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I'm personally not willing to visit Reddit unless I need to cause it has technical answers, deleted the app and haven't been on since the protests were announced.
Honestly Lemmy is pretty fucking awesome I love it here, I'm gonna stay here until the community dies or I do.
Yeah, I've regained probably an hour of my life after giving that place up.
Lemmy is my new ~~addiction~~ friend!
I gained atleast an hour every day after leaving Reddit. I Read lots of ebooks again and enjoying my time on lemmy.
Are you me? I've been listening to a ton of audiobooks since I got off reddit
No, they're me. I still spend a lot of time on the fediverse, but I find I can stop before 3am more readily, and I've been reading ebooks a lot more. Overall life is significantly better. The quality of discourse on lemmy is so much higher than on reddit. And I can log out and meaninglessly scroll memes for a while if I feel like it too.
And whether people like you or not, you get a conversation no matter what you say. It’s not so overpopulated that most of your comments and posts go completely unnoticed.
I made a dumb joke that was practically only downvoted, but at least it was seen.
I miss Reddit for a few little things here and there, but I’m glad I migrated.
Daily?
Hourly
this got a good chuckle out of me
I still accidentally type it into web browser from time to time but it's usually only a few secs before I realize my error
Just one? Rookie numbers
I blackholed reddit.com and all sub domains in DNS since the protests started, not looked back.
I did the same thing! It was pretty astonishing how many times I tried to go back there.
If we could get some of the awesome subs like askhistorians and the like to bring their content over, Lemmy could become home to many more users. The sad fact is Reddit is still a treasure trove of niche information
I think you're right; Askhistorians is a great example of the power and necessity of moderation. Not every community needs to be so heavily moderated, but askhistorians knew what they were going for and we're willing to work to maintain it.
Tangentially related, I had a friend who had studied History at Oxbridge who was excited to discover ask historians existed, but bewildered (and slightly offended, ha) when one of his answers was rejected. The problem was that he was used to speaking to other academics, and that uses a different style of speaking and citing sources; on the internet, and ask historians more specifically, it's much harder to lean on one's credentials than in real life, and I think that's a good thing. (My friend get over himself and resubmitted the answer)
In context, it's straightforward and logical, but it does tickle me to remove that context and consider it as "ask historians has higher standards than Oxbridge"
Interesting feedback
I recently built a PC for the very first time and am very ashamed to admit I had to visit old threads to help me get up and running. It’s such a tragedy what they’ve done to the site, its communities had and still have so much value. Heartbreaking that they’re so determined to run it into the ground and personally nail its own coffin shut.
In depth technical knowledge is the thing I’m having a hard time replacing too. Hopefully lemmy can replace it with time and more users
I feel as if I can have an actual conversation with someone here even if we have two fundamentally different world views where it won't devolve into name calling. Conversations can be productive even if neither opinions change.