• sourquincelog [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    16 days ago

    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

    • Hyacin (He/Him)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      14 days ago

      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.)

  • cRazi_man@europe.pub
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    16 days ago

    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.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    RIF stopped working so I started using Liftoff for Lemmy instead.

    Don’t really use the desktop site.

  • njm1314@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    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.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    I went from full lurker to participant since I felt like I’m not completely drowned out by others. That made it more fun, since Lemmy all feed is pretty small relatively speaking and lurking gets boring if you’re expecting an endless feed of random junk. Plus, since it’s small, you can also feel like you’re contributing to the Lemmy community, since without your comments and posts, it won’t exist.

    Although get to the bottom of the all feed and things get wild.

        • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          15 days ago

          Ugh. The contrarian quippiness there is so FUCKING sophomoric. And everybody being the same authority on everything and all being passive aggressive as shit. It’s like a land where nobody wants to build anything and everybody desperately needs validation.

          Here, though, we just want validation via trauma bonding…

          … Wait a minute … Is Lemmy a …survivor-platform?

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    16 days ago

    I decided I was done with reddit. I never used apps so I just signed out of my account and never went back.

  • Lucky_777@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    I use Sync, which is just like Reddit. So it wasnt a hard transition. The issue is mainly volume and communities. Go start your favorite Reddit community on here. Then grow it up!

  • Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip
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    16 days ago

    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.

  • 1XEVW3Y07@reddthat.comEnglish
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    15 days ago

    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.

    • Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      Commenting always has value dude! Even small ones are like having a passing conversation in line at a coffee shop.

      1 Flat White Please

      Have a great day buddy!

    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      15 days ago

      “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.

  • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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    16 days ago

    for niche communities so small and so tech-nonliterate that simply have no chance of being on the fediverse i went to tumblr instead

      • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        15 days ago

        does it allow you to hide image posts? I haven’t found a client that allows you to hide image posts.

        • Mose13@lemmy.world
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          14 days ago

          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.

          • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            14 days ago

            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.

            • Mose13@lemmy.world
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              14 days ago

              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 post

              You can combine that with other checks

              AND post.community.name is in this list

              And 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?