The way I switched was getting banned from Reddit for 7 days wrongly. It then took me two days or 3 days to get unbanned and for them to apologize for the original band. By then I said fuck it and decided to come over here and search for alternatives since I’ve been on Reddit for like 16 years now or something like that and it’s getting a little old and repetitive. Then fortunate part about this place is that there’s not enough post and so it’s a lot of repetition. But it also allows me to go visit other sites because there is so much repetition here.
don’t worry. if you go back to reddit you’ll get banned again in a few months anyway for the same reasons.
this place is rapidly become reddit though… same folks who who just want to harass and ban anyone whose comments they disagree with. good news is here you can see someone falling you around downvoting all your comments and block them.
at least people aren’t sending me PMs constantly on this site about how i should die and/or trying to get me to sub to their onlyfans. for now.
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.)
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
Rage. The changes to 3rd party apps really pissed me off and I thought it was best to use my anger productively.
I deleted my account and the app
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
Got kicked off Reddit for reporting transphobic harassment, so the decision was easy.
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 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.
That and everyone on here are not total contrarians to everything you post or comment on
No, we ARE contrarians. Take that!
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?
I decided I was done with reddit. I never used apps so I just signed out of my account and never went back.
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!
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.
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.
for niche communities so small and so tech-nonliterate that simply have no chance of being on the fediverse i went to tumblr instead
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?
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.
