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[-] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

For me, it's the fact that while I dont always see eye to eye with the people here the fact is every account is almost certainly an actual person and not a bot. I want to hear other's experiences and perspectives and Reddit will not provide that.

I also like the fact that there is an end to the content here. It's not endless scrolling.

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 days ago

I deleted my account and the app

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago

What are you missing?

[-] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Got permbanned last year for saying tthat NeoNazis like Stonetoss aka Hans Kristian Graebner should be named and shamed. Tbh fuck that place. Reddit admins are Nazi sympathizers.

[-] RedSnt@feddit.dk 6 points 3 days ago

I used to feel dread when I logged into reddit and saw that someone had replied to something I wrote. I no longer have an account there, and I even went for the nuclear option of overwriting all my old messages,

then deleting them in case they chose to restore them, because:

fuck spez


For me personally it helps that I'm on a dedicated instance for Danes, so that's kind of like a safe haven, or like a kiddie pool where it was easier to get to know lemmy at first.

I no longer dread when someone replies because most of the people here on lemmy aren't assholes. I think it's because there's this barrier to entry which filters out a lot of people, or maybe it's that the assholes are looking for fights to begin with and is therefore attracted to the biggest platforms?

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[-] fittedsyllabi@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Want the freedom to speak your mind? Join Lemmy.

[-] s3rvant@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago

For the Reddit communities that are important to me I use their RSS feeds to keep an eye on new posts though I've logged out of my account and stopped participating. All actual browsing and participation was switched entirely to Lemmy.

[-] whiskers165@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

The censorship on reddit sickened me. I felt like I was being brainwashed scrolling through the feed. One day I just couldn't tolerate it any longer and like that I was free

[-] Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago

I miss the finance communities on reddit. But everything else I looked into on reddit I can mostly find here. I also put the effort into posting when I can't find an existing topic. You have to have a pioneer mentality here to establish your community.

[-] Proles_Uprising_Now@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I was perma banned for showing support to our Saint, Luigi Mangioni.

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[-] DegenerationIP@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

It was quote easy tbh. It imoroved since the First Wave actually.

Also people are more honest and caring from my pov. That doesnt gonfor everyone, but thats society.

It feels more Home than what reddit became.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 days ago

It was straight up half broken during the APIcalypse when I came over.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I went from full lurker to participant since I felt like I'm not completely drowned out by others. That made it more fun, since Lemmy all feed is pretty small relatively speaking and lurking gets boring if you're expecting an endless feed of random junk. Plus, since it's small, you can also feel like you're contributing to the Lemmy community, since without your comments and posts, it won't exist.

Although get to the bottom of the all feed and things get wild.

[-] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

That and everyone on here are not total contrarians to everything you post or comment on

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[-] chunes@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I didn't have a choice. They banned my account and instantly shadowban any new account I make. Even if I use a VPN or agent spoofer.

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Look at the quality of the posts.

When I open Reddit it's just the most vacuous drivel. It's not enjoyable or entertaining at all. There is no depth or substance.

[-] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 3 points 3 days ago

I was banned for expressing a political opinion. I was annoyed that someone else was trying to shoehorn politics into an art appreciation sub, to which I responded in a visceral way, typical of an alcoholic who had been dry for less than a week.

[-] Auth@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I like discussion and hearing different point of views. Lemmy is great for one side but i've supplemented it with reading HackerNews. I find the discussion on there way more good faith and even though its stupidly pro AI I still like reading why people like AI and posts about how they are using it.

Mostly im just hear for Tech and Linux and memes. After leaving Reddit I barely ever return. Sometimes i open up a sub to scroll the top posts of the month to see if anything was missed

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[-] hereforawhile@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

New accounts on reddit are heavily restricted making it impossible to share things so I left. Found Lemmy by accident. Instantly way better community and low barrier to contribute has me hereforawhile.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 points 4 days ago

Build a community about something you love! It takes little effort. :) Then when you browse Reddit occasionally, you can steal memes. In fact, do that anyway if you end up browsing and post them here!

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This is good advice. Whenever you find yourself thinking "I wish there was more ____ content" here I guarantee you're not the only one thinking that. It just takes one person to have the initiative to make the community and build it up. In my experience it's surprising how quickly others will follow.

My biggest advice is don't make a community and fill it with everything right away. If you have something you want to share maybe hold onto it. Make a list, post one every few days. These grow over time. One burst of posts fades away after a day or two, but regular, spread out posts keep it in people's feed for longer.

[-] Vanth@reddthat.com 6 points 4 days ago

I went on a 10 day backpacking trip with no reception. I deleted my reddit apps and bookmarks before I went. So got over the withdrawals during the trip, and there was just enough friction to reinstall when I got back that I never bothered.

I was also very mad about them killing the API for 3rd party mod tools and the resulting slip into AI slop and misogynist claptrap on the sub I helped mod. It's an empty Internet wasteland now; just bots and MAGA incels yelling at each other.

[-] sourquincelog@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

I left reddit in 2020, it was just very toxic at that point. scrubbed my account and uninstalled the app. Hexbear was standalone for a long time, so being part of the lemmyverse is a nice horizon broadener. Beyond that, when I'm bored and want to scroll, I check out rednote to see what the rest of the world is up to

[-] moonburster@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

In the beginning it was hard, but I’ve come to love that it isn’t an endless scroll

[-] fuckgod@feddit.online 5 points 4 days ago

Everybody kinda already said the obvious answers, but I'll pop in to reiterate that my main reason was killing the API (because fuuuuuuck their shitty trash app filled with ads- or any and every app that has ads at all). I got here (Lemmy and piefed and mastodon)as part of the mass exodus that switched when the ax dropped on that.

I had wanted to before that, but addictions are addictions. But killing the app I actually liked using (combined with the dev making a Lemmy version that was extremely similar), I just kinda rode the wave to the Fediverse.

So like others, I still poke in when a search result points there, but I avoid it in general. Getting rid of the app will definitely help because it gets rid of the 1-tap access to shit.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

I didn't really, I have 13 Reddit tabs and like 25 Lemmy tabs open in this browser window atm

[-] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Jerboa app configured to look like Baconreader.

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[-] foodandart@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago

Delete all your Reddit bookmarks and favorites and find a lemmy community to launch yourself into. I picked gaming and a few news ones and so far, it's fine.. Even moreso that I found the old.lemmy.zip page and it's comfortable to me as I was dedicated to old.reddit and RES.

[-] Corridor8031@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

delete your account and get always on mullvad vpn, reddit often blocked the vpn exit node, so you just can not use it then lol (but sometimes it works still)

[-] fellagha@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 days ago

I didn't, really. Barely ever used Reddit to begin with. I just wanted a platform to chat and engage with every now and then, and this federated, decentralized alternative is principally superior and is a historical necessity. The reason you "struggle" is because Reddit wants to keep you trapped in its ecosystem and addicted by centralizing online communication spaces.

Already wrote this somewhere else, but might well share it here: Reddit is a cesspool US deep state cut-out propaganda and censorship platform like all of these US-based platforms are, they answer to the US state dept and empire and we all know it. Doesn’t matter if it’s META, X or Reddit (and fuck, Google and YouTube obviously) - they all follow the same line. They’ll crack down on leftist subs, even r/russia due to the official US position, yet keep racist Western subs around (like r/europe) and other liberal shitholes of all kinds I don’t give a shit to even name or remember, even fascist subs and of course the genocide apologists on r/“israel”.

[-] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago

Got kicked off Reddit for reporting transphobic harassment, so the decision was easy.

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