Today I deleted my Reddit account.
I think the platform is now just a playground for AIs and has integrated lots of ways to make money (prenium subscription, NFT, way too many ads for my taste).
What really made me take the plunge was Reddit’s interface. Seriously, go to the website, what’s with the attrocity? It’s like Fandom but as a social network?
Now why am I on Lemmy? Because in my opinion, it’s the first step towards a mainstream Fedivers! Mastodon, Peertube and Pixelfed aren’t very widespread, but when you see the number of people active in Lemmy communities, it’s really impressive! It’s also free and Open Source which is always great, but also as open as possible, I mean, Reddit killed Apollo on iOS, I can now have lots of apps on my iPhone with Lemmy!
Now what do I expect from Lemmy. For this universe of instances to grow, but also to add a bit of personality to the platform! Do a bit of Reddit and add customization options for each community, like on the Minecraft Subreddit of old Reddit that I’ve always smiled at.
In short, I’m happy to be on Lemmy.
Welcome home!
Welcome!
For this universe of instances to grow, but also to add a bit of personality to the platform! Do a bit of Reddit and add customization options for each community, like on the Minecraft Subreddit of old Reddit that I’ve always smiled at.
For sure! We don’t talk enough about how much customization there is for Lemmy. There is a wide variety of mobile apps that do things in different ways, and userscripts/userstyles to customize the desktop interface. A lot of instances are also running multiple frontends, each maintained by a different dev or team.
For example, our instance is running:
- Voyager interface at voyager.lemmy.ca
- Photon interface at photon.lemmy.ca
- Alexandrite interface at alex.lemmy.ca
Many possibilities, and I’m hoping we can see community customization too someday :)
Welcome!
Since you’re on the lemmy.world instance, there’s a bunch of additional interfaces available to you:
- https://old.lemmy.world/ (Something familiar)
- https://a.lemmy.world/
- https://photon.lemmy.world/
If you’re on mobile, there’s a ton of apps to choose from at https://join-lemmy.org/apps , or if PWAs are more your thing, your instance has the Voyager/Mlmym interface setup at https://m.lemmy.world/
Finding communities used to be difficult, but it should be straightforward now just from the search, seeing as it is the largest instance.
Hope you enjoy your stay 😁
Welcome!
Thank you, I didn’t know!
Welcome, Josselin, glad to have you!
Hey I finally deleted my account this week as well. I’ve been there for such a long time. I was a bit sad, ngl.
Reddit has become such a shit platform with shit users though.
Good for you (and for us too)!
I deleted my reddit when they backstabbed their 3rd party app devs. Came to Lemmy around the same time - have had no reason to look back. You’ll love it here!
One of us. One of us. :-)
A lot of what you list, particularly the bot playground, are reasons I hated Reddit. What I really hated was that people just spammed a bunch of rote responses and these guys
Lemmy is great, but it takes a while to figure out
Always glad to see people leaving the corporate hellscapes
Now why am I on Lemmy? Because in my opinion, it’s the first step towards a mainstream Fedivers! Mastodon … [isn’t] very widespread, but when you see the number of people active in Lemmy communities, it’s really impressive!
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Mastodon has an order of magnitude more active users than Lemmy - and the whole rest of the Fediverse - if not two orders of magnitude.
Lemmy’s a great platform, but Reddit is already the niche social media site among the mainstream, and the kind if niche interest forums that uktumately built Reddit just haven’t reached critical mass here yet, and that means Reddit remains very sticky. Pile people being kind of uncomfortable with the local namespaces for both users and communities, and I don’t know that Lemmy’s really the killer platform for the 'verse.
Fediverse adotion is going to be a collective effort. Loops has a good chance of attracting people. It would be nice if Mastodon would actually use a standard ActivityPub implementation so it played nicer with neighbours. And microblogger discovering something other than Mastodon would be nice.
But it’s not going to be just one platform. If it is, then the fediverse idea has totally failed.
Hello and welcome!
Well, in that case, I hope you already subscribed to the following communites :)
and so on and so on
I hope you will enjoy your stay here, it’s always nice to welcome a motivated person who wants to contribute.
I was on reddit right when Digg was falling apart, it was fresh and interesting. When 2016, Steve Bannons Trump Train bot farms took the front page and I thought ok this kinda sucks. But the API bullshit making my interface show ads etc was the final blow. Lemmy is everything I wanted from reddit and more. All hail the fediverse that is all of us!!!
Welcome and enjoy your stay. Here are a lot of communities with similar interests, but still a bit less content. It’s growing however. I sadly still visit Reddit too often, but I always open Lemmy Connect app first.
I hate the ever growing hidden ads on Reddit. I spot them daily now. Threads created to clearly sell you a product or software, with astroturf comments “wow this is freaking amazing. I’m downloading it right now.” sure you enjoyed this okayish post so much and it totally doesn’t sound obvious, that there are 10 more comments in this 15 comments thread, all saying the same. Or this unnatural amount of votes. 🤢🤮
