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    1. I haven't gone back to Reddit since the rapture. The only time I use it is for Google results.
    2. I use Lemmy A LOT less than Reddit. This is a good thing imo.
    3. Since it's a smaller community I find that my posts and comments get a lot more traction.
    4. I miss the smaller niche subs. Yes I know that I should contribute and make it a thing on Lemmy. No I won't because I'm mostly a lurker and would rather just close the app than do any work.
    5. I like how the platform is full of socialist/communist but it can become a bit of an echo chamber.

    Overall I am happy with the change. Fuck Spez.

    • Are you me? Every point you made mirrors my own Lemmy experience.

      The only thing i would add is that i really miss the quality of some of the content, which i would just attribute to the difference between userbase size and by sheer numbers meaning more high quality content to rise up to the top. I would say on reddit that i would almost never get through the days 'top content' for me before i started losing interest in posts, whereas here i can run out within 15-30 mins and then im among duplicate posts, yesterday's posts or just things that dont interest me much. But i also put this down to the wider range of subreddits providing more variation and extra content, so perhaps i just have to spend more time finding more lemmy communities to draw from on other instances.

  • I want to actively build community and engage with people here; to make this place home. That's how it changed me. I'm not a lurker or passive. It has made positive improvements to my reading and cooking, along with bending my language more positively. I've also further grown in my appreciation of diversity.

    • I want to actively build community

      That was the key for me. To take one of my favorite communities ("bande dessinée," i.e. Euro comics) and create a version on Lemmy eight months ago. It's taken a load of work (usually daily), and sometimes I get really discouraged, but overall it locked me in to the FV.

      Also, you might have to burn me at the stake for saying this-- I still visit Reddit because of the far more prolific content, and do have worries & reservations about the tankie founders of Lemmy. But so far, so good. The more the FV grows, the more I'll have no problem leaving Reddit behind.

    • What do ya follow for improved cooking?

      • As far as fermentation, I don't even recall what prompted me now. I mostly watch the All feed so I catch what most of Lemmy is doing. It may have been... in fact... I think it was something I was discussing with my offline AI. That is not a valid primary reference source, but searching online helped. That lead to asking questions here, and resulted in more confidence.

        On my Beehaw account and their food community I asked about how people cook rice back when I was developing my recipe and working on ways of altering cooked grain texture. Someone there mentioned making a sauce for topping fried rice using spicy mayo and teriyaki sauces. That one was a game changer for me and really pushed me into playing with sauces. That got me thinking about fermented sauces because adding Worcestershire sauce to that spicy mayo/teriyaki blend makes it even better. This is what I am exploring now. I want to play with unique flavors by wild exploration.

        That is just how my intuitively driven mind works. I attribute inspiration to a root fork in my thinking, but I don't really "follow" anything. I haven't cooked something with a recipe and measuring in 10 years or more. It is the motivation to explore an new space, and just enough reinforcing motivation to help me take action that I value. I didn't expect a place this small to have many people experienced in fermentation, but I was pleasantly surprised. In other words, my investment into engaging paid off even in a relatively small niche subject.

        I generally post in !cooking@lemmy.world or !foodporn@lemmy.world

    • switched to a split ergonomic mechanical keyboard
    • 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.

  • i feel a little more comfortable commenting here.

    being a smaller community, i feel like i'm actually contributing when i post something, instead of just adding to a sea of noise

    it also helps that i've come up with this new "persona". i'm able to be more of the real me than i can with my main account.

    it's like half way between anonimity and publicity. this account has very little connection to my meatspace existance, so i feel safe to say anything. but at the same time i'm not gonna act like some 4chan user. halfway_neko's a good girl lol

  • It’s nice to rarely deal with trolls. I say rarely, as I’ve seen a few users recently argue, just to be assholes.

    Ironically, both appear to be very heavy Lemmy posters, and one seems to be downvoting me, still.

    That said, I’ve actually met users I run into semi regularly in others posts, which is a nice change.

  • I still use Reddit, maybe more in recent times actually. I don't like the platform and the app is a massive pile of wank, but there's more "normal" people there who don't spend every waking moment hating America or going on about Linux. I still use Lemmy nearly every day but it's more morbid curiosity now.

  • I had been looking for an out from Reddit for years. I like commenting and responding to comments, or simply enjoying thoughtful comments. I'm there for the commenters rather than the posts, the social part of sharing news. especially the commenters providing context or a new way to think about things.

    Trying to enjoy Reddit the way I like became a game whack-a-mole of removing communities that were too large and filled with copy paste jokes.

    I dunno if I'm a weird kind of redditor but i know am a stubborn one, and as reddit changed i bounced harder and harder off of it.

    Coincidentally i was a month into a sanity sabbatical from Reddit when my friends told me about the api fiasco. Somehow i stumbled in here, and while i thought it world be a tough transition and that i would struggle to ban reddit it wasnt.

    Long story short, I wouldn't say i changed at all. Reddit changed, and i found a home better than it ever was.

  • I've moved on, I only use reddit when I want to find already existing stuff.

  • I'm glad that Reddit gave me the push I needed to finally join the fediverse. I absolutely love the technology to the point I don't care so much about the content.

  • For the better :)
    I haven't been active in online communities for over ten years. It's been fun to contribute with comments and posts and I feel like I'm finding my voice again.

  • Some of the more niche communities I had on reddit don't exist on Lemmy yet, and likely won't for the foreseeable future. DPS chasing for a small MMO seems like a thing that could exist here, but for now the majority of the public would just use Reddit or whatever instead.

    The custom mtg card community I joined is pretty much just dead. I did a card a day for a while in there, but then I ran out of cards is already made and now it's just sitting again.

    Other than that, the general purpose of it is doing exactly what Reddit did for me, so...

  • I'm on my phone less, commenting more, avoiding more ads, and much happier with the content/comments on Lemmy. Reddit chains sometimes felt a little brain-rotty.

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