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Is anyone else having trouble giving up Reddit due to content? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’m not trying to cause an argument but when Reddit pulled it’s bs - I said that’s enough. I gave up my Reddit addiction and didn’t open it or visit the site for over 30 days.

The tone and people on Lemmy is great. I don’t miss Reddit. But I miss the content types. For me Reddit was a topic related news source, a place for great discourse about those news pieces, a place where community members asked constructive questions or shared ideas/projects - and lastly a place for some very specific community types.

Over the last few days I noticed that the first 2 categories of content came over to Lemmy no problem. But the second 2 types I outlined above don’t seem to have come. I went back to Reddit this morning and it’s all still there. Certain types of posts just don’t happen on Lemmy, and on top of that many communities never came over (street_photography is a great example. They literally shut down a subreddit with thousands of users and created a new location in Lemmy/kbin, and instead of coming over the community just evaporated). Other communities are also non existent and some that do exist are simply just not enjoying the same types of posts. I like it here, I want to stay - but it’s difficult. Is anyone else having this issue?

Thanks for hearing me out.

TLDR: all of my communities seem to link posts only, many types of posts just don’t seem to happen here.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think I was partially addicted after having used it routinely out of boredom and free time for over a decade...

But once RIF and the other 3rd party apps got strangled out, and RES went into a state of no longer being updated, I couldn't power use Reddit anymore. So once those were uninstalled and removed, I had given myself no choice. Out of principle I couldn't support them and how they treated their mods or communities, nor could I use the site in their epically stupid vanilla default way, I had to just quit.

Cold turkey since.

Will admit, I have to search online for technical help, and a lot of discussion did and still does happen on Reddit, so I'll still occasionally have to use the site for reference. But no interacting with it at all.

I still feel the twitches and urges to use it from so many years of habit, and it's difficult, but I've managed to do it.

Shame there's not as many people so inclined to use Reddit just a little less, doesn't even need to be cold turkey; it WOULD make a difference. But there's nothing wrong with using it, and you shouldn't be judged for it either. It's fine to be anti Reddit, but not anti user... in most cases ha ha! I'm pro voice and choice! ;D

I'm trying to use this as an alternative, and out of necessity as content does run thin sometimes on Lemmy I do end up using it less than I did with Reddit. But that's healthy for me personally.

There's less pressure and competitiveness on here for me, so I try to post better quality comments/content than I may have used to on Reddit. When Lemmy isn't down or breaking my comment/post submissions I'll have a better time engaging with the site, I don't find myself rushing to comment before 400 irrelevant (sometimes one word) comments wash it away and bury it like on Reddit. I don't find myself writing half a comment, and then deciding to quit half way as much.

Plus, people engage with posts and see them much longer than on Reddit, usually after a single day their posts would be entirely dead; guess it's mostly due to less users at this point though.