I Cast FistDo you spend more time on lemmy than you did on reddit?
ForesterI ditched read it when they broke the API haven’t been back since. I spend the same amount of time that I used to spend on Reddit on here maybe less as there is less content.
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Lucy :3not as bad as reddit, where every discussion often involves some form of trolling propaganda, that is hard to control.
NotNotMikeI’ve found it’s less toxic if you agree with everyone
But if you were to log into Lemmy as a conservative or pro capitalist I think the toxicity would ratchet up instantly, even if you tried to discuss in “good faith”
I’ve found myself on the “Let me evaluate this as objectively as possible and still I usually end up pretty left of center” camp, and yet I’m definitely not immune to it.
I’ve had a few run-ins, like one where I tried to de-escalate and respectfully critique a thread that was basically (smugly?) a “death to anyone who looks like they might resemble the other team” jihad , and boy, oh boy the hivemind got stirred.
It’s gotten so bad that merely suggesting temperance and moral consideration brands you a filthy both-siding liberal nazi-enabler or something.
I believe a successful resistance includes restraining unhinged extremists that would stab their fellows in the back for not being extreme enough, but some segments of Lemmy won’t hear it.
I also think that even if you were a “filthy both-siding liberal nazi-enabler” the only way to convince anyone of anything is to convince them. Violence and hateful rhetoric has never convinced a single human, except by coercion and fear. And a Nazi living in fear is still a Nazi.
I want to rid the world of extremist and hateful views by convincing them that their viewpoints are incorrect, not stifling them into hibernation.
UnderpantsWeevilAs I avoid Reddit like the plague? Yeah.
Yes, I realized there was/is a lot of rage-bait on reddit that kept me typing. Lemmy is more chill, like it’s an actual forum with real people with real engagement.
Lemmy is 1000x more resly than reddit, but I have found it to be very susceptible to echo chambers. I agree with a lot of the echos in the chamber, and yet I find a lot of people taking nuance out of discussions or believing falsehoods from headlines alone. It’s annoying to me, because many if these topics are extreme enough as is, there’s no need to hyperbolize. But there is not a lot in the way of difering opinions (when it comes to big topics)
Truscapelike it’s an actual forum with real people with real engagement.
Because it’s small.
The only bots are from people hobby botting to learn about. If it grows then we’ll see intentional bots like anywhere else.
Federation gives unique challenges tho. A big open instance will have a huge bot problem because of how many instances could host the bots. A locked down instance won’t see any bots.
I have to admit. Reddit can be handy for finding solutions to problems from other people.
I wish Lemmy was comparable for this purpose. Perhaps someday.
renegadesporkYeah, it took Reddit many years to become the treasure trove of information it became. I think Lemmy could get there eventually as various instances build up a larger archive of posts.
reddit also recently got pretty bad, because they keep updating thier filters, or restrictions, or evasion detection. new and old users are the most susceptible to bans. and i read recently reddit has been automatically removing posts for no reason at all, with high rate of frequency.
I do feel bad for the few users that have found some niche lemmy communities and asked a genuine question, only to get no replies. If it were in my sphere of knowledge I would answer them.
Reddit definitely used to be! But sadly I think we’re seeing the damage from a disappearing internet when a lot of people mass-deleted their posts and it affects technical pages.
How do I fix this really niche technical issue?
Toasters lollypops groundhogs sport icecube I have scrambled all my reddit posts with a script because reddit sucks and Spez sucks.
"Thanks! That’s EXACTLY what I needed! I’ve been looking everywhere for this solution. Have a gold, internet stranger sir/madame. I hope anybody else who has this issue sees it too!
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Bahnd RollardActually less and for a good reason, the doom scroll is not endless.
We have a fraction of the population and a few good posts and discussions on the places I have not blocked. Over all its a lot healthier and I still get my fix of feeling informed-ish. Also Jeboa does not display total votes an account gets meaning there is no “must have X karma to ride” pages that, while attempting to remove bots (it didnt), fills a room with crowd pleasers instead of those seeking discussion or answers.
I spend about as much time as I did on reddit, but it depends on how the content is day to day.
I still read certain things on reddit when search engines take me there, but that’s mainly for niche things that aren’t super popular here. Mainly the Gloryhammer and AllTheMods subs tbh.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 About the same for me. Can’t possibly use it more than 24/7 without doing Superman levels of physics fuckery to add more days to the week. 🤷♂️
ianhclark510I only ever used Reddit via web, but on Lemmy I have Mlem, which has increased my mobile use a ton
TrackinDaKrakenI recently got permanently suspended from Reddit. I still read there, because there’s so much more content than here.
I don’t engage here as much as I did there, because the communities I’m interested in just don’t exist here, or are very quiet.
I’m spending less time on both, because of that.
empireOfLove2I spend a little less on average due to the slower flow of content.
But I spend more time writing somewhat in depth comments and actually interacting with lemmy, I’d wager. Reddit was high volume but outside of my niche mechanics subreddits I wouldn’t comment much more than memes and one liners.
ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠Nope! Lemmy lacks the dark patterns that kept me scrolling reddit far longer than I meant to.
i think its the repeating posts, no new content. reddit is like the drink saturated with sugar so much, you can feel the granules of sugar. while lemmy is “sweetener” level.
No, but that’s because I add a lot of friction so I don’t spend much time on social media. So I only access Lemmy by website from my phone. It’s pretty inconvenient, just the way I want it.
I scroll until I see the same posts on other instances, so no. Quite a bit less.
HyrulianI’m far more active on Lemmy, I’d say 10x, than I was on Reddit.
Why is that? I think it’s because I feel like the few communities i’m part of here are places for actually sharing and learning from each other, with the same folks that you know you’ll see again. Not just random spraying of posts and replies everywhere in numbers so huge that everyone kind of disappears in the ether.
i even started to avoid some political posts on reddit before i was summarily suspended permanently, but in any case any comment wouldve gotten drown out by thousands others anyways.
I don’t comment or vote on reddit anymore. I use them both a similar amount I’d think. If I ever have to do research into a topic though the answer is almost always on reddit.
reddit keeps track of it apparently, downvote, commenting and posting, they try to arbitrarily(through Ai) to see if your a bot, or spamming.
Yup. Mostly because reddit was mostly about mmos for me and then pathfinder but im on the fediverse more generally.
I actually answer questions and post here unlike when I used RIF, where I just lurked.
I guess that’s spending more time? (active participation?)
anon6789That’s my situation as well. Was only a reddit lurker, but I spend more time talking with people here as there’s room for me to be heard through the crowd.
People can still doomscroll here if they choose, but my participation here has led to me doing volunteer work and having countless unique experiences. All I got from reddit was a solid coffee setup.
I engaged a lot early on, but later reddit I just lurked because you could say the same one time and drown in upvotes as another in another post and be flooded with hate a vitriol. It got to the point that it was like Twitter. The only safe places were like specific topics, how to, DIY, certain enthusiast pages. It had to be pretty niche to keep from wading in shit.
People were just mad and wanted to take their anger out on someone, even if they almost entirely agree with you, they’d hammer on one sentence of a 4 paragraph post until you just didn’t want to argue the point anymore. That occasionally happens here but it’s much more rare, and since there aren’t karma hunters looking for easy points here you don’t get the dog piling that you did there. By the end of my time there, you could make one unpopular sentence in a post and be hounded for it for DAYS.
By the end of my time there, you could make one unpopular sentence in a post and be hounded for it for DAYS.
Yeah, for good or ill, I notice threads on Lemmy run their course pretty quickly, and replying on something more than a week old feels increasingly pointless.
But also hey, not getting dogpiled for too long is also nice lol.
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Sterile_TechniqueDeleted my reddit account a couple days after discovering Lemmy. I’ve been to their website a couple times since because it often appears in search results and if I don’t see a less shit option I’ll dig through the comments of whatever post my search pulled up, but that’s the extent of my activity there.
I will never make another reddit account. Fuck spez.
dandelionI’m on lemmy BECAUSE there is less. Trying to become and ostrich.
I spend more time on Lemmy, by far.
The only two subs on Reddit I still visit somewhat frequently for local news are enshittifying fast. The jokes were stale 10 years ago, now they’ve gone almost fully decomposed. Also, I recently encountered a thread that seemed to be 90% bot traffic, with uncannily mismatched questions and answers.
Not to mention every thread everywhere on Reddit sooner or later will mention Trump, Musk, or American politics and culture in general, making me lose all interest.
The only two subs on Reddit I still visit somewhat frequently for local news are enshittifying fast. The jokes were stale 10 years ago, now they’ve gone almost fully decomposed. Also, I recently encountered a thread that seemed to be 90% bot traffic, with uncannily mismatched questions and answers.
Not to mention every thread everywhere on Reddit sooner or later will mention Trump, Musk, or American politics and culture in general, making me lose all interest.