Asklemmy

I'm with you especially since what I use Reddit/Twitter for the most is sports highlight clips/discussion during games. Those communities just aren't here. I love chatting with other Orioles/Panthers/Penguins fans in the game threads on Reddit during the game since none of my friends are fans of those teams other than my brother being a Penguins fan too.

Luckily a lot of the Twitter follows I had which were mainly for College Football are on Bluesky so I can use that more but missing out on the rest here. Once Boost for Reddit stops working (still works if you mod a sub) I won't be using Reddit anymore though. The official app is that bad.

I hear ya. There's just no one here. I don't like anime and I'm not a communist so there goes half of the subs. The other half are either news related or empty. I never engaged in conversation much on reddit but the comments were always where you got the best info and links. That was half the reason I liked reddit and lemmy doesn't have that at all. I'm still here because I'm stubborn but unless there is a growth spurt coming soon I probably won't be much longer.

I still use Reddit, and I'm not trying to quit yet. You're right that Lemmy doesn't have the depth of content right now. My issue with completely switching is, I want to contribute to a much larger migration away from Reddit, so I want to stay in touch with communities there for now.

Yes, and no. For me personally, I tended to use Reddit to follow a lot of tech news - whether that be about programming, Linux/Open Source Software, gaming, etc which from what I've seen personally, is certainly an abundance in The Fediverse. Otherwise I'll sometimes discuss some TV shows on Reddit, but most of mine are in their off-season so it hasn't mattered as much.

That being said, I do recognize that its a problem - but I don't know how to begin trying to do my part to fix that problem. I participate where I can. I don't really have many friends who would be interested in The Fediverse and they generally don't use Reddit (Lemmy) / Twitter (Mastodon/Firefish/Calckey/etc) / Instagram (Pixelfed) either way, aside from on the one off occasion that they're linked to something. I made my instance public in order to try to contribute, but no one is interested in joining small instances (and it was delisted from the join-lemmy site once they changed their user count requirement, which killed its only chance to organically grow so I don't think my "effort" will help much there anymore). The only subreddit that I created and moderated was r/moddedmc which I'm still surprised even had people posting on it (since I didn't ever advertise it, I suspect Modded Minecraft was a big enough subject on Reddit to carry its own discoverability) but a community for that already exists here and I don't play much Minecraft these days to contribute all that much.

I did a couple of small contributions to the Android Lemmy client Jeroba a few months ago, but my Android development experience is no where near equipped to provide any significant contributions to Jerboa or any of the other (amazing!) Lemmy Android (and from what I've seen, but don't own any devices that run, iOS) apps. Similar story for my knowledge of Rust to be able to contribute to Lemmy's backend itself... and don't even get me started on my absolute lack of ability to make anything that looks good on the frontend side of things. I created a small utility and a corresponding Grafana dashboard to allow instance admins to keep track of some stats regarding their instance, I see it has a few stars on GitHub though no one has provided any direct feedback on it so perhaps there are at least a few people getting some use out of it. I stay in the Lemmy Admin Matrix rooms to try to provide support to others where possible, but there are far more people who have way more experience (both professionally and on an instance level) than I do. Then finally, I do try to directly donate to Lemmy itself when I can.

So all in all, I'm at a bit of a loss as to what more I could potentially do to help. I don't mean for this to come off as a rant by any means, but I do honestly feel bad that no matter what I do that I think would help, it makes no difference in the grand scheme of things. There are way better devs out there, way bigger instances, people with larger groups of friends who'd be interested, people with more interesting things to share, people who can probably donate more than the $5 than I get to (and probably more consistently), people with more knowledge on how to help other admins, and people who speak/write anything other than English. I'd say that at least I'm "here", but as someone who lives in the US based off the things that I do see on the Fediverse sometimes I get the impression that even this itself isn't well liked. So in the grand scheme of it all it sucks that I really enjoy the Fediverse and I wish more of the internet operated on open standards, and yet I can't find a meaningful way to give back.

I only use Reddit on the PC, where the ads are well blocked in Firefox. Lemmy just doesn't have specific content I like, like my city.

No, I haven't logged into my main Reddit account that I had subscribed to all the subs that I was interested in pretty much since after the API debacle. I have kept logging into a secondary account only to help other people make the move to Lemmy, Mastodon, and the Fediverse in general. That account is only subscribed to r/redditalternatives, r/fediverse, r/lemmy, and r/mastodon, and I make it a point to not look at anything else. While I miss the niche communities that I had enjoyed there, I figure that they will eventually build here too. I can wait and avoid supporting Reddit and getting sucked back into it. For the time being I can spend my time enjoying what is already here, which is quite a bit.

just one sub. there's an alternative available but it would require associating a public forum account with a game account (my in-game name gets plastered on the web) and i won't do that

I am in the same boat. The sports subreddits I follow have very few users on lemmy, so it's pointless to follow match threads here. It makes sense to get to do that on reddit where you have thousands of people commenting on the game.

There are a couple specific Reddit subs that I use that haven't migrated. They are an app specific and a device specific sub. They are the only reason I still have a Reddit account. There aren't as many posts on Lemmy, but they are increasing. There are also other places like Scored, Raddle, Tildes, Rabbit Hole, Saidit, Kbin, Aether, and Minds. Some of them have seen some growth since Reddit took the plunge off the cliff.

I frequently go to the soccer subreddit in a browser because there's nothing like it out there, the speed with which people upload highlights, the match threads, the official announcements are all there if you care about high level soccer. It's the only thing I really couldn't replace

I observed the blackout but Relay kept going for a few weeks. When Relay said they were going to a tier based subscription model, I gave it all up. Uninstalled that moment and haven't been back.

I miss the number of active communities but it's just going to take time.

Nope but I aint lying that there are communities that are not here that I do miss (since they never left Reddit).

I browse on lemmy now but I still use my reddit account for a few subs like r/crtgaming and r/toonami

nope

Apropos of little - how long ago did Sean Hannity say he'd get waterboarded?

No but my account is banned so it's pretty easy. I just spend way less time on the internet overall now.

I literally only ever use it if I do a search and a Reddit link pops up in the results. Even then, I try to avoid it if possible. I don't post on Reddit or interact with it in any other way.

Yeah I have some niche interests that I still have to go back to reddit to find information on. Give it time though, remember reddit had years to grow and the migration to lemmy is relatively new.

I have gotten back to Reddit eventually, mostly because it is hard to say no when my patched Sync for Reddit app still works lol.

Anyway I think my frontpage/best sort is fucked up because the algorithm just throws me stuff that isn't too interesting to me, maybe because I am so little time there it doesn't feed me with "the best of the best".

On the other hand, my personal multireddits are still relevant to me and always find cool stuff, I usually go back to it when I get bored of Lemmy (yeah, I go from Sync for Lemmy to Sync for Reddit lol).

When Reddit decided to backstab its app developers / community, I just full-on deleted my account. Makes it a lot easier to not go back when you actually remove the thing you'd go back to.

Think of it like recovering from alcoholism: are you more prone to relapse if you keep a bottle of some familiar brand of booze in your fridge? Or if you actually get it out of your house?

Sure you could go back to the store and buy another bottle (make a new account), but that hassle will help reinforce your decision not to. Keeping it in arm's reach - different story.

Delete your account. Delete your reddit browser extentions, saved passwords, bookmarks, mobile apps... scrub that shit from your devices. You'll find yourself much less tempted to relapse, and it's liberating as fuck.

I miss a few features from Reddit; but I'm not making a new account and setting RES and such back up again to get them. Fuck that noise.

I logged into reddit the other day, and it was worse than lemmy for content.

I'm technically on Kbin.

I mod a sub, so I will still check in and do a scroll down my page every other day or so, but I was actually banned for horse shit reasons when the implosion happened, and my ban was reversed after the exodus.

During that time I got my "content cravings" in check.

Kbin is mostly feeding me enough memes to be satiated.

The only reason I honestly go back is purely for the destiny 2 related subs.

Initially I too felt like I was missing out on content, but the more time I spent away from Reddit the easier it feels to stay away.

I have accepted that I will not get certain kinds of content and communities, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make for Kbin / Lemmy. And I believe that slowly, eventually we'll have the quality of the communities we had on Reddit. It just takes time.