Ask Lemmy

I joined Lemmy and immediately felt out of place and a little lost.

Anyway, I've been here a month and, to make sure I fit in, I've installed Linux and joined the communist party.

Things have actually gotten worse for me. With how crappy Reddit has been over the last few years in terms of how engaging my feed is, I've been spending less time on it naturally. Now on Lemmy I find myself addicted again, spending 3 hours in a row some days, after having already used it throughout the day. I'm thinking about giving up Lemmy and Reddit all together, wondering if my comments are even valuable to society and what not. I think maybe I'd be happier without either. Not saying you would be, or that others shouldn't be on Lemmy, just that I personally struggle with it and it interferes with my life sometimes.

I doom scroll far less.

I comment more and have better discussion.

I feel more at home, but I was always on the geeky subreddits with a FOSS bent anyway.

Thanks to Reddit nuking itself I am now spending 6 more hours a day writing code (I'm the developer of Summit for Lemmy) :D

Honestly I think I spend a similar amount of time on lemmy overall but at least a decent portion of it is now things like learning rust to try and contribute. And getting backups figured out for my hosting so I don't lose data for my two users. It's a bigger learning opportunity than reddit mostly.

The lower content rate also means things are less addictive, mostly. I do find the smaller community more engaging though, for better or worse as it relates to my content consumption.

My life hasn't improved, I still doom scroll on Lemmy.

It has brought me to lemmy

I been doing a lot of self hosting projects! Because the content in Lemmy is so engaging and genuine. I am also hosting my own lemmy instance as you can see.

I feel so much more positive about having conversations on the internet now.

More time to read novels before bed.

Far fewer assholes to mod, more time spent reading and biking, less stress.

I find myself reading my Kindle more. Although I do miss out on finding out news that's currently happening, e.g I didn't realize Twitter rebranded to X and I don't really go on Twitter as much was something pretty surprising.

I also found Lemmy to be much slower in terms of posts and engagement so it's hard to find meaningful discussions or funny comments that I usually like to find on posts about what's currently new.

I've never posted on Reddit at all and was a lurker for almost 10 years so I feel like writing and commenting on Lemmy to contribute. Although a part of me refuses to bring back the golden years of Reddit in Lemmy. Maybe the death of Reddit third party apps was just what I needed to enjoy the current moment and try other new hobbies.

It hasn't.

I left Reddit, no improvement.

Reddit banned me, ignoring their own rules, no improvement.

I appealed, so they permabanned me for repeated offense, still no improvement.

I blanked all my Reddit history... some fleeting improvement, but it didn't last.

I'm writing this on Lemmy, while taking a dump at 4am next to a bleeding cat who's made a mess of the bathroom, thinking which part to clean first... still no improvement.

Reddit wasn't as important to my life, it didn't have a real impact on it. Life has an impact on life.

I'm done now, I pooped... slight improvement.

Hoping to poop tomorrow.

So I’m brand new here by a few days. I was banned from Reddit entirely after forgetting what account I was on and commenting in a fallout sub I wan banned from. The mod from said fallout sub refused to believe this was an accident, (I thought I was in a completely different fallout sub with a similar icon) said my appeals were considered “argumentative”and pulled the “I’m also an admin” card. Now every account I make gets perma-banned from all of Reddit within 6 hours of being made. Kills me. It’s more a deep void to me not because I just can’t use it considering the mindless monotony of most subs, but because I like to create and my sole platform to share anything I make was ripped from me by some neckbeard that was given a smidgen of power. Still, I never answered your question so; it hasn’t. Yet. I just found lemmy and am hoping it’ll be a great place to fill that void but only time will tell.

My life has neither improved nor degraded. It's just changed slightly. I am enjoying no ads and lots of content variety in the #fediverse.

Well, it hasn't improved my life in any way because it's just a website I've stopped using.

But most of the threads on Reddit degenerated into shitslinging and just general unpleasantness. I've not come across any of that here (yet) and it is refreshing. Not to mention the lack of ads and algorithms pushing stuff at me is like the old days.

The official reddit app keeps crashing on my phone and I don’t like Narwhal so Lemmy has actually been pretty nice. And I like being able to hide posts so I’m not just seeing the same posts on my feed over and over.

I've been reading a lot more and texting friends instead of doomscrolling. Lemmy is kind of a methadone. It scratches the itch sometimes but the content is kinda crap from what I've seen so I don't spend nearly as much time on it.

Less time on social media overall, but still getting about the same info I would get from Reddit, less overall "intersubreddit drama."

There’s a lot educational material as opposed to trash, and, like in school (but not like on Reddit), I haven’t felt condemned for expressing thoughts that might piss off one dominant political ideology or another.

I'm finding myself reevaluating my use of the internet, looking to find more meaningful things to spend my time on. I only miss one subreddit that I haven't found here, but I'm also looking for specialty forums to interact on, as well. So maybe I will find that on one of those. (I don't have the time to moderate a community here, so I'm not starting one).

I'm also looking at my technology, where laptop technology is going these days (crap), and considering if I want to go back to the "good ole days" of just having a desktop machine.

So, some good things, I think.

I like it here at Lemmy. Here one can actually have conversations. Oh, and there are no nazis here.

Unfortunately I have been spending the same time online as I would have with reddit.

I’m not sure if my life has improved per se, but it has finally broken my, probably, unhealthy Reddit addiction for the first time in probably 5-10 years. And no I’m not actually using Lemmy all that much as a replacement.

So that’s been good.

I've interacted with communities here for some of my interests that I hadn't really interacted much with on reddit due to my primary interests being more niche and having a slower rate of content generation.

It's kind of good and kind of bad though. Some communities for things I care about are full of people who are dogmatic to the point of being actively stupid. But I do like thinking about the ideas and topics of those communities, and discussing flawed ideologies within a particular community is probably worthwhile and necessary.

I'm watching less porn...

I'm spending more time with my hobby, building Gunpla/plamo. Browsing less Internet, watching anime that I've been wanting to watch (DBZ Super and Gundam). I feel less informed about the world, which is oddly less stressful.

I'm more active here than I ever was on Reddit, I didn't even have an account there the last few years, so it's definitely not a time saver. The way Lemmy works just feels saner, I really like it here. And it got me back into Mastodon, the micro-blogging type of systems don't appeal to me much, I closed my Twitter account 7 years ago, but I check Mastodon at least once a day now and there's always a few things I'm glad I see.

I never really used Reddit, but I'm happy that they absolutely destroyed it since I enjoy using Lemmy more.

Same way that twitter dying did. A lot less terminally online and less prone to doom scrolling. I do have less time now though.... due to being on lemmy...

More productive in my personal and professional life. Getting out more, listening to music and reading. Not a lot of missing the site and its only been a bit over a week since they nuked all my accounts...

Lemmy has more content.