Lemmy has the structure/organization but none of the niche interest activity that kept me on Reddit for so long. Plus it's got all the weird pro china shit and an even worse problem with the hive mind bullshit than Reddit.

With the death of third party apps, I would say that my time that was formerly spent on Reddit is now spent 10% still on Reddit, 15-20% on Lemmy, and the rest just isn't spent on that sort of thing anymore.

I've been reading more, maybe a 2-5% increase on Facebook of all places, going to the source for news (Axios, Washington Post mostly), gaming with the computer time, maybe a 15% increase on YouTube time...started streaming more shows and stuff, and spent more time outside, even in the sweltering summer heat.

So basically for me, Lemmy has turned out to not be a reddit replacement, and instead that time has just been split up many different ways.

I do miss Reddit, and wish that Lemmy had indeed been a workable alternative, but it's just not. I won't go back to Reddit because I accessed it 95% on a mobile 3rd party app...but just because I won't go back doesn't mean that Lemmy is just as good.

As time goes on, I'm starting to realize that the time I still spend here is mostly because I want it to be better and I'm trying to be active long enough to see that change happen...but the longer I just kill time here waiting for it, the more I see shit I don't like.

I would expect that while I'll still keep my account open, I'll probably be done with Lemmy by the end of the year.

[–] shapis@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel most of these issues are just due to how small the userbase is.

[–] Stuka@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

And that a sizable portion of that small user base are batshit extremists

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Agreed. I see a lot of the same names around various different subs. My only complaint is the sports subs have a lot fewer folks and thus less engagement on GDTs but otherwise everyone seems to be more real and less toxic as a community, hopefully that vibe stays as the numbers grow.

[–] FaygoBoozer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is basically me, but reverse the lemmy and reddit percentages. I'm halfway through the Vampire: The Masquerade Clan Novel series 🤘

[–] Nerorero@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, where did you get those?

[–] FaygoBoozer@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Thriftbooks! If you don't know about thriftbooks you have to check it out, it's incredible. So many extremely cheap books 😍

[–] MrSqueezles@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I commented that China's state sponsored hacking probably contributed to their new processor looking surprisingly like competitors'. The responses... were disappointing. The China thing and stale content have been my only issues. Stale posts are a problem, but has meant that I'm done earlier and put my phone away sooner, which isn't great for engagement, but makes me feel better.

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

It's wild how digitally lost I've been since I left reddit. And they deleted one of my favorite subs so there is no going back..

It's funny you mention Facebook. I deleted mine years ago, without grabbing all the photos I had, which I regret big time.

I had hundreds of folks I knew in real life on there, and I've considered going back a lot in the last few weeks.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I mean we can build niche comtent, just going to take a lot of time. For now lemmy is refreshing because most are here toconverse on topics and not 100s of trolls like