Today I deleted my Reddit account.

I think the platform is now just a playground for AIs and has integrated lots of ways to make money (prenium subscription, NFT, way too many ads for my taste).

What really made me take the plunge was Reddit’s interface. Seriously, go to the website, what’s with the attrocity? It’s like Fandom but as a social network?

Now why am I on Lemmy? Because in my opinion, it’s the first step towards a mainstream Fedivers! Mastodon, Peertube and Pixelfed aren’t very widespread, but when you see the number of people active in Lemmy communities, it’s really impressive! It’s also free and Open Source which is always great, but also as open as possible, I mean, Reddit killed Apollo on iOS, I can now have lots of apps on my iPhone with Lemmy!

Now what do I expect from Lemmy. For this universe of instances to grow, but also to add a bit of personality to the platform! Do a bit of Reddit and add customization options for each community, like on the Minecraft Subreddit of old Reddit that I’ve always smiled at.

In short, I’m happy to be on Lemmy.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    6 months ago

    I deleted my reddit when they backstabbed their 3rd party app devs. Came to Lemmy around the same time - have had no reason to look back. You’ll love it here!

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    401·
    6 months ago

    Welcome!

    For this universe of instances to grow, but also to add a bit of personality to the platform! Do a bit of Reddit and add customization options for each community, like on the Minecraft Subreddit of old Reddit that I’ve always smiled at.

    For sure! We don’t talk enough about how much customization there is for Lemmy. There is a wide variety of mobile apps that do things in different ways, and userscripts/userstyles to customize the desktop interface. A lot of instances are also running multiple frontends, each maintained by a different dev or team.

    For example, our instance is running:

    Many possibilities, and I’m hoping we can see community customization too someday :)

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    26·
    6 months ago

    Welcome!

    Since you’re on the lemmy.world instance, there’s a bunch of additional interfaces available to you:

    If you’re on mobile, there’s a ton of apps to choose from at https://join-lemmy.org/apps , or if PWAs are more your thing, your instance has the Voyager/Mlmym interface setup at https://m.lemmy.world/

    Finding communities used to be difficult, but it should be straightforward now just from the search, seeing as it is the largest instance.

    Hope you enjoy your stay 😁

  • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
    22·
    6 months ago

    Now why am I on Lemmy? Because in my opinion, it’s the first step towards a mainstream Fedivers! Mastodon … [isn’t] very widespread, but when you see the number of people active in Lemmy communities, it’s really impressive!

    🤨

    Mastodon has an order of magnitude more active users than Lemmy - and the whole rest of the Fediverse - if not two orders of magnitude.

    Lemmy’s a great platform, but Reddit is already the niche social media site among the mainstream, and the kind if niche interest forums that ultimately built Reddit just haven’t reached critical mass here yet, and that means Reddit remains very sticky. Pile on people being kind of uncomfortable with the local namespaces for both users and communities, and I don’t know that Lemmy’s really the killer platform for the 'verse.

    Fediverse adotion is going to be a collective effort. Loops has a good chance of attracting people. It would be nice if Mastodon would actually use a standard ActivityPub implementation so it played nicer with neighbours. And microblogger discovering something other than Mastodon would be nice.

    But it’s not going to be just one platform. If it is, then the fediverse idea has totally failed.

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
    19·
    6 months ago

    Hey I finally deleted my account this week as well. I’ve been there for such a long time. I was a bit sad, ngl.

    Reddit has become such a shit platform with shit users though.

    • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      6 months ago

      One tip is that most of us “use” Lemmy a bit differently than Reddit. Most niche communities (with some exceptions ofc:-) here aren’t as active as they were on Reddit, so many of us end up spending more time in the generalized ones - e.g. !technology@lemmy.world rather than specific ones like r/OnePlus or even r/Android.

      I know it’s now a cliché comparison but that was what early reddit was like. If you were a more recent redditors you need to realize it started smaller too, originally there weren’t even subreddits, and there was a /r/reddit.com once they were introduced.

      That level of granularity largely won’t be necessary here for a while but I don’t mind at all.

    • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
      41·
      6 months ago

      Blocking instances certainly has its place, but keep in mind that it only blocks the communities of that instance. You’ll still see comments from the instance and the instance will still influence your feed via their voting.

      It is generally better to choose an instance that defederates from the instances you don’t like.

    • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      Most niche communities (with some exceptions ofc:-) here aren’t as active as they were on Reddit, so many of us end up spending more time in the generalized ones - e.g. !technology@lemmy.world rather than specific ones like r/OnePlus or even r/Android.

      I think we need to get better about crossposting to multiple communities. You could post to all 3 of those.

      • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        That would triple the number of mods required, for one, and with complicated cross-reporting like “spam” would get removed from all but “lack of relevance to community” may only be removed from some.

        Perhaps an app or base Lemmy itself could implement a keyword system to selectively highlight all posts from multiple technology communities that match the word “OnePlus” and deliver them to one place for consumption.

        But either of these solutions would require effort to build.

  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netEnglish
    131·
    6 months ago

    A lot of what you list, particularly the bot playground, are reasons I hated Reddit. What I really hated was that people just spammed a bunch of rote responses and these guys

    Lemmy is great, but it takes a while to figure out

  • selokichtli@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    6 months ago

    I would take a look at Reddit, right now, to see what you refer to as an “atrocity”, but they block me for using a VPN, so…

  • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
    8·
    6 months ago

    I’m really missing /r/3Dprinting… 3Dprinting@lemmy.world is practically dead

    • Blaze@reddthat.comEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      Have you tried posting regularly to it? It takes some traction to get a regular community activity

      • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
        6·
        6 months ago

        I mean, you just have to check out my profile to see that I did.

        Unfortunately I travel for work, when I’m home I don’t have much time to create worthwhile content, so at most I can contribute a few pictures of prints.

      • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        Seconding this @Damage@fedd.it Lemmy has really shown me this first-hand multiple times. For example !connectasong@lemmy.world started out with a few regular posters but then there was couple mo th period where we all seemingly forgot. Once I remembered I went back and decided to just connect songs with my self each day until it came back. Turned out it worked in under a week.

        But it can also take time. I made my own community was the only poster there for months, posting maybe average once per week. Subscribers trickled in slowly and then I found its subscirbers growing exponentially and now others contribute.

        Remember, people are abandoning reddit slowly all the time, it’s not all grand exoduses, I see it as building a relatively active community for future users to find. !fedigrow@lemm.ee was recently created for more discussion in this area.

  • SomeGuy69@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    6 months ago

    Welcome and enjoy your stay. Here are a lot of communities with similar interests, but still a bit less content. It’s growing however. I sadly still visit Reddit too often, but I always open Lemmy Connect app first.

    I hate the ever growing hidden ads on Reddit. I spot them daily now. Threads created to clearly sell you a product or software, with astroturf comments “wow this is freaking amazing. I’m downloading it right now.” sure you enjoyed this okayish post so much and it totally doesn’t sound obvious, that there are 10 more comments in this 15 comments thread, all saying the same. Or this unnatural amount of votes. 🤢🤮