it is to change it to for profit though.
@takeda If it’s owned by a non-profit, then I hope they’ll consider switching to a federated model eventually
From what I found tildes was created in 2018 (https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/), lemmy was created in 2019, kbin I think started in 2023.
Edit: I just noticed that tildes is under AGPL, and doesn't look like they don't require contributors to surrender their copyright, so it means the code will need to stay open source even if something would change with the company.
I miss the craft, makeup and women's subreddits.
Did someone say crafts? 👀
https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/74767/Useful-links-to-related-craft-communities
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I wish some communities or magazines, or whatever, were more active like reddit. I don't miss reddit.
Fuck Spez.
Nope, I had kind of got sick of Reddit, it was just a source of info. I barely interacted anymore.
I'm far more active here, it's exciting to have a new place.
I don’t miss it because I keep using it. The communities I follow there are niche and they are completely dead on the Fediverse. I keep opening Kbin every other day just to find that my "new" feed still shows posts from 2 weeks ago without even scrolling.
Also, most of what I dislike from Reddit is still here.
Tons of people on the Fediverse craft their responses to fish upvotes, and circlejerking/echo-chambers are here too. Just last week I got a fresh breeze of downvotes and angry commenters because I expressed that I dislike Steam, on the PCgaming magazine, which is the same thing that would’ve happened on r/gaming, r/pcmasterrace or another similar toxic cesspool on Reddit.
This, I'm trying to be the change I want to see etc. on Kbin. But in order to fully recreate what I have on Reddit I'd have to recreate, moderate, and cough up content for like a dozen niche subs. Because of how my life is right now I don't have the energy to do one. I haven't noticed much of the toxicity, but any online space that revolves around gaming seems to turn into a toilet within a matter of days anyway, so it's sadly unsurprising.
Even then, "being the change you want to see" is futile if the platform itself has tons of issues and doesn't provide incentives for people of all kinds to join and use over other platforms.
It seems like only hardcore Redditors and hip techies pass the filter to discover the Fediverse and thrive on it, which makes certain communities outright impossible to grow. Case and point; the biggest solo RPG mag on the Fediverse has been running for over a year, and 98% of the ~40 posts have been made by a single dude, most of which have zero interactions. Why? Because the Fediverse's demographic has no interest on the topic.
And yeah, gaming stuff always make the keyboard wizards rush out of their towers. 🧙♂️
any online space that revolves around gaming seems to turn into a toilet within a matter of days
This is the truth. There was a nice sub on Reddit about Android gaming which was pretty non-toxic but generally speaking gaming brings out the worst in people. And I still don't know why
I'll admit I do. And I won't like, I'll still append "Reddit" to my searches as needed. I'm just not really actively contributing or anything there anymore, which is sad
I miss whitepeopletwitter, leopardsatemyface, murderedbywords, qanoncasualties, foodiecutie, and beautyguruchatter.
My online experience has been much better without reddit. kbin is awesome and I want nothing to do with reddit. Last week I deleted my 10 year old account and I even add "-reddit" to the end of my google searches now so nothing from them comes up in the results. The interesting thing I'm noticing is that the longer I'm away from that toxic hellhole the better I feel. Thank goodness for kbin!
On a sidenote, I'm also fully aware that a company as aggressive and twisted as reddit will definitely have agents in here trying to manipulate the conversation to get people to come back. I ain't never coming back. Reddit sucks. I see you. Quit your BS.
No
I miss having information compiled in one site (Reddit). I just made an RSS to replace it.
Nope
after 12 years on the platform, no. the amount of change for the worse that's taken place during that time is too much, and this most recent fuck up was the final straw. i was online before reddit and i'll remain online after reddit
Yeah. It's a horrible temptation that I will continue to keep resisting.
No.
Honestly, yes. I'm a tech guy who is cool with the growing experience of new projects and I'm here to stay... But, I also like specific sports teams, politics, and other non techy subjects that aren't going to make the move until they have no other choice or the issue is the community doesn't have critical mass to provide for engagement and back and forth in the comments. There are a few communities I still check in to weekly or so on Reddit because the information doesn't exist here yet. I hope those communities and members move to the fediverse some day, but to pretend that the offerings andb engagement here are equal or even "good enough" at the moment is unrealistic. My use of Reddit though has gone from hours a day to minutes a week and I refuse to upvote or comment, so while I miss a lot of things, I do my best to not help their metrics too much
I miss RiF and my populated hobby subs.
I don't miss it, because I'm still on Reddit. I'm just also here now.
I miss the golden days of reddit, like from when I first discovered it in 2011 to about 2015. It just seemed more possible to have in depth conversations around that time, discover new and exciting communities, and overall just feel good to be part of the community. As it basically started to replace all web communities, became more corporate, and as political discourse became more common and hostile, it started to become less and less enjoyable, but I continued to browse because by that time I had an addiction that to this day I'm still trying to kick.
kbin and lemmy sorta give me that feel I had for early reddit, and even though I still haven't fully kicked reddit, I do spend a lot more screen time here than I do on my reddit subs, and I barely browse their front page anymore. Overall, I think I just have an internet addiction that I need to manage overall, but at the very least kbin is giving me some of the highs I used to enjoy with reddit.
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.
i've unsubbed everything except those niche sub for news and technical help, rarely goes there anymore but might help with the r/place protest
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
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.
I miss what it used to be.
fuck no.
There's some specific information that I can't quite get easily. Like recently looking for information on headphones, amps and dac. R/headphones is still the easiest way to get a lot of information.
I no longer go there recreationally but when I really need good answers it's still a part of my duckduckgo search query.
Yeah this is where I’m at. Not part of my casual reading. Just part of my internet search if I’m after something specific. Basically just a database now.
TBH that’s Facebook for me as well. Just go there occasionally for very specific reasons. But not to spend time. Which is a shame, as I have a lot of good friends there. But Meta had to go and fuck that place up as well.
I kinda still miss Digg!
I miss some niche communities but I like the concentration of thoughtful responses here.
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.
whats a reddit 🤷🏼♂️
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