For example, I don’t use TikTok. I never have, and I never will, and I’d advise everyone else to get off the platform too. I genuinely believe it’s objectively harmful to people’s mental health and possibly even a threat to democracy. That said, I also believe people should be free to decide for themselves whether they want to use it or not, which is why I’m against the U.S. government banning it.
I think many people on here, me included, would rather be using Reddit simply because of all the content.
I’m here for the distinct lack of content. I can browse for a bit, hit the bedrock loop of top 6hr, and come back hours later. It’s not endless here… And it shouldn’t be.
If I need info for a niche, I’ll find a forum. Lemmy, reddit, etc are poor places for such things anyway.
I always try to use Lemmy, but Reddit is always more attractive to me because:
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The Sync for Reddit app works way better than Sync for Lemmy (I understand there are a lot of clients for Lemmy, which is good, but my brain got so used to it that I always struggle with other apps).
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I never used Reddit to browse mainstream media (like r/all) I always browse subreddits I liked and created multi subreddits of them, some examples of them:
Handhelds (SBCgaming, 3DS, PsVita, nds, PSP etc).
Media (Piracy, Arr stack, Stremio add-ons, Kodi add-ons etc).
As you can see none of those communities or similar are particularly big, so I think they have entirely enshitified… (Maybe just r/piracy lol).
I’ll be 100% transparent, should third party apps be allowed back I’d go immediately back. There just isn’t much hobby related stuff here yet. I don’t have the time or care to “be the change I wanna see”
I prefer the content, but reddit as a service is absolute garbage. I still check in on it every once in a while because there’s a question or something I see the answer to after googling it and I can’t stand browsing there for more than a minute or two.
The sponsored content and ads are just everywhere and disguised like user accounts making a post or comment and it’s infuriating. You can’t even use reddit on your phone unless you download their app, browsing the web version is practically impossible because “they can’t confirm you are over 18 for some of the content” as if they can confirm your age through the app and they don’t care if you are on desktop.
Reddit is a garbage company when it comes to their users, they quickly became one of my top most despised companies up there with nestle
Reddit as a site is superior to Lemmy, but ever since all the trash have flooded that place, I decided to leave. What I’m saying is that I would pbviously choose Reddit if we’d ignore the kind of people that are frequenting it, but since you can’t really ignore them when it comes to a social media, I use this site instead.
Honestly tho it’s been downhill over there. I’m getting old reddit vibes here and I’m cool with never posting on reddit ever again.
Reddit is still better for communities based around hobbies (at the moment at least) just due to it’s shear size.
Look at the actual engagement on those hobby subreddits. Dont let the thousands of followers fool you. The big subreddits got bigger, but the smaller ones got smaller. I see niche groups with thousands of followers, but posts rarely break 100 upvotes/10 comments. Reddit is a hollowing shell right now.
I saw a post about Kids In The Hall on this site the other day. Go see how popular that is on reddit. You just gotta believe.
Garbage is more entertaining than the same 5 political posts reposted between 40 instances and the only OC being posts that bitch about Reddit. This place is NOTHING like old reddit.
Sorry but not sorry, this place is borderline worthless. Until sometime figures it how to keep every sub becoming a commission echo chamber this is an interesting experiment that is dead in the water.
Block political communities
Block !reddit@lemmy.world
And if you really think this place is worthless, why are you still here?
It’s not that bad, stop being a doomer. It’s better than reddit is right now at least.
You do realize the entire format of reddit is designed to make “echo chambers”. Every single reddit sub is an echo chamber and users have no options. At least here people can do what they want with no one to tell them how to run their community.
The only way to stop it from being a commission echo chamber is to push back or post the opposite stuff. They don’t run many of the communities here like they do on reddit. The good thing about lemmy is getting downvoted doesn’t restrict your usage of the site so you can make unpopular opinions without getting timed out like on reddit.
Thanks to Lemmy, I don’t feel a need to return to Reddit, but I agree that we’re still essentially in “pale imitation” territory and I’m not sure if that will ever change.
In Twitter terms, it’s like everyone left for Mastodon but are really just waiting for a Bluesky to come around. I’d prefer to keep whatever platform I use open and free, but I’d like “approachable and vibrant” along with it if possible, which Lemmy is still struggling to accomplish.
