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?
I don’t browse or even log in to reddit anymore. I don’t feel bad for searching out specific things. Since the audience is so much larger, there’s niches that just haven’t been replaced by Lemmy or other services. Sports, media discussion, and old tech advice threads are the ones I’ll still go over for.
Sports is surprising to me that it hasn’t gotten bigger here. I get that the tech crowd isn’t classically overlapping the sports crowd, but I feel like tech has gotten so mainstream anymore that it’s more sports people into tech than tech people into sports. A lot of the subs and instances are really lacking too, not to comment on the people posting there and doing what they can. It’s a tough landscape right now
Some of us tech people that liked sports, realized during Covid when they went away, that we only actually watched/attended sports to have something in common with others. I realized I didn’t need them, and didn’t miss giving any additional money to billionaires. Also, don’t get me started on tax money and stadiums lol
Oh for sure. There is a definite downside to the leagues that’s becoming increasingly hard to ignore. I live in a large college town, so even outside of the team, it ends up being a community event and it’s nice to have all your friends get together, even if for a superficial reason. Probably 80% of my Reddit use was sports subs and discussions not really for the sport, but because I liked the community aspect of it. I’d like to see that again here, so I’ll keep posting away lol
That makes a big difference then! If i lived in cbus instead of near Cleveland, i might still feel the same 😂
Reddit’s sports subs were small for a long time. I think there would need to be either a sports sub exodus or a lot more lemmy users before there are enough active posters into sports discussion/gossip during the week to keep engagement up and lively between games.
I was part of the baseball sub for my local major market mlb team for years and it was really just the last three or four years it was consistently active between games and even when I left (api exodus) it was the same 30 or so people on game threads.
I am hopeful that Lemmy will eventually grow large enough to supply the numerical and geographical base for good sports stuff. It doesn’t take many active participants but the 100 - 10 - 1 rule I think is much more acutely felt in less populous spaces.
I’m doing my part in the football communities. It is sparse though.
No. I use a combination of Mastodon, Lemmy, Bluesky, and Piefed. I refuse to even go back to that Trump Nazi run place.
I do highly recommend upvoting everything you can and if you see a missing group on Lemmy you can always create it.
Using reddit makes me feel bad. It’s full of such inflammatory rage bate. Even in the niche communities I was part of, there were multiple posts every day just stirring the pot. Lemmy right now reminds me of reddit in its early days, back when people were trying to have actual, meaningful discussions.
After the api-gate, I had a moment where I asked myself “what things have I actually learned on reddit that I otherwise wouldn’t have learned?” And the answer was nothing. Actual, helpful, insightful discussions just don’t get attention over there anymore. I get way more mileage out of my RSS feed than reddit.
I’ve found the tone here on Lemmy to be more positive and more informative. Don’t change, y’all.
It’s full of such inflammatory rage bate
But how is that not just a function of the size of the audience there? We see political trolls crawling out here, too, as the number of commenters increases.
I think you’re right, but I have hope. I believe in us lemmings, lol.
I don’t have so high moral stance to feel bad about using reddit.
Never used Reddit, but I felt bad enough about using that one site that’s owned by a neo Nazi that I nuked my account.
I’d suggest that, if there’s a topic over on reddit that has topics you’re interested in, try starting a thread over here on that topic, even if the community here is “dead”. Because “dead” communities can be resurrected, they just need activity. Asking a question on a topic is activity; posting an answer to the question (even if it’s your own question and you had to go to reddit for the answer) is activity and provides a resource here for other people to use. And if it’s something you found out on your own but it’s not new, try posting a YSK or TIL in the appropriate local community. You may not get replies, but we’re not going to become a fully viable alternative unless people contribute little bits where they can.
Trust me, I’m trying! But still, it doesn’t cover everything.
I am permabanned so the decision was made for me.
I would feel okay i think. I only use it when it ends up in my search engine answers, and i think it’s okay, it has both a larger userbase and older history, so for niche subjects and specific questions it makes sense to use it.
But if you feel bad about it, maybe consider creating the communities you would like to see on Lemmy, as others said ! It may be not as hard and time consuming as you think, especially if you find some people to help you or even to entirely transfer the moderation part.
It’s a real pain in the ass for the best source of news about the games I play to either be reddit or Discord, so my options are shit or shit. Sometimes developers post clarifications on game mechanics on the subreddit, and that’s the only source of that information. I wish more companies could understand the benefits of instance ownership, especially considering all of the ongoing issues with social media owners. It’d be great if that kinda news would migrate somewhere better so I could finally ditch reddit permanently, but I’m sure I’ll just eat a ban eventually.
I deleted my Reddit account back when they fucked over the 3rd party apps, but I still do browse their site. Much as I think that Lemmy is the superior platform, Reddit still has a huge numbers advantage, and so the amount of content over there is much greater than here.
Any time I go into the comments section, though, I am reminded that Reddit is a shithole. So I try to stay out of those and just read the linked articles.
I quit posting but still lurk on some topics of interest. Lemmy isn’t the answer, sadly.
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.
There’s no mexican (or latinoamerican) content on Lemmy other than government propaganda, I am starting to feel bad about being on Lemmy more than being on Reddit.
Yeah the Anglocentrism is super unfortunate. Speaking as an European. Though I don’t really like hanging out on the internet with people from my country though lol
Reddit remains one of the only reliable sources of safety advice, reporting, and guides on drugs. Lots of [deleted] nowadays. This is particularly concerning in aspects beyond this as well. Obscure software issues? Buying recommendations? Everyone always flocked to Reddit, and now it’s gone.
A reminder to never put all your eggs in one basket.
I go there for the post-episode TV discussions (though I don’t log in). It can interesting to read people’s theories for something like Severance, although the whole experience can end up being depressing (because of mod shenanigans, the over-use of spoiler syntax, and the dissonance / over-reaction created when some show that the hive-mind has already determined is the best thing ever has a duff episode)
Yeah I never post on reddit but Severance is 90% of the reason I ever want to. Not sure if there is a community here and I would feel weird posting hyper specific theories/discussions on a more general community for TV shows or whatever
There’s a Lemmy community at [email protected] (although I’ve found that chatting about TV is harder than it looks).
