Moving to: m/AskMbin!

There’s literally one or two niche communities I still poke in on for news, but I’ve stopped participating.

@bbplay13 yes, I miss the good parts as well...I used to be able to ask a question on how to repair something and get 20 solid responses in under an hour. There may be a corner of the fediverse that will fill a similar niche, but so far I haven't found it. I spend most of my time over on Mastodon.social , now, which seems to have more traffic, and maybe more niches. We'll see. I'm certainly NOT going back to reddit, but I do indeed wish it hadn't gone so pear-shaped, so quickly.

Not really. By and large I'm happier here. Reddit was so negative and toxic that despite the abundance of quality niche content it always left me with a sour taste in my mouth. Didn't realize how bad it was until I quit cold turkey.

I still log in a few times a week for a couple of disability support communities and then I might have a quick browse through the comics sub after. There's rarely something that makes me want to comment outside of those subs. (Incidentally one of Reddit's favourite cartoonists has stated she's no longer interacted with users and only posting her comics due to the toxicity of the comments and DMs)

But even with the comics I've tended to start supporting them on patreon and see their stuff that way.

Last time I did comment a few weeks ago, things got combative quickly and I don't know if it was normal for Reddit aggression and I'm just used to being in here now or if it was a one off dick.

I don't miss the time I spent on bs there though. I posted elsewhere that I've been reading a lot more since I cut down on Reddit use!

I miss the more niche subreddits and Apollo. Memmy is rapidly improving, though. Already a great app.

Nah. Fuck that place.

Not at all

I really miss the dog videos, took me a week or so to notice that lemmy doesn't have any, all the porn is garbage because we can't have videos and none of the apps (except kinda liftoff) have in-app video players for sites like redgifs.

But no one is posting videos because most people aren't going to watch them if they have to go to a website, I won't.

I hope boost releases with in-app support and the option to hide certain posts like it used to. Then I can just tick videos and go on my merry way.

Nah

If by your question you mean in that abusive, self destructive, totally dysfunctional, immoral and unethical ex sort of way, then sure I guess.

In a way, yeah, but at this point in my life I'm getting used to it. Every few years, you gotta jump ship to the new thing.

For me, Reddit died long before the whole ordeal of the API controversy. More and more traffic was due to bots, and lately I started to receive a lot of spam from porn bots there. There's not a lot of incentive on part of Reddit to remove them, since bot activity is still activity they can present to investors.

Don't get me wrong, not all bots are bad, but spambots are universally harmful.

Reddit wasn't that good.