So I’ve switched to lemmy since the reddit meltdown started, experienced quite some withdrawal symptoms, occasionally turned back to reddit, more often logged out than logged in. Now I am merely using Lemmy occasionally and by far not as often as I used reddit before. No more doom scrolling.

So far so good.

Today I went on reddit for the first time in like 3 weeks straight (I couldn’t do that for the last years… yeah, I was very addicted in hindsight). I just… I don’t know what it is.

Reddit just isn’t fun anymore.

I turned away after maybe 5 minutes. There were maybe 2-3 repost-worthy pics, one interesting video and a few small niche discussions that all went straight tits up within a few replies.

If I ask a question on lemmy, it usually is a straightforward, honest discussion. Almost no blaming of the posters or answerers misunderstandings or senseless answers. It goes a bit back and forth usually and people tend to thank each other for corrections. I can’t remember when that happened on a reddit discussion. Maybe years back? Anyway, I’m not going back there anymore, not because I hate the CEO, but because reddit is not fun anymore. Lost all interest in it.

Did anyone of you have a similar experience?

    • Sev@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      Yep! I don’t care about trump, elon musk and what lame alternative to discord there is. Slowly blocking stuff will be the way I guess

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      1 year ago

      Is that really so strange? Personally I don’t care about any level of politics or news outside of a couple of fields in general, certainly don’t care for it being on social media. Generally it seems that if it is actually important I will find out about it one way or another anyway.

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      1 year ago

      Not really. Its the same shit. America/Trump/GOP/Cars/Conservatives/Work are fascist. Europe/Weed/College/China/Communism/Bicycles are good.

      Its pretty repetitive and a circlejerk. Yall have had daily “Trump is going down this time” articles since 2016. Thats 7 years of this shit. How do you guys still have the interest to read them?