• @TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    481 year ago

    YoUlL bE bAcK In A wEeK they said. I was not back, ever, unless you count an occasional Google search for specific info, with account remaining deleted

    • @otp@sh.itjust.works
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      81 year ago

      I stuck around read-only on old.reddit.com after about a month of not using it. Then they changed that on mobile, so then I migrated to Lemmy.

      It doesn’t have the same level of content or communities…seems like far fewer “normies” have found their way here. In some ways, that’s nicer. In some ways, it’s worse.

      But I don’t think I could go back to Reddit. Lemmy scratches that same itch, and it’ll likely only get bigger as time goes on. Probably not as big as Reddit was though.

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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        41 year ago

        I’m kind of okay with Lemmy, or at least this instance of it, not becoming quite as big as reddit. Reddit was just an absolute firehose of bullshit by the end, and you had to wade through so many posts worth of crap, spam, Onlyfans shilling nonsense, reposts, and so on and so forth before you found anything interesting in most of the general subs. While the volume of content on Lemmy is obviously lower, I think the quality of it is noticeably higher. In my experience, anyhow.

        People seem to make posts about things because they actually care about whatever it is – or just making Lemmy a more active platform – and not because they want to algorithmically please the hivemind and garner a shitload of upvotes, or have some chump award them gold, or whatever.

        • @otp@sh.itjust.works
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          31 year ago

          I generally stuck to smaller or more focused communities on Reddit, which helped me evade a lot of the BS (but definitely not all of it).

          The communities that share the same names are miniscule fractions of the size that they are on Reddit.

          It’d be nice to see the activity approach the level of genuine activity that Reddit got. Especially because, as I understand it, Lemmy can’t experience the effects of rate limiting that happened to Reddit.

    • @bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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      101 year ago

      A lot of niche subreddits still dark honestly. I still run into it when searching obscure things (the only reason I ever go to Reddit)

    • @LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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      61 year ago

      Bots galore.

      And mods who are still banning everyone who breathes.

      The only people left over there are the ones with their heads in the sand.

    • @whereisdani_r@lemmy.world
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      51 year ago

      Depends on the subreddit and how the mods reacted.

      For mainstream users nothing changed. There’s two subreddits I stay active on. But I’m trying to make a point to make keep creating content on activity protocol.

      • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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        81 year ago

        My teen is a big Redditor and definitely notices poorer quality content. He knows my choice to no longer be there, but it’s not like I tried to be evangelical about it: he needs to decide for himself what values he stands up for, how he chooses to spend his entertainment time and attention.

        He’s fascinated by human motivations and is a big reader of r/AmITheAsshole. It used to lead to some great discussions. We have t noticed whether there are less frequent postings but there are definitely a lot fewer worth discussing.

        Unfortunately last timeI checked on Lemmy, there was a fledgling community but neither the scale nor the cultivation to be interesting.

        • ChiwaWithMujicanoHat
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          41 year ago

          My gf used to send me AITA posts but she says they have just turned into revenge porn fantasy and it’s boring for her now

  • @Squid
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    71 year ago

    Never thought reddit would turn ass

      • @saigot@lemmy.ca
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        21 year ago

        I believe reddit jumped the shark after the obama ama. Too big a surge of users to keep the cultural norms and enough mainstream media attention for the admins to start seeing dollar signs. Thanks Obama!

  • No_
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    -31 year ago

    Narrator: And this post contributed less than nothing to everyone’s time.

    If you’re mad at me being right and replying to this, I’m glad I could participate in the time-wasting bullshit train and make you mad!