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I installed the official Reddit app and went on it to see what the old place was looking like now. My inbox was filled with spam. The "home feed" shows subs I never subscribed to. There are so many ads. Between the ads and the the extra subs in the feed, it's hard to just scroll. I also noted a lot of spam in some of the subs. Maybe they are subs with no mods? I'm not sure what's up with that.

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Interesting to hear your experience. It took me 3.5 months to fully remove myself from Reddit. (March to July):

  • I started just poking around Lemmy while using Reddit
  • to occasional commenting and posting on Lemmy
  • to using them about equal time
  • then making a final few posts and comments in the protest weeks and helping people migrate
  • then I was only upvoting
  • then I made a final goodbye post on my Reddit page
  • then I stopped voting but still looking around Reddit and the playplace.
  • then when that was over, I uninstalled my favourite RedReader app and stopped using it altogether

I'm not one who likes to go cold turkey, but when once I commit to boycotting something I stick to it until my condition is met. In those final days I came across many Reddit users who were like "if you hate Reddit that much why are you still using iiiiiit?", that was annoying but that's behind me now and there is no condition for me to go back to it.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my case I still use the Stealth App. It doesn't allow to login, nor vote or comment, but you can still follow the subreddits you want to. No ads, no usage of the API.

[–] TwoGems@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How do I use it? I don't want to give Reddit clicks but some subs never migrated over

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Install the app, optionally change the Reddit source in the options (soon you'll be able to use a teddit proxy service to further obfuscate your profile, but for now I use the Web Scraping option), and enable some Privacy Enhancers, and you are good to go. To subscribe, search for a subreddit, open it, swipe left and click on "subscribe".

[–] TwoGems@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like Stealth isn't supported soon

[–] TwoGems@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like Stealth isn't supported soon

[–] viperex@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Maybe you can tell me. Does Lemmy have NSFW content?

Edit: Easily answered that question for myself

[–] LegionEris@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are at least two instances specifically dedicated to it. I currently prefer pornlemmy.com to lemmy.nsfw. We need some more niche content to make it's way onto the platform, but it's a good start.

[–] cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I keep seeing people say they want more "niche" content when it comes to porn on here but are people just looking for kinks or what?

I saw all kinds of nasty kink stuff when I was browsing pornlemmy.

[–] hazeebabee@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think what people want is very specific, well curated, and active communities about uncommon interests. Things like a whole community that is just 30-35year old redheads wearing cat ears and cleaning their shower in yellow striped thigh highs or something equally as weird and specific.

Like i remember stumbling across a community on reddit that was all about sewing felt vaginas/butts into stuffed animals so people could take their relationship with their favorite plushie to the next level. The community was shockingly active and full of discussion.

Things like that take time and lots of active users to become a thing. Lemmy isnt quite there yet. Same with other kinds of niche interests that havent quite set up shop here yet (for example there are cannabis communities, but nothing specifically for bonsai cannabis)

[–] cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like i remember stumbling across a community on reddit that was all about sewing felt vaginas/butts into stuffed animals so people could take their relationship with their favorite plushie to the next level. The community was shockingly active and full of discussion.

lol I am so not surprised something like that was active but I guess I have always been on the darkest corners of the internet.

bonsai cannabis?? Please tell me more about that.

[–] hazeebabee@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lol it was an interesting peak into the depravity of the human psyche 😅

And cannabonsai is super fun! You prune the cannabis kind of like a traditional bonsai tree. Its fun because you can get a complete look in a few months compaired to the years that traditional bonsai takes. It also works really well as a way to keep a graphed mother plant with multiple strains.

I was gonna share a pic of my plant but I cant figure out how to add pictures in my comments that actually show up... so heres a link to some pics :)

https://cannabitch.substack.com/p/the-art-of-cannabonsai

[–] cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the link! I was also looking it up. It sounds really cool and I love that you can achieve the effect in just a few months.

If you have desktop you can insert images on lemmy - its been working for me so far.

[–] LegionEris@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me personally, I'm a woman who is mostly attracted to other women, but I'm kinky af. Reddit has/had lesbian specific versions of a lot of NSFW subs. Having occasional lesbian content in niche communities isn't the same. There are other very specific things that are personal to me, but needing more lesbian content would be the biggest category for me easily.

[–] cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago

That makes total sense.

[–] Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I keep my account up because I'm in subs that have technical help for certain hardware and software and haven't migrated anywhere. I have lots of answers to issues that can be very helpful when searching. It sucks that Spez has forced so many people to delete important help like that.

[–] Yoru@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I use Infinity that I downloaded from F-Droid and it still works without me inputting any API keys or paying for a subscription. Did it steal my key or something 💀

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

FYI RedReader has planned Lemmy support as of a couple months ago; no roadmap or time frame but it should be in the works.