Are you committed to make Lemmy thrive? Do you keep posting your discussions on Reddit?

  • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 minute ago

    I don’t use Reddit whatsoever. Being away from that site for 18 months has really shown how low quality the content there is. I know longer have any desire to ever interact with that site if I can help it, even if the fediverse is missing some of the active niche communities on reddit

    • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      60 minutes ago

      I browse Reddit anonymously nowadays on a web browser. I still absolutely hate the experience. It lags way too much, videos suddenly become “no longer available”, spend enough time and it will yell at you again for getting the app as if it didn’t when you first opened the site (at least it’s not as insistive as Instagram, an even worse website), that new logo reeks of Discord and Android having a baby, and not to mention, comments with a negative karma score are automatically hidden for whatever reason.

      I only continue browsing that site to catch up with some communities with no real equivalent on Lemmy.

  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 hours ago

    If i’m looking for something online and the only info is on some niche subreddit, then I go to reddit. Other than that, I pretty much just lurk here in the shadows, muttering to myself about vengeance and being the night

  • HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    2 hours ago

    I can’t use Reddit. I got site banned.

    Thought about clearing my browser data and going back with a clean email once my IP shifts, but it all seems like a bit of a pain.

    Frankly, the fact I’m cut off probably bothers me more than anything I would actually use it for.

  • lulztard
    1·
    5 hours ago

    Reddit is populated by literal retards. Lemmy isn’t much better but it’s a bit less worse. So Lemmy it is for social media.

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    22·
    15 hours ago

    I’m never going back to corporate social media. If it’s not FOSS and available to self host reasonably, I’m not interested anymore.

    So that means, lemmy and others like it only from now on for me. Already close to 1k posts made.

  • Brekky@lemmy.world
    20·
    12 hours ago

    Left reddit as soon as the blackout happened, was actually impressed at myself being able to stay off it. Haven’t been back except when I google a question, and the answer is on an old reddit thread (I do not reply or comment).

    My opinion is Lemmy needs more communities and more DAUs. Have been trying to tell people why they should switch but I’m not techy, my friends are not techy and they just don’t care about data/ownership etc. I’m hoping reddit shits the bed further so more laypeople jump ship.

    Same goes for mastodon which needs more content although I only previously used twitter on days with big events (oscars, grammys, f1 race days etc).

    • umbrella@lemmy.ml
      4·
      12 hours ago

      i hate that we are here stuck trying to convince laypeople when we used to be the ones to shape the internet. now its just coporations making us ruin it 9-5 every day, for laymen to just use the shittiest option because its the one with the biggest marketing budget.

      • Routhinator@startrek.websiteEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Yep, for now I just add the Discourse forums to my RSS reader in Nextcloud and catch the new posts in the Nextcloud News app

    • COASTER1921@lemmy.ml
      2·
      11 hours ago

      I miss the old topic specific internet forums so badly, but having tons of different accounts made the barrier to entry high so I understand why they died out.