Comment on As of today, I have stopped using Reddit entirely.

nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• nogooduser@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I went cold turkey after the third party app debacle but I really missed the home assistant subreddit. There is a home assistant community but it’s nowhere near as active.

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  • bedwyr@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I miss getting help with all sorts of stuff, home improvement and repair and how to stuff, brewing, growing stuff, and the like. Plus they have way better animal videos, to say nothing of all the other video content not found on lemmy.

    Can’t be helped, reddit is unusable, politicians and rich dickheads are leaning on them to make moderation decisions and they are trhing to bend us over for them.

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  • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    With respect, “it’s not as active” for a Home Assistant community as in what? You don’t get replies to your questions? People don’t ask you enough of them?

    If the former, that is a genuine problem, but hasn’t been my experience on Lemmy. There are fewer responses, but they are more thought out and less likely to be puns, references, and other low-hanging-fruit jokes.

    If the latter, then proactively make guides so people will be more likely to join? Someone has to be the first on the dance floor.

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    • nogooduser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s a fair point and it is the latter.

      I have only posted one question about a problem that I had and I got an answer that resolved my issue.

      Unfortunately, I’m not in a position to help build up the community. I have a very small and basic setup and don’t have time to build it up let alone make posts about building it up.

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      • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If 100% of posed questions are answered, I don’t think it makes sense to call it any flavor of inactive.

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• dhork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not OP, but there are a lot of niche subreddits where you simply can’t get information anywhere else. I quit Reddit entirely after the APIocalypse, and I know around that time people started replicating the extensive network of Sports team subreddits in various places here. But, there are simply not enough people here to make that work.

  I have not logged in (other than to manipulate the crypto out of my Reddit Vault and sell it before it crashed) since then. There are precisely four subreddits I monitor via RSS because the info simply doesn’t make it here. But Reddit has already announced their RSS access is going away. When it does, I guess I’ll just have get that info somewhere else.

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  • theedqueen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The niche subreddits are really hard to adjust without. I would’ve gone cold turkey if it weren’t for those because you simply can’t find the info anywhere else. I was using RDX to browse those subs but now that’s gone too (for now, hopefully the dev finds a workaround)

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    • Pratai@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s all mostly bots and repost slop. At least it was when I left. I can’t see it being different now.

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  • BossFeather6325@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That reddit shit slowly becoming Instagram 2, most of the origin community already gone ;(

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    • cinoreus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Gone where though? I wish some of them atleast come here…

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      facebook 2.0 actually.

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• False@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I read reddit but no longer contribute in any way. Activity level is just way lower here, especially for niche interests. I’ve increased the amount of other websites I look at (here, hacker news, steam forums) overall

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• Ariselas@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t know what his subreddits were, but I still go there for guitar, and luthier (well 8 guitar related subs in total).

  We have a NDP community here, but it’s not very active, even though I suspect that the sub is mostly bots at this point.

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• BossFeather6325@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Most of my habits stemmed from the fact that I found the general chaos of Mastodon overwhelming and too complex for daily use. For instance, while Reddit has its own straightforward website and app, Mastodon lacks a clear, simple interface—which made it seem overly complicated to me from the start. Consequently, I always found it much easier to quickly hop onto Reddit to post or leave a comment. Most importantly, the number of active users on Mastodon is, unfortunately, still far lower than on Reddit.

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  • orclev@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Since Mastodon was mentioned I’ll also add that a thoroughly hate that Mastodon doesn’t even attempt to show you anything unless you enable Javascript. I’m a user of NoScript so websites don’t run JS by default unless I explicitly opt in. For most sites that’s not a huge deal since it’s just a one time thing but because Mastodon is federated I need to opt in every instance individually which means 90% of the time on the rare occasion I visit a Mastodon link nothing loads initially.

    I wish Mastodon did the thing most non-sketchy websitss do and renders at least a basic view of its content without JS so I could at least decide if it’s worth enabling JS in the first place.

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• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hamsters for one. Opae Ula, Wallsted Method, ecosphere, other sort of niche hobbyist/petcare topics

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• LiarAmongAll@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I try to keep mostly to lemmy, but the American football scene and the OSRS scene are nearly non-existent here. OSRS being the worst of the two, there’s almost never any updates or posts even. Yeah yeah, be the change I wanna see, but I don’t wanna talk to myself, that’s how dead it is lol

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• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lemmy does not have a very active Boardgames community or a Blood on the Clocktower community. Just doesn’t have the numbers for it.

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