I posted a few weeks ago about how I didn’t feel like quitting reddit just yet. and, honestly, I still have a hard time not opening my phone every five minutes to check it.
but I decided to quit because I realized how much of a negative echo chamber it was. I couldn’t even mute certain words on the reddit app so I had to keep seeing the same shit over and over again in the popular feed.
it’ll be a long road moving from one platform to another, but I’m pretty satisfied not being strangled by reddit’s overwhelming snark and negativity.
dunno if anyone here feels a similar way, but felt like sharing my thoughts.
For me the final thing was ubiquitous CCP propaganda and gaslighting even in non political subreddits
There is something very bad happening on the web and I hesitate to think about future consequences. We really need to get that EU army up and running pronto der Leyen.
Yep it’s out of control. There’s a lot of research showing extremist groups utilise social media to help spread propaganda, misinformation and recruit people. Cults can be political. It’s really scary
I had the habit to delete my Reddit account after a few months. I couldn’t care less about history of posts, likes and so on. So I had a few dozen Reddit accounts over the past years. What strikes me is how easily the “funnel” starts to build up. In the first week you get a fresh view on how Reddit is really like, a few days later you are pulsing with like minded people, amplifying the opinions.
Reddit is still a great source for “how to”, but you don’t an account for that…
Yep. Was on reddit since like 2012 or 2013. Site was so different and a lot better back then. You subbed to a specific sub, you saw the shit you wanted to see. Now everything is completely overrun with politics and they’re banning people for absolutely no reason.
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First comment here, doesn’t look like my third party app is working anymore. I really liked it compared to the default Reddit app
Boost?
Mine too, Thankfully there’s a Boost for Lemmy that I like using.
I stopped contributing to reddit after the API shit, but still lurked and saved links. Now I don’t use it at all, exported my saved links so I can figure out how to curate them.
I’ve been so disappointed with reddit over the last couple months. I put a decent amount of effort in to curate my feed so it was all low stakes stuff - hobby content, casual chats, local events, a couple help forums related to my profession. It was nice to log on for 5-10 minutes here and there and see someone’s garden or read about someone documenting their pet’s weight loss journey or whatever.
I can’t get ragebait out of my feed any more. I block a subreddit and five more with identical depressing and/or rage-inducing content take its place. It’s boring and it’s bad for my brain. I won’t participate.
New here too. Welcome :)
Most of the content here is memes or world news. Glad to see more people joining and looking forward to more niche communities!
I can’t get ragebait out of my feed any more. I block a subreddit and five more with identical depressing and/or rage-inducing content take its place.
The way to optimize is to make a multireddit of only your preferred subreddits and check that over and over again. For example, for me, https://old.reddit.com/r/AutoHotkey+FreeGameFindings+news plus a bunch of other ones, whatever you’re comfortable with and enjoy. Be highly selective about what you add to this multireddit and then Reddit becomes heaven because of your awesome filtering.
Because of my ultra-curated multi, Reddit was mostly fine, if not even excellent; I’m just wanting to leave because of its centralization and to support FOSS endeavors.
still doesn’t change the annoying culture reddit has which is ultimately why I left.
I don’t know what culture that is. I guess I have an extremely particular list of subs that dodges that for the most part.
“r/allthatisintresting” on popular posts be like:
“THE ULTIMATE CHILD MURDERER. Is sentenced to only one day in prison, judge says it’s fine enough punishment for murdering 900 kids”
“local man burned alive by the cartel dies in hospital”
I feel like I’ll be deleting my reddit account soon. 90% of the feed is anxiety inducing
What helped me and my phone habits was the loss of Apollo during the API fiasco, and the immediate emergence of voyager, allowing me to simply replace the “check reddit feed” habit with “check lemmy feed”.
Plus, since lemmy is less algorithms (and users) there isn’t much urge to doomscroll.
I am on Lemmy only now because of the Luigi censorship, but I used Narwhal on Reddit since before the API fiasco and after I was happy to pay for Narwhal to keep the increasing enshittification at bay. Now I use Apollo with Lemmy and it is like the old days on Reddit, and very similar to the Narwhal experience, but with less content. We all just have to make the posts and feel assured that we will not be overrun by bots and corporate overlords.
I’m in the same boat from Reddit Is Fun, and I went with Sync, which in hindsight was a bad idea. Sync’s creator abandoned it after getting an influx of donations. I’ll have to find a new Lemmy browser soon as many of the year old formatting templates are outdated.
Voyager is nice. vger.app
Me irl too! Voyager replacement is the real deal, and I only search reddit for historical information (although less often than I used to)
New user here, that just came over because of the Voyager app. Do you know if it’s made by the same person/people that made the Joey app for reddit? Similar logo/mascot and layout, my favorite part of Joey was the color coded parent/reply comments which is so much useful imo.
I just did the sign up and am having an easy time subscribing to similar communities I was browsing on reddit, and tbh I’m happy to just have an app to scroll thru memes and see updates on news stories without the constant raging and not knowing how many real people are behind the 500 comments of one post. It really does feel like what reddit was for me when I started browsing there over a decade ago on my shitty laptop, well before I ever got an app
Like everyone else, I miss what it was. Now i can’t connect with anyone there. The tone is so toxic. I largely stopped signing in last fall. It was feeling so gross. But I would still check in from time to time. With yesterday’s messages about censorship, I will not be signing in again. I don’t think it’s a coincidence this is happening at the same time as the take it down policy and changes in approach to cyber security
The switch isn’t too difficult imo. I only lurk on reddit for certain communities, but much of the news/memes here are the same or better. The comment sections seem more sincere here too.
Most importantly, no ads and the ability to block users/communities/domains that you don’t want to see/hear
The keyword filter also works just fine!
Welcome!
It’s a weird feeling in the beginning. For me I was the same, I realized how addicted I had become to it, almost withdrawal from it. But after a while I realized what toll the constant firehose had taken on me.
You’ll notice we have less here, I view it as a good thing. Less content, but it’s higher quality. I check my phone less but when I do it’s less mindless scrolling. There are actual good articles.
Plus as you see I can actually chat with people here, instead the insta-hate I got on Reddit.
So overall, welcome! Let us know if you need directions :)
Ugh I know. There’s always been people online who just wanna fight but reddit just seems to have got nasty. The heart has gone, used to be you got random charity drives starting in comment chains and stuff like that, I’ve not seen that in ages.
I’m new so would you mind giving me directions? I’ve noticed there’s duplicate communities on different instances. Some of them don’t let me join or comment, is it cos I’m not a member of that instance?
I’m deleting my account right now after 8 years and its kinda scary. Its good to know other people are doing it too
If you want positive space you might also check tildes.net (it is actually run by old Reddit admin and it tries to reassemble Reddit from 10+ years ago)
beehaw is also very positive.
Hey, congratulations! This place has its flaws, no doubt, but it’s a much improved community over what Reddit has become - especially in the past 2-3 years.
Can you elaborate?
I feel like using old.reddit and subreddits that I was following since long ago, shielded me from those changes.
I used old.reddit as well, but I noticed a marked decline in the already-not-stellar quality of comment sections and an increase in karma bots posting.
That still depends on which subreddits you visit. If you only go to a specific set of 20-or-so subs and never anywhere else, it’s fantastic.
I see, I’m right now mostly check news and worldnews on Lemmy it is a bit more spread out. I wish Lemmy had an option to maybe logically combine multiple communities into one.
I’m having a hard time giving up Reddit yet. I mostly follow smaller subreddits with very niche interests and I really enjoy the community banter. Lemmy is not quite here yet, because you need a critical mass of people to make even the smaller communities feel alive. I’m really hoping Lemmy will take off so I can eventually get rid of Reddit altogether.
I had this as a mindset too until recently. I think what helped me move was realizing that interacting with Reddit was incredibly low stakes and I was only going there for hobby and community reasons.
until I sort of realized that the negative outways the positive. it sort of happened recently where I was a mod of a subreddit and people kept acting like idiots after I took a break from the role, and I realized “realistically, nobody will ever actually give a shit about my efforts here.” and I took one look and left. I don’t really think I lost anything by leaving besides my year old account and 20k karma but, it’s superficial at the end of the day.
Isn’t this part a bit ironic? “I realized how much of a negative echo chamber it was. I couldn’t even mute certain words”
I would guess that being able to mute entire thesis would lead to more echo chambering. Maybe I’m wrong. I also don’t know Reddit very well
Wanting to not see people debating if minorities should or shouldn’t be killed isn’t creating a echo chamber
Well of course, you’re right on this point. It it was your entire use case then no echo chamber issue, just muting fasc speech
What you say is right if you care about discussing political opinions online. If you only care about memes and general discussions, you don’t create echo chambers
