I came here for video games and dank memes, but most of the website devolved into a political shitshow.
this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2023
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I'm here. I'll still go on Reddit if I'm on desktop (which is rare) but when on my phone, Lemmy does the job fine.
Here despite the lack of content/content I can't get here on Lemmy. Still, generally I'd say it's a little better on this side of things.
I think the biggest sub I'm on here is all of 5000. Ouuuu.
Obviously not even 5% of reddit transitioned over. I know a lot of my favourite subs went to discord.
But discord - to my knowledge - doesn't have a 'front page' of subs... Making it hard to find new subs.
Discord is really fucking up on the discoverability front. They could take over the internet if they got their heads out of their asses. I was looking for discords on a specific topic, and had to scrape through several random pages to find relevant servers.
Reporting in. Once you spend a bit of time here you will find the things you are familiar with in a different form, Lemmy has its own culture going. Though there are also a bunch of sub replacements, or at least very similar communities.
Though it is of course true that reddit was the internet culture place for a good decade, and that reverberates through to how people communicate, what humor and references they have and make, and so on.
Over time more and more people will migrate, and help to foster new communities here. The fediverse is still in its pioneering stage, so naturally the content is less varied than on reddit, and there are still the occasional technical issues to work out, but overall itβs been a fun two months here. I actually havenβt missed reddit much, just for the occasional ultra specific answer I am looking for.
Also, welcome!
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Yeah it's something that'll take time... reddit had years of activity to give it the beef of info and content. Lemmy will get there, just going up steadily :) (reddit refugee)
I'm here, reading hacker news and slashdot. Trying to learn AI, ML and cloud technologies π out of work but going with flow of life
I enjoy lurking HN but many of the opinions I see there about cloud and AI are Luddite-level.
If I had to bet I'd say most migrated to Discord. Many Reddit refugees are here and some more are on kbin. A lot of people went to squabbles.io and tildes.net too, apparently, but I've never used those since I'd rather stay within the fediverse.
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I looked at Reddit for the first time in a long while yesterday. I had trimmed my subscribed subs to just essential, this is the only place on the web with this community like things.
So I look at my front page and I am still subscribed to more then 20 subreddits. But what is my #3 link but a 0 score off topic post. WTF reddit? Why is that even being promoted by your algorithm? I laughed at it and showed my wife and then closed the site without even looking at anything else.
what a shitty web site
Still here though to be fair I haven't been that active for the last few years as I'm been spending more time on discord.
Yep I'm here
Still here. Getting ready to maybe create a post or two.
First I need to spend weeks upvoting shitposts, however.
Iβve never wanted or needed to go back, if thatβs what OP is asking. SNR is higher, less to scroll through.
I moved herr, just to different communities.
I think most of them are back on Reddit.
Hereee!
What sort of communities are you looking for, OP? Maybe we can give you a hand getting settled in.
As an aside; i really like
It's a great and easy way to get an overview of new communities or communities with some new activity. I check interesting communities and if i like them, i subscribe. There is also a community where you can ask for a certain community. I asked once and someone replied and pointed me to an interesting community:
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Still around, and possibly outnumbered the non refugees already. But we haven't yet reached critical mass, so there is a lot less content (with few exceptions such as the piracy and foss communities which are solid and potentially better than what you may find on Reddit)
I was surprised to find the main Linux community here to already have noticeably better content, and equal or more comments on most posts compares to r/linux. It's been a complete replacement for me π
TL;DR Tbh I think most people just stayed on reddit or are here.
Totally gave up reddit in favour of kbin/lemmy and discuit. I'm quite happy using both at the moment as they serve different purposes: kbin gives access to a lot more content, especially memes and news related so I'm 99% of the time a lurker here.
Discuit is still a very small community and favours more discussion based content, but since they just added image post support that will probably change. There's only 4k or so accounts and a lot of people who migrated from Squabblr due to the main admin's attitude or something. It's mostly a pretty relaxed place with a few rocky moments and the admins are nice, anyone harassing other users gets dealt with pretty quick as it's still small.