I made my home here permanently now. It seems like such a friendlier place but how are you all doing?
I still end up having to use reddit to get questions answered, but I still have not contributed any content to the site since the exodus. Hell, I haven’t bothered to log back into my account in ages. It doesn’t feel the same, but my scrolling has more or less been supplanted by Kbin and Youtube.
Using an open source client of my choice (voyager) that I actually like better than the reddit clients I used before, enjoying fewer posts with less, but usually better, more interesting and/or funny contents and comments. The only thing I miss is the rust (programming) community, which ironically didn’t really move to lemmy (but still got smaller/less active on reddit), so I sometimes still lurk that subreddit while obviously not contributing anything to it myself.
I’ve only ever lurked on reddit and here I’m actually interacting, which I enjoy. Still, the feddiverse would profit from some more users and content creators, and it doesn’t really have an advertisment budget. So keep telling your friends (in a non-anoying way, of course).
Yes, somehow the barrier to actually engaging with others is lost in the fediverse. The guilt of posting on Reddit has been swapped by some strange feeling of obligation and/or pride when posting on here.
I’m not visiting reddit at all anymore except maybe to copy some memes. All my 3rd party dev work is focused on improving lemmy.
Not good. You replace Lemmy from Reddit and a new problem emerges. Hexbear users.
I’ve cut out half my lemmy use because of the political extremism on here from Hexbear and Lemmygrad. Lemmy.ml isn’t all that much better. I’m not the only one drifting away because of it.
Hang in there. I’ve heard word that soon users will have the ability to block entire instances. Personally, I’ve just blocked every Hexbear account on sight, and it seems to be improving my experience. I’ve also started to unsub from .ml communities, since I’ve noticed the same things you have.
Yeah I hope that helps. There’s still nothing else like the fediverse, I love the idea, it’s just swamped with political extremism right now.