Subscribe to communities and/or utilize the ‘random’ search to find communities (be warned that nsfw stuff up though if your setting isnt filtered). Sort by new sometimes. Lemmy is more user-directed whereas reddit is company-directed. No more force-feeding you sponsored content - you can search out and eat what you like!
I really want some of my niche subreddits. They’re like crack.
Obligatory fuck spez.
Yeah, Lemmy isn’t quite at that critical mass where the niche stuff is active. That’s one thing Reddit was truly wonderful at, because it had enough people that even the niche stuff stayed active. Like if only 0.01% of people are interested in something, and a service only has 1000 users, there‘s a good chance that you’ll be the only poster.
I’ve found some super cool niche communities using the ‘random community’ search, which i think is a Voyager app specific option cause I’m not seeing it on desktop. I definitely recommend the Voyager app
Lemmy doesn’t have most of the communities I need, so I still end up using Reddit a lot and sometimes other sites/forums. I use Lemmy for casual browsing though because Reddit’s main subs are complete ass and the politics on Lemmy and its focus on Linux discussion is a lot better.
Consider making one or two of those communities. There’s no shame in sourcing articles/content from reddit and posting it here (direcelt links to source, not links to reddit) . A post or two every few days will quickly round up others.
It helped that Reddit got rid of 3rd party apps.
Because I only used Reddit 100% on mobile, and their app is horrendous.
Stop checking lemmy so often. Or post content.
I missed the quantity of content on reddit, but I do not miss the quality of replies on reddit.
I kinda had to accept that Lemmy wouldn’t have the same hooks to trigger impulsive scrolling because Lemmy isn’t a corporation desperate to mine you for every ounce of data you can provide.
Also took me a while to find a group of communities with content I like.
I sometimes reinstall Reddit just see what’s happening over there, whenever I open it, it feels like I’m being inundated with ads, both obviously and via the ingenuine comment threads.
I love when I see the same article posted in both places. The comment sections are vastly different. I feel better knowing it’s actual people here.
This is it. Lemmy just isn’t designed the same as reddit and its gonna take a bit for you to find and explore different communities on here before your feed has a steady flow of new stuff, and even then it won’t be as much as reddit.
Honestly, after some time, I just started realizing how shitty reddit posts are, and specially how toxic comments and the overall environment is…
So, i don’t miss it.
I came over here when they cut off 3rd party apps. I wasn’t going to browse reddit without Boost, and theres a Boost app for Lemmy, so staying here was easy. I have gone back to reddit twice since, and both times were to check if GeForce Now was broken or if the problem was on my end. Unfortunately Nvidia is pretty terrible at keeping people updated when something is wrong with GFN, so the GFN subreddit is really the only way to find out what’s going on. If I found an active GeForce Now community here I’d never go back.
The majority of the communities I visit on reddit have no real equivalent on Lemmy. The only things in Lemmy are politics, open source, linux, android, anti ai, immediate downvote of the majority of news, etc.
Lemmy feels more like an individual community rather than a real platform, like lobste.rs with more emphasis on politics.
Lemmy has significantly less activity and less communities, which kind of sucks, but it’s also probably for the best because I just stopped being online so much. I went from browsing like 3 hours a day to maybe 15-20 minutes a day, often not checking in for a day or two. I suppliment that with maybe a hour or two of Tumblr a week. Went from 20+ hours a week on reddit to 3-4 hours between Lemmy and Tumblr. I only ever get on reddit anymore if I’m googling a specific question that leads me to it, never to just browse. Easier because reddit just seems to suck nowadays.
It’s been 2 years on Lemmy for me. I was on Reddit for 12 years prior.
I never looked back. I didn’t have a hard time at all really. Comment sections are so nice here usually. I only spend maybe 30 mins on here daily and never run out of content. But I’m a reader. I read articles and comments fully so I only get through a dozen posts or so.
What are you having a hard time with?
For me the content is just not quite there on Lemmy. Less stuff overall and less interesting and active communities. I wish Lemmy became a lot more popular because Reddit is firmly in an enshittification phase.
The moment old.reddit.com is gone, I’m done with it.
Less stuff overall and less interesting and active communities
Once you realize that 1) like 80% of reddit is just bot slop and 2) a handful of accounts post the majority of “content”, you kind of don’t care that reddit has seemingly “more active” communities.
Embrace the fact that there is a limit to the amount of new content and do something else with your time.
It was quote easy tbh. It imoroved since the First Wave actually.
Also people are more honest and caring from my pov. That doesnt gonfor everyone, but thats society.
It feels more Home than what reddit became.
Ditto. Voyager is as close to the AlienBlue experience as I’ve seen.
Build a community about something you love! It takes little effort. :) Then when you browse Reddit occasionally, you can steal memes. In fact, do that anyway if you end up browsing and post them here!
