For me, Reddit died long before the whole ordeal of the API controversy. More and more traffic was due to bots, and lately I started to receive a lot of spam from porn bots there. There's not a lot of incentive on part of Reddit to remove them, since bot activity is still activity they can present to investors.
Don't get me wrong, not all bots are bad, but spambots are universally harmful.
Honestly, yes. I'm a tech guy who is cool with the growing experience of new projects and I'm here to stay... But, I also like specific sports teams, politics, and other non techy subjects that aren't going to make the move until they have no other choice or the issue is the community doesn't have critical mass to provide for engagement and back and forth in the comments. There are a few communities I still check in to weekly or so on Reddit because the information doesn't exist here yet. I hope those communities and members move to the fediverse some day, but to pretend that the offerings andb engagement here are equal or even "good enough" at the moment is unrealistic. My use of Reddit though has gone from hours a day to minutes a week and I refuse to upvote or comment, so while I miss a lot of things, I do my best to not help their metrics too much
I don’t miss it because I keep using it. The communities I follow there are niche and they are completely dead on the Fediverse. I keep opening Kbin every other day just to find that my "new" feed still shows posts from 2 weeks ago without even scrolling.
Also, most of what I dislike from Reddit is still here.
Tons of people on the Fediverse craft their responses to fish upvotes, and circlejerking/echo-chambers are here too. Just last week I got a fresh breeze of downvotes and angry commenters because I expressed that I dislike Steam, on the PCgaming magazine, which is the same thing that would’ve happened on r/gaming, r/pcmasterrace or another similar toxic cesspool on Reddit.
This, I'm trying to be the change I want to see etc. on Kbin. But in order to fully recreate what I have on Reddit I'd have to recreate, moderate, and cough up content for like a dozen niche subs. Because of how my life is right now I don't have the energy to do one. I haven't noticed much of the toxicity, but any online space that revolves around gaming seems to turn into a toilet within a matter of days anyway, so it's sadly unsurprising.
any online space that revolves around gaming seems to turn into a toilet within a matter of days
This is the truth. There was a nice sub on Reddit about Android gaming which was pretty non-toxic but generally speaking gaming brings out the worst in people. And I still don't know why
Even then, "being the change you want to see" is futile if the platform itself has tons of issues and doesn't provide incentives for people of all kinds to join and use over other platforms.
It seems like only hardcore Redditors and hip techies pass the filter to discover the Fediverse and thrive on it, which makes certain communities outright impossible to grow. Case and point; the biggest solo RPG mag on the Fediverse has been running for over a year, and 98% of the ~40 posts have been made by a single dude, most of which have zero interactions. Why? Because the Fediverse's demographic has no interest on the topic.
And yeah, gaming stuff always make the keyboard wizards rush out of their towers. 🧙♂️
I still log in a few times a week for a couple of disability support communities and then I might have a quick browse through the comics sub after. There's rarely something that makes me want to comment outside of those subs. (Incidentally one of Reddit's favourite cartoonists has stated she's no longer interacted with users and only posting her comics due to the toxicity of the comments and DMs)
But even with the comics I've tended to start supporting them on patreon and see their stuff that way.
Last time I did comment a few weeks ago, things got combative quickly and I don't know if it was normal for Reddit aggression and I'm just used to being in here now or if it was a one off dick.
I don't miss the time I spent on bs there though. I posted elsewhere that I've been reading a lot more since I cut down on Reddit use!
@starlinguk Those are probably some of the categories of subreddits that advertisers love so those will probably help Reddit earn income for a long time to come
I miss the golden days of reddit, like from when I first discovered it in 2011 to about 2015. It just seemed more possible to have in depth conversations around that time, discover new and exciting communities, and overall just feel good to be part of the community. As it basically started to replace all web communities, became more corporate, and as political discourse became more common and hostile, it started to become less and less enjoyable, but I continued to browse because by that time I had an addiction that to this day I'm still trying to kick.
kbin and lemmy sorta give me that feel I had for early reddit, and even though I still haven't fully kicked reddit, I do spend a lot more screen time here than I do on my reddit subs, and I barely browse their front page anymore. Overall, I think I just have an internet addiction that I need to manage overall, but at the very least kbin is giving me some of the highs I used to enjoy with reddit.
I really miss the dog videos, took me a week or so to notice that lemmy doesn’t have any, all the porn is garbage because we can’t have videos and none of the apps (except kinda liftoff) have in-app video players for sites like redgifs.
But no one is posting videos because most people aren’t going to watch them if they have to go to a website, I won’t.
I hope boost releases with in-app support and the option to hide certain posts like it used to. Then I can just tick videos and go on my merry way.
Video hosting is one of the most bandwidth-intensive things you can do on the Internet. Most of these fediverse admins are hobbyists running servers from their basement or on cloud hosting from money out of their own pockets.
I miss the niche subreddits. When googling they still come up with good answers. I have reddit blocked in my pihole but sometimes I just disable it to view a solution to my problem. But then I feel dirty 😉
This is my biggest complaint too. Certain topics have all search results with good data on reddit, so I still have to give them traffic when I'm trying to figure something out
No. I am sick and tired of toxic-ass trolls with nothing better to do than make other people miserable, and those seem to be rare on the fediverse, so I'm staying here. The last half decade of Reddit got worse and worse and worse with this, especially during and after the 2016 US presidential election.
I've also noticed that the "caliber" of people that post here is quite different than your average Reddit user. On Reddit, I'll often try to have a serious conversation only to find out the person I'm talking to is just a teenage troll just looking to get a rise out of people for kicks. That has not happened to me here yet. When I migrated over, it's like all the children and toxic people vanished.
No, because I'm still using it.
Also, it's just a website. I'm using it only to get interesting content, not even to engage with other users, because that's usually hostile and toxic. I couldn't be emotionally invested in a website, even less in one that has such a shitty userbase.
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