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So I've switched to lemmy since the reddit meltdown started, experienced quite some withdrawal symptoms, occasionally turned back to reddit, more often logged out than logged in. Now I am merely using Lemmy occasionally and by far not as often as I used reddit before. No more doom scrolling.

So far so good.

Today I went on reddit for the first time in like 3 weeks straight (I couldn't do that for the last years... yeah, I was very addicted in hindsight). I just... I don't know what it is.

Reddit just isn't fun anymore.

I turned away after maybe 5 minutes. There were maybe 2-3 repost-worthy pics, one interesting video and a few small niche discussions that all went straight tits up within a few replies.

If I ask a question on lemmy, it usually is a straightforward, honest discussion. Almost no blaming of the posters or answerers misunderstandings or senseless answers. It goes a bit back and forth usually and people tend to thank each other for corrections. I can't remember when that happened on a reddit discussion. Maybe years back? Anyway, I'm not going back there anymore, not because I hate the CEO, but because reddit is not fun anymore. Lost all interest in it.

Did anyone of you have a similar experience?

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[–] knotthatone@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I went back in during some of the recent current events to see how the discussions were. Plenty of quantity, not much quality, imo. There wasn't much in the way of thoughtful commentary or discussion that interested me.

[–] Scene_Shifter@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I check it frequently but I only check my fave music subs, and even so I don't watch/listen to everything posted there. For me, the main difference has been the heaven sent lack of engagement on mostly trivial topics that seem to appear every single day on the rest of the subs I used to follow.

[–] Dinodicchellathicc@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I got ip banned so all my muti year accounts were toasted. Kinda took the joy out of it for me. I made new accounts but they'd get banned too for a while. I have one still but it's inactive. The users there feel so fake, constantly on a high horse or acting like victims. I don't find the people there to be reasonable and the communities i liked are here on lemmy now. Lemmy people are less like bots, and are more inviting to conversation

[–] Astroturfed@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Not sure if Lemmy is better or if reddit has just fallen so hard over the years. There's either been a stark decline recently or some time away has given me fresh eyes to see how bad it is. It's just a social media feed like any other now. The comments are noticably dumber and low effort rains supreme.

[–] snowbell@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I still go there because of all the firearms related content but on the whole I'm using both Beehaw and reddit a lot less than I was using Reddit before.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 0 points 1 year ago

I didn't return, don't want to...

[–] yoz@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I downloaded infinity for reddit. Scrolled few post and deleted the app. Back to lemmy.

[–] 7eter@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] yoz@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago

Yeap,already downloaded. Its new name is eternity.

[–] cum_dragon@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 year ago

Lol yeah, I just couldn't take the echo chamber of radical Lefties anymore. I'm by no means a Trump-voting conservative but if you even hinted at an opinion that didn't fit the narrative you got piled on with downvotes and abuse like some kind of bigoted leper.

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