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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I promised a couple subs I mod to stay on until they find replacement mods. After browsing lemmy, the interface is downright aggravating, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Try this. It might look a little familiar https://mlmym.org/midwest.social/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Honestly the lack of video content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I’ll go there when I want to read episode discussions after watching an episode of a show. Unfortunately all that content still lives there and there’s no substitute on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Mainly for niche communities that haven't gained traction here yet, and for my city's subreddit, which does have a community here but it's completely inactive so far.

I created like 3 communities and I've got around 20 subscribers on each, but no one is posting so I've been using reddit here and there to cross post content from the original subs to kinda just have something there as an example.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I mainly hop on there to check my news/politics multireddit. Hoping we get a similar functionality on here soon. It also helps that my reddit app (Relay) still has API access, and by opening an nsfw subreddit I now have nsfw content from the API again as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately only content. I spent some time subscribing to similar Lemmy communities that I had on Reddit and many of them just don't have the content yet and I can't exactly generate it alone.

You could make the absolute best software platform (not saying Lemmy is it, it's somewhat buggy), but if people don't adopt it, it won't succeed.

The "winner" is often not the best platform either. WhatsApp is popular but kinda shit, same for Instagram, Tiktok etc. Threads might win over Mastodon for a Twitter replacement, just because it comes from a huge entity like Meta and people can use their existing accounts.

Unlike Twitter, Reddit has not yet fallen off the deep end where using it on e.g old Reddit on desktop computer is a terrible experience. I think the upcoming months will show if replacing mods etc ends up biting it in the ass.

With Boost finally closing, I am without Reddit on my phone. I'll have to see if losing the "let's browse Reddit a bit on my phone because I'm bored" option does good things for my mental health and daily life overall.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

r/php basically, there's nowhere else (AFAIK) to have a good conversation about php that is not just asking for help. But I use it only on my PC and not on an app (I'm not installing that spyware), so I don't spend much time there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Lemmy for me isn't even close to what reddit was. Careful selection of several dozen subs over past many years meant that I felt at home browsing the feed. On lemmy, I've tried to join similar instances as my subscribed subreddits, but so far it's empty. The situation is improving and I hope to one day see better content here than in reddit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is it possible to view/use real reddit subreddits in a Lemmy app? (I have thunder and jerboa installed)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Reddit subs still have RSS. You can use an RSS reader. I do not have Thunder. I don't think Jerboa has that capability.

[–] gentoo_biscuit 1 points 2 years ago

When my duck duck go search takes me to an old solution for something that is on reddit, I still click. Nowadays more results are returning with "community is set to private" though.

Other than that, I'm off of reddit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

My work subreddit, as we are going through industrial action and it's the main communication hub. So it's useful to keep updated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Just a couple of health-related subs that haven’t fully migrated. I don’t particularly want to use Reddit, but I get more value from lore passed down woman-to-woman than I do from doctors who want to attribute everything to ~~hysteria~~ anxiety and depression.

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