Lemmings of Lemmy who came over from Reddit what do you miss about Reddit and what do you not miss?

I miss browsing r/all and seeing a wide range of ideas and topics. Everything else I liked about Reddit has already carried over: Linux, memes, self-hosted, etc.

Not miss? Locked/removed posts or comments.

I miss actual hobby subs. So much of what's posted here is just rage bait drummed up from dubious sources. I miss subs that had regular interaction for stuff like growing cactus, troubleshooting and flying multicopters, and mountainbiking subs.

Their analogs exist here, but have one post every three weeks.

I don't miss how corporate reddit felt in the late 2010s though, and early 20s. Once the AMA sub got ruined, I knew it was the end of an era. They never should have shot that fucking gorilla, that fucked 2016-2021.

The size

I miss how easy it is to search for stuff on redd it, from google just add Reddit to search term. Not sure how to do that with lemmy. Maybe someone can teach me

The few things that I'm into and their related subs. Those communities here are next to nothing, and even when I post, there is no engagement. There's just no one there.

I do not miss the cesspool of comments and the shitty moderation. I'm sure it's only gotten so much worse since I've left.

I really miss high quality gifs. Shit was hilarious. Especially how they were always digging on each other.

I don't miss all the right wing trolls

There's literally no real communities here. I like resident evil and Tekken. Nope.

I miss the small niche communities.

I don't miss the larger communities.

i misss multis. I don't want to make 9 accounts to keep my interests organized, and people telling me that's what I'm supposed to do can stop it.

I don't miss getting nagged to use their app every time I click a link. I had an app, they killed it, I'm not installing another one.

I miss like 3 subreddits that aren't active here.

Don't miss getting banned repeatedly for speaking ill of child molesters or the platform that seeks to create a safe space for them.

Call me crazy, but I feel like I'm in an even smaller echo chamber.

It's been well over a year, and I mostly miss the small communities and more real-world diversity.

Lemmy is diverse to the point of not fitting in if you're average/mainstream.

What do I miss about reddit: what reddit was 10 years ago.

What I dont miss: everything else

Secret Santa, but that was killed a while back.

I miss the diversity of the content.

I don't miss being stalked by Nazis. I miss mocking them on Reddit.

Amount of content. Virtually unending streams of whatever you want in any major sub. Here it's much slower. That results in more personal interaction in the comments though, which I greatly appreciate.

I miss a lot of the smaller dedicated communities. There were a lot there were essentially mirrored from Reddit but a lot of the userbase disappeared. They are widely federated and posts get votes and comments but there's not a lot of people putting out content.

What I don't miss is the power mods and all the auto mods. They just get tiring.

The helpful users that made Reddit the go-to for support. They haven't come over yet.

I do not miss getting banned for having unpopular opinions, well actually still popular i.e. lots of upvotes, but unpopular to the mods.

I miss the small, niche communities. I don't mis anything else. Lemmy shows me things I'm interested in much more frequently, and I don't feel like I'm on a massive corporation's money-making system.

The small niche communities.

Also r/AMA had some very fun high profile figures hosting AMAs.

My immediate thought is that I miss the discussions for a specific game in that game's subreddit, but then I remember how many stupid takes and ass-backward ideas people had and think there is nothing about Reddit that I truly miss that I can't get here on Lemmy.

Miss: As a reader, writing subs like writingprompts, hfy, etc.

Don't miss: Spez, csam

I miss the niche communities that I followed on reddit. There was a lot of sharing and discussion of knowledge there and I learned a lot about my hobbies. I feel more alone in my hobbies and interests now, I have no one to talk about them here.

On the general content side, I'm fine with Lemmy, there's a lot less to scroll through and I spend a lot less time without feeling like I'm missing out, which is not a bad thing for me. I still can get my jokes, cats and memes in a smaller dose with a lot less reposting than reddit had. Another thing I like about lemmy is that I can interact with the more general content (like right now) without being the billionth comment that no one is going to read anyway

I really miss the more specific subreddits a large user base brings with it. For me I really miss the sharpening subreddit, and the Overwatch subreddit. Sharing and getting tips and tricks from other people with the same hobby can be so helpful.

I got recently diagnosed with autism and r/autism is the reason I started using Reddit again after more than a year. I would prefer using Lemmy for this but there's barely any activity in autism community on Lemmy. Yeah, I know, I should be the change I want to see. I promise I will try to post something there!

It might just be that my client doesn’t support them, but I miss the tags system Reddit had. Made it really easy to find posts of a certain type

I miss the abundant niche interest subs and subs that (once upon a time) had legitimately good information on everything from camping to bike repair. There were some solid academic subs too.

I don't miss capricious powermods who control all the popular places or the administrators who do not give a single fuck or the broken ass reporting system that bans people it shouldn't and ignores people who should definitely be banned. People game the shitty automated ban system using bots to ban anyone they wanted and the appeals process usually took days.

I once reported someone who openly admitted to doing this to get me banned and they didn't do a damn thing, despite openly admitting he abuses botnets to manipulate the website because they were being paid to do it. He openly admitted this on their own website, nothing though. It became pretty clear that they don't give a shit. This was before the IPO too.

/r/askhistorians mostly.

From Reddit itself, just the large userbase. It meant that even niche interests had lively and active communities.

From Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES): the ability to resize images just by cliking and dragging, the ability to tag users in custom ways so you can tell at a glance if they're someone who past-you thought was an idiot, and endless scrolling.

What I don't miss: everything else. Comparing the two userbases, Reddit is far more right-wing on average than Lemmy is. It's nice not having to deal with so many garbage takes here.

What I miss about Reddit hasn't been on Reddit for a long time. It's just a porn aggregator now.

Miss the network effect, don't miss the amount of dudes there who very loudly lacked any female friends

Only thing I miss from Reddit was the booming Project Zomboid subreddit I had stumbled upon. I like Lemmy way more in general.

Miss:

1. Sheer number of users giving rise to lively niche communities
2. Searchability

Not miss:
Asshole business model

Interesting timing …. I just blocked a user for the first time. I never did that in all my years atReddit and it’s predecessors.

So the people. Maybe it was just the huge numbers that I never got targeted by someone who wanted to keep arguing no matter what, but it didn’t happen at Reddit.

And I do miss number of communities Lemmy just doesn’t have the user base to support

More content.
Maybe less absolute hate on Windows and linux evangelists because each OS is good at some and bad at other tasks. Theres no ultimate solution.

I miss most communities not being overly political, I've blocked more users and communities than what I've subscribed to in lemmy. I don't want to doom scroll through a political hive mind (which I'm not even aligned with) when I'm on my phone

I predict that this community will grow, as more and more people will leave Reddit

Some super active communities about photography, which is one of my hobbys.

I miss multireddits! Is that a thing on Lemmy?

I miss the number of users meaning there was always some kind soul also interested in my niche interest, be it coding, obscure band I just found... that was neat. :)

I don't miss the number of users meaning lame memes and boring gibberish clogging the pipes, not to mention the argument people on the big subs. :/

Sports subreddits were much more popular there than here.

IMO: Anytime you had a question that you wanted to learn about, whether it be shows or science, you could go into your preferred search engine and type reddit and [your question].

A good amount of discussions on the topic would show up and still do.

One day people will use Lemmy as the search engine to look for those discussions, hopefully!

I miss niche communities. I enjoy games like Shadowrun, Blood on the Clocktower and video games where there's a lot of meta discussion (e.g. Payday 2 back in the day). There are some less specific similar communities on Lemmy, but they just don't hit the same. When I'm thinking of TTRPGs, I'm thinking gritty cyberpunk with a bucket of D6s, but the rpg communities on here are very D&D and Pathfinder focused.

I know the general response to this is "well you should start the community and generate the content". But the issue is that, frankly, I'm not interested in that. Before Lemmy, rif was just the app I used to scroll mindlessly when I was bored at work. Lemmy is the replacement to that, even if it's missing some of the specific content I'd want it to have.

I miss nothing. I do not miss the complete shitshow Reddit became because of Spez and all the trolls.

I miss meaningful discussion of RVs and sailboats

This is a lot more about posting the news than engaging in discussions with substance. I miss personal stories and lots of crazy hobby projects.

The amount of people/content. At the same time half the people were bots and 90% of the content is reposts. I guess really it was the activity. I like to do All and when I do with Lemmy, it's the same posts as of 1.5 days ago. I enjoy the OC posts of Lemmy cause they're not buried.

I don't miss sponsored posts and ads every other card. I don't miss all the bot copypasta of comments and posts. You use it for 12 years and start to notice the same exact comments, up voted to top on every repost.

i miss the imaginary network it was my favourite part about reddit; also the active d&d, final fantasy, critical role, and doctor who subreddits.

What I miss? Easy answer: It's u/shittymorph

I miss the more active moderation. Like, with how many subs are niche titled, but have standard non-niche content.

Ok, so NSFW subs. Sure, ‘nude girl get upvote’, but holy fuck… if it’s an XYZ niche community, why is ‘basic nude girl’ getting upvoted and not reported and removed?

This happens in other communities, I’m sure. But, I’m here for politics, science, and titties so my experience is limited.

niche and specific communities like combat footage.

Also unmodded meme content subs which got deleted but never really revived themselves anywhere outside reddit.

Niche communities and Infinity (now Eternity) being maintained. Specifically the Christian communities. I think I have found a total of two other Christians on here. The rest just seem to be some degree of antitheist

tldr: niche communities

Stuff I prefer on Reddit

• Size of userbase. There are some drawbacks to that too, but the large size lets you go way down the long tail, lets you do a lot of niche communities. We can do that here due to disproportionate representation of some areas, but that's limited to some things like Linux (which, to be fair, was also the case for very early Reddit).

• Stability of "home instance" service. Lemmy.today, my present home instance, has been pretty good. Kbin.social had some serious downtime issues (along with some other issues on some other big instances). Early Reddit also had some major stability problems, including multi-day outages, but one of the ways in which late Reddit beats the pants off early Reddit is uptime.

• Composition of userbase. A disproportionate chunk of the crowd that started out here is far-left, which means that discussions about anything economic tends to have someone showing up and saying something like "we need to abolish capitalism", which I'd call a little obnoxious. But I tend to hang out on the communities not specifically dedicated to far-left stuff, so...shrugs. And every community's got quirks, and I suppose this isn't the worst to have.

• IP-level privacy from user-to-user. Reddit doesn't permit externally-hosted images to be embedded in comments. The Threadiverse does, which means that it's possible for a commenter to know which IPs are viewing their comments. Most federated systems that I can think of, aside from some IRC networks, don't expose IP addresses from one user to another.

• In that vein, no inline images. I make use of them, but if I'd built the system, I wouldn't have included support for them. I think that they bring too many tradeoffs and have too few benefits. Old Reddit didn't have inline images (though IIRC New Reddit did have some sort of support).

• Easy way to find new communities. A given instance on the Threadiverse doesn't know anything about a community if it has no users subscribed to it. That's good for scalability -- a private instance consumes little bandwidth. But it's bad for being able to find new communities. Lemmyverse.net runs a bot that builds a list of all instances and communities on those instances, but it's not immediately obvious to new users, and there's no native-client support to search for communities.

• Concern about loss of home instance. As it stands, if your home instance goes away -- and these are all being run by generous volunteers who may-or-may-not continue to have the time and willingness to continue to run them -- so does your identity. That wasn't a concern I had on Reddit. I'd really like there to be support for linking an identity to a public/private key pair and supporting account portability across instances. Hell, if I could use two home instances interchangeably, the Threadiverse could also have outstanding uptime.

• Lack of support for styles in link text. Reddit supported Markdown of this syntax:

    I love [*Moby-Dick*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick).
  

  To produce something that looks like this:

  I love Moby-Dick.

  The best you can manage with Markdown here is this:

    I love *[Moby-Dick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick)*.
  

  That works for some things -- for a link that should be entirely italicized, something that I do all the time, it's functionally equivalent, but it doesn't work if you want to hyperlink text and have only part of it be stylized.

Stuff I prefer here

• Stability of overall system. This is in contrast to the "home instance" stability above. Reddit had times when the entire system wasn't working. That has never happened to the Threadiverse as long as I've been here. All systems don't go down concurrently. You can always use at least part of the system.

• Variety of software. Reddit had, well, New Reddit and Old Reddit frontends, and there's some third-party software (which largely got blocked, last I looked, which is why I left). My home instance alone has something like three or four web frontends running for users to select from, and there's a wide variety of client software.

• Some good system status monitoring tools. I don't have a comprehensive list, but I've seen a lot of people build useful tools that expose a lot of useful information about the system, stuff like lemmy-status.org, to grab an example.

• Not bound to one company's policies. Reddit has to make one set of content and behavior rules at the service level. That doesn't exist on the Threadiverse (or, for that matter, the Fediverse as a whole). Maybe there will ultimately be something like that, as you had things like the Usenet cabal, and a hypothetical Fediverse Cabal could hypothetically exert influence, impose things analogous to the Usenet Death Penalty, though I felt that the UDPs didn't become overbearing. But I'm pretty happy with a pick-your-own-set-of-rules environment, and the federated structure works well with that.

• I don't have to worry about the system going downhill. I didn't know for sure what Reddit's monetization phase would look like, but I knew that it would eventually come. As it happened, it took a form that I considered unacceptable (elimination of third party clients). But I always knew that it could come. Or it could get purchased and have unpleasantness from the new owner. Here, the only real risks are spammers or the like figuring out tactics that make the system unusable. As long as someone wants to run an instance, the only thing that will replace it is a better instance. There's a variety of software backends, and those could, worst-case, be forked.

• Transparency. You can see the bug-trackers for the backend software, know the status of a bug, can link other people to it. Can even submit fixes if you can code!

• User blocks don't prevent responses. I haven't blocked anyone here. But my understanding is that user blocking works the way it once did on Reddit, which I vastly prefer. Historically, on Reddit, if you block a user, you don't see their posts, but they can still respond to you. Reddit at some point changed their mode of operation so that if User A blocks User B, then User B cannot respond to User A's comments. After they did that, this was, predictably, promptly abused by people in arguments to make a statement, then block the other person so that they couldn't respond and it looked like their point went unanswered. I remember outraged people responding all over threads on some subs I followed ("User X blocked me, but here's my response..."). Was the one significant policy move I'd seen Reddit make that I intensely disagreed with.

• Markdown's auto-renumbering of numbered lists apparently was disabled, at least in Lemmy (dunno about mbin and others). I generally like Markdown, but I think that this was a huge misfeature, caused many people to have incorrectly-renumbered items when they were trying to quote a specific numbered item. Reddit, unfortunately, implements the auto-renumbering. This means that on Reddit, something like:

    I believe the following rule applies:
   
    743. All claims must be registered.
  

  Is rendered as:

  I believe the following rule applies:

  1. All claims must be registered.

Threads for daily games of favorite MLB teams. Where people posted realtime takes during the game.

I miss the in-depth comments from users experienced in specific fields. I followed RealTesla on Reddit and it was amazing because you had software engineers, automotive engineers, safety systems engineers, lawyers, finance people, car industry insiders and many other perspectives all discussing the topics and bringing their unique insights to the conversation. Here it seems you have the same tired jokes repeated on most posts and not nearly as much depth.

Funny posts

I miss the amount of content and replies. At the same time, I don't miss the majority dick replies whenever you didn't conform perfectly.

Every type of community I could want to participate in almost certainly exists, if not multiple, and actually has other people there. More than a few things I've tried to find an equivalent for on Lemmy, and it either didn't exist at all, or was made at some point but is fully dead.

But I abandoned reddit maybe 2 or 3 years ago, since pretty much everywhere was becoming (even more of) a toxic cesspool.

I miss the non-sexual nudes threads, Normalnudes and NakedProgress. I miss the nice places like ABraThatFits. I miss having enough of a user base to have a city specific subreddit.

I don't miss having to take down tens of posts every day in the aforementioned nonsexual nudes threads as a mod helper, because nobody could follow the rules, so to keep it a place for real people it took a lot of culling of mean comments and isolated boner pics and ladies promoting onlyfans.

I thought I'd miss the busy R/Cocktails but love maintaining the small one here and in nearly a year have had only two reported posts, it's just so much nicer here.

And when I've ventured back, it's worse even than it was. So many ads.

I just got some sort of contact poison after reading this title, so I'll go with: I don't miss titles like this.

My City's local subreddit was run really well, had a good mix of shitposting and helpful information. They'd have info about local emergencies quickly, lots of cool groups I would have never known about, and useful community resources

I miss unhinged communities like AnarchyChess and Okbuddychicanery.

Video and gif content. Also a smarter algorithm would be great.

I miss a few communities, mostly the creative writing ones. R/hfy and r/fanfiction, mainly.

tv show discussions.

it's just not existing or not even close as active.

On reddit I can find an active community for pretty much any show, especially a currently running one

Miss: Niche subs with active users.

Don't miss: Spez. power mods, endless pun threads, mean-spirited circlejerk subs.

I don’t miss “Redditors of Reddit…” and I don’t welcome “Lemmings of Lemmy…”.

The only thing I still go to reddit for are the communities based on living in Japan and financial stuff in Japan. They never wanted to move over and have super useful info by people living here for decades that really help visa, legal, and financial issues.

Video content. I still browse with no account for certain video content about once per week.

I miss some of the small recovery communities.

Also, a lot of mods seem to be inactive by now.

When I used RIF, I could group subreddits together (can't remember what the name for it was), so I could put all subreddits for one subject in one group, all subs for another subject in another. It was great when I felt like seeing news about one subject, but felt like ignoring everything else.

I don't think lemmy has anything like this, and I don't know if any of the apps do this either.

I reeaaaaly miss being able to group subs.

I enjoy being able to see and interact with other people in a bunch of different contexts who are like minded without being so similar it becomes an echo chamber.

I do miss all the world building sub's and projects on reddit, at this point I only keep my account to post in one community. Additionally r/dogelore and r/polandball are great, and it appears those subreddit are branching out to other platforms in response to reddit recent changes.

I miss constantly discovering new cat subs. Someone posted a picture of their cat and people would put related subs in the comments. And even the smallest and most specific subs would get regular posts.

Overwatch porn

STOP with the other shit bag site stuff!

I miss being able to customize my feed through subscriptions and blocks. I could hide ads and ignore specific communities. That's not at all possible anymore, and the ads have gotten much sneakier.

r/MinecraftMemes r/Minecrafthmmm r/PhoenixSC r/animeme r/animemes r/Ultrakill r/BoomerShooters r/196(It is more funny) r/hmm r/Minecraft r/comics r/AnimeMirchi r/DaniDev r/2b2t

The subreddit drama threads, some of the funniest shit I've seen has been petty mods being petty and inter subreddit wars.

I miss not riding the corporate circle jerk stock.

I don't miss reddit.