Just making sure I’m in the right place. I cannot see any developed communities here so I’ve started wondering, what’s the real place everyone from Reddit has moved to? I’ve heard something about Discuit, but never tried it.
Sup dood.
They went back to reddit or scatter around other social networks or ultimately ended up turning into floating balls of nostalgia.
Lemmy is a lot like old old Reddit
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I’m here from reddit
I’m here. I’ll still go on Reddit if I’m on desktop (which is rare) but when on my phone, Lemmy does the job fine.
Still here. I’m making it work. The very dominant focus on particular topics and views is readily apparent and somewhat lessens the experience compared to the variety I was used to on Reddit, but I don’t mind Lemmy’s predilections so much as those were areas of interest for me anyway, just not areas that I’d focussed on so heavily, or areas that I had been more interested in in the past and drifted from with age. This makes it kind of nice to kind of reconnect and re-engage with those topics, even if it does make things a little bland overall.
What I’m missing most is the ability to just assume, correctly, that whatever I need information on at that moment will have a sub dedicated to it already and I just need to correctly guess the name of the sub. This was especially handy for technical questions.
I think most of them are back on Reddit.
They’re right here on the threadiverse
Yeah, nowhere near the size of reddit, but who wants that? Easier to have discussions without bazillions of people posting crap like “works for me” or being dicks.
I don’t really trust other alternatives. Being unfederated, they rely on a closed source solution maintained by a single person or very small group of people. There’s nothing in place if the plugs ever get pulled, everything is lost and like reddit, whose to say these owners won’t turn their website slowly into the cesspit reddit is?
Yeah, an instance owner of lemmy/kbin could theoretically pull the plug on their instance or enshitify it, but you can just switch to a different instance and keep accessing the content you were.
The threadiverse/fediverse/whatever you call it I still feel is the future, so long as it survives, but it has a very long way to go to become truly sustainable as anything but a niche pocket of the internet.
It is nice to not have all the obnoxious static that comes with the huge mass of users reddit has, but that sparseness comes with the same online emptiness that living in a rural area does. Resources are much harder to find, and varied interactions with lots of people take significantly more personal effort.
I’m here!
However, I can’t seem to create communities that are missing from lemmy. Maybe an instance problem?
Here
I’m here and on Mastodon. I really like Mastodon. (I still have my old twitter account, but have not posted or commented for years. I never really used it anyway. Now I use it to see the occasional newsworthy linked tweet since they require a login now to view anything. I’m purposely ignoring its attempt to rebrand)
I still go to old.reddit and lurk on slow news days. But my feed isn’t as robust or interesting as it was before the exodus. It’s still good for historical help on certain topic. So I will keep checking it probably.
But to me it looks like Lemmy and Mastodon are getting slow, steady, but high quality growth overall. I think the fediverse in general may be the saving grace of the internet. It looks to me like the “main stream” internet is becoming one voice, much like Clear Channel taking over and homogenizing the eclectic voices of regional radio.
In think the key to helping those stuck in the Reddit world is to cross post Lemmy/kbin links to Reddit. You can even get any url to a post via the share feature on the apps. Let’s make them aware there is a place where they are not just making money more money.
You could cross post to Lemmy and then put a link in the Reddit thread that says something like: “for the real conversation, the way Reddit used to be, come to Lemmy”
That might get Reddit accounts banned though 😅
Lurking, just like I did on reddit. Lemmy is amazing and scratches most of the same itch reddit did for me, but I just read, vote, and move on.
Same
If I had to bet I’d say most migrated to Discord. Many Reddit refugees are here and some more are on kbin. A lot of people went to squabbles.io and tildes.net too, apparently, but I’ve never used those since I’d rather stay within the fediverse.
It’s now* called Squabblr and the owner seems to be speed running the spez management style. Had a mass exodus to Discuit recently.
How is Discord anything at all like reddit? Imgur I could see redditors migrating to (which is what I did at first before settling here), but Discord? Really?
All those handy conversations that were previously accessible via a search engine are now limited to a walled garden.
