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.
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.
use a decent app like sync
blorp has been pretty solid for me and you can also use piefed with it
does it allow you to hide image posts? I haven’t found a client that allows you to hide image posts.
Blorp dev here. Do you mean hide the image posts entirely, or just hide the image from the post? I’m in the process of rolling out an “Extra Compact” post view that renders the image posts without the images. But that won’t roll out to iOS and Android for a few days.
I want to hide the image posts entirely.
here’s my reasoning: lots of communities have interesting text/link posts, but are plagued with worthless meme posts. hiding image posts would instantly clear up 100% of that noise.
hiding the thumbnails isn’t good enough. I don’t want to see thread titles for the hilarious Anakin Skywalker four panel dead horse joke cluttering up half of my feed all the time. a lot of really interesting communities are like 50% meme slop, so it’s not insignificant. an anti-idiot filter would make a lot of communities infinitely more tolerable.
I don’t think I’m going to add this feature tbh, BUT
I’m currently collaborating with the Interstellar devs to design a very powerful filter engine for both our apps. This will let you load in one or multiple filter files for complex filtering within the app. The specification we designed would allow you to write a filter that says
IF post.thubnail.url has length > 0 THEN hide the postYou can combine that with other checks
AND post.community.name is in this listAnd the best part, these filters will be shareable with other users! You will be able to browse or optionally publish a filter you designed.
Instead of building a dozen niche features like this, we can ship one very powerful filter engine that can handle many use cases. How does that sound?
yeah that sounds pretty good.
is there any way to get a super compact clean feed
like this?
Fellow 2 year 3 month lemmy user, your anger nourishes my soul.
Wow, has it really been that long?
Right? What the heck
My how time flies. Reddit was already trash at that point, it was mostly habit keeping me going there, but I think it’s gotten a lot worse. Either that or I forgot just how bad it was.
Never look back, keep fighting the good fight my friend
yep, this, cold turkey ragequit. Have since had to go back for the odd super niche technical question/subject/area, but now I’m thinking I’ll keep that readonly and delete my account (after trashing everything on it, ofc, which I did a week ago after a Reddit-typical terrible interaction with a terrible human.)
I dont get the question. Same way you stay off any website. There are millions of sites out there. You stay of 99.9% as is. It’s just like that.
I’m making the same transition kinda. I moved from Digg to Reddit over ten years ago. I was on Lemmy for a while more recently and then Digg rose from the ashes a couple months ago, but I’m realizing I like Lemmy/Piefed much more. I already had a trial run on breaking my social media habits when I left twitter though. I think a big part of it is realizing you don’t need a constantly updated firehose of useless information lol I’m still very online but probably like half of what I was when I was using Reddit and twitter. Now I have a blog, read a lot of RSS for that breaking, early news and I go to Lemmy for news with social commentary from normal people who aren’t influencers. I comment more here too because I’m not competing with millions of people to have an edgy top rated comment. I think the biggest thing is embracing smaller communities and going from there.
I moved from Digg to Reddit over ten years ago. I was on Lemmy for a while more recently and then Digg rose from the ashes a couple months ago, but I’m realizing I like Lemmy/Piefed much more.
New Digg is supposedly going to use AI for moderation, so why would anyone want to move back there?
And I’m in the same boat, originally fled from Digg to Reddit. I still remember how much I hated how Reddit looked compared to Digg, which is funny, because even though I no longer have an account on Reddit, I still browse certain subreddits there from time to time and I will just not let go of the old.reddit.com layout now.
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.
Participating has really helped. I’m still struggling to post, but I try to comment wherever I feel I can add value, however small.
Build the platform you want to be part of.
Commenting always has value dude! Even small ones are like having a passing conversation in line at a coffee shop.
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Have a great day buddy!
“be the change you want to see in the world”, or in this case, “go ahead and post stuff. Nobody here is superhuman, but we try to do the right thing and be chill with people who also aren’t quippy dickholes” aka, be human.
I’m sure this won’t last, but for now it seems to be better than Reddit, at least. The way I’ve thought about it is that this takes a certain level/threshold of technical know-how/problem-solving to enter, so it filters out the most casual of thoughtless people (for now). Like if you can’t put some serious thought into morality or slightly deeper rationality into a situation, you probably can’t jump the bridge to fediverse-lemmy.
Also, as time goes on, I’m noticing all kinds of communities fragmenting into smaller, more specialized communities. Hopefully, Lemmy can be the platform/community of thoughtful considerates who are slightly tech elevated and more social.
Getting permabanned on my main and any secondary accounts I had helped. The app on my phone I use for Lemmy makes it look pretty much exactly like the Reddit app so the only difference for me is less people which means some communities I’d like to talk to people in just has nobody in them.
Reddit banned all the subreddits I actually enjoyed so I stopped participating altogether. It’s helpful to recognize that reddit’s structure leads to total stagnation in the content. I haven’t been active for years, but I still end up on a reddit thread from time to time to get answers to questions that Google should be answering (that’s another topic altogether) and I see the same stake jokes being made, the same arguments being had, the same mediocre insights from the same dull people, and it makes me so glad that I left. I don’t begrudge younger people going through the process of figuring out how to engage with the world, but I also don’t want to participate.
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.
I deleted my account and the app
I decided I was done with reddit. I never used apps so I just signed out of my account and never went back.
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
for niche communities so small and so tech-nonliterate that simply have no chance of being on the fediverse i went to tumblr instead
