2y ago

How has your life improved with reddit nuking itself?

I find i'm doing more activities in the real world, sitting with my thoughts, and not constantly needing content to fill the void (as much)

thanks spez

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I joined Lemmy and immediately felt out of place and a little lost.
Anyway, I've been here a month and, to make sure I fit in, I've installed Linux and joined the communist party.
- How's that working out for you?
  
  None of my videogames work anymore but on the bright side, I now realise they are just an opiate of the masses employed by the bourgeoisie to stop me from seizing the means of production.
  Boots quick though.

Things have actually gotten worse for me. With how crappy Reddit has been over the last few years in terms of how engaging my feed is, I've been spending less time on it naturally. Now on Lemmy I find myself addicted again, spending 3 hours in a row some days, after having already used it throughout the day. I'm thinking about giving up Lemmy and Reddit all together, wondering if my comments are even valuable to society and what not. I think maybe I'd be happier without either. Not saying you would be, or that others shouldn't be on Lemmy, just that I personally struggle with it and it interferes with my life sometimes.
- This. Many people feel good about themselves for using lemmy, but not using big tech software doesn’t mean you’re doing better than before.
  Social media remains social media and still is a huge time waster and a detriment to your attention span
  Though I try to be more lenient on this view because not long ago I was reminded of the benefits of moderate social media use.

I doom scroll far less.
I comment more and have better discussion.
I feel more at home, but I was always on the geeky subreddits with a FOSS bent anyway.
- >I doom scroll far less. I comment more and have better discussion.
  Same here. I had like a single-digit comment count on Reddit because it seemed like anything I had to say was either chucked straight into the garbage bin of buried threads that never took off, or lost in a sea of thousands of similar comments. I've posted more here in a few weeks than 10+ years on Reddit. It feels like there is at least ROOM for conversations here instead of just bickering or meme comment chains.

Thanks to Reddit nuking itself I am now spending 6 more hours a day writing code (I'm the developer of Summit for Lemmy) :D

My life hasn't improved, I still doom scroll on Lemmy.

Honestly I think I spend a similar amount of time on lemmy overall but at least a decent portion of it is now things like learning rust to try and contribute. And getting backups figured out for my hosting so I don't lose data for my two users. It's a bigger learning opportunity than reddit mostly.
The lower content rate also means things are less addictive, mostly. I do find the smaller community more engaging though, for better or worse as it relates to my content consumption.

It has brought me to lemmy

I feel so much more positive about having conversations on the internet now.

More time to read novels before bed.

I find myself reading my Kindle more. Although I do miss out on finding out news that's currently happening, e.g I didn't realize Twitter rebranded to X and I don't really go on Twitter as much was something pretty surprising.
I also found Lemmy to be much slower in terms of posts and engagement so it's hard to find meaningful discussions or funny comments that I usually like to find on posts about what's currently new.
I've never posted on Reddit at all and was a lurker for almost 10 years so I feel like writing and commenting on Lemmy to contribute. Although a part of me refuses to bring back the golden years of Reddit in Lemmy. Maybe the death of Reddit third party apps was just what I needed to enjoy the current moment and try other new hobbies.

Far fewer assholes to mod, more time spent reading and biking, less stress.

It hasn't.
I left Reddit, no improvement.
Reddit banned me, ignoring their own rules, no improvement.
I appealed, so they permabanned me for repeated offense, still no improvement.
I blanked all my Reddit history... some fleeting improvement, but it didn't last.
I'm writing this on Lemmy, while taking a dump at 4am next to a bleeding cat who's made a mess of the bathroom, thinking which part to clean first... still no improvement.
Reddit wasn't as important to my life, it didn't have a real impact on it. Life has an impact on life.
I'm done now, I pooped... slight improvement.
Hoping to poop tomorrow.
- which part to clean first
  Your bumhole
  
  Not wrong, and done.
  Followed by washing my hands, applying some peroxide to the cat, removing bloody streaks from sink and floor, changing some towels, washing hands again... and I'm done for the night. Rest of walls and floor can wait, towels ready for the washing machine.
  Now back to bed, to dream about it, for sure.
- And reddit is restoring the deleted comments as we speak. There is another thread catching detailing it, not surprising after spez altered comments in the past and admitted it.
  
  As long as Power Delete Suite can keep editing the comments, I'm fine with them trying to restore them, we can play that game. If they stop that, we'll see how they respond to a GDPR removal request, I have several GDPR exports listing all I want deleted.

So I’m brand new here by a few days. I was banned from Reddit entirely after forgetting what account I was on and commenting in a fallout sub I wan banned from. The mod from said fallout sub refused to believe this was an accident, (I thought I was in a completely different fallout sub with a similar icon) said my appeals were considered “argumentative”and pulled the “I’m also an admin” card. Now every account I make gets perma-banned from all of Reddit within 6 hours of being made. Kills me. It’s more a deep void to me not because I just can’t use it considering the mindless monotony of most subs, but because I like to create and my sole platform to share anything I make was ripped from me by some neckbeard that was given a smidgen of power. Still, I never answered your question so; it hasn’t. Yet. I just found lemmy and am hoping it’ll be a great place to fill that void but only time will tell.
- I was making virtual machines to get around the blocks, for a long time until the third party apps were killed and lemmy took off. Feels nice here, porn is lacking.

My life has neither improved nor degraded. It's just changed slightly. I am enjoying no ads and lots of content variety in the #fediverse.

Well, it hasn't improved my life in any way because it's just a website I've stopped using.
But most of the threads on Reddit degenerated into shitslinging and just general unpleasantness. I've not come across any of that here (yet) and it is refreshing. Not to mention the lack of ads and algorithms pushing stuff at me is like the old days.

The official reddit app keeps crashing on my phone and I don’t like Narwhal so Lemmy has actually been pretty nice. And I like being able to hide posts so I’m not just seeing the same posts on my feed over and over.

I've been reading a lot more and texting friends instead of doomscrolling. Lemmy is kind of a methadone. It scratches the itch sometimes but the content is kinda crap from what I've seen so I don't spend nearly as much time on it.
- Yeah content will get better, we just need to populate it more, also no algorithm to keep you engaged.

Less time on social media overall, but still getting about the same info I would get from Reddit, less overall "intersubreddit drama."

I’m not sure if my life has improved per se, but it has finally broken my, probably, unhealthy Reddit addiction for the first time in probably 5-10 years. And no I’m not actually using Lemmy all that much as a replacement.
So that’s been good.

There’s a lot educational material as opposed to trash, and, like in school (but not like on Reddit), I haven’t felt condemned for expressing thoughts that might piss off one dominant political ideology or another.

I like it here at Lemmy. Here one can actually have conversations. Oh, and there are no nazis here.
Unfortunately I have been spending the same time online as I would have with reddit.

I've interacted with communities here for some of my interests that I hadn't really interacted much with on reddit due to my primary interests being more niche and having a slower rate of content generation.
It's kind of good and kind of bad though. Some communities for things I care about are full of people who are dogmatic to the point of being actively stupid. But I do like thinking about the ideas and topics of those communities, and discussing flawed ideologies within a particular community is probably worthwhile and necessary.

I'm watching less porn...

I'm more active here than I ever was on Reddit, I didn't even have an account there the last few years, so it's definitely not a time saver. The way Lemmy works just feels saner, I really like it here. And it got me back into Mastodon, the micro-blogging type of systems don't appeal to me much, I closed my Twitter account 7 years ago, but I check Mastodon at least once a day now and there's always a few things I'm glad I see.

I'm spending more time with my hobby, building Gunpla/plamo. Browsing less Internet, watching anime that I've been wanting to watch (DBZ Super and Gundam). I feel less informed about the world, which is oddly less stressful.
- Ugh gundam is so good. I like dbz but It's so iconic but I still find it boring

Same way that twitter dying did. A lot less terminally online and less prone to doom scrolling. I do have less time now though.... due to being on lemmy...

More productive in my personal and professional life. Getting out more, listening to music and reading. Not a lot of missing the site and its only been a bit over a week since they nuked all my accounts...