Be honest, do you still use reddit?

I used to check the front page at least once every day, and occassionally check specific subreddits. Now I don’t look at reddit unless theres some drama, like mods getting purged, then I’d go there and enjoy the drama. Occasionally there will be questions that only reddit has the answer to so I have to reluctantly use it. I got my uBlock Origin ready to kill all the ads. That shitty website will not get a cent out of me.

What about you? Do you still use reddit?

AbyssalChord, (edited )
@AbyssalChord@feddit.de avatar

Roughly a month on Lemmy now and the habitually visit of Reddit completely faded out. Lemmy replaced Reddit without any compromises for me. I’m also trying to establish a Bass-guitar related Community here, so there’s a bigger investment for me to get things going here.

Matt_Shatt, (edited )

I put the Memmy icon right where Apollo used to be so now Memmy is where I go. The main feed isn’t as plentiful yet but it’s growing…

BorgDrone,

Same.

I only check /r/ModCoord once every couple of days to check on the state of the dumpster fire.

imaqtpie,
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works avatar

I agree. I’m not getting nearly as much content over here, but I don’t miss it at all. I didn’t realize how much of my time on reddit was spent “hate-reading”. It has totally transformed the way I use the internet; I almost never commented on reddit.

Lemmy has been an absolute revelation for me. I was so lucky to find it early on and I want to share this experience so others can have the same happiness. Just waiting for the developers to iron things out first before I try to recruit my normie friends 😅

InigoMontoyota,

Third week for me and haven’t visited for a few days now. Less and less as more content shows here.

hbar,

I feel the same way. It was weird breaking the habit of clicking the RiF app when I unlock my screen, but after a while the need just went away.

Predator, (edited )
@Predator@feddit.uk avatar

Unfortunately I’ve been reeled back to RIF because you can apply a patch now that allows you to login. It’s hard to resist the familiar look of that app.

hbar,

Ahhh, I’m not sure if I should let that addiction back in!

hbar,

I can’t even find RIF on the app store anymore, did they take it down?

Predator,
@Predator@feddit.uk avatar

It’s available if you can find the direct link to the playstore. I have a link to the golden platinum version.

MementoMori,

Would you be willing to share, please?

Predator,
@Predator@feddit.uk avatar

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrews…

4am,
@4am@lemmy.world avatar

I put Memmy where Apollo was and I didn’t even have to retrain myself

I do find that I use the fediverse less, as my “front page” gets stale much quicker. But this is not only something I can probably fix, but also don’t mind because it reminds me how much I duck out into social media which helps me say “ah fuck it” and do something else.

robmexx,
@robmexx@lemmy.world avatar

Exactly the same here. But I have a feeling the stream of content will come sooner then later too

jeena,
@jeena@jemmy.jeena.net avatar

Same here, although, like once or twice a week when I remember that I used to go on reddit I go there to see what’s going on, but the habituall check is now always lemmy.

Pmmeyourtoaster,

The Lemmy apps are fine, but I’ve been disappointed in the quality of Lemmy posts and discussion. It’s too many memes, not enough good quality thoughts, discussion, content, community. It’s unfortunate. Wanted this to be the place I die.

sjatar,
@sjatar@sjatar.net avatar

Had the same issue so I removed most meme communities ^^ It’s just to easy to post them, they rank high on the filters as well

zdrvr,

Make two accounts on different instances. One for Memes one for discussion and just switch back and forth depending on what you are in the mood for.

Mereo, (edited )

Block the communities you don’t want to see in your profile settings. That way, you’ll see more meaningful posts. That’s what I did, I blocked all memes communities.

eric5949,

I don’t care so much about the memes, but the moderation on the meme subs is severely lacking. I’ve seen enough shit and dicks in the last 3 days I just temporarily blocked the instance the accounts were coming from until they figure out their shit.

Thorny_Thicket,

Agreed. And not just memes but quite shitty ones especially recently. Filling the front page with beans is worse than not posting at all

ShoePaste,
@ShoePaste@lemmy.ml avatar

I totally agree, it is getting better though. I’m trying to keep in mind that it’s only been a couple weeks. new communities take time to grow. i think a big issue with lemmy is there’s so many options so there’s competition between communities for content but there just aren’t enough users to go around. it’ll get there though. one thing i do like though is that i’ve been getting more quality engagement on posts and comments i make. i’m not feeling attacked by replies or seeing pointless comments like “this!”, ya know?

echoplex21,

What I did was unsubscribe from the meme communities. When I want a laugh I’ll go on “Global” and see them. Switch to subscribed to see better discussion.

phoukas,

I had a similar experience and just started blocking all the meme instances. Much better so far!

Venutianxspring,

Just block the meme communities and it makes this place a much more engaging site. There’s obviously not the same level as reddit yet, but with time it will get there.

babyphatman,

You can do the opposite too… Subscribe to the communities you like, and have that be your front-page. Then browse all when you’re feeling freaky!

Venutianxspring,

That’s what I do, but they were mentioning that they wanted to browse all, but the memes were ruining it for them. I’m usually on all so I can keep an eye out for new communities to join

dingus,

The problem is I like memes…I just don’t want to ONLY see memes. It’s just that Lemmy’s sorting algorithm is not as robust as Reddit. With Reddit my subscription feed would show me all of my communities, even if there was a large difference in size of them. My small communities still showed up in my subscriptions feed because Reddit had a more balanced algorithm. With Lemmy, the most popular communities flood out all the others. If the devs made the sorting work better we could have a more balanced experience.

xapr,

Good point. I think the sorting algorithms should be the number one priority for Lemmy devs at the moment.

RogueTyre,

Seems quite the opposite for me. Every 1 in 3 posts are either discussion or news reports.

Edit: actually it looks more like every other post with sometime 6 or 7 continuous ones without a meme

TeaHands,
@TeaHands@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve found that the trick is not to actually sub to meme communities, even if you want to see them. That way you can browse your subscribed feed for all the discussion on the topics you want, but then you can switch over to All > Top Day or whatever and still end up seeing most of the memes in there because they’re so popular.

tj111,

Yeah this is what I do. My subscribed feed is all news and discussion (and good discussion at that!), and then I go to All to see the memes. I first I subscribed to a meme community or two and it dominated my feed.

somedaysoon,
@somedaysoon@lemmy.world avatar

I figured that out too, I usually start off with my subscribed feed for interesting discussion and news articles (but you have to sub to the right sublems), then I might hop over to the all feed for memes and random pr0n and anything that maybe I missed or new popular communities. Then I jump over to another account on a smaller regional instance and hit the local feed there. I get plenty of interesting discussion and articles… and I think it is way better than reddit has been in the last 10 years. It reminds me of reddit when I joined 15+ years ago. So I’ve had the direct opposite experience as @Pmmeyourtoaster , the discussions here have been exponentially better than reddit has been for a long, long time now.

I will say that for like the first day or two I spent a good amount of time searching out and subbing to different sublems. I also used multiple different tools to find them. Two of the main ones being the built in Reddit Migration tool in Voyager, another being sub.rehab

dingus,

Yeah I think this is ultimately what I’m going to have to do. A bit annoying but oh well!

mavedustaine,

It’s kinda hitting the early 2010s 9gag nostalgia for me right now with all the shitty memes.

kucing,

I still do a site:reddit.com google search occasionally. It’s getting harder tho.

Obligatory fuck u/spez

DolphLundgren,

I’ve found you can just add “ reddit” to a query and get the same result. I believe - but I’m trying to not do that. Haven’t browser Reddit in 2 weeks. Lemmy is good enough at the moment.

eating3645,

The advantage of using site: is that you can specify which subreddit you want results from

BeakEm420,

TIL! Thanks for that.

30isthenew29,

Can you explain how?

baduhai,

site:reddit.com/r/subreddit

eating3645,

Yup!

Shiggles,

Depends, if it’s anything monetizable like a review the first 3-5 results will be ads instead of reddit unless you do site:

30isthenew29,

Fuck u/spez

ljdawson,
@ljdawson@lemmy.world avatar

Nope. If I can’t use Sync I won’t use Reddit.

Racle,
@Racle@sopuli.xyz avatar

You can still patch it with revanced manager.

But I only use sync to get better ui when researching things. Not to browse reddit.

TheAnonymouseJoker,
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

He made Sync.

wandering_nomad,

Might wanna check who you are replying to!

Racle,
@Racle@sopuli.xyz avatar

The man, the Legend.

vendofridge,

@ljdawson is the creator of Sync, I somehow doubt he would use revanced to patch his own app haha

Racle,
@Racle@sopuli.xyz avatar

Lol, didn’t even notice to who I was replying. But my comment is still valid for others :P

It’s still the best way to use reddit. But I won’t be contributing to reddit in anyway.

Now I just wait for sync for lemmy 😁

Razp,

I can’t use Lemmy without Sync. It’s unusable. I am now lurking Reddit on Relay, until Sync for Lemmy is ready

fische_stix,

Only when a search engine points me to a very obviously correct and well worded answer to a tech problem. I don’t log in.

Boromir,

I return for some very specific subreddits, but each day less and less.

30isthenew29,

You could make sublemmy’s…

nx2,

The problem is if there are only 10 people 7 of them only lurking, on Reddit, this is what happeneds if you do that on Lemmy:

https://i-kym--cdn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/037/864/wallcover.jpg

Every beginning is hard.

WhatASave,

Yeah I’m the same. I figure reddit is never gonna die, just like how Facebook is still around. It will have it’s uses but I don’t plan to be on it very often.

OwenEverbinde,
@OwenEverbinde@reddthat.com avatar

Like a lot of people are saying, if reddit comes up in a search result, I’m clicking it. You know that’s your best shot at finding the answer you’re looking for.

But opening the app? Scrolling and socializing? I checked my comment history just now, and since joining Lemmy on July 1st, I have commented 5 reddit comments; 1 of them was a reply to someone replying to me. 4 of them were specifically about ActivityPub social networks.

In that same thirteen days, I left 33 comments on Lemmy.

pturn1,

Nope. Gone all-in on Lemmy. Also used it as an opportunity to cull communities that I’d subscribed to ages ago and never got round to removing. Started from scratch and building my subscriptions again - quite therapeutic actually!

factotumus,

No app, no user.

pieplot,

Honestly yes, at first I really thought Lemmy could replace it but the content is just bad on Lemmy’s all. The platform is good, but when 60% of posts are shitty memes or shitpost it just kills it for me. I still browse Lemmy almost every day, but I really feel like we spoiled the momentum we had a few weeks ago.

jeena,
@jeena@jemmy.jeena.net avatar

Why are you using “All” use “Subscribed” for a much better experience.

galloog1,

It’s just a typical internet fad/circlejerk. I recommend you block the meme communities.

Zeth0s,

All lacks a creative filtering to balance meme and proper content. Those are the infamous “algorithm” people are so afraid about. I don’t believe we’ll ever see them here, because the platform was built to “protest” against those smart sorting and filtering. As the algorithm doesn’t do it for you, you have to manually do the work selecting and subscribing relevant communities. And check home feed

dingus,

I don’t think the “algorithm”, has to have that nefarious vibe that people think. Lemmy already has sorting algorithms…they are just shit. If they balanced it so that quantity from large communities doesn’t flood out smaller communities, it would be a much better browsing experience. Devs don’t need to mess with the type of content being displayed to us, just tamper down the volume from the larger communities. Reddit was good at doing this.

Zeth0s,

I agree that algorithms are more often good for these task. But we are not many :D

xapr,

Someone replied to a similar complaint that you can block the meme and shitpost communities to filter those out from your feed. Seems like a good idea and I’m going to try it.

Hairyblue,
@Hairyblue@kbin.social avatar

Nope. No interest.

willya,
@willya@lemmyf.uk avatar

Only in google search results.

Kyle,
@Kyle@lemmywinks.com avatar

No

pohui,

Yes, because Lemmy is still at that early phase of its existence where half of the posts complain about reddit, Threads, Twitter, etc, and that’s just not something I’m interested in. Waiting for it all to die down a little.

wildcardology,

My reddit usage is 99% on Boost for reddit and 1% on web. Since Boost doesn’t work right anymore. I don’t use it 99% anymore.

Paws,

Exactly the same here. I’m eagerly awaiting the Boost for Lemmy app!

EtnaAtsume,

My usage pattern too. I did nip on today to post/rant on some calorie counting subs just because I valued a faster answer over a quality one.

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