Just making sure I’m in the right place. I cannot see any developed communities here so I’ve started wondering, what’s the real place everyone from Reddit has moved to? I’ve heard something about Discuit, but never tried it.
I looked at Reddit for the first time in a long while yesterday. I had trimmed my subscribed subs to just essential, this is the only place on the web with this community like things.
So I look at my front page and I am still subscribed to more then 20 subreddits. But what is my #3 link but a 0 score off topic post. WTF reddit? Why is that even being promoted by your algorithm? I laughed at it and showed my wife and then closed the site without even looking at anything else.
If I had to bet I’d say most migrated to Discord. Many Reddit refugees are here and some more are on kbin. A lot of people went to squabbles.io and tildes.net too, apparently, but I’ve never used those since I’d rather stay within the fediverse.
How is Discord anything at all like reddit? Imgur I could see redditors migrating to (which is what I did at first before settling here), but Discord? Really?
Being able to follow other users makes a huge difference to content discovery - there's a lot of immediate content you're missing out on if you're only on Lemmy, and Mastodon users miss out on most of the long form content and discussions.
Ditto. Originally started with Beehaw but preferred kbin and the UI/extra features, so stuck around here on kbin.social. As for Twitter I hopped to Mastodon with little issue aside from having to move instances once.
Yeah it’s something that’ll take time… reddit had years of activity to give it the beef of info and content. Lemmy will get there, just going up steadily :) (reddit refugee)
Reporting in. Once you spend a bit of time here you will find the things you are familiar with in a different form, Lemmy has its own culture going. Though there are also a bunch of sub replacements, or at least very similar communities.
Though it is of course true that reddit was the internet culture place for a good decade, and that reverberates through to how people communicate, what humor and references they have and make, and so on.
Over time more and more people will migrate, and help to foster new communities here. The fediverse is still in its pioneering stage, so naturally the content is less varied than on reddit, and there are still the occasional technical issues to work out, but overall it’s been a fun two months here. I actually haven’t missed reddit much, just for the occasional ultra specific answer I am looking for.
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