Reddit

I've gone back there from time to time because there's not the specialised subs here yet, or those that are don't have the traffic.

What I've found on the main dubs I used to frequent is that they are full of reactionary comments that have no grasp of history, context or empathy.

The specialised subs, maybe were like this and I was just more tolerant to it, are full of low effort "please look at me doing absolutely fuck all in any way of producing meaningful content" posts.

There's far too many to actually get to the content with effort so the signal to noise ratio is too low to fight off my general contempt of the place.

I nuked my accounts and I'm fully content with that. There's no fomo, I haven't even bothered to peek at how my old subs are doing.

I still use site:reddit.com when making searches, but that's a different thing.

I had fully left Reddit ever since the API changes but checked in very very rarely every now and then whenever I googled something and Reddit results were the only results actually answering my questions. I don't really miss it, and I found that I do spend way less time scrolling mindlessly, so that helped.

What kind of killed me was my deleting my account. I had been starting up PowerDeleteSuite in the last couple of months to get rid of my comments and posts, but I didn't leave my PC running for long enough to delete everything whenever I actually remember to start it up. Now, I finally deleted everything and deleted my account too. I wasn't using the account at all, but it made really sad to see the account go for good this time. Similar feeling to when I deleted RIF off my phone.

It was a good run.

I find I am spending more time between Lemmy and Discord. Overall I don't miss reddit. Even before the 3rd party apps were killed, there were indications of issues.

Well, I'm banned there after after a comment about the Orange One, so....not really

How has it been for you? Do you get FOMO feeling sometimes?

It's been great. FOMO? Nah. I don't really feel like I'm missing anything.

The issue I have with Reddit - it’s full of hateful people and most content is just bots karma farming.

For me, it was this, and the consequences of the API nonsense for my user experience, as well as for people who have disabilities. On Lemmy, I'm not forced to use a black-box algorithm to try to drive my engagement without regard for its impact on my health. Nor am I forced to view any communities when browsing All.

I really, really miss one sub in particular, /r/AcademicBiblical

Other than that I haven't looked back at all. Lemmy's smaller size does mean there's a bit less expert commentary on a lot of topics, and I miss that, but not enough to put up with the dystopian crap spez is trying to establish.

I check in way fewer in Lemmy and I'm done faster because I you get to the old posts pretty quickly. But I see this as a good thing.

I didn't leave immediately, but then my account got banned and having started using lemmy made me not bother making a new one. I may have to eventually venture back to reddit for the occasional niche community, but otherwise lemmy is just as good for getting my posting and scrolling done.

I'm a heavy poster and posting things I read to the appropriate subreddit has been a part of my internet process for a long time, so it was key to have a new place to keep doing that. Though that has resulted in there being several subs on here where I have made a large majority of the posts... but I tell myself it's more worthwhile to be posting things here where they'll be seen by fewer people but will contribute to this community existing rather than giving free content to reddit.

The only time I remember reddit is when I find the answer to what I'm looking for in Google there.

The only community there I miss even a little is the metalcore community. Even then, having stepped back a little I can see the post quality is not always that great. The same news/social content is regurgitated on Imgur.

No FOMO, I was able to switch my addiction over to Lemmy. But I really miss the CFS/ME and Long Covid subs. There are some communities here, but they have almost no traffic. I am still subbed through lemmit.online, but I usually can't be bothered to reply to something through reddit.

I bet others with niche subs have the same problem.

Unfortunately I'm still forced to go back now and then for specific gaming subreddits and such. And when I'm digging down a rabbit hole of software/hardware issues on my system. All in all though I probably go back once or twice a week though, so it's not that bad.

There is some things I would have liked to keep up on, but Lemmy has a lot of the stuff I am interested in, and Discord covers some other bits. I use social media less which is good. I am more productive and sleep quicker.

The FOMO is the brain craving dopamine. The solution is getting used to less, not chasing more.

Make the internet work for you, not the internet working you.

How are you defining fully? I haven't logged in since june, and don't browse it. But occasionally I know it will be the best place to get a very specific piece of information or it will turn up as the top result for some search I've done.

No FOMO. I miss some topics/communities that are either not present or not active there. The general/bigger communities are here but the more specific are not, and I liked those the most. I sometimes look there, but don't linger.

At this point, I am just checking weekly top posts of headphones, piracy and datahoarder (yes I am lol), because they have no alternatives, and I could only officially get datahoarder onto Lemmy, but the majority of userbase is still on Reddit. Only sub I regularly check is DBZ Dokkan, because no other community exists that isn't called Twitter. My reddit usage has fallen off the cliff.

No FOMO really. Reddit's quality has gone down the gutter, deservedly so, and it is never going to get back up. The whole western culture of hatred, Russophobia, Israel genocider cheering, China hatred and all those things make it very easy for me to stay away. Most of those redditors hate themselves tbqh.

I am glad I was one of the key people that made it happen, considering I got the whole piracy community to migrate to Lemmy, since their Aether consideration never worked out before.