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.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    6 months ago

    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!

    • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      Most niche communities (with some exceptions ofc:-) here aren’t as active as they were on Reddit, so many of us end up spending more time in the generalized ones - e.g. !technology@lemmy.world rather than specific ones like r/OnePlus or even r/Android.

      I think we need to get better about crossposting to multiple communities. You could post to all 3 of those.

      • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        That would triple the number of mods required, for one, and with complicated cross-reporting like “spam” would get removed from all but “lack of relevance to community” may only be removed from some.

        Perhaps an app or base Lemmy itself could implement a keyword system to selectively highlight all posts from multiple technology communities that match the word “OnePlus” and deliver them to one place for consumption.

        But either of these solutions would require effort to build.

  • SomeGuy69@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    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. 🤢🤮

  • selokichtli@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    5 months ago

    I would take a look at Reddit, right now, to see what you refer to as an “atrocity”, but they block me for using a VPN, so…

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    Welcome! We’re a smaller community so any posts/comments you make are super helpful. Hope you enjoy your stay!

  • lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    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!!!