I’ve been clean for over a year 🥉
I wish I could say I’m also clean, but it’s so damn common I need to search for sysadmin help on Reddit. I can say I have not participated by commenting or posting in over a year though.
I am clean, except for two things:
- Duck duck go search results
- Rustjerk. There’s no rust meme community yet sadly.
I guess by that metric I’ve relapsed a few times. But just look at how much I’m on Lemmy. That’s a lot of engagement and content that reddit used to be getting that they’re now not and surely that’s more valuable of a loss.
Same. Don’t miss it either.
I was on Reddit for a decade until a year ago. I deleted my accounts and left, at the same time my wife who had lurked for years but never had an account, she made an account. Ugh.
Watch as it becomes a Lemmy pride flag for a few day
Shall we fly those two shirt colours?
Nah. The whole strip is the flag.
Hear me out.
Purple white green vertical stripes
I’ve concluded that some communities are still too dead on Lemmy, so I straddle both. But I try to post new content here rather than Reddit. Am I a bad person? 😭
Probably
But that’s irrespective of your comment
I sometimes check out Lemmy while I’m mostly on reddit.
Been on Lemmy more recently as I’ve experienced a few “holy shit this site is bot infested” wake up calls on Reddit. One of those reposts with duplicate comment chains from a year prior. I even responded to one of them *shudders*
Lemmy is still pretty meager, but it might grow further. What seems clear to me is that Lemmy has a lot of users that actively don’t want to attract the full Reddit crowd, in other words they don’t want Lemmy to outgrow Reddit.
I think Lemmy is cursed by it’s users to remain an insignificant niche alternative, even if it grows a little further.
Lemmy is still pretty meager, but it might grow further
I think it’s inevitable. It may be just a slow steady trickle from here on but I wouldn’t be surprised to see another change bring over another mass exodus (does old.reddit.com still work?).
What seems clear to me is that Lemmy has a lot of users that actively don’t want to attract the full Reddit crowd,
I think this largely depends on what you mean by this. Reddit as an experience had gradually gone downhill for many years. Momentum and habit kept me there despite that. But when I could no longer use my app the habit was broken and the content wasn’t really worth it on its own.
And either way, even users who actively feel more strongly about “redditors” I don’t think they really have a say either way if they decide to come over.
It’s tough because I don’t actually want all the redditors here because of the low effort pun comment chains, constant bot comments, pervasive echo chambers and pop culture drivel. But on the other hand, I do miss the discussion in some of the more niche subreddits here.
The dichotomy of man.
We can just build a culture of downvoting puns (and my axe!)
Take the bear, it’s safer
Same thing.
