I ditched Reddit 2 years ago and haven’t been back. This is a self-solving problem: as more people use and contribute, there will be more content and engagement.
But as a heavy user of Lemmy (and previously of Reddit), there’s things you can do. Chief among them is switching from the “Active” list to “Hot” when you want to see new stuff. I pretty much never run out of content, and that’s without even dipping into “New”…
I remember being on reddit and complaining thr everything was political. And holy shit Lemmy is like 10x more political. Like, I get it, they are important issues. But I don’t wanna see it for every single post.
Different strokes for different folks, as they say. That’s precisely one of the things that I value most in social media— exposure to people and ideas outside of my day-to-day experience. I don’t understand the femcel memes, or c/ich_iel, for example, but that’s what makes them so fascinating. I was thinking of leaving Reddit even before the API fiasco, because the feed changed daily while not changing at all. I didn’t find it valuable to see the same breaking news story posted to 15 different subreddits, nor the same “Men of Reddit: Do you pee through the underwear flap, or over the waistband?” question posted (literally! I watched and counted one day!) every 5 minutes. I didn’t replace Reddit with Lemmy, I just stopped using the former when Apollo stopped working. Lemmy drew me in over the course of a couple of months. It’s quiet, but you can have conversations instead of shouting into the void.
I have both Lemmy and reddit.
The front page on Lemmy changes every week.
On reddit it changes daily.
The only new posts I see best the end of the day on Lemmy are all in German.
Don’t get me wrong, Lemmy is great, but it’s got a LONG way to crawl to get to reddit’s level of success.
I ditched Reddit 2 years ago and haven’t been back. This is a self-solving problem: as more people use and contribute, there will be more content and engagement.
But as a heavy user of Lemmy (and previously of Reddit), there’s things you can do. Chief among them is switching from the “Active” list to “Hot” when you want to see new stuff. I pretty much never run out of content, and that’s without even dipping into “New”…
I only have Lemmy but I consume way less social media since that’s all I have… Which is a good thing.
I don’t mind the fact that Lemmy changes at a slower pace. Gives me less to scroll through
Reddit is people reposting stuff from Twitter, so what you are saying is that we need to repost more stuff from Twitter.
We do the EXACT same thing here already.
I remember being on reddit and complaining thr everything was political. And holy shit Lemmy is like 10x more political. Like, I get it, they are important issues. But I don’t wanna see it for every single post.
Oh, and let’s not forget thr .ml users…
Different strokes for different folks, as they say. That’s precisely one of the things that I value most in social media— exposure to people and ideas outside of my day-to-day experience. I don’t understand the femcel memes, or c/ich_iel, for example, but that’s what makes them so fascinating. I was thinking of leaving Reddit even before the API fiasco, because the feed changed daily while not changing at all. I didn’t find it valuable to see the same breaking news story posted to 15 different subreddits, nor the same “Men of Reddit: Do you pee through the underwear flap, or over the waistband?” question posted (literally! I watched and counted one day!) every 5 minutes. I didn’t replace Reddit with Lemmy, I just stopped using the former when Apollo stopped working. Lemmy drew me in over the course of a couple of months. It’s quiet, but you can have conversations instead of shouting into the void.
For me, Lemmy is far more successful.