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Most major subreddits show a decrease of between 50 and 90 percent in average daily posts and comments, when compared to a year ago. This suggests the problem is way fewer users, not the same number of users browsing less. The huge and universal dropoff also suggests that people left, either because of the changes or the protests, and they aren’t coming back.
I never thought it would be so easy to stop going on Reddit, but this place is good enough
IMO the users here are way more pleasant to spend time with than those on Reddit. The level of hostility in some areas of Reddit was off the charts and it seems the trolls are staying put. This definitely /mademesmile.
I really avoided unpleasant subreddits. There were many smaller subreddits that were genuinely fun to be in. I miss those communities here. One that comes to mind is r/gintama. That sub was a great source of joy for me. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find one here.
If you build it they will come…
Can you create your own?
Sadly there isn’t even a Christianity community on here :(
Also miss stupid stuff like waxsealing, heraldry, spicypillows
Be the change you want to see and create that community.
There is a bit of a hiccup with hexbear and lemmygrad but besides that, I feel it’s a very welcoming place here
Still traces of the good ol’ toxic reddit spirit
I thought that CrunchyJamCreator name sounded familiar. Seems to be one of the 130 accounts I’ve blocked already.
I honestly feel like the only way to have a nice social media experience is by strictly curating your feed. You can’t pay attention to everything anyways so by cutting out the trash you vastly improve the signal to noise ratio. If I see someone posting a stupid comment I open their profile and quickly go thru it to see if they’re posting anything of a value. If not I block them and move on.
You are literally a fascist!
(Am I doing this right?)
Blocked 🚫
Oh, that reminds me the discussion I had with two nationalists here in Lemmy. Apparently, unless I pretend that fermented and then distilled sugar cane is “magically” different depending country, I’m assumed to be from a nearby country. The whole thing sounded a lot like “gravity doesn’t work on Fridays, and if you say that it does I’m going to pretend that I’m an illiterate and not read it”, i.e. typical Reddit lack of character/rationality/decency.
I’m saying this because I’ve found this behaviour usually peaks when there’s a large-ish influx of Redditfugees, then it tones down. So it’s likely most the result of recent immigrants; I think that the most obnoxious/Reddit-like ones will end back in Reddit, while the others will learn to not behave like morons.
Rum can be very different regarding the nation is comes from because the various Rhum Agricoles are not made the same way Jamaican rum is made and that is due to laws surrounding production.
For example in Martinique all sugar cane is cut once and then the field is burned and replanted. This means the cane has less wood to it and as a result less wood sugar. In addition you cannot add sugar back into Rhum Agricole to cover faults like you can in most nations.
There can be very distinct differences but those are entirely due to laws and traditions. There is no notion of terroir, that is that the climate and soil provide unique elements, in sugar cane.
You are using arguments. The two nationalists in question weren’t; they were simply “chrust me” and then “lalala I’m not listening this contradicts my nationalism lalala”. And more importantly because they wanted to claim that you’d spoil a drink by using the wrong type of rum. (As if the sort of rum that you’d use to make drinks wasn’t the simplest and most “samey” available - it’s a waste to make a drink with the more iconic stuff.)
That’s because Im an American with no skin in the game and I have sold booze in some fashion for decades.
Lots of people have weirdly nationalistic ideas with booze.
Yeah I’ve had some really good conversations here, I had a lot of great little friend groups on Reddit over the years but being here made me realise I haven’t had a really good chat with someone that I genuinely enjoy talking to on there for about five years. I’d honestly just assumed it was me but here I’ve had so many great conversations, I don’t know why but possibly it’s that the good interesting people aren’t drowned out and beaten down by a sea of hostility.
Eh, many brought their reddit habits over here
My blocklist grew daily for about a week, and now my lemmy experience has improved drastically.
I only dislike the quantity of anti musk/anti reddit posts
i think most apps have a word filter that you could use.
if you generally want the content but not the spam way you are experiencing you could have another app without filters.
Totally agree. And I’m now using more of my time to relearn all the Spanish I’ve forgotten over the last 20 years and even improve beyond my previous level.
I also made the decision to try to use my social media/YouTube/web-browsing time on learning new things. When I’m in the mood for more mindless activities, I generally opt for watching videos where people bring positivity into the world in some way or another.
I pop on here once a day or every couple of days to fart around a very short while and then I’m back to doing my thing.
I occasionally end up on Reddit because a web search had results from there that were intriguing for whatever I was looking up. I never go in as a registered user anymore and those few times I do end up there, I’m in and out without going any farther than the thread that came up in the search results.
Thanks, Spez, for helping me take back my life!
Good enough, that’s our motto.
We have a saying im German that encapsulates that notion: Ein gutes Pferd springt nur so hoch, wie es muss (A good horse only jumps as high as it has to.)
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We’re a pretty darn good minor league baseball team if you ask me
Agreed, and it seems to be evolving over time.
Only thing I miss from reddit is the r/SamHarris subreddit. It was pretty much the only place on the internet, that I know of, where one could have serious, intellectually honest discussions and disagreements.
I like Lemmy but the content here is, for the most part, focused on certain popular topics and even though there’s still a lot to discuss there the issue is that people have quite strong opinions and generally aren’t willing to entertain alternative views on those subjects but rather have already made their mind and the replies are generally based on emotions but not always facts.