I’m not trying to cause an argument but when Reddit pulled it’s bs - I said that’s enough. I gave up my Reddit addiction and didn’t open it or visit the site for over 30 days.

The tone and people on Lemmy is great. I don’t miss Reddit. But I miss the content types. For me Reddit was a topic related news source, a place for great discourse about those news pieces, a place where community members asked constructive questions or shared ideas/projects - and lastly a place for some very specific community types.

Over the last few days I noticed that the first 2 categories of content came over to Lemmy no problem. But the second 2 types I outlined above don’t seem to have come. I went back to Reddit this morning and it’s all still there. Certain types of posts just don’t happen on Lemmy, and on top of that many communities never came over (street_photography is a great example. They literally shut down a subreddit with thousands of users and created a new location in Lemmy/kbin, and instead of coming over the community just evaporated). Other communities are also non existent and some that do exist are simply just not enjoying the same types of posts. I like it here, I want to stay - but it’s difficult. Is anyone else having this issue?

Thanks for hearing me out.

TLDR: all of my communities seem to link posts only, many types of posts just don’t seem to happen here.

  • Sekrayray@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been off of Reddit since they announced the API changes, and I had been a daily user since 2012. I don’t miss how toxic a lot of the site became, but I wish Lemmy were a bit more active. I tend to browse /all and the site just doesn’t turn over as much. It’s led to me picking up reading again, but at times I find myself sort of just refreshing my phone. Which is a bad waste of time. Not sure what to do about that.

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      1 year ago

      For me the same. It also acts as a really strong reminder that I just wasted so much valuable time. It’s good that Lemmy for now is not as addictive.