I was a casual lurker on Lemmy, basically finding the subs on reddit and subscribing to the same on here. Then I made a comment about a tiktok instigator that should apologize to trees for wasting the oxygen they produce and got all my accounts permabanned. But they'll allow bot farms to keep spreading hate and fake news to get a rise from their fellow cultists. We're in the upside down world
Lemmy definately has less content, but it feels like the old internet. People are just friendlier here. My biggest recommendation is to post/comment a lot; I think things like that really help the platform grow. I can honestly say I've never received any negative feedback here, so its a pretty safe space.
My experience has been very different, especially yesterday. My reddit account had plenty of trolls on the blocklist, but I encountered an individual here who made several snap judgments about me based on an innocent response to a question and then demanded an apology from me for their hurt feelings when I said nothing targeted at anyone and they initially inserted themselves with arrogance and vitriol.
As well, if you're not full on tankie/anarchist or at least more than halfway to either one, prepare for people to take issue with your stances. Vehemently. As if you were personally attacking them for having the audacity to, you know, be an individual.
However I still prefer this experience to whatever it is Reddit has become and agree with your suggestions for how to make it more engaging.
Expecting positive interactions with other humans, that is your problem right there ha
Everyone romanticizes the “old” Reddit and the old internet quite a bit. There were always trolls, fake accounts, a holes and whiny jerks. The ads, bots, and all the more recent issues just tipped reddit over the edge.
I felt bad leaving a 15 year old account but it wasn’t hard. I hadn’t enjoyed Reddit in a while. I uninstalled the client and installed mlem. It also helped me to temporarily switch browsers so I’m not getting Reddit threads as part of the search results. If I want Reddit in my search results then I will look for that intentionally.
Dunno, I rather enjoy interacting with other humans.
Its people that fuck things up, broadly speaking. I don't particularly love people, but humans are alright in my book. Unfortunately, people are everywhere.
To define terms a little more clearly, humans recognize things like "the other human" and "do unto others" and such. People, broadly, are greedy selfish creatures that will step on your feet without a second glance but be utterly appalled should anybody have the unmitigated gall to treat them in kind.
These definitions transcend all political divisions and ideologies and belief systems, for the record. I have known some lovely religious conservative humans and some genuinely awful and repulsive progressively-minded people.
I always try to be a human. Emphasis on try, as people make it difficult sometimes.
Every place has assholes, there are fewer on Lemmy. Block and move on.
if you're not full on tankie/anarchist or at least more than halfway to either one, prepare for people to take issue with your stances.
Ahh yes, tankies and anarchists, famously the only political ideologies that "take issue with your stances."
This is totally an echo chamber. Just look around. Its part of what drew us all here at the end of the day.
And for the record, I prefer that flavor of madness over whatever the US is voting in around the country right now, so maybe take my observations as nothing more or less than just that - observations.
Not saying we in the united States aren't to blame for a lot of what's going on but its starting to become global. Migration/race issues are becoming hot everywhere and at the same time everyone is rushing in the new era of survalience on the level, or surpassing that of 1984.
I always used to imagine that I could just flee my country when things got too bad, but increasingly it seems like its spreading every where.
i automatically block those people on lemmy, sorry but a political statement based on opinion and attitude is an immediately block. as is ones that make very condescending ones.
blocking on reddit seems futile, since alot of them are bots/propaganda bots, theres for every troll blocked, another 10 pops up. also reddit stops blocking thier comments if you go over 1000 users. it only works if its a small subreddit. politics, news, sports, movies, ask reddit,,,etc impossible to block them all.
I just.... left.
I came here during the API change drama. Started to get acquainted with the platform before Apollo stopped working. And when it did, I never came back. Didn't even bother deleting my few hundred comments or give them the chance to ban me for not being a nazi propagandist cunt.
Same. Cold turkey.
Only Reddit if I need to look something up, and that's only through libredirect.
Same as well, RiF was what used. I didn't download their app so it was a little easier not to go back.
I don't still use Reddit. I bailed back when they took ownership of all of my content. I did go through some withdrawals. Would constantly open my phone to open Reddit and remember that I had uninstalled and closed my account. Now a few years later I don't have anything like parity in Lemmy compared to my Reddit experience. Ultimately, I decided to not try and chase that. Lemmy is not Reddit, And the Reddit that I loved back in the day, is completely gone anyway, replaced by some corporate bullshit, bolstered by bad actors and robots.
What I love about Lemmy, in contrast, is smaller communities and more genuine engagement. There are still bots and bad actors. Regardless of its flaws though, I'm about as likely to go back to Reddit as I am to creating a Facebook account. I'm on my phone less and more engaged with the actual people in my life now. Maybe we all need less social media, not better social media.
This is also exactly my experience
I kept using Reddit to browse for a while years back, and decided I'd just stop using it when the API no longer let me read stories. Evenrually.. It stopped working. The end.
Lemmy is much smaller but it also has more engaged community discussions imo (but yea, it is another echo chamber - its hard to avoid that with such a niche tech/privacy/anti-corporate network).
It reminds me of old school forums where you'd know most of the regulars, and I don't mind that.
All I did was delete my Reddit app.
I don't use reddit anymore, I still have an account but I stay logged out unless I need to see info in a thread that is some fix that I need because they won't let you see that now without being logged in.
Lemmy does have way less content and way less people but you can find them if you look. I suggest changing your default sort to either "active" or "new comments". I use "New comments" this sort will show all threads that have any new comments on them so I can find the active conversations right away. I have been very chatty on Lemmy this way.
Lemmy has its own set of trolls and extremists, they aren't conservative trolls like you see on reddit, they are extreme left all the way around back to Fascism, but I see you are on db0 so, you won't see the more troublesome instances.
EDIT to add: My main in on Db0, and I still use that on mobile, but I ended up making an account on lemmy.world just to use this Lemmy skin https://old.lemmy.world/ Old Lemmy was what got me out of reddit forever, there is something very comfortable about this skin and it made my transition very smooth.
After getting banned for saying it's ok to punch nazis in the face. 12 year account I just stopped cold turkey. I refuse to even click reddit links.
Actually it's been quite good for me. I realize I had an addiction to the site. My social media time has went down dramatically
I still look at reddit sometimes on my computer. But I just never installed their app on my phone.
Reddit... really sucks now. Idk if it has gotten way more reactionary or if I'm just more aware of it. Tons of chuds, recycled posts, tons of astroturfing, bad comment sections. I don't miss it in its current state.
I think there has been a significant algorithm change. When I click on the hot tab on old Reddit it appears a little more like it used to. Although it doesn't explain everything.
I started when the API thing went down.. exploring other sites with Lemmy among them. After continued enshitification I slowly started manually deleting 13 years of posts. Some here, some there. When I ran out of posts to delete I killed my account and just would occasionally browse old reddit. Now after they killed old reddit without logging in. (Which I will not do again). That was it. You get way better conversations here with mostly real people ... Honestly feels like the old days of reddit. I've had to find other places for niche forums and stuff for my hobbies but I'd rather do that then to go back to that shit pile.
Now that old.reddit is account-walled, its become reeeeaal easy to not go there at all
yep. I'm slowly corrupting my posts to contribute to their google ai training.
There are still niche communities there that don't exist here.
I recently discovered I've been shadowbanned, with zero idea why. Appeals vanish into the void without an answer... So I can read, but not participate. Feels pretty hostile towards users. Maybe they're doing me a favor?
Try mentioning the genocide in Gaza and they'll force your hand into leaving.
Put your Lemmy app in the spot of wherever your Reddit app is. Make the Reddit app take much more effort to get to. I used to have mine on my home screen so it is one click to get to it after unlocking. Now that's where my Lemmy app is and RedReader is in a folder off to the side. (I suppose I could go one step further and just remove the Reddit app from the home screen folder.) I end up checking Lemmy first now.
The nice part is that Lemmy is getting big enough that I end up seeing a lot of the same news when I run out of content on Lemmy (start getting into more obscure posts) as when I switch to Reddit. So I find myself thinking "I've already seen that" so it makes the Reddit app feel more "stale" and easier to leave.
So I used to used both Reddit and Lemmy and now I have completely switched over to Lemmy, which has turned out to be a much better experience anyway. (Less trolls, less intentionally divisive content, etc)
Here's what I did:
What it was for me is Lemmy has a lot of tech and political discussions, but I don't really care about that so I started a community and contribute to communities that are regional to me because engaged hyper local and regional communities are a huge gap in the lemmy federation right now.
Outside of one community I use to track sales for a niche hobby, my main use of reddit is looking up old threads. There's nothing new on there that's helpful anymore. I like looking up old episode discussion threads for TV shows that I'm watching for the first time, for instance.
I wish Lemmy was a good alternative. But without enough people using it, it can't really come close to a replacement. All my interests are more niche too, and I hate Discord, so it leaves me out here touching grass.
Reddit's always been toxic, it's just worse the more MAGA and AI came to prominence (also a lot of what appears to be Russian astrotufing, but that might just be the subs I used).
Unfortunately, Lemmy's not always better. I've been trying to figure out which instances to avoid, because I am really tired of certain people harping on about certain things.
My experience with reddit is similar to other folks here. I got permbanned in 2024 and then again in 2025, started going on Lemmy but lurked on reddit via third party app Infinity until earlier this year when reddit killed my API key. Since I refuse to use reddits hot garbage ad-riddled app, I uninstalled infinity and never went back.
I just use a redlib instance to lurk on reddit.
https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/instances.md
Can subscribe and filter users and subreddits, and is an accountless experience.
I don't find reddit anymore aggravating than lemmy, since I stick to subreddits I'm interested in which tends to be more mellow stuff like games and tech compared to if I was looking at news type subs.
I just do more actual commenting here due to having easy access to third party apps which reddit no longer provides. And I don't feel like going through effort of getting stuff like reddit is fun working. I'm fine lurking reddit now and not bothering logging in.
By replacing reddit shortcut with Lemmy shortcut on my front page/screen. Muscle memory is helluva drug
Step one is to never log in to Reddit again. Just lurk. You still get access, but your community is here.
Block everything except for the niche content you can't get here: stuff for your town, your make of car, plants for your specific area, etc. You should be able to get most of the mainstream stuff here. Yes there's less posts, but you can help with that. And besides, you probably want to be scrolling less anyway, right?
It was easy for me to switch when my app stopped working.
I will say I personally see having less content on lemmy as a feature. I sort by top - 12 hours, and once I’ve browsed deep enough to hit what I call “the porn layer”, I consider lemmy exhausted and find something else to do for a while. It’s lowered how much time I spend scrolling.
Lemmy is not a replacement for Reddit imo.
I have been opening Lemmy for about two months now, browsing the communities and reading users’ comments, and yesterday I decided to create an account.
Honestly, as someone who has only been on Reddit since 2018, I am curious to know what Reddit looked like in its early years, and Lemmy is a really good opportunity for that.
The content is limited? One day Reddit’s content was limited too and then it grew! + Platforms and communities don’t grow on their own. they grow because of the people in them.
I keep my feeds on the app very curated which helps a lot. There are some niche subs that I like to visit still that don't have a presence on here.
I still also browse Reddit some but I've been using it a lot less since they banned me and cut off old.reddit
No content is better than crap content, and I can spend that time doing something else and not just wasting the same amount of time on lemmy.
I still have a throwaway account for one off comments/posts for some really niche stuff where I'm looking for info, otherwise the major subs I used to hang around in were either lobotomized or cracked apart with new mods or spam bots.
same here, i made an acc again recently, after waiting a year+ from last years ban, i rarely go on it for my niche content. Major subs are heavily politicized and monitored by the filters, i avoid those.
getting a permanent account suspension certainly helps.
Uninstall any apps for Reddit and decide that you are not ok with the data harvesting those apps do in you phone. Then set your browser to auto delete Reddit cookies. You will soon find yourself so annoyed using their webpage, that you will stop. Allow yourself to be subjected to their incessant cookie whining and dark patterns and hostile design, intended to push you to install their app.
or skip to account delete and never go there again.
The key is that there can be no "slowly leaving." I went absolute cold turkey. I maintain that there is no other way. Not only do most people not have the self control to be able to moderate themselves, but reddit's structure and algorithm are specifically designed to try to suck you back in, keep you enraged, and keep you scrolling. Because Enragement is Engagement™.
But reddit and its various decision makers went out of their way to piss me off multiple times, as well as tons of other people, so I left. I consider myself a pretty rational and level headed bird, and I made plenty of contributions. But the message there was clear: They don't want people like us there. They want vacant eyeballs they can market at with bots. That's what the new shareholders demand.
I have not found that my life has been significantly less enriched without reddit being present in it. Rather, much the opposite. All the inevitable bickering, the arguing with idiots, the whole thing about having to walk on eggshells or appear to espouse a particular approved dumbass point of view or else you'll be brigaded with downvotes or randomly banned; it turns out none of that is productive. It's not even, if we're honest, really engagement.
I find I have more hours in my day to do something else instead. I'd rather do something tangible, and here I can share it without having to be concerned about whether or not my contribution will be approved by the hivemind.
I put a Lemmy widget on my phone's homescreen (using Boost, but probably many apps can do it), my widget is for Subscribed + New Comments sort
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