I’m not trying to cause an argument but when Reddit pulled it’s bs - I said that’s enough. I gave up my Reddit addiction and didn’t open it or visit the site for over 30 days.
The tone and people on Lemmy is great. I don’t miss Reddit. But I miss the content types. For me Reddit was a topic related news source, a place for great discourse about those news pieces, a place where community members asked constructive questions or shared ideas/projects - and lastly a place for some very specific community types.
Over the last few days I noticed that the first 2 categories of content came over to Lemmy no problem. But the second 2 types I outlined above don’t seem to have come. I went back to Reddit this morning and it’s all still there. Certain types of posts just don’t happen on Lemmy, and on top of that many communities never came over (street_photography is a great example. They literally shut down a subreddit with thousands of users and created a new location in Lemmy/kbin, and instead of coming over the community just evaporated). Other communities are also non existent and some that do exist are simply just not enjoying the same types of posts. I like it here, I want to stay - but it’s difficult. Is anyone else having this issue?
Thanks for hearing me out.
TLDR: all of my communities seem to link posts only, many types of posts just don’t seem to happen here.
Its still early. This is the first time there has been a legitimate alternative to reddit and thats honestly only because 3rd party apps like sync have made it usable.
Reddit started when Digg changed its site and everyone went to reddit. There has also been multiple attempts to leave reddit, but no similar alternatives. Now there is a good alternative and there will be more things reddit does that will make people look for alternatives.
But the Reddit switch happened fairly quick. And there was content doesn’t seem to be the same with Lemmy. It’s all just memes and complaining about Reddit. Most of the communities I followed are a couple posts a day now and some are dead now.
I’m experiencing the same thing, so I’ve been doing the following:
The preponderance of Lemmy users are currently disenfranchised former redditors (myself included) who have been able to figure out the fediverse. Memes and complaint discussions are relatively easy content to produce, and Linux/FOSS posts just come with the territory when a user base is technically savvy. No complaints on this front from me, however!
Really the only communities I’m currently missing are posts from my fellow JDM and German car enthusiasts and a few podcast communities.
What are your interests?
Sync did not do shit. Us OGs made this platform free of right wingers, 4channers, prevented raids, worked on sign up systems, and so on. Lemmy is also lean to self host and run.
I am not a developer, but I can count on hand 5-10 people besides me, that were not admins, that help in various ways like stopping trolls and raids, moderation, advising on every single thing that is wrong with Lemmy, and so on.
The biggest problem with every single reddit alternative to date, apart from Lemmy, has been the “freezepeach” trope aggregating the same kinds of dogshit extremist users nobody wants to interact with. This is why I never adopted any alternative platform before this, and this is why I was sent by someone to support Lemmy 3 years ago. Bunch of us made Lemmy what it is today. I am proud of it.