So I’ve switched to lemmy since the reddit meltdown started, experienced quite some withdrawal symptoms, occasionally turned back to reddit, more often logged out than logged in. Now I am merely using Lemmy occasionally and by far not as often as I used reddit before. No more doom scrolling.
So far so good.
Today I went on reddit for the first time in like 3 weeks straight (I couldn’t do that for the last years… yeah, I was very addicted in hindsight). I just… I don’t know what it is.
Reddit just isn’t fun anymore.
I turned away after maybe 5 minutes. There were maybe 2-3 repost-worthy pics, one interesting video and a few small niche discussions that all went straight tits up within a few replies.
If I ask a question on lemmy, it usually is a straightforward, honest discussion. Almost no blaming of the posters or answerers misunderstandings or senseless answers. It goes a bit back and forth usually and people tend to thank each other for corrections. I can’t remember when that happened on a reddit discussion. Maybe years back? Anyway, I’m not going back there anymore, not because I hate the CEO, but because reddit is not fun anymore. Lost all interest in it.
Did anyone of you have a similar experience?
The don’t miss the “Popular” of reddit, but the small specialized communities are not present here. I’m still using reddit for r/clashofclans, r/thedivision, r/printedcircuitboards, r/gradschoolmemes, r/phd and the discussion threads on r/movies about the movies I have watched. The community didn’t move here.
Logged in yesterday, with the intent of deleting it.
It welcomed me as usual, I had notification for a reply on a thread I was participating and a PM, pluss there were a few interesting title on some subs I was in.
The reply was someone just spewing I was wrong and everything I had said was bullshit.
The PM was some random invitation from someone telling me to join their OnlyFans page.
And the general feel of the threads I snooped was all doom and gloom and 3 out 5 comments just dripping of poisounous sarcasm.
After that sample, I was done.
Ah, the sarcasm.
It kind of makes sense that everyone grew to be highly sarcastic when you think about how no matter what you say someone’s going to jump down your throat about it. Much easier to avoid all that by dropping a “/s” at the end of your comment or saying something so outlandish that no one could believe you were being serious (as an added bonus, if someone does take the bait then YOU get to jump down THEIR throat!)
It’s a kind of defense mechanism in toxic communities.
Lol yeah, I just couldn’t take the echo chamber of radical Lefties anymore. I’m by no means a Trump-voting conservative but if you even hinted at an opinion that didn’t fit the narrative you got piled on with downvotes and abuse like some kind of bigoted leper.
every time i go back to reddit there’s a blacklog of content waiting that somehow never makes it to the fediverse and a few things that were earth shaking and the fediverse didn’t pickup on at all.
