Well i am certainly not using reddit on my tablet anymore.
Honestly Reddit doesn't infuriate me anymore. I haven't been on reddit for 2 weeks now and I no longer feel the urge to check that site. I expect I'll still end up there occasionally when I search for stuff, but gone are the days when I spend an hour or two every night on reddit.
Why would I go on bad lemmy?
That’s actually been my experience as well lol.
I did actually deliberately jump on reddit on desktop recently, just to check on a few things and see how the protests were going.
There wasn’t really anything informative on the front page that hadn’t already been posted here. The quality of posts actually seemed worse overall
The quality of the posts being worse makes sense, I'm guessing some of the Reddit power users moved here and they were generating the majority of quality OC on Reddit.
I also feel like it's become more right wing. Or at least now that some people have left, the balance has shifted further to the right. I went on yesterday, and r/WhitePeopleTwitter, a fairly left wing sub, is now having a lot of Republicans. Really killed my desire to go back. It was something I know a lot of people predicted would happen, but still sad in a way to see.
Edit: Also the fact that the main niche subs I went to are dead. They used to be pretty active, but since they reopened, a lot of users were not happy. So now it's a post every few days. I think one of the subs just got completely deleted. Sadly they're not as active here.
I opened Reddit, saw no bean posts so I immediately closed it.
Same for me. When RIF stopped working I went into Lemmy and haven't went on Reddit since. The FOMO I thought I'd get isn't there because I'm active and welcome here. I have people to connect with, and that's what I really only wanted out of a social site like this.
There's still quite a few subreddits I miss. Plus the larger community. Some communities are here, but they're dead with no users, and I don't really have what to contribute.
I wanted to try listing all of them, but I realized there's like 40 of them.
Mostly, I miss r/batteries, r/ElectroBOOM, r/linuxmint, r/ManjaroLinux, r/LinuxMasterrace, r/SpaceXMasterrace, r/pcmasterrace, r/computers, r/laptops, r/amateursatellites, r/whatisthisthing and r/RTLSDR which also had cool people like developer of noaa-apt and Ryzerth, the developer of SDR++, plus many more.
Edit: Oh, how could I forget dereksgc, another cool guy who puts out lots of useful info.
Things will slowly grow if we all stick with Lemmy though. It's really just a matter of time until it reaches a critical mass.
I still get a little heartbroken seeing the Apollo icon on my dock. 😭
I couldn’t bring myself to uninstall it completely so I just removed it from my Home Screen, it can live out its retirement in the app library
Can we please stop with all the posts about reddit? Jesus christ you guys it's a website, not your crazy ex. Lemmy is never going to surpass reddit in popularity when the only thing on the frontpage besides beans is "reddit this, reddit that".
You sound mildly infuriated.
He should make a post about it!
This too shall pass. Also. Welcome to the internet!
Honestly, I'm really trying to like Lemmy. I feel like none of the good communities came over here, just the one's you mindlessly scroll through. I just looked for a fitness community yesterday and the one i found had like 5 posts. There is basically no communities for any of my hobbies. It seems like most people stayed on Reddit, except for the techy people. It's a shame because I really want to support the idea of federation and I do like the website.
Be the change you want to see. There are probably other people looking for those coversations, but see low engagement and move on. The more you post the more attractive it makes the community for other people.
I have also found that even if there are fewer comments, other people tend to respond and have more discussions.
I do have alot of hope that well see the community continue to grow & hopefully more activity as people search out reddit alternatives.
The endless scrolling communities are the easiest to move. They're low hanging fruit. One of the other replies to you here nailed it... without a massive community of millions, the future of Lemmy rests on the more modestly sized community here willing to actually come out of their lurk and not just respond to posts, but to start posts on their own and actually drive the content.
I feel the same way about music production-related communities here. I just don't have much to ask and I suck pretty badly at it so I don't feel like I'm good enough to drive content/discussions lol
It's less than a week after the largest website in the world shit the bed. It's still topical.
Yeah it seems most of the posts on the front page are about Reddit or about how proud people are of using Lemmy etc I just want to see some actual content :(
It’s classic tribal or “sports team” mentality. Ex-redditors want to see reddit fail just as much as Lemmy succeed.
Can we all just leave the Reddit chatter to the Reddit or Redditmigration communities at this point please? If not yet, then maybe soon? This ex-partner behavior is just going to turn off new people from joining in the long run.
Yes! It seems that half the community posts on here are just Reddit-bashing and that isn't going to drive engagement at all.
What is that app possibly made of that it cant run on literally anything? It's just an app for text and images. I dont get it, is it optimized like an actual potato?
is it optimized like an actual potato?
Back when it was still in beta, it went through a period where it drained my battery from 100% to dead in under 30 minutes.
Just by being installed, not even actually using it.
Could be a library or feature that the devs didn't consider worth maintaining on older devices.
For context, the OP appears to be using Android 5 or 5.1, released in 2014/2015 respectively and is used on 1.1-1.3% devices worldwide.
Probably the same team that used to make the Snapchat Android app back in the day
What makes it even more ridiculous is that it was originally a perfectly functional 3rd party app that they bought out. AlienBlue worked on ipads. A decade ago.
I mean, look at the facebook app. They had to do "optimizations", because they ran into limits of Android's Dalvik a few years back.
You're not missing much
Great news.
I only ever used Reddit in Firefox on desktop anyway - but now I use it a whole lot less (maybe just one reply per day trolling people with interesting posts they'd be better posting here).
Lemmy is a shit-show... but it's OUR shit-show and we'll adjust, and clever people will develop.
Well now how are you going to see all those ads?
They detected that you must be too poor to be worth supporting. It's simple economics. They needed to be able to balance out the incredible infrastructure costs you were bound to incur.
The app is named joey but the icon is of a koala??? 🤔
Although commonly known as a baby kangaroo, a joey is basically a baby marsupial. So that can include koala, opossum, wombat, etc.
Boost and infinity still work, but not for long
Edit: Mixed up sync and infinity lol
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