yeah. mainly stuff related to proprietary/old software stuff like ios jailbreaking and hackintosh, windows modding.
do you miss any content from reddit?
Submitted 10 hours ago by wall@programming.dev to [deleted]
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hexagonwin@lemmy.today 20 minutes ago
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 40 minutes ago
I miss Sprog. That’s about it.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 40 minutes ago
yes, the niche ones. most of them became meme, or slop, and policed by the “holier than thou” type of people.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 10 hours ago
The thing I miss most from reddit is the ability to find decently sized communities for extremely niche topics. Lemmy just isn’t big enough to support that. However, I certainly don’t miss it enough to actually go back to using Reddit. There’s other places to go for that (like Discord servers / Matrix spaces).
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
My new thing is im trying to slowly reduce my topic specific questions in catchall Ask comms like this and instead submitting to the actual community that concerns it
Itll be slow but hopefully that can meaningfully shift my own stuff to help beef up the existing topical comms, if everyone does something similar we may actually get somewhere
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 39 minutes ago
ASK, is almost all Propaganda posting, or AI posted. it always involves some kind of ragebaiting.
Carl@anarchist.nexus 7 hours ago
Exactly. You can find an active subreddit for fucking anything. Find a new anime and want to discuss it? There’s an active sub for that. Find a cool bug and want to identify it? There’s an active sub for that. Want to ask a doctor for casual (off-the-record) medical advice? There’s an active sub for that.
But with Lemmy, the first would probably land in a more generic c/Anime, while the latter ones might struggle to find an appropriate community at all. Because even if the specific communities exist, the chances of them being active enough to get a response are low.
Zephorah@discuss.online 8 hours ago
Exactly. I haven’t seen either a woodworking or sewing project over here since I joined, as one example.
No terrible first attempt at dovetails, no probable not first attempt at macarons, no woman wearing the sweater she just knit from alpaca wool.
sirimeow@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
!woodworking@lemmy.ca
People post stuff there from time to time
gastroglizzy@piefed.social 8 hours ago
It seems trendy lately to brag about how little one reads.
T156@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
A lot of the communities I frequent simply never made it. They were too niche, or it simply didn’t fit Lemmy.
Though I’d argue that what I miss more is the usability. Old Reddit and RES is a wonderful experience. Lemmy and Alexandrite are closer to new Reddit than old, including the poorer performance.
I know there are some interfaces that emulate the old Reddit experience, but they lack the RES integration that makes old Reddit particularly nice to use.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The content, engagement, and quality of conversations are much better here on Lemmy, and the platform feels considerably less saturated.
Unfortunately, what Reddit used to be, and what made it great, is long gone. That being said, the API changes were the nail in the coffin, not the sole reason for its decline. Reddit had already been on a downward trajectory for years before that.
The one thing I still appreciate about Reddit is that content gets refreshed much more frequently than it does on Lemmy. However, even that isn’t enough to keep me there for more than a few visits a week, usually out of sheer boredom.
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 3 hours ago
Yes, a photography community with such a broad audience that the “no sunsets” rule was actually making sense.
Zephorah@discuss.online 8 hours ago
Smaller, niche subs. The state/city subs. The specific career subs. The hobby subs.
earned_myself_a_gin@reddthat.com 1 hour ago
I miss the college football subreddit most of all
THEPIGWHODIDIT@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The niche boards for problem solving is about the only thing.
NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
Local community content, and content for less popular games like Quake
Thalion@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
The amateur porn was way better
gastroglizzy@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Amateur porn is how every site gets big. Tumblr was able to get as big as Reddit by allowing amateur porn and Reddit only managed to keep up by doing the same. The only reason you don’t hear about Tumblr now is because they stepped allowing it and scrubbed all their content. By the time they reversed their decision only two weeks later, everyone had moved over to Reddit, their momentum was lost, and the damage was terminal.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 10 hours ago
r/asksciencefiction brought up a lot of great ideas and interesting arguments.
One of my favorites was ‘what if the Addams Family had discovered baby Kal-El?’
Zonetrooper@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
There was a whole constellation of fiction-related communities that flew below the largest ones (r/books, television, etc). Those large “front-pagers” often ended up acting as a filter, so places like r/asksciencefiction and r/characterrant could have decent discussion.
You can’t find any of that here, let alone communities dedicated to specific fictional series or settings.
justdaveisfine@piefed.social 10 hours ago
Yes and no. I miss some of the more niche communities and some subreddits that had great sources of information.
But I don’t miss the other 90%.
unitedwithme@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
I’m going to be a loner on this one, but I’m a big firearms guy and 2nd amendment supporter. Hard to be here when 99.99% are “eww guns”. I ran a few subs for niche communities. I miss the really tight group where everyone actually have a ahit, and nobody trolled each other. It was more for educating newbies, and helping those getting into it. Those communities were way nicer than anything else I was a part of.
five_bucks@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
I miss Reddit from two or three years ago. But all my favourite communities were overrun by bots.
“Wow, that’s interesting. Could you tell me more about that?”
Anything good that Reddit ever had was because of people. It’s gone now.
Necrifyre@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
I’ll always miss the vastness of communities on reddit. There’s just something for everyone.
What I’ll never miss is the absurd way things are moderated.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I definitely miss peak reddit, like 2015 or so. The community and thus the content was awesome. That experience doesn’t exist today though, so I definitely don’t miss reddit in the sense that I’d like to visit the site as it is today. I honestly think Lemmy is getting there though. If we keep this up, we can remake what peak Reddit gave us.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 28 minutes ago
2017 is when they got rid of the “illicit” subs.
AskewLord@piefed.social 7 hours ago
i miss niche hobby and academic subreddits full of thoughtful reasonable people where insane nonsense was not tolerated.
RoguePilot09@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I miss ShittyMorph. Randomly coming across one of those Hell in a Cell comments randomly always made me day.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Maybe his handle is available…
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 10 hours ago
Some sizeable language learning communities. Unless I’ve been living under a rock and some c/LearnJapanese or c/tokipona on some Lemmy instance absolutely took off
I also miss some gaming communities, but those being connected to some commercial product I can get they don’t do well on Lemmy 😅
spittingimage@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Not really. A lot of it felt fake before AI content came along.
frisbird@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
I miss the ol’ reddit switcheroo and also I miss the “you’re thinking of Y. X is when (something X is definitely not)”
Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 hours ago
I miss being able to hop into a forum for pretty much any individual game outside of the lousy Steam forums. Even the soulslike fans are a pretty small group here. And I tend toward fairly niche or complicated games with rather small player bases as it is.
Casuls_Die_Thrice@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
I miss a forums like r/religiousfruitcake, r/confession, r/vent, r/rant, things like that, as well as certain fandom-specific forums; it feels cozier & more personal here, but it’s not as comprehensive.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 38 minutes ago
the last 3 you mentioned, seems to have overtaken by astroturfing and bots.
silentjohn@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
Yes. I miss lifting/fitness content
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 36 minutes ago
now its mostly everything "what i achieved with roids/peds, to Lose 100+lbs) and acted like they did it naturally. and they dont like to be called out for cheating.
TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
No. Because, although I don’t have an account there anymore, but I still read there using Redlib.
PlasticQuality7519@reddthat.com 10 hours ago
Tell us more, please. Do you access it via web browser and in a PC? I was using Hydra for Reddit in my phone, but they recently removed the access point to see content when not logged in
allganic@feddit.org 47 minutes ago
Browser extensions: libredirect.manerakai.com
Or try the ones listed here: github.com/redlib-org/…/instances.md
faythofdragons@piefed.social 8 hours ago
I’ve gone back to reddit for medical stuff, there just isn’t anywhere here for me to ask advice specific for Ehlers Danlos exercise adaptations, for example. I’d just get a bunch of generalized advice that’d be more harmful than helpful.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 31 minutes ago
i visit some of medical ones too, most of them are too small to get noticed to be atstroturf, and people dont want to see skin lesions. i visit the Zoster(shingles community) alot because i had it young and had permanent damage. trying to guide people from misinformation(they always claimed they had 2-10 attacks over time, when in fact reactivaiton more than 1-2 times is very rare, often time when they showpictures its almost always contact dermatitis, an autoimmune disease) also morbidly curious about atypical Zoster.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
I miss a lot of Reddit content, especially local and niche content. However, what I really miss is a proper app with which to consume said content.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 12 minutes ago
The endless, unhinged thirst posts of Queens of League. Gay sigh.