Asklemmy

I do miss reddit a reasonable amount, especially for niche subs. I do definitely appreciate Lemmy though, and often it feels like I'm actually having conversations instead of screaming into the void like on other platforms.

I stopped using reddit, I'm on my phone a lot less. It makes me less angry and more present, and I really like that. I also comment more, as many of you have said here.

I really miss Ask Historians. It'd send me down some lovely rabbit holes, get me reading books about niche topics I never knew I wanted to learn more about.

I'm less stimulated, but also less angry.

I don't miss reddit at all.

1. I haven't gone back to Reddit since the rapture. The only time I use it is for Google results.

2. I use Lemmy A LOT less than Reddit. This is a good thing imo.

3. Since it's a smaller community I find that my posts and comments get a lot more traction.

4. I miss the smaller niche subs. Yes I know that I should contribute and make it a thing on Lemmy. No I won't because I'm mostly a lurker and would rather just close the app than do any work.

5. I like how the platform is full of socialist/communist but it can become a bit of an echo chamber.

Overall I am happy with the change. Fuck Spez.

I wouldn't say it was Lemmy that has changed but it's been an integral part to a change in my lifestyle. I don't use Reddit anymore, I switched from Windows to Linux, Degoogled my phone, I take way more consideration into my privacy. All social media account but Lemmy are gone now. Cancelled my Amazon prime and all video services. I have blocked ads from everything in my life to the point that when I see one, it stands out like a sore thumb. I am far more aware of how companies manipulate customers in order to sell product.

I bought a mobile game for the first time in my life 😐

I check FB more often cause I run out of posts on lemmy faster 😐

Started playing chess again cause I have little else to entertain myself with on my phone 🤓

I still use Reddit, maybe more in recent times actually. I don't like the platform and the app is a massive pile of wank, but there's more "normal" people there who don't spend every waking moment hating America or going on about Linux. I still use Lemmy nearly every day but it's more morbid curiosity now.

I still lurk hard on Reddit, but either use a LibReddit redirect extension on both my Desktop and Phone, or I just use Stealth to keep track of Communities on my phone. I just don't post anymore.

This is mainly for research into niche topics or to see if a technical question I have has been asked on Reddit before, which oftentimes it has. I just try to not give Spez a record of my traffic, hence the alternative front ends (as well as using a VPN and blocking JS).

I come to Lemmy to Read/Debate Politics, talk Linux, Privacy, or the Fediverse, as well as occasionally get advice on a topic or two. One TV show I like has a consistent poster in their community, which I'm extremely grateful for.

Another poster here pointed out that the decentralized nature of Lemmy works against it for discover ability, which I generally agree with. I can't type in "question Google should be able to answer but not anymore? lemmy" into duckduckgo lite and get any kind of result like I would if I replaced "lemmy" with "reddit". I'd love that, but it's just not possible right now. So I still lurk via libreddit and stealth.

I've been a lurker on Reddit for forever (about 15 years) and then the APIcalypse happened and my first and unique post on Reddit was asking for a Tildes invite. I didn't enjoy Tildes, so now I'm here. We're so much less that I feel I can't lurk here too, so now I regularly comment here.

Lost a lot of my hobby subs and spend more time posting political crap now.

i'm better at rust now

Not sure I have.

• switched to a split ergonomic mechanical keyboard
• working on a fork of Lemmy geared toward inventory called “Lemventory”
• moderating multiple Lemmy communities that are basically ghost towns (and I don’t care)
• got rid of my Instagram (and all centralized forms of social media except YouTube) and replaced it with Pixelfed and others
• letting my NixOS flag fly much more regularly now
• hexbear defederation only created a Streisand Effect and piqued my curiosity about Marxism. I’m now much better educated about it and have come to conclude that lemmy.world is basically filled with smug, tech-bro, hive-mind, blue maga, chuds that support censorship of simple ideas and subscribe to blind, disingenuous American exceptionalism that wouldn’t even stand up to the most generous critical analysis.

Lemmy is home.

My time perception is so screwed these days. I could have sworn I've been here a few years at this point.

Made me have a healthier relationship with social media, my smartphone usage, and overall thinking. I almost exclusively used RiF and curated it enough that I could readily get lost in it for hours in threads and/or following drama.

I knew what I liked about reddit was the mods, the 3rd party apps, and the communities, and the company behind the website was the least appealing ineffectual part of the experience. They were slow in every sense of the word and consistently made out-of-touch decisions.

Lemmy was a great transition point for me. At first I was trying to treat it as a clone. Instead, I found a place (and the fediverse in general) where there wasn't a mass amount of resources spent to keeping me engaged - it's just content of the day, no strings attached.

I found a space that was indifferent to the amount of time I spent on it, passionate communities that were more responsive and literate, and just felt more respected as a person.

I learned what a tankie is, which is fun.

I've been commenting a bit, whereas on reddit I would only post a comment a few times a year when I could be bothered dealing with the likely burst of negativity that would come as a response to it.

Kind of feels a bit more like Web 1.9 or so from about 2003 which I think was about the sweet spot for minimal rage bait and crazy and still a decent bit of user interaction and scale.

It would be about perfect if you could chop out a few of the folks trying to shoehorn in politics to every little thing.

No more reddit on my phone to doomscroll. I do still check it occasionally on desktop, for some niche subreddits, but not really beyond that.

Only negative is that I added Instagram reels to my doomscrolling routine. I feel like reels are more brainrot than reddit was... Should definitely work on getting insta out of my routine!

Other than that no major changes from Lemmy i think.

I was ready for a fediverse reddit since i had been on mastodon since 2019. The threads here just work better for me than the microblogging style. I used mastodon sometimes and reddit every day. Now i use lemmy every day, mastodon sometimes, and reddit only when i absolutely must.

My fear of going outside is stronger than ever before. That, and I started using tiling window manager.