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.
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!
Welcome!
Since you’re on the lemmy.world instance, there’s a bunch of additional interfaces available to you:
- https://old.lemmy.world/ (Something familiar)
- https://a.lemmy.world/
- https://photon.lemmy.world/
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 😁
The Fedi is good and all but just … Fucking brace yourself lol
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If you liked Apollo, you’ll really like Voyager for Lemmy: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voyager-for-lemmy/id6451429762
Hello,
Thank you for your post!
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
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…
I’m really missing /r/3Dprinting… [email protected] is practically dead
Have you tried posting regularly to it? It takes some traction to get a regular community activity
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.
Seconding this @[email protected] Lemmy has really shown me this first-hand multiple times. For example [email protected] 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. [email protected] was recently created for more discussion in this area.
One of us. One of us. :-)
Hello and welcome!
Well, in that case, I hope you already subscribed to the following communites :)
and so on and so on
I hope you will enjoy your stay here, it’s always nice to welcome a motivated person who wants to contribute.
Welcome!
Welcome home!
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. 🤢🤮
Welcome, Josselin, glad to have you!
Welcome! We’re a smaller community so any posts/comments you make are super helpful. Hope you enjoy your stay!
