& I’m doing pretty good! The wefwef app has done a great job of recreating the Apollo experience and has made it a lot easier to not want to go and download the Reddit app. The more active it gets here, the easier it’ll be. How are you guys doing so far? Have you found an App for Lemmy that you prefer the most yet?
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Seriously. I feel like I’m going a bit crazy trying to migrate myself to Lemmy while waiting for Boost for Reddit to stop working. Internet forum style social media should never induce this sort of anxiety.
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I’m the same way and I hate it. I have to force myself to read a book these days and if I don’t get far enough into it quickly, I end up never finishing it. And it’s definitely the fault of sites like Reddit. We have a room in our house we call The Library because it’s all bookshelves around the walls and it’s full of books. My wife is a librarian. And I never read anymore. It’s wrong.
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It is quite sad and yet at the same time also an exciting time. I was on Reddit for 9 years and it has kind of become the internet for me.
I myself was 99% only a passive user, so I have contributed nothing to the value of the site. But the site itself had a lot to offer for me.
But I also realized that Reddit, the platform itself, hardly provides anything relevant.
I probably would never have used Reddit much without a 3rd party app, I also use it exclusively on mobile.
For me, the value of the site comes exclusively from the content, i.e. the community. And fortunately, that’s something Reddit has no direct control over.
I realize, of course, that not everyone will be here now in 6 months instead of on Reddit, but it doesnt matter.
I think the majority of users are like me rather passive, but more important are the active users of the community.
It is much more important to have these pillars of the community on board, as they will sooner or later ensure that something new is created that will then attract the larger number of passive users.
And I think it’s this usergroup that has angered Reddit for the most part. These are power users who probably all use 3rd party apps.
Nevertheless, many will of course stay, if you have put a lot of work and heart and soul into building up your community/subreddit for years, letting go is of course much harder than for someone like me.
Still trying to find my footings. The thing I miss most is active engagement. The comment sections sometimes feel so empty. But I will give it time. All in all, I find the experience better than I anticipated. Using wefwef on my phone and the instance-site on my desktop and laptop. I am sure a decent app will be developed in time.
I felt that at first but I’ve found the engagement to be more meaningful here when it does happen, even though it’s sometimes sparse or not at all. I came in the previous influx after spez started forcing subs open. I don’t really miss it that much now.
I was pretty much a strict lurker on Reddit, so the smaller community here is certainly a bit of a change for me. Only thing for me to do is to change my habits with it, and start actually joining in and adding to the conversations.
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As a former reddit lurker, I like the more low-key engagement here. It feels more welcoming.
You have summed up my feelings exactly.
Greetings, fellow lurker! The torch has been passed. It is our turns to carry it until the communities grow larger and we can recede back to the shadows
I also didn’t even bother engaging on Reddit at all, but doing so on Lemmy feels way more worth it for some reason
I’ve had a genuine thank you from another user, days after I had posted a response here.
I could post on reddit that the sky was blue in response and somehow get turned into a hatemonger that oppressed a flightless subspecies of microwave ovens.
I joined towards the beginning of June and have no intention of going back to reddit. The only exception was to delete everything I had posted there.
I used to save stuff to my own sub reddit, not sure if it’s all long gone now. Did you manage to copy before deleting?
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I used power delete suite and made a copy of everything I wanted as it ran.
I must try that - thanks for the info
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One thing I certainly don’t miss from Reddit is the top voted comment is always some lame pun or some tired phrase that has been repeated a thousand times before.
I honestly feel like there is more engagement here. Most Reddit threads were like telling into the wind. By the time you got there it was almost always too late to contribute
I’ve found myself actually reading articles since I can’t go in and just read someone else’s synopsis of the content, which frankly is a good thing. I can get my own information and form my own opinions, Reddit just let me be lazy but it’s a nice change.
As for engagement, just be the change your wish to see, and engagement will follow. I think there is still some fine tuning to be done in terms of the sorting algorithms as well, which would ideally get day old content out and active but fresh content in. A lot of dust left to settle with the great migration underway.
As for engagement, just be the change your wish to see
I try. I want to make this work so I try to comment more and perhaps even create some posts (things I didn’t do on Reddit). But I have no illusion that anything I post will be “quality”.
I think your posts here are quality
Yeah I feel you about the active engagement. I personally try to fill in the silence as much as I can by commenting on things I’m even slightly interested in, just to keep the engagement up. Hopefully others do the same.
Same. I actually hadn’t realised quite how quiet I had gotten on Reddit. The threads were so big it felt pointless in many cases
Remember to be commenting on stuff that don’t have comments to drive engagement! It’s important for all of us to do our part
I’m doing my part!
Oooh, first time seeing images/gifs in posts. This looks really nice on PC. Is that just a direct imgur link or something?
It looks like it was uploaded directly to this instance. You get a nonstandard markdown link that embeds the media in the post/comment body. You can even paste image data from your clipboard and it’ll be uploaded and embedded.
Oh it’s not externally hosted? Interesting.
edit: oh shit, you’re right. Damn that’s new then?! Amazing.
Comments are emptier, but I feel like they’re more relevant. To comment is an actual response and discussion, not just the same joke with the expected replies on every thread.
It reminds me of Reddit a decade ago when most posts in the specialized subs didn’t have much interaction either. But the interaction was deeper and more meaningful and did not consist of everybody trying to crank out witty one-liners to whatever topic.
The other thing I try to consider: What was okay maybe a couple of years ago now feels weirdly “empty” because our brains have been Pavloved into having a deluge of dopamine-inducing content washing over us all the time…
Yep, when I first joined reddit the amount of upvotes a post on frontpage is usually on the hundreds, only the most upvoted ones break to thousands.
The bigger communities are reaching a kind of critical mass but getting there for the niche ones, particularly for those with no overarching direction to move to Lemmy, will be slow.
I feel like over time Lemmy as a platform will manage to make it easier to link decentralized communities together (fingers crossed). Until then it’s slow and steady.
There is definitely a lower quantity of posts and many of those posts don’t get tons of comments, but the posts and the comments they do get are of a much higher quality.
I was a somewhat massive lurker on reddit, I didn’t bother engaging much because I knew 60% of the time the reply would be snippy, even if my post wouldn’t be remotely combative. So over the years I just stopped bothering mostly.
My inbox has kicked off more here in the last week than probably the last 365 days on reddit. It’s really wholesome, for lack of a better term.
All it takes if you commenting, to fire off more comments just like now. It’s good shit!
I like that Lemmy users tend to be nicer even when disagreeing. “That’s an interesting take, friend. I believe the opposite, because…” type replies are nice to see.
Exactly, it’s all it takes right? I do genuinely wonder how many people on reddit were just bots, the amount of vitriol was super unbalanced compared to real people like on old forums. Does make ya think…
I mean, anger and hatred does drive engagement, and engagement is what brings in the views and ad revenue, so I wouldn’t be surprised.
I sort by new mostly and if I find something interesting I write a comment trying to startup some conversations. The more people do this, the faster the community will grow.
Yeah, I do that too, but 50% of people don’t reply to my comments. Maybe I don’t bring anything valuable to the conversation. Thought it was a Reddit problem, but maybe it’s a me problem? Haha!
It’s hit and miss everywhere to get a response back.
Yeah, makes you think how much information there is out there.
The problem is there are duplicates communities in different instances.
If I find duplicate communities, I just subscribe to all of them. Maybe recheck after some time and look through the activity and unsub then.
Yeah this seems to be the way to go. Sub to all communities of a topic you’re interested in. Then after you find out which ones end up the most popular, unsub from the ones without much activity.
In ways, it’s really not all that different from Reddit. There were lots of essentially “duplicate” subreddits, but the most popular ones win out and gain traction.
And we’re still in the beginning stages here. As time goes on, the larger communities will become de-facto ‘winners’ as more and more people subscribe to those.
And I’m sure smaller ones will do alright too as not everyone will like the culture/curation of the larger ones.
Try to remember that a lot of engagement on reddit nowadays is bots. Even if they seem like humans. How Lemmy is now is how reddit felt back in 2008.
Is this to be Lemmy’s future? I tend to believe there’s no practical way to distinguish between real users and bots.
It’s nice at the moment because it’s new, but it seems ripe for the astroturfing. The bots are on the way.
Is this to be Lemmy’s future? I think that we don’t have to worry much about this.
The fact that lemmy is open source will ensure that sooner or later someone will develop a solution to the problem if it gets too bad.
The motivation of the lemmy developers is actually to develop a good platform. Unlike reddit where the only and sole motivation is money, that makes a huge difference.
It’ll be nice if more and more migrate over.
There’s something amusing about opening up what’s almost a Reddit clone a day after and seeing content and subs that would have been exactly like it was on Reddit here instead.
As long as momentum continues, we may see more and more leaving Reddit for what’s nearly the same thing with a lot less BS.
I just hope Lemmy servers and infrastructure can handle the growing popularity, especially once there’s popular native clients that switch from Reddit to it.
Would be very happy if spez ends up having killed his own platform in future retrospection though.
Yeah Lemmy seems the way forward. It just sucks for all the subs that won’t be making it here anytime soon. Niche subs I’m following for example, I’ll still have to rely on Reddit.
I desperately miss RIF, and I have a community I care about on Reddit that I mod.
But I’m going to see if I can rebuild it here. I think Reddit has basically committed suicide.
15 year club on reddit. I’ve parted a few weeks ago and not coming back.
I hope lemmy gets good and better content.
14 year club. Also not going back to mobile browsing Reddit. I was a baconreader user for more than a decade. RES and old.reddit seems unaffected so far but Connect for Lemmy is working well. Happy to see some traction here.
Wiped my 13 year account a few days ago and haven’t gone back to Reddit since RIF died. I’m mostly just waiting for one of the apps (Sync or Boost for Lemmy) to come out to do a full replacement; for now I’m just mobile browsing here.
11 years. End of an era. I have to force myself to not muscle memory go to reddit every morning when I open up my laptop in bed (I was almost purely a PC based, old.reddit.com user). It’s weird. I kinda figured my outlook or general mental space would feel…different, without using that addictive website that I’ve literally spent several hours on every single day for literally years, but I don’t. I just seem to be watching more youtube videos. I guess it’s true that your brain finds a way of filling the hole with stimulation. Not sure if that’s a good thing, though. Kinda wish my brain would be like “okay, time to read all those books you bought and then said you’d get to later. Later is now, asshole.” Nope, just twitch streamer highlight reels and videos of anime girls dancing. Maybe I’m just a fucking idiot, after all.
Honestly, I’m pretty excited about being a “pioneer” (sorry to those who have been here for longer). I never commented much on Reddit, but plan to contribute more here.
So far Jerboa has been the best one for me, I tried wefwef but wasn’t a big fan (and couldn’t work out how to uncensor NSFW content across the board, very annoying haha).
But Boost is coming out at some point! I’m really looking forward to it!! <3
So far I’m doing okay, just tough with how slow everything runs and all the network errors and stuff, but it’s early days so I’m patient :-)
Using Connect for Lemmy and loving it. I’m not that much of a social media addict, but I would check reddit using Baconreader once daily for news and politics and cat pictures. Speaking of which, the number of cat communities on here is way too low, but I also think a lot of the cat subs on Reddit were like 75% repost bots. I still enjoyed them.
I am also using Connect after coming from Baconreader! I was on subreddits for fountain pens, calculators, and watches, because I don’t have any irl friends into those. I’m going to miss that. The number of those communities here is non-existent as far as I can tell.
So from the user experience side, I’m actually liking Lemmy even just with the mobile site, which I’m guessing varies instance to instance. There’s a couple quality of life tweaks I’d make but it’s a lot smoother than expected.
A problem I am having though, which I hope clears itself, is that I’d say upwards of 90% of the posts I’m seeing are either “Reddit is dead to us” or “Wow Lemmy is great!” Both of which are fair viewpoints that they around certainly be allowed to share, but when that is the vast majority of the content, it does not entice me to regularly return.
The two things I regularly used Reddit for (Keeping up with a couple hobbies and educational materials) have communities but are largely inactive at the moment. I am aware that I can help the situation by engaging with them–and I will!–but so far the pervasiveness of the Reddit posts has definitely taken the enthusiasm out.
This post isn’t quite what I am talking about, though, as you are at least promoting discussion, which is good!
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The internet seems fresh for a fleeting moment
Wefwef made all the difference. While I know it’s not Reddit the similarities in experience have made the move much easier.
Also amazing to see the beginning of all of these new communities!
I have been trying Jerboa. No real complaints about the app, I just want to see the more niche spaces get more activity
I’ve been using Jerboa as well and I find it crashes quite a bit. When I hit back, or the back arrow it’ll just shut down. I’ll give it a fair shot, tho.
Same, i’m on Connect for Lemmy now. I’ve heard about wefwef but I’m not sure what exactly the deal is or how to set it up.
You just go to wefwef.app
Easiest set up of 'em all lol
I’ll second Connect for Lemmy. Jerboa was ok, but Connect has been a better experience so far.
been working pretty well for me so far. Installed both jerboa and liftoff, but I prefer jerboa’s ui better so far
It’s been one day without Reddit and I’ve realized that I don’t really need it, despite being on the site since 2009 and by far my most used social network. At the end of the day, the community is more important than the site, and I think most of the communities have far since declined on Reddit, then moved on to Discord/ Lemmy/ whatever.
