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How has it been for you? Do you get FOMO feeling sometimes?

I use Reddit less and less but haven’t fully quit yet. Always have this odd feeling of FOMO regards content.

Not only that, some subreddits haven’t migrated to any other platform unfortunately. Or they have but the content is very little compared to Reddits content.

Note - wasn’t sure where to post this. So if this wasn’t the right place, apologies!

The issue I have with Reddit - it’s full of hateful people and most content is just bots karma farming.

EDIT: Thanks for all the responses!

EDIT 2: Thanks for the ones that mentioned RSS-Feed. Just got it and it’s amazing. Still manage to only follow the subreddits that I like without crapads.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Initially it was kinda barren but over time as more people switched there was more content. First it was just reddit reposts galore, but now i think it’s much less. Probably due to vote meaning even less here. I don’t miss it at all at this point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I stopped using Reddit regularly after the APIcalypse, even though I had never used any Reddit apps (I only used it on a web browser on a desktop). I still have an account that's active there where I've only been using it to help and encourage people to move from Reddit to Lemmy and from Xitter to Mastodon.

I thought it was going to be harder than it actually was to abandon the many niche subreddits I was subscribed to there, but I just found other things to read. I will still occasionally visit Reddit, especially when it turns up on a search result with info I'm looking for, but to use it like that I don't have to even have an account.

I plan to eventually delete or scramble all my posting history from there on all my accounts, but just haven't had time to do it yet. I also haven't found a way to do what I really want, which is to replace my comments with different random text for each message, to mess as much as possible with any LLMs. In no way will I contribute any more of my comments to Reddit, except for what I said in the beginning, to help people move here, and even that I will probably delete/scramble.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'll be honest, I felt the fomo once. Went back, realized that I'm not missing anything, came right back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I find I am spending more time between Lemmy and Discord. Overall I don't miss reddit. Even before the 3rd party apps were killed, there were indications of issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I didn't leave immediately, but then my account got banned and having started using lemmy made me not bother making a new one. I may have to eventually venture back to reddit for the occasional niche community, but otherwise lemmy is just as good for getting my posting and scrolling done.

I'm a heavy poster and posting things I read to the appropriate subreddit has been a part of my internet process for a long time, so it was key to have a new place to keep doing that. Though that has resulted in there being several subs on here where I have made a large majority of the posts... but I tell myself it's more worthwhile to be posting things here where they'll be seen by fewer people but will contribute to this community existing rather than giving free content to reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well, I'm banned there after after a comment about the Orange One, so....not really

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had fully left Reddit ever since the API changes but checked in very very rarely every now and then whenever I googled something and Reddit results were the only results actually answering my questions. I don't really miss it, and I found that I do spend way less time scrolling mindlessly, so that helped.

What kind of killed me was my deleting my account. I had been starting up PowerDeleteSuite in the last couple of months to get rid of my comments and posts, but I didn't leave my PC running for long enough to delete everything whenever I actually remember to start it up. Now, I finally deleted everything and deleted my account too. I wasn't using the account at all, but it made really sad to see the account go for good this time. Similar feeling to when I deleted RIF off my phone.

It was a good run.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The only time I remember reddit is when I find the answer to what I'm looking for in Google there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I check in way fewer in Lemmy and I'm done faster because I you get to the old posts pretty quickly. But I see this as a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No FOMO. I miss some topics/communities that are either not present or not active there. The general/bigger communities are here but the more specific are not, and I liked those the most. I sometimes look there, but don't linger.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How has it been for you? Do you get FOMO feeling sometimes?

It's been great. FOMO? Nah. I don't really feel like I'm missing anything.

The issue I have with Reddit - it’s full of hateful people and most content is just bots karma farming.

For me, it was this, and the consequences of the API nonsense for my user experience, as well as for people who have disabilities. On Lemmy, I'm not forced to use a black-box algorithm to try to drive my engagement without regard for its impact on my health. Nor am I forced to view any communities when browsing All.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I really, really miss one sub in particular, /r/AcademicBiblical

Other than that I haven't looked back at all. Lemmy's smaller size does mean there's a bit less expert commentary on a lot of topics, and I miss that, but not enough to put up with the dystopian crap spez is trying to establish.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How are you defining fully? I haven't logged in since june, and don't browse it. But occasionally I know it will be the best place to get a very specific piece of information or it will turn up as the top result for some search I've done.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No FOMO, I was able to switch my addiction over to Lemmy. But I really miss the CFS/ME and Long Covid subs. There are some communities here, but they have almost no traffic. I am still subbed through lemmit.online, but I usually can't be bothered to reply to something through reddit.

I bet others with niche subs have the same problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I started up a few magazines, to replace the subreddits, but don't have the time to really promote them. And I would like more on the fediverse side, so people can actually migrate away from corporate social media.

What CFS/ME and Longcovid magazines would you like to see grow?

These are my magazine projects:
@santafe
@photobiomodulation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think promoting them is the problem. There just aren't enough people with the condition.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

plus ally's, plus docs that work with ME/CFS...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The only community there I miss even a little is the metalcore community. Even then, having stepped back a little I can see the post quality is not always that great. The same news/social content is regurgitated on Imgur.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There is some things I would have liked to keep up on, but Lemmy has a lot of the stuff I am interested in, and Discord covers some other bits. I use social media less which is good. I am more productive and sleep quicker.

The FOMO is the brain craving dopamine. The solution is getting used to less, not chasing more.

Make the internet work for you, not the internet working you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately I'm still forced to go back now and then for specific gaming subreddits and such. And when I'm digging down a rabbit hole of software/hardware issues on my system. All in all though I probably go back once or twice a week though, so it's not that bad.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

At this point, I am just checking weekly top posts of headphones, piracy and datahoarder (yes I am lol), because they have no alternatives, and I could only officially get datahoarder onto Lemmy, but the majority of userbase is still on Reddit. Only sub I regularly check is DBZ Dokkan, because no other community exists that isn't called Twitter. My reddit usage has fallen off the cliff.

No FOMO really. Reddit's quality has gone down the gutter, deservedly so, and it is never going to get back up. The whole western culture of hatred, Russophobia, Israel genocider cheering, China hatred and all those things make it very easy for me to stay away. Most of those redditors hate themselves tbqh.

I am glad I was one of the key people that made it happen, considering I got the whole piracy community to migrate to Lemmy, since their Aether consideration never worked out before.

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