I still lurk hard on Reddit, but either use a LibReddit redirect extension on both my Desktop and Phone, or I just use Stealth to keep track of Communities on my phone. I just don't post anymore.
This is mainly for research into niche topics or to see if a technical question I have has been asked on Reddit before, which oftentimes it has. I just try to not give Spez a record of my traffic, hence the alternative front ends (as well as using a VPN and blocking JS).
I come to Lemmy to Read/Debate Politics, talk Linux, Privacy, or the Fediverse, as well as occasionally get advice on a topic or two. One TV show I like has a consistent poster in their community, which I'm extremely grateful for.
Another poster here pointed out that the decentralized nature of Lemmy works against it for discover ability, which I generally agree with. I can't type in "question Google should be able to answer but not anymore? lemmy" into duckduckgo lite and get any kind of result like I would if I replaced "lemmy" with "reddit". I'd love that, but it's just not possible right now. So I still lurk via libreddit and stealth.
I've been a lurker on Reddit for forever (about 15 years) and then the APIcalypse happened and my first and unique post on Reddit was asking for a Tildes invite. I didn't enjoy Tildes, so now I'm here. We're so much less that I feel I can't lurk here too, so now I regularly comment here.
Same. My reddit feed was well curated with small hobby and humor subs specific to my interests. Without the cesspool of "default" subs it was actually a nice place, and if the official mobile app wasnt a pile of shit I'd still be there despite all the other fuckery going on with it.
Without my highly curated subs list I made to avoid propaganda, outrage, and cringebait (subs devoted to make you cringe or laugh at people, idk what to call it) I'm kinda stuck with /196 and a bunch of stuff I don't care about. Anyway, I too have been sucked into political crap and I'm over it.
Tonight I put in a some keyword filters to cut out the Israel-Palestine War, and stuff. So there's that.
I miss all my cool art subs, mental health subs, and media subs so much.
I'm with you. I had reddit tuned to make me feel better. I saw cute animals and silly memes, cool niche hobbies, active small communities. Here it's almost entirely doom and gloom. Fighting and arguing. Unfunny, serious memes.
Makes me very glad I found a friendly discord community to be in.
Yeah that's what i discovered too (atleast on lemmy world). Its gotten to the point where i moved back to reddit because im too old to engross myself with politics and hate 24/7. After the constant DDOS attacks all my niche subs i followed died and the rest are just posts ripped from Reddit.
working on a fork of Lemmy geared toward inventory called “Lemventory”
moderating multiple Lemmy communities that are basically ghost towns (and I don’t care)
got rid of my Instagram (and all centralized forms of social media except YouTube) and replaced it with Pixelfed and others
letting my NixOS flag fly much more regularly now
hexbear defederation only created a Streisand Effect and piqued my curiosity about Marxism. I’m now much better educated about it and have come to conclude that lemmy.world is basically filled with smug, tech-bro, hive-mind, blue maga, chuds that support censorship of simple ideas and subscribe to blind, disingenuous American exceptionalism that wouldn’t even stand up to the most generous critical analysis.
stores (or alliances of stores in similar industries) :: instances
inventory items :: posts
counts :: votes
item categories (or entire stores depend on implementation) :: communities
moderators are only allowed to post items to their own community or instance.
comments can still exist (perhaps as item reviews with the same upvote/downvote mechanic).
No actual transactions would be processed over this protocol. It would be solely for inventory broadcast/aggregation (like Shopify in that it houses the inventory of many vendors except without the transaction ability built-in since pub-sub is horrible for that kind of thing).
Edit: if you have any opinions (even “what a stupid idea!”) I’d be open to them. I haven’t even written a single line of code yet and it’s a fresh idea in my head waiting to be shot down by someone less idealistic than myself.
I don't really get the idea you've explained, but i'm sure its good. I'm generally excited at the prospects of less centralised internet, and so can't wait to see projects like yours grow.
Flibboard is a social magazine thats jumping into federation. They're doing a really uplifting podcast. Their conversations might help you clarify your idea. Or even just pump you up when your feeling less motivated.
Made me have a healthier relationship with social media, my smartphone usage, and overall thinking. I almost exclusively used RiF and curated it enough that I could readily get lost in it for hours in threads and/or following drama.
I knew what I liked about reddit was the mods, the 3rd party apps, and the communities, and the company behind the website was the least appealing ineffectual part of the experience. They were slow in every sense of the word and consistently made out-of-touch decisions.
Lemmy was a great transition point for me. At first I was trying to treat it as a clone. Instead, I found a place (and the fediverse in general) where there wasn't a mass amount of resources spent to keeping me engaged - it's just content of the day, no strings attached.
I found a space that was indifferent to the amount of time I spent on it, passionate communities that were more responsive and literate, and just felt more respected as a person.
I've been commenting a bit, whereas on reddit I would only post a comment a few times a year when I could be bothered dealing with the likely burst of negativity that would come as a response to it.
Kind of feels a bit more like Web 1.9 or so from about 2003 which I think was about the sweet spot for minimal rage bait and crazy and still a decent bit of user interaction and scale.
It would be about perfect if you could chop out a few of the folks trying to shoehorn in politics to every little thing.
No more reddit on my phone to doomscroll. I do still check it occasionally on desktop, for some niche subreddits, but not really beyond that.
Only negative is that I added Instagram reels to my doomscrolling routine. I feel like reels are more brainrot than reddit was...
Should definitely work on getting insta out of my routine!
Other than that no major changes from Lemmy i think.
It’s made me realise there are a lot of honest-to-Darwin communists and people who believe the West is pure evil and China & Russia is a better alternative. They didn’t frequent Reddit (they were either blocked or didn’t show up, I’m not actually sure).
For a while I tried to debate them. Then I realised it’s a waste of time - we are too far apart and both are each others trigger so I’ve blocked them. There’s probably some hexbear basement dweller responding to this comment and I’ll live in blissful ignorance.
Oh they were on Reddit. Before I left, you could find them on ChapoTrapHouse. After the Ukraine War kicked off, you could see them all over world news, Ukraine, noncredibledefense, credibledefence, and the various war update subs.
I was ready for a fediverse reddit since i had been on mastodon since 2019. The threads here just work better for me than the microblogging style. I used mastodon sometimes and reddit every day. Now i use lemmy every day, mastodon sometimes, and reddit only when i absolutely must.
I contribute far more now. I already have more posts on Lemmy in nine months than I did in all of the 10-ish years I was on Reddit. My rate of commenting is about the same.
I've also changed the way I get my news; I went retro and use RSS feeds now. I do fear there's a risk of over-curation with a minimum of sources leading to narrow viewpoints. Even Reddit's news bubble was more expansive than what I've got coming in. But my feeds and Lemmy's bubble are what I've got for now.