Moving to: m/AskMbin!

I miss the golden days of reddit, like from when I first discovered it in 2011 to about 2015. It just seemed more possible to have in depth conversations around that time, discover new and exciting communities, and overall just feel good to be part of the community. As it basically started to replace all web communities, became more corporate, and as political discourse became more common and hostile, it started to become less and less enjoyable, but I continued to browse because by that time I had an addiction that to this day I'm still trying to kick.

kbin and lemmy sorta give me that feel I had for early reddit, and even though I still haven't fully kicked reddit, I do spend a lot more screen time here than I do on my reddit subs, and I barely browse their front page anymore. Overall, I think I just have an internet addiction that I need to manage overall, but at the very least kbin is giving me some of the highs I used to enjoy with reddit.

i've unsubbed everything except those niche sub for news and technical help, rarely goes there anymore but might help with the r/place protest

I still log in a few times a week for a couple of disability support communities and then I might have a quick browse through the comics sub after. There's rarely something that makes me want to comment outside of those subs. (Incidentally one of Reddit's favourite cartoonists has stated she's no longer interacted with users and only posting her comics due to the toxicity of the comments and DMs)

But even with the comics I've tended to start supporting them on patreon and see their stuff that way.

Last time I did comment a few weeks ago, things got combative quickly and I don't know if it was normal for Reddit aggression and I'm just used to being in here now or if it was a one off dick.

I don't miss the time I spent on bs there though. I posted elsewhere that I've been reading a lot more since I cut down on Reddit use!

fuck no.

I miss the niche subreddits. When googling they still come up with good answers. I have reddit blocked in my pihole but sometimes I just disable it to view a solution to my problem. But then I feel dirty 😉

@bbplay13 yes, I miss the good parts as well...I used to be able to ask a question on how to repair something and get 20 solid responses in under an hour. There may be a corner of the fediverse that will fill a similar niche, but so far I haven't found it. I spend most of my time over on Mastodon.social , now, which seems to have more traffic, and maybe more niches. We'll see. I'm certainly NOT going back to reddit, but I do indeed wish it hadn't gone so pear-shaped, so quickly.

I'm having fun helping build new communities here. I only miss it when I can't find a community with sufficient participation or when I have a specific question that was previously discussed on Reddit. For those cases, I'm willing to still use Reddit.

I really miss the dog videos, took me a week or so to notice that lemmy doesn't have any, all the porn is garbage because we can't have videos and none of the apps (except kinda liftoff) have in-app video players for sites like redgifs.

But no one is posting videos because most people aren't going to watch them if they have to go to a website, I won't.

I hope boost releases with in-app support and the option to hide certain posts like it used to. Then I can just tick videos and go on my merry way.