We keep seeing threads looking back at Reddit. Removing this one under rule #4.
A lot of the subs that I can’t find as active on this platform
Yeah especially the super niche stuff that had surprisingly active subs.
Yes. I keep checking https://sub.rehab for my niche communities.
Niche communities full of useful info. The subreddit for a game I’m playing rn was the one of the largest sources of information for the game, and now the subreddit is privated and all that info is inaccessible
Is Multireddits the correct term…? Being able to categorize my feeds instead of just having everything lumped together in “Subscribed”.’
The rest is just taking a bit of time to adjust to. Currently takes a bit longer to research something, though I find my need for answers on Reddit itself is growing less and less!
I miss that thing where any time there was a difficult question, someone with real expertise would jump into the comments. And sometimes it was someone who literally wrote the book on the subject. Sometimes it was the person who invented the thing being talked about. It was crazy. It happened all the time. It seemed like everyone was on Reddit and you could really trust you were getting solid answers.
I felt like there were a lot of blowhards on reddit and many highly voted comments would get it wrong. It happened enough times in areas I’m knowledgeable in so I almost never trusted a comment without others validating it. Maybe without the numbers lemmy doesn’t have as vast or varied of a knowledge across its users but I’m actually more trustworthy of it so far.
Fwiw, I’ve been able to get good advice on a few things already. I had a geologist here give me details on a rock I found at the beach, for instance.
That’s cool!
Searching for any question +Reddit and finding multiple answers/discussions related to it that are usually reliable or at least lead to ideas for more research. Especially for finding products and reviews.
I still sometimes look at old.reddit search results even though I don’t have an account any more, but I think those answers will soon become obsolete. And eventually I think new questions will be flooded with low effort trash answers that would make Amazon reviews blush.
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I miss this too. I’m usually in too much of a hurry when writing a reply because I get eager, so I make a lot of mistakes.
I can’t just let them stand and come off as an uncultured swine*, but the “edited” mark implies that I might have “altered the record” or something 🙁
*I’m not this critical about other people making mistakes, just myself lol
/r/askhistorians. The only truly good subreddit.
Nothing, I’m still there, unfortunately. Fact is, there just isn’t that much engagement here, and smaller niche subs that I like will have new posts daily on Reddit, but will sometimes take a week or more here.
I like the idea of Lemmy quite a bit, and I appreciate the hell out of Memmy and Mlem (can’t decide what I like more), but I also am using Apollo still, and I may have to stick with that for a while.
How do you still use Apollo?
You can use this.
