I browse exclusively on my phone, so deleting reddit apps and installing Lemmy apps was the biggest step for me.
I primarily browsed All, so setting my default sorting to All Top 12 Hours was key.
Finally, I made a point to comment and post more. This is where Lemmy beats Reddit hands down in my opinion. You can comment on posts that are hours old on All and still have meaningful discussions. Trying that on Reddit is like screaming into the void.
Edit: I also forgot to mention that I upvote almost everything. If you made a post that I read and it’s not complete trash, you’re getting an upvote. Same with comments. I upvote almost every comment I read - especially ones in response to my posts or comments. I feel like it let’s people know they’re being seen.
Your edit is a bit like that in the Fediverse in general. Since there’s no algorithm, liking a post in Mastodon does nothing beyond letting op know you appreciate them. I like that.
I hate this phrase. There are several algorithms. There’s new, hot, rising, etc. There’s no company manipulating content discovery. That’s the difference. Algorithms are great. For-profit companies with an incentive to control content is bad.
In the Lemmy word, sure. I was referring to Mastodon where there is no hot or rising. It’s just based off of who you’re following and when you check. Hence likes doing nothing but informing the poster of your appreciation.
I guess fair enough, though every other federated site I know of uses some other algorithm, and you seem to have been talking about the fediverse in general, not Mastodon, except for the example. Still, Mastodon’s sort is still an algorithm. You can’t display anything without an algorithm. That word just means a set of rules to complete a task. Mastodon uses one that only uses who you’re following and time to decide what to display.
Algorithms aren’t the issue. We can have sophisticated algorithms that help users find the content they want. That’s great. It’s when there is an incentive, and ability, to influence the algorithm by the platform controllers when there’s an issue. The fediverse solves this not by ditching algorithms, but by having no singular controller.
On the web client, if you go to Trending, you will see “hot” posts (I have no idea how they’re ranked) by folks you’re not following. The official Android client has this too. It’s where I spend most of my Mastodon time.
Edit: I also forgot to mention that I upvote almost everything. If you made a post that I read and it’s not complete trash, you’re getting an upvote. Same with comments. I upvote almost every comment I read - especially ones in response to my posts or comments. I feel like it let’s people know they’re being seen.
Oh hell yeah, me too. I browse all a lot (sometimes sorted by scaled) and even if something isn’t for me, if it seems like something others would like, it’s getting an upvote.
Lemmy doesn’t have most of the communities I need, so I still end up using Reddit a lot and sometimes other sites/forums. I use Lemmy for casual browsing though because Reddit’s main subs are complete ass and the politics on Lemmy and its focus on Linux discussion is a lot better.
Consider making one or two of those communities. There’s no shame in sourcing articles/content from reddit and posting it here (direcelt links to source, not links to reddit) . A post or two every few days will quickly round up others.
My Reddit app stopped working, and the official app is dogshit; Reddit kind of made the switch for me
Reddit kept being shittier and shittier, the people got dumber and dumber, and I kept getting more and more worried about being about to say what I really wanted about magas being fucking terrorists. Then they killed third party apps, and while I tried to make it work for a little while, eventually they killed the workaround, and that was the last straw.
Fediverse/kbin/lemmy has been such a constant breath of fresh air, even if that breath continues to be bad news, that I have literally no reason to go back. The queer techie and neighbor tankies and based non-Americans just make this place so much healthier and positive in a time in history when we really need people who aren’t giant assholes and who are awake at all and who make a conscious decision to at least try to do the right thing.
I stopped using reddit when I realized most of it’s content was sponsored.
I got banned for “inciting violence” even though I never really did, but it could be construed that way so, here I am. I still go lurk as some content you can’t find over here, but I do enjoy the differences. I’m learning a whole lot about Linux and ditching the mega tech corpo bs.
Similar story here. Fourteen years with only a one day suspension from r/ politics for telling an asshat “you are a child.” Then suddenly warned for “inciting violence” for saying “sometimes you have to punch the bully in the nose.” I appealed, it was denied, deleted everything and asserted my right to be forgotten as an EU person. I quit almost all American software in January of this year and moved to Linux.
They killed RiF, and I wasn’t about to use their shitty app.
Just like Reddit, you have to add your personalized subs before you can really start enjoying it. Start looking for subs you like.
The bottom line is that there isn’t enough content to last all day like Reddit, but I see that as a good thing. I wrap up on Lemmy and then I can dig myself into a Wikipedia hole and learn something.
Best part about Lemmy is my comments actually get seen and responded to and it can take a couple days before a post is dead, unlike Reddit where if I comment 4 hours after it’s posted, it’s dead and there’s no activity on my comments.
Reddit feels like I’m a dog hanging out a car window trying to bite at the air as it whips past me but never getting anything of substance. Lemmy feels like I’m in an AA support group and we’re all sitting in a circle communicating and sharing our addiction together.
I was perma banned for showing support to our Saint, Luigi Mangioni.
praise be
Reddit made it simple for me; they banned the app I browsed it with (Boost, along with every other 3rd party app).
I don’t browse on my desktop, and I refuse to use their 1st party app, so using Reddit became too inconvenient.
Same here, as I only use open-source clients on the phone. It’s been obvious for many years that the apps made by the social media companies are spyware, so I’ve stayed away from them.
But also I use the web mostly, and “switching” on the web just means closing one tab and opening another to visit a different URL. It’s sad that many folks who use the Internet don’t understand how or try to avoid the hellscape of app lock-in. The web is here for our open usage just as it has been for decades.
In the beginning it was hard, but I’ve come to love that it isn’t an endless scroll
I just uninstalled Reddit and installed Sync for Lemmy. I’ll still end up on reddit occasionally from a Google search result or something, but I don’t go there intentionally.
Unfortunately Sync has been abandoned, so you might want to look for a new app soon.
That’s sad. I’ll keep using it until it stops functioning. Don’t like my cheese moving unless it has to
I use Jerboa and it’s not too shabby.
For anyone interested: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jerboa
I’ll try it out, don’t like the icon as much haha.
No kangaroo mouse for you then! I feel like Muad’dib!
Slowly, over the course of 3 months.
I stopped posting, then stopped commenting, then logged in every other day, then deleted Redreader and stopped going regularly.
I joined Lemmy in March 2023 on my six-year Reddit cakeday, API-calypse happened in June, swore never to write a word on Reddit again in July and I’ve since kept that vow. Now that I’m fully weaned off, maybe next year I’ll break it specifically to invite people to Lemmy !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
At first I was petty. Now I have other things to do with my time so Lemmy has more than enough content.
Boost app for Android helped by keeping a familiar interface and functionality. Use Alexandrite frontend on PC.
Other than that,you’ve got to accept that Lemmy is not a direct replacement for Reddit. The population here is way way smaller. Niche interests are non-existant. Subscribing is even pointless to an extent, as there really isn’t all that much content posted in total. You’re best browsing “all”. For content, you get what you get, rather than being able to pick from a wide variety.
It has pros and cons for what it is. But Lemmy certainly isn’t a direct replacement for Reddit.
