Reddit

I've stopped using Reddit unless it comes up in a search for something I am looking for. At that point, I just read that one post and replies to find what I am looking for.

We often forget that sites like Reddit and Facebook could completely be shut down if people stopped using them. The people provide the content for those sites. Those sites need us, but we don't need them!

The only thing I really miss are the Sports subreddits. I didn't realize how much news I got from them. People are trying to recreate them here, but there simply aren't as many people here.

Oh, I also miss the guy who posts pictures of his cows.

I miss some niche communities but I’ve learned to live without them

ones that fully left reddit

Ones who fully left reddit, you mean. We are people, not things.

When I was on Reddit I consumed it fast and often. The bus, the car, the patio, the loo; everywhere.

Now I launch Lemmy and say to myself "oh, right. Less stuff"

I think I need to normalize not checking Lemmy like it's reddit, still. There's definitely some behaviour to unlearn.

Its been weird, I feel like I'm kind of missing something, same kind of FOMO, but when I actually go back to it I see I'm not missing anything at all. Lemmy is pretty neat, but haven't fully gotten the hang of it yet. Just discovered how to sub another instance today, so progress is being made.

I've been back to reddit probably 20 times in the past 3 months, and every time I'm waiting for the dopamine hit, and it never kicks in. Its just flat now, the content just isn't that interesting. Its all pretty cringy, and I'm pretty much over it, just going there out of habit, chasing the content dragon that no longer exists.

Facebook is useless, Xitter is dead, reddit lost its way. I'm enjoying Lemmy so far, but it seems to be missing the viral content, ultra red-hot breaking news that reddit used to have.

Getting my ass banned from multiple communities will fulfill that role eventually lol. Even got banned from GCJ for going against the jerk - probably made a mod mad I use reddit bc it’s a lot more active than here, and it’s great for wasting time at work. Wish I had something worthwile to post here though, because I’d love for this place to have more traffic.

I left and I’m fine with it.

Every now and then I open the app and my stomach turns at how horrible it is. If I’m at my desk I might go to one of the smaller video subreddits and spend 5 minutes catching up.

I like Lemmy. It’s enough to keep me distracted, and if I make a comment 9 times out of 10 I’ll get an actual conversation with someone.

it's been crazy TBH. i've tried like 6? different new things since then. i don't miss reddit. i've checked it maybe twice since i quit and i don't have any desire to have an account to interact with people there. personally i would prefer something smaller scale, maybe a few thousand users, but there are growing pains for sure.

I fully left Reddit. I don't miss Reddit at all.

Before that I fully left Digg, before that MySpace, before that Geocities.

I do still miss Geocities and MySpace.

There are still things I use reddit for, but only because Google sucks so much now. Like if I'm looking for the best something to buy, I'll add "reddit" at the end so I don't get pages and pages of ads.

Otherwise, all my previously reddit-based entertainment comes from Lemmy, especially since all the activists seemed to have gone back. Lemmy is now fun again!

I still use reddit when I need to ask some obscure question about some topic that isn't well represented on Lemmy yet. I don't browse or lurk anymore though. (Kind of like how some people just use Facebook for communication and not for the newsfeed.)

Check out beehaw if you're worried about missing news. That lemmy instance has way less shitposting and seems to have healthy discussion.

Between the mixed feeds on Lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, and beehaw I haven't missed any big things that I'm aware of. I have other friends on discord and irl and if they talk about a big news story it's never something I missed.

I only use Reddit for two things these days. Practicing my technical writing skills by offering answers to ELI5 posts, and silently doomscrolling though US politics.

Both of these are theoretically on Lemmy somewhere, but this place really doesn't move fast enough to be fulfilling.

That said, I only access Reddit on desktop PC in old.reddit mode. The third party appocalypse did not make me leave completely, but it did kill off all of my time using it on mobile, at least. The day they take old.reddit from me and force me to use that miserable card view, though, I'm checking out for good.

When that inevitable day arrives, I will not have FOMO over it. Anything positive I'd hypothetically be missing out on would be canceled out by the abysmal way in which they expect me to consume it. I will miss what it was, though. Lemmy just isn't a substitute for it. The Lemmy experience right now is the Miracle Whip to Reddit's mayo.

I think for memes and news I’m pretty much set with lemmy. For a lot of more niche topics like specific gaming communities, I do kind of feel left out. For now though I’m willing to bite the bullet. I stand by why I left Reddit. It’s nothing special technologically to warrant putting up with the shitty business practices. Eventually people will migrate elsewhere once the squeeze is tight enough, whether it’s to lemmy or not. For one of the games I play there’s already more activity on their forum than the subreddit for it. Not so much for others.

I miss it, I found more fun stuff, especially comment sections, but I would say my lemmy feed has more quality.

But I tried reading books instead of endless doom scrolling

I quit cold turkey when the blackout started. The great thing about FOMO is that it's all completely unwarranted. Take the leap and let go.

I've been using a Libreddit instance to look up stuff on reddit (no login, no interaction, no ads, it's shared so even my browsing history is being obfuscated with other users)

The downside is that these instances are severely rate limited, so sometimes I have to wait a bit if it's busy.

I was a user for 13 years or so, lurker a few years prior, and a moderator of sizable sub. Leaving reddit was the best decision I've made for my mental health in years. I only wind up there now when I need to get a useful google result. So 20-30s probably 5-6 times a week.

I only check in on my cities subreddit for local news otherwise I've totally dropped it. I miss the community and the depth of content on what reddit used to be but Lemmy is growing fast and has kept many of the same internet jokes so I'm content

I "left" when infinity for reddit stopped working.

I haven't missed a thing. I don't even get most of my news from Lemmy or Reddit communities; I get it from RSS feeds or books. I lurked /r/linux for a long time after I stopped actively contributing. It wasn't until a few months ago that I started contributing to Lemmy, the first collection of online communities I've been a part of in years. I'm of two minds about it.

I'm actually grateful for it because I started complaining about things that have bothered me for a long time, and The Great Lemmy Migration made me realize, well, there's no reason I can't do something about that. It helped me change my attitude. So, in a very real way, I've contributed to several upstream projects because Lemmy made me rethink things and I am now less annoyed. It's weird how Lemmy feels like an actual community in the way no other social site (including Reddit) has.

On the flip side, I think I spend too much time on Lemmy...but this week has been uniquely rough.

I do check one niche subreddit for a TV show about once every week when a new episode drops, but I hadn't used reddit at all until this season came out. I will go right back to not using it pretty soon here. I used to read reddit during the majority of my down time, but the attitude Spez had was so awful that I have no desire to return to regular use. I spend a lot of my time on discord, some on Firefish, and a little bit on Lemmy. I do more things offline now. I thought it would be difficult to replace reddit, but it hasn't been.

I left prior to the blackouts (right when kbin was getting off the ground) and haven't looked back.

Back a couple years ago when Reddit was giving out those "year in review" cards you could post images of in response to Spotify doing it (I think Spotify's was something like what songs you listened to most or what genre or something, so they did ones with what subreddits you frequented most, where most of your upvotes came from, etc) I was awarded as someone in the top 3% of active users/contributors to the site - so I assume that means I didn't more time there than the average person (though I know that probably includes all the throwaway accounts and people that made accounts and never came back), so the loss of my contributions have probably taken a toll on the communities I've frequented.

And I certainly miss the niche communities that I loved that haven't made their way here, but I'm finding new things to fill the void. This place has things that are different - it doesn't have to be exactly the same. And kbin/Lemmy is certainly coming up with it's own "had to be there" inside jokes that are making this the place to be.

I still Google reddit threads for stuff I know will exist there already. DIY, software, niche things. It can't be helped because it's easily accessible. While I appreciate Lemmy very much, the historical repository that is reddit still trumps many other places. For now.

I don't visit for any other reason.

In many ways I was addicted to Reddit. I spent a lot of time on there. I needed an excuse to go cold turkey. I will go occasionally for specific information, but I've completely moved my idle doomscrolling to lemmy instances. There's less content so it takes less time, which is good in a way.

Hell, I miss LiveJournal more than I miss reddit. /old

I sold my account and blocked Reddit at the DNS level. I set up a bunch of feeds in Inoreader to stay on top of topics I care about like local news, gaming, tech, etc.

The only downside has been while playing BG3 and Googling things, Reddit results usually come up first and look the most spot on. Other links are either AI generated garbage or articles that are ten paragraphs when two sentences could have been done.

I am doing just fine without Reddit. If every social media site disappeared tomorrow (including Lemmy sites), I would go on living feeling just fine. Because I was alive before the internet growth in the 90s, before cell phones, during a time when pay phones and rotary phones existed, and got along quite well.

We don’t need these stupid sites. No offense intended here, but if a person is so addicted to a website, especially a social media site, that they feel FOMO after leaving it, they need to reevaluate their priorities in life.

And note: I created my Reddit account in May, 2008. I eagerly deleted my 15-year account in July, 2023 and have never looked back. And for all the bullshit he did to Christian Selig and others, fuck Spez, in perpetuity.

Is there something important on social networks that I should fear missing out?

Because it's fun and all that, I never saw anything important.

I got banned. But between Lemmy and mastodon I haven't gone back there.

I'll preface this by saying that yes, I am an idiot.

I don't really miss anything about Reddit that I'm not getting here on Lemmy except for the constant attempts to convince me that I'm not actually an idiot for investing WAY to much money into GameStop. I used to browse Superstonk a fuck ton every single day in some vane attempt to convince myself I didn't seriously throw thousands of dollars of the only money I had, straight down the drain. So after almost 3 years of that constantly, I became addicted to it to some degree convincing myself that big money was always just around the corner and the dire straits I put myself into were going to be worth it in the long run; and at first I did feel like I was missing out on information.

I'm no longer concerned with seeing that info and with that, I'm completely released from the Reddit hold.

No FOMO, but I do miss how had more--and more varied--content. Also, the memes were better.

I don't miss the millions of idiots on that website.