Question to the ones that fully left Reddit

How has it been for you? Do you get FOMO feeling sometimes?

I use Reddit less and less but haven’t fully quit yet. Always have this odd feeling of FOMO regards content.

Not only that, some subreddits haven’t migrated to any other platform unfortunately. Or they have but the content is very little compared to Reddits content.

Note - wasn’t sure where to post this. So if this wasn’t the right place, apologies!

The issue I have with Reddit - it’s full of hateful people and most content is just bots karma farming.

EDIT: Thanks for all the responses!

EDIT 2: Thanks for the ones that mentioned RSS-Feed. Just got it and it’s amazing. Still manage to only follow the subreddits that I like without crapads.

v4ld1z,
@v4ld1z@lemmy.zip avatar

I had fully left Reddit ever since the API changes but checked in very very rarely every now and then whenever I googled something and Reddit results were the only results actually answering my questions. I don’t really miss it, and I found that I do spend way less time scrolling mindlessly, so that helped.

What kind of killed me was my deleting my account. I had been starting up PowerDeleteSuite in the last couple of months to get rid of my comments and posts, but I didn’t leave my PC running for long enough to delete everything whenever I actually remember to start it up. Now, I finally deleted everything and deleted my account too. I wasn’t using the account at all, but it made really sad to see the account go for good this time. Similar feeling to when I deleted RIF off my phone.

It was a good run.

Tangentism,

I’ve gone back there from time to time because there’s not the specialised subs here yet, or those that are don’t have the traffic.

What I’ve found on the main dubs I used to frequent is that they are full of reactionary comments that have no grasp of history, context or empathy.

The specialised subs, maybe were like this and I was just more tolerant to it, are full of low effort “please look at me doing absolutely fuck all in any way of producing meaningful content” posts.

There’s far too many to actually get to the content with effort so the signal to noise ratio is too low to fight off my general contempt of the place.

CrypticCoffee,

There is some things I would have liked to keep up on, but Lemmy has a lot of the stuff I am interested in, and Discord covers some other bits. I use social media less which is good. I am more productive and sleep quicker.

The FOMO is the brain craving dopamine. The solution is getting used to less, not chasing more.

Make the internet work for you, not the internet working you.

acockworkorange,

The only time I remember reddit is when I find the answer to what I’m looking for in Google there.

6daemonbag,

I still Google reddit threads for stuff I know will exist there already. DIY, software, niche things. It can’t be helped because it’s easily accessible. While I appreciate Lemmy very much, the historical repository that is reddit still trumps many other places. For now.

I don’t visit for any other reason.

whome,

I check in way fewer in Lemmy and I’m done faster because I you get to the old posts pretty quickly. But I see this as a good thing.

Furbag,

Lemmy is basically a full replacement. The only time I find myself going back is if I’m looking for information on a niche or obscure topic and reddit seems to have a lot of those communities while Lemmy doesn’t (yet).

I also get Google search results from Reddit too, but the mass scrubbing of data has turned any thread older than a year or so into a mass grave of deleted comments and sometimes context is missing which is sad but I also hope that people will learn from this and Google will start actually getting their search engine algorithms out of social media for that reason.

atrielienz,

The things I miss from Reddit are mostly very niche. I left and haven’t been back mostly because I refuse to use their BS app, and I refuse to see ads. I was a mobile Reddit user so I didn’t use it on the computer much.

I do miss doing gaming giveaways of extra stuff for like animal crossing and so on. And I miss helping newbies with games (mostly retro gaming stuff). Other than that Reddit was a time sink for me and I have other places to use my time.

I don’t get FOMO. I mostly miss interacting with other people. Talking about opinions. Finding people who agree with me about niche stuff. People don’t seem to interact as much here and I don’t think that’s because of the lack of content.

But I don’t see the point of going back to Reddit. The experience of trawling through the muck to get to a few grains of what I want just doesn’t appeal to me. All reports I’ve seen suggest that it’s just getting worse and I was struggling with the experience before the API debacle.

imgprojts,

I got banned. But between Lemmy and mastodon I haven’t gone back there.

Kit,

I’ve been using Lemmy exclusively for social media for a few months after being hooked on Reddit for a decade. Lemmy feels much more higher quality - there’s real conversation happening here. It reminds me of how great the Internet was in the early 00s.

I only use Reddit for work resources when troubleshooting an issue. It’s certainly handy for that, and I think the world would lose a lot of knowledge if Reddit shuts down.

corsicanguppy, (edited )

ones that fully left reddit

Ones who fully left reddit, you mean. We are people, not things.

When I was on Reddit I consumed it fast and often. The bus, the car, the patio, the loo; everywhere.

Now I launch Lemmy and say to myself “oh, right. Less stuff”

I think I need to normalize not checking Lemmy like it’s reddit, still. There’s definitely some behaviour to unlearn.

Dutczar,
@Dutczar@sopuli.xyz avatar

Less stuff actually made me check it less, which is healthier. But I also don’t feel like there’s much more enjoyment, probably because I used smaller specific subs more often. I also waste some of that earned time on Youtube, so overall, I have a bit less wasted time and that’s it.

Omega_Haxors,

Yeah i’m totally going to get fomo for “LOOK at this IMMIGRANT STEALING from a STORE” Top comment “I hope they cut his hands off”

Spectacle8011,
@Spectacle8011@lemmy.comfysnug.space avatar

I haven’t missed a thing. I don’t even get most of my news from Lemmy or Reddit communities; I get it from RSS feeds or books. I lurked /r/linux for a long time after I stopped actively contributing. It wasn’t until a few months ago that I started contributing to Lemmy, the first collection of online communities I’ve been a part of in years. I’m of two minds about it.

I’m actually grateful for it because I started complaining about things that have bothered me for a long time, and The Great Lemmy Migration made me realize, well, there’s no reason I can’t do something about that. It helped me change my attitude. So, in a very real way, I’ve contributed to several upstream projects because Lemmy made me rethink things and I am now less annoyed. It’s weird how Lemmy feels like an actual community in the way no other social site (including Reddit) has.

On the flip side, I think I spend too much time on Lemmy…but this week has been uniquely rough.

VantaBrandon,

Its been weird, I feel like I’m kind of missing something, same kind of FOMO, but when I actually go back to it I see I’m not missing anything at all. Lemmy is pretty neat, but haven’t fully gotten the hang of it yet. Just discovered how to sub another instance today, so progress is being made.

I’ve been back to reddit probably 20 times in the past 3 months, and every time I’m waiting for the dopamine hit, and it never kicks in. Its just flat now, the content just isn’t that interesting. Its all pretty cringy, and I’m pretty much over it, just going there out of habit, chasing the content dragon that no longer exists.

Facebook is useless, Xitter is dead, reddit lost its way. I’m enjoying Lemmy so far, but it seems to be missing the viral content, ultra red-hot breaking news that reddit used to have.

jedi_hamster,

You guys sound like addicts

VantaBrandon,

Recovering addict

Omega_Haxors,

“Randal i’m in recovery.”

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