I haven’t gone back since Apollo shut down, and not planning to, but I am curious.
Many subs seem to have lost most of their activity.
Ah, yes, typical reddit addict having withdrawal syndrome.
Don’t look back…
Tbh this is filling that void. Think I checked reddit once since Apollo died
Never again.
Lemmy is my new Reddit addiction. With Lemmy becoming more vibrant I’m missing Reddit less and less, though Lemmy still has a ways to go.
Getting better daily though.
i have relapsed for the past several days… mostly because my app (boost) has not yet been shut down.
i have been enjoying my fix, but I it does leave me feeling dirty.
As a fellow booster… You’re a whore 😉. Hoping rmayayo really does put together a lemmy/fediverse app.
I’d LAUNCH the Rocket!
There’s a registration up on the Play store to download it once it releases, and he did a pretty open announcement on the Boost for Reddit app.
I’d say somethings coming of it, at the very least.
Yeah, I’m in. Supposedly automatically downloading when available.
As much as I want to, I still gotta browse Reddit to get updates related to my niche.
Excuses, excuses.
Is it withdrawal symptoms if I’m only curious out of spite?
Yes. You have to break away 100%. Cold turkey is a bitch!
Lol I wouldn’t really call it a bitch, I haven’t been on since they announced their plans. I just want any corporations to burn when possible
Same, lol. I gave up reddit as soon as the protest started. Been on 4chan to pass the time, but lemmy has really picked up the last week.
Haha.
I find the best way to handle withdrawal is to change your habit. I spent time grabbing a few books, and spent a few days with my Kindle or with Foliate fullscreen on my HDTV.
So before, I’d probably spend time answering r/firefox, looking at r/firefoxcss - now I start with 1/2 hour reading Great Expectations. After reading a chapter, I play the same chapter via audiobook - meanwhile I have a couple of TV/Movie versions queued up to watch after finishing reading.
After that I’d probably get into some DadJokes - I can do that on https://lemmy.world/c/dadjokes
Next up, an hour reading The Midnight Library
They still make books? 😉
Most movies and tv shows are from books, and reading the book is 99.5% better.
Think of talking Bladerunner movie and doing it as a 30 minute short.
Hello!
May I ask why you are listening to the same chapter after reading it? :) Is it to retain the information or just to not miss anything? Do you do the same regardless if you’re reading fiction or non-fiction?
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !dadjokes@lemmy.world
Good bot
I’ll be honest I was having withdraws until I found out about memmy
Stay strong!
Oh I am lol. I just wanted something to browse during work and Memmy does just that
That’s how it starts!
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That’s just not true lol but some subs stayed down. The remaining subs are still getting 50k karma on hot posts. It’s mostly am I the asshole type posts and the small niche ones active
And how many of them are spez-bots?
Bout tree fiddy
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It depends on what you were subscribed to. Most of mine are dead too, but they were smaller and more eclectic subreddits.
I mean, half the good subs are still gone. I can’t even use my home feed anymore, its half just video game subs now. Places like r/interestingasfuck were regular features in my feed that were pretty important to it being a pleasant experience overall. I balanced that shit.
Now its all fucked. I still have my account and still go there, to poke around and participate in some of those video game subs, where reddit is still clearly dominant. But hanging out has gotten kinda lame.
I miss Tihi to be honest. And few other subreddits. But I can survive without them.
Yeah, it’s the video game subs that I miss. I’ve joined the same ones here on Lemmy but they’re mostly dead… I’m optimistic that they’ll populate and come alive though.
I don’t get how’s there’s so much activity here on the big communities but us lemmy nerds….have dead gaming communities, the hell?
I’m also missing a popular wrestling sub because I like to keep up with the news as I don’t watch any TVs or PPVs so I’m back to browsing there on PC.
There’s a difference between nerds and geeks
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I’ve only been back to visit a small, private sub, but I’ve seen a lot of posts here saying that a high percentage of bot content is obvious. The conjecture is that there’s always been a lot of bots, but they were somewhat less obvious because there was more human content. With a lot of big content creators leaving, it’s more apparent when a lot of posts and comments are from bots.
Plus some people think Reddit has increased bot usage to astroturf against the protests and to give the illusion that traffic isn’t down.
I think the bot theory is accurate. 3rd party tools were critical for detecting and removing bot posts before.
The small communities I look at are half of what they used to be. The bigger ones just made up for it with increased bot posting.
The bot posting will probably last long enough for their IPO so they can sucker in enough investors for them to fuck on out of there. The more casual users that are left probably don’t use the system enough to know/care until it comes crashing down.
Surely by now Reddit is toxic for any investors. Their IPO is dead in the water.
Elon would buy it
LOL! Because losing his shirt on one social media platform isn’t enough. };>
Reddit still has better porn, for all other things I do not give a f**k.
Ah, talking about the porn they consume, but adverse to using a swear word.
A gentleman in the sheets.
But you can’t use good gallery apps to view it now.
Ahh the Lemmy PQI (porn quality index) has jumped leaps the past few weeks. Just need a few of the more estoric NSFW subs to transfer across to appease my filthy corrupted soul and my journey to Lemmy will be complete.
I can’t find porn ;-;
Make sure you’ve not got NSFW switched off in your settings, there’s plenty ;-)
Figured it out I think it was because my language hadn’t been set, not even on undetermined.
Thank you I’m going to figure this out probably.
Lemmy needs a randnsfw imo
@nsfwlemmy.com is building up stuff slowly!
Are they mostly on specialized instances, or scattered across the greater fediverse? Asking for the sake of accurate statistics, of course.
So far almost exclusively on nsfw specialized instances, with lemmynsfw.com being the largest.
Those in pursuit of pure science would probably be best served by creating an account directly on that instance
It was going back to normal, but now they’ve made an even bigger fuckup (removing the ENTIRE AWARDS SYSTEM) so it won’t last.
There ain’t really shit there it feels like. Scrolling through all feels bad and the Reddit app just spams adds and sucks ass. I’m here now, against my wishes 🤷♀️ but I want to see good news and shit. Not garbage
Truthfully, nothing changed from my perspective. I mostly use some sports subs, a couple of technical subs, and book subs and they’ve fully gone back to how they were and seem as active as they were. Many mods in those subs received backlash after re-opening for even protesting at all, since many users didn’t know or care about the issue to begin with.
This has been my experience also. Sports, games, tech support subs all seem the same as ever.
I use it during work hours as a time waster, with uBlock on because fuck spez.
Totally dropped it on mobile tho, using only wefwef on my phone :)
It almost seems like business as usual, but there are definitely fewer posts, and people don’t seem to be posting as often. And you can tell in some of the subs that the mods have taken a step back to some degree.
It had been steadily getting worse over the past month and since July 1st it’s fallen off a cliff really. It actually seems noticeably quieter imo.
Sync user & 13 yrs using Reddit pretty much daily. I’ve deleted my account & can’t see any reason to go back to that kind of usage but there are one or 2 niche subreddits that I do still occasionally have a nosey at via a browser.
My app only really stopped working yesterday.
I wouldn’t say massively different, but I do find it pretty stale content wise recently. Only started using Lemmy today and worry that it’s just a bit empty content wise for the moment…
