Well i am certainly not using reddit on my tablet anymore.
Honestly Reddit doesn’t infuriate me anymore. I haven’t been on reddit for 2 weeks now and I no longer feel the urge to check that site. I expect I’ll still end up there occasionally when I search for stuff, but gone are the days when I spend an hour or two every night on reddit.
Why would I go on bad lemmy?
That’s actually been my experience as well lol.
I did actually deliberately jump on reddit on desktop recently, just to check on a few things and see how the protests were going.
There wasn’t really anything informative on the front page that hadn’t already been posted here. The quality of posts actually seemed worse overall
The quality of the posts being worse makes sense, I’m guessing some of the Reddit power users moved here and they were generating the majority of quality OC on Reddit.
I also feel like it’s become more right wing. Or at least now that some people have left, the balance has shifted further to the right. I went on yesterday, and r/WhitePeopleTwitter, a fairly left wing sub, is now having a lot of Republicans. Really killed my desire to go back. It was something I know a lot of people predicted would happen, but still sad in a way to see.
Edit: Also the fact that the main niche subs I went to are dead. They used to be pretty active, but since they reopened, a lot of users were not happy. So now it’s a post every few days. I think one of the subs just got completely deleted. Sadly they’re not as active here.
I opened Reddit, saw no bean posts so I immediately closed it.
The only sub I go to now is my local city’s subreddit for a good stream of local news and happenings. That hasn’t migrated to Lemmy yet and I don’t want to moderate it so I’m not making it here lol
There’s still quite a few subreddits I miss. Plus the larger community. Some communities are here, but they’re dead with no users, and I don’t really have what to contribute.
I wanted to try listing all of them, but I realized there’s like 40 of them.
Mostly, I miss r/batteries, r/ElectroBOOM, r/linuxmint, r/ManjaroLinux, r/LinuxMasterrace, r/SpaceXMasterrace, r/pcmasterrace, r/computers, r/laptops, r/amateursatellites, r/whatisthisthing and r/RTLSDR which also had cool people like developer of noaa-apt and Ryzerth, the developer of SDR++, plus many more.
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Things will slowly grow if we all stick with Lemmy though. It’s really just a matter of time until it reaches a critical mass.
Can we please stop with all the posts about reddit? Jesus christ you guys it’s a website, not your crazy ex. Lemmy is never going to surpass reddit in popularity when the only thing on the frontpage besides beans is “reddit this, reddit that”.
You sound mildly infuriated.
This too shall pass. Also. Welcome to the internet!
Have a look around.
Anything that brain of yours can think of can be found.
we’ve got mountains of content
Some better, some worse
And if it can’t, and you’ve reached the edge where there is nothing further, you write a Tutorial.
Honestly, I’m really trying to like Lemmy. I feel like none of the good communities came over here, just the one’s you mindlessly scroll through. I just looked for a fitness community yesterday and the one i found had like 5 posts. There is basically no communities for any of my hobbies. It seems like most people stayed on Reddit, except for the techy people. It’s a shame because I really want to support the idea of federation and I do like the website.
it’s only been like a week, people will come
It’s been three since the exodus became measurable. And it is markedly better.
If you build it they will come.
I heard that same advice about The Bunny Bar down the street, and you know what? They were right!
The endless scrolling communities are the easiest to move. They’re low hanging fruit. One of the other replies to you here nailed it… without a massive community of millions, the future of Lemmy rests on the more modestly sized community here willing to actually come out of their lurk and not just respond to posts, but to start posts on their own and actually drive the content.
I feel the same way about music production-related communities here. I just don’t have much to ask and I suck pretty badly at it so I don’t feel like I’m good enough to drive content/discussions lol
music production-related communities here.
Probably not what you mean, but if you wanna start doing anything, I’ve got a com specifically for sheet music and tabs, and God Almighty does it blow. It could use a fresh insight.
I’m one of the unwashed, ignorant music production hobbyists who can’t play a lick of anything on an actual instrument, and certainly can’t read sheet music (I figured out tablature a long time ago when I was trying to teach myself guitar and have forgotten since). I can noodle around on a 25-key MIDI keyboard well enough - like I have a good handle on the patterns for different keys and scales on the keyboard, but I can’t actually play. I’d take you up on the invite, otherwise.
Check out some of the yellow mandolin tabs. The way I’ve been doing it is a matching game and MSpaint.
Which fitness subreddits need growth? I have arrived.
I initially had the same lament, but since we’re early adopters of this tech, it really is on us to build the communities here. If you want to discuss something, just post a thread. Even if no one replies right away, as people start coming they will start engaging with posts that are already there.
That’s a fair point, I noticed if I open baconreader, I can still see my subscribed sub list. I need to learn how to make subs on here, and as you suggest, either find them, or get off my ass and make them myself.
On a nice side note, being an early adopter, I was able to get my username back without some damned number stapled on the end.
The only real community I saw that migrated was r/piracy. Otherwise, I’ve experienced basically the same thing you have.
Even from 3 weeks ago, this place has grown hand over fist. Just give it a few more weeks and it’ll be pretty much new Reddit.
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It’s less than a week after the largest website in the world shit the bed. It’s still topical.
Yeah it seems most of the posts on the front page are about Reddit or about how proud people are of using Lemmy etc I just want to see some actual content :(
sad bean noises
Agreed. I saw your post and reddit.
Can we please stop with all the posts about reddit? Jesus christ you guys it’s a website, not your crazy ex.
But, if my ex isn’t crazy, then I must’ve been the crazy one… and that just couldn’t be possible, right?
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It’s an online community that people have been using for decades. The fact that many of us can’t use it anymore is a real issue, even if it isn’t relevant to you (believe it or not).
I can for sure see both sides of this one. I had ditched all other social media years ago, and baconreader was my one guilty pleasure.
If I had my phone in my hand, I was catching up with other old skaters like myself, reading about the latest trends in tech, or browsing the daily news.
The tag line of “Front page of the internet” was quite literally true for me. That was the portal through which I found content.
In the weeks leading up to the June 30th, I felt a strong sadness, what was I going to do with my screen time? I had created a very custom space using baconreader that neither the reddit app, or to be fair, Lemmy, could provide.
While I am really enjoying learning about Lemmy, and I feel the quality of the post and comments here are far better, it’s going to take time to find and/or develop those niche communities again.
I do however agree, and the ex analogy is spot on, that the last thing I want is for this community to just be a bitch fest about what once was.
Give people a bit of time to vent, it hasn’t even been a week since a decades long experience came crashing to a halt through no fault of ours.
It’s a huge !lemmymoment@lemmy.world to karma farm about the downfall of reddit
Well, karma for all, then.
Fucking same. If folk don’t miss it please stop telling every cunt how much you don’t miss it.
Tbh you all need to get used to it for a while, every day new people join and they wanna talk about their migration, it’s what’s going on for them right now, you had your moment let them have theirs
Redditors still talk about the great digg migration that happened over a decade ago.
It’ll get less important and prevalent but for the time being let people enjoy their new toy.
Digg was rarely brought up on Reddit until valid comparisons were able to be drawn between platforms. The elevated Reddit talk on this site will naturally subside in due time.
Agreed, plus it increases engagement and comment count.
This is why I eventually left Mastodon after a month of use. People are not moving on 😬
Can we all just leave the Reddit chatter to the Reddit or Redditmigration communities at this point please? If not yet, then maybe soon? This ex-partner behavior is just going to turn off new people from joining in the long run.
Yes! It seems that half the community posts on here are just Reddit-bashing and that isn’t going to drive engagement at all.
Consider it a blessing.
You’re not missing much
Great news.
I only ever used Reddit in Firefox on desktop anyway - but now I use it a whole lot less (maybe just one reply per day trolling people with interesting posts they’d be better posting here).
Lemmy is a shit-show… but it’s OUR shit-show and we’ll adjust, and clever people will develop.
Right on man. My last comment on R3dd!t told people the amount of time they spent figuring out how to still use 3rd party apps, they can direct that effort into learning how to participate in the Fediverse. Got a hundred-ish downvotes so that means a hundred people now know Lemmy exists.
MY shit-show ya commie bastard. NEXT.
you mean poop-show
What is this redit you are talking about? I don’t know what that is.
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The app is named joey but the icon is of a koala??? 🤔
Although commonly known as a baby kangaroo, a joey is basically a baby marsupial. So that can include koala, opossum, wombat, etc.
Boost and infinity still work, but not for long
Edit: Mixed up sync and infinity lol
No they don’t? They haven’t worked since july 1st.
Reddit didn’t keep their deadline for the API implementation. I’ve still got Boost installed and it’s still working, nsfw posts however went away yesterday. You can still get nsfw if you use revanced apparently but I’m just checking reddit now out of curiosity.
Sync hasn’t worked since 30th June.
I’m still using the patched version at least until they kill it.
your right Infinity also still works, but I like it here.
I can still see NSFW on boost WDYM?
Perhaps it’s not completely implemented everywhere. You can go to r/BoostforReddit if you want to read more about it. Idk and honestly idc either, the whole thing is kind of a shitshow. When Boost stops working without patching I’m out of the reddit ecosystem for good.
Boost never stopped working. Sync did, but you can get past it with revanced at least until they break it.
I had trouble with sync so I uninstalled and came to lemmy
If you look in their respective sub reddits, you’ll see reports that they do still work for some.
It still possibly work if you use your own api client id (less than 100 calls/min should be free irrc) but it needs patch from revanced.
Relay too
RIF also still works if you’re not logged in
Lol download Connet for Lemmy.
Connect and Liftoff are by far my favorites.
Thunder and wefwef are also pretty good. I really like the gesture controls on them though, so that may be biasing me a bit.
Thunder is amazing
Is this an app rec for tablets specifically, or just Lemmy apps in general?
Android tab and mobiles
Did you think they cared about accessibility?
You dodged a bullet homie.
LMFAO that’s special
You’re probably better off.
