Reddit

I left reddit completely when they started taking over subreddits if the mods refused to stop their protest. I think subreddits are created by the mods, maintained by the mods, and simply hosted by reddit. In a moral sense (but not in a legal sense) the subreddits belong to the mods and I couldn't support reddit's new policy by participating in it.

Lemmy is way worse than reddit, simply because it's so small. I used to participate primarily in subreddits for obscure video games, blogs I liked, and other niche interests. None of that is here yet. Even my guilty pleasure, AITA, isn't here yet. But the only way to change that is by participating here myself, and in the meanwhile I spend a lot less time just browsing random stuff which is a win for my productivity.

On the ocassion I feel like I found everything I had (Top 6h) I will go over to the dark side.
But it's more defeating boredom rather than fomo.

Is there something important on social networks that I should fear missing out?

Because it's fun and all that, I never saw anything important.

I still Google reddit threads for stuff I know will exist there already. DIY, software, niche things. It can't be helped because it's easily accessible. While I appreciate Lemmy very much, the historical repository that is reddit still trumps many other places. For now.

I don't visit for any other reason.

I do check one niche subreddit for a TV show about once every week when a new episode drops, but I hadn't used reddit at all until this season came out. I will go right back to not using it pretty soon here. I used to read reddit during the majority of my down time, but the attitude Spez had was so awful that I have no desire to return to regular use. I spend a lot of my time on discord, some on Firefish, and a little bit on Lemmy. I do more things offline now. I thought it would be difficult to replace reddit, but it hasn't been.

Here folks and interactions are better. Content is quite lacking. I have a few niche interests that are nowhere to be seen around here. I have not gone back to Reddit and I think my life overall is better for it. My 2 cents.

Life is better. A few days after I stopped the urges to scroll like I did went away. Best thing I did on the internet besides scrub my Facebook.

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.

FOMO is a weird term to use here because it implies some anxiety that I could be seeing more stuff than I am.

I get bored sometimes. There isn't enough content here to keep me super engaged, and interesting niche subs about certain small games and whatnot are missed. I end up swapping back and forth between my front page here and my youtube recs, willing something interesting to appear.

But I'm not feeling the slightest anxiety that I'm missing some stranger's idea of wit on a site I don't go to. There's way too much internet for me to ever think I was seeing it all in the first place, so I'm more than fine with missing the latest lyric or pun comment chain or the hottest new AITA fiction.

I'll be honest, I felt the fomo once. Went back, realized that I'm not missing anything, came right back.

I stopped using Reddit regularly after the APIcalypse, even though I had never used any Reddit apps (I only used it on a web browser on a desktop). I still have an account that's active there where I've only been using it to help and encourage people to move from Reddit to Lemmy and from Xitter to Mastodon.

I thought it was going to be harder than it actually was to abandon the many niche subreddits I was subscribed to there, but I just found other things to read. I will still occasionally visit Reddit, especially when it turns up on a search result with info I'm looking for, but to use it like that I don't have to even have an account.

I plan to eventually delete or scramble all my posting history from there on all my accounts, but just haven't had time to do it yet. I also haven't found a way to do what I really want, which is to replace my comments with different random text for each message, to mess as much as possible with any LLMs. In no way will I contribute any more of my comments to Reddit, except for what I said in the beginning, to help people move here, and even that I will probably delete/scramble.

Initially it was kinda barren but over time as more people switched there was more content. First it was just reddit reposts galore, but now i think it’s much less. Probably due to vote meaning even less here. I don’t miss it at all at this point.

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 go back occasionally to niche communities that haven't moved off yet but since I deleted my account, I can't interact and don't feel the need to stay long, and since I don't/won't use the mobile app my usage is even further reduced.

I'm thinking of leaving lemmy, too.

Information is worthless without context, but that's all that content aggregators seem to like.

Community is worthless without connection, anonymous text isn't much to connect over.

All Reddit had going for it was a wealth of diverse experiences for people to draw from. For Lemmy, this is at best a side dish, a sprinkle of gold over a pile of shit.

Nope.

Then again there are a lot of reddit repost bots here so there's that.

I check Reddit maybe twice a week, but only a couple of specific niche subs( like many others have said). For me it's /r/fragrance that I've had a hard time finding a good replacement for... Perhaps I should just frequent Basenotes.com more?

Yeah i'm totally going to get fomo for "LOOK at this IMMIGRANT STEALING from a STORE" Top comment "I hope they cut his hands off"

the target sub is basically the only one I miss, just a bunch of other target employees commiserating about working at target

The things I miss from Reddit are mostly very niche. I left and haven't been back mostly because I refuse to use their BS app, and I refuse to see ads. I was a mobile Reddit user so I didn't use it on the computer much.

I do miss doing gaming giveaways of extra stuff for like animal crossing and so on. And I miss helping newbies with games (mostly retro gaming stuff). Other than that Reddit was a time sink for me and I have other places to use my time.

I don't get FOMO. I mostly miss interacting with other people. Talking about opinions. Finding people who agree with me about niche stuff. People don't seem to interact as much here and I don't think that's because of the lack of content.

But I don't see the point of going back to Reddit. The experience of trawling through the muck to get to a few grains of what I want just doesn't appeal to me. All reports I've seen suggest that it's just getting worse and I was struggling with the experience before the API debacle.

Lemmy is basically a full replacement. The only time I find myself going back is if I'm looking for information on a niche or obscure topic and reddit seems to have a lot of those communities while Lemmy doesn't (yet).

I also get Google search results from Reddit too, but the mass scrubbing of data has turned any thread older than a year or so into a mass grave of deleted comments and sometimes context is missing which is sad but I also hope that people will learn from this and Google will start actually getting their search engine algorithms out of social media for that reason.