I, much like basically everyone here, have been avoiding Reddit when possible, and the content here just doesn’t hit the same. My fried dopamine receptors were certainly screaming for stimulation early on but now I feel an urge to touch grass and breathe fresh air. What is this? Am I dying? I still hate the angry lightbulb in the sky.
In all seriousness though, I’ll admit that I was kind of addicted to Reddit and now I don’t want to go near it. Maybe this will turn a new leaf for me. If not here, I’ll probably find some other way to satiate my dopamine receptors through more productive means.
The fediverse is the way. But there’s nothing wrong with browsing reddit, just as long as you remember to keep coming here. We need to get more reddit posts mirrored to fediverse communities. There are scripts that will update a lemmy community when its reddit counterpart gets a new post. This is great because it encourages conversation here even if a post started on reddit.
It’s been refreshing. Kbin and the Fediverse feel way more interactive than Reddit felt.
It feels like people actually want to chat a bit here as opposed to either ignoring or simply arguing like on Reddit.
feels like people actually want to chat a bit here as opposed to either ignoring or simply arguing like on Reddit.
That’s been my issue with Reddit for a while now. People are extremely polarized on everything. You can’t have a conversation about a casual disagreement without being downvoted to oblivion and people interpreting it as a personal attack. The smaller, focused subs are better, but still fall firmly into the groupthink dynamic of the rest of the site.
I feel that the “small” bump it has to be accessible makes it interesting for people that really want to access it. The 15 likes on a post feel like 15 real people, engaged, interested, and hit completely different from the 1.5k likes a post in reddit would get.
Agreed, less people makes it also feels more personal, and less daunting to interact sometimes.
Honestly, I’ve been off reddit for a long time. Reddit made casual lurking so hard I stopped bothering.
That being said, the fediverse has probably been the first time in some time where I’ve had fun on the internet. It has somewhat recaptured the old spirit of finding new interesting things and communities online, even if most of them are just lemmy instances, and the same kind of content that was on reddit.
This is how it was for me in the Twitter migration. I’m now a regular Mastodon user and it’s a much less stressful community than Twitter was. I think kbin and lemmy may end up the same, the functionality of Reddit but without the ads and algorithmic cruelty and pileons. A healthier social media.
Feels like I’m in AA for shit posters sometimes.
