I still use reddit for some niche topics that have like zero activity on Lemmy. But still, I feel kinda bad over it… What about you people?
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I’m logged in on my laptop but not my desktop. I’ll doomscroll occasionally and feel a bit bad about it.
Anytime I try to upvote or comment there’s a 25-50% chance it’ll error out so I’m not in much of a hurry to go back.Not even remotely feel bad. I stick to old and run an adblocker. I only use it for sysadmin as it helps with my work.
I mod a few larger subs I don’t wish to leave (one I’ve brought here). I also participate in a work related sub. I’ve been spending more and more time on Lemmy lately though.
But yeah, I don’t really like Reddit I’m just there because not all of my stuff has made it here yet.
Bad, no, bored, yes. I generally just keep up with some web comics on there but as they at least move to BlueSky, that’s less an issue. Plus the quality has dropped. I don’t expect them to come to Lemmy, even if we do have a couple of good, very-Lemmy oriented comic artists.
I got banned and any new account I try to make gets shadow-banned. As far as I can tell, my offense was calling Elon Musk a Nazi when he did his Nazi salute during the inauguration. A mod warned me to not call him a Nazi because the ADL said it wasn’t a Nazi salute. Then a few days later he gave a speech for AfD in Germany and I commented “Still think he’s not a Nazi?” Next thing I know, I was banned forever.
There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
Stop signing up with the same email address and you won’t get shadow banned. Your email address is literally the only way they track you. Once I realized this, any new accounts I made with a fake email work just fine.
They track cookies too.
I never store cookies so that might be why I was able to create a new account just fine.
I’ve never used the same email account. I go to one of those websites that let you create a temporary email address and use that whenever I sign up for a new account. Not just for Reddit, but for most sites. I was very annoyed Lemmy wouldn’t let me create an account with a temp email address.
As another person pointed out, they track cookies too. I never save cookies, which is probably why I was able to create a new account just fine.
No. If the info is there then that’s where I’m going
Sometimes you have to go where the people are.
I’ve found more people in my local area are on ig. Not on reddit, so it’s easy in my local area. But it’s one company for another.
no? it’s just an app
Not used it at all since the API shutdown. Been on lemmy since. Fuck spez
Same. Fuck that place. I miss some of the subs, but I’m not going back.
If you keep using Lemmy and spread the world it will grow over time.
Lurking is ok if you wash your hands afterwards 😉
The only reddit community I’ve yet to find a home for on Lemmy is /r/fountainpens. I don’t post there though. As a lefty getting into underwriting and fountain pens was really good for my penmanship. This in turn was good for my journaling and mental health. I don’t feel bad about it.
IRRC there was a Lemmy channel for it but it was really small.
Fountainpens is one of the view i occasionally lurk by, niche things are really hard to port over i fear
I don’t feel bad, but having moved a few days ago I’ll share my experience.
I try and come here first, will check the one or two things I’ve posted engaged with, scroll a bit - but realise I haven’t quite joined enough communities for there to be novel information each time I check in.
I then default to Reddit, and quickly go into my default auto-scroll passive lurk mode. I see something new - like the most recent Anonymous hack on twitter, and then come back to see if I can find it on Lemmy!
One key difference is I rarely posted on Reddit, but have felt very comfortable posting here. Not sure why!
It so far ( in my very limited experience ) feels like users on Lemmy are more likely to have an actual conversation than immediately slip into the cycle of memes, in-jokes, and other drivel that usually ends up as the top several threads on reddit posts of popular sub-reddits.
It’s kinda nice.
I really hope it stays that way. Large subreddit have been bad for a long time with jokes and memes as comments.
It is nice! Showing my age but reminds me more like forums and chatrooms.
Just posting some lesser known but great communities for you to subscribe to in case you are interested!
Nope. I’m using a hacked third party app which doesn’t load ads, and I shitpost as much as I can to poison their database for LLM use. They can ban me - I have a VPN and plenty of email addresses.
I’ll use them till they don’t serve my needs and then move on.
It’s a website, not a family.
I’ll use them till they don’t serve my needs and then move on.
This. Certain regional and hobby communities need a critical mass that doesn’t exist on Lemmy, and frankly it’s mostly the popular subreddits that are really bad over there anyway. I have reduced my engagement to posting about Mechanical Keyboards and otherwise lurking, I use an app that survived the APIpocalypse because the blind community (of which I am not a member) uses it, and I keep my adblocker and RES on. They’re probably still extracting some value from me, but so are several other companies that are probably even worse.
Lemmy is the community I choose to engage with most directly, and I will shed no tears over the end of Reddit when it comes, but for now I’ve found the middle ground that works for me.
How do you get back on? They banned me but I’d like to do some trolling.
I stopped using reddit quite a bit after the API exodus. I’ve more recently just felt the itch to check out reddit due to content. Regardless, I don’t post, or vote on reddit to at least minimize the support I give there.
Only for niche topics, and using a self-hosted private front end (redlib) I deleted my account at the API death, so it’s only for researching things usually.
Is redlib working for you? for me, if I host for me, I get rate limited after 1st post, and have to use the public instances (slower, but they work).
