Warning: This is a rant.
I don’t really know how to describe it but the content isn’t quite where reddit had been for me. Also the comments are kind of weird at times, like they type of person here doesn’t quite seem as ‘normal’ as what I’m used to from reddit.
There’s a lot more open source and privacy focused people and conversations. A lot of people seem to hate on big tech and big companies in a sort of toxic-ish feeling way to me (not to say the other relationship isn’t toxic… just saying). Random conversations go into: “omg your privacy is lost cause you used a Google service.” Then we have the ‘if we don’t defederate with Meta the world ends’ conversations. I personally would like to see what Meta does in the fediverse… maybe it will make it more normalized…idk. Then the: “if your app isn’t open source its awful and terrible for the world” people.
Like that stuff is all fine, but it just isn’t quite my cup of tea.
These things remind me of that one person in my comp sci classes in college who I just couldn’t stand talking to. He would try to make you feel like an idiot by trying to sound all self righteous and smart. (Honestly he would fail and would generally look like a dingus).
The bulk of the content that gets comments seem to be mostly meme atm. At least on all (7/10 of the current top for me are memes). I like my memes, but would like some more breadth/depth.
Like I hope Lemmy continues to grow and hope it gets better, but it leaves me missing reddit at the moment.
In a perfect world I wish reddit corp wasn’t such assholes and this whole thing didn’t happen the way it did.
I’m completely skipping the UI and stuff not being as familiar and the various outages/bugs/etc since that’s to be expected with something at this stage.
Please don’t hate me :) Just sharing my unpopular opinion. Though I genuinely wonder if others feel the same way.
/Rant
I don’t miss Reddit. I do miss Redditors. I’ve been through 20, or 30 different social media platforms from open source to Nostr to here for now, and what they all lack is that snarky something Redditors had. That’s not Reddit though. That was the people.
This is so true. For me it’s the community, etc.
%100 I wish more of them would migrate elsewhere. Id end up wherever they did if that happened
I miss people randomly breaking out in songs
The hour long smart ass replies to smart ass replies is what did it for me.
The graveyard of deleted comments in a controversial post or the numerous awards cuz someone made a punny joke. r/foundthemobileuser
But the replies to deleted comments still remained so you could kinda see how big of an ass the dude was, but not exactly, and when the question was in-fact to stupid for r/nostupidquestions
This kind of dissociative coherence when you didn’t know what the fuck was going on was hilarious and I think a seed for how i came to think about media (e.g. not caring if it’s a sequel and watching it just to see what the fuck is going on) Shame that people on Facebook don’t delete shit halfway nor that Facebook tells you this post was deleted, would be so much more fun. omg the mix-up of r/trees and r/weed haha
yes! Always loved seeing a lost redditor come into /r/trees with a picture of a laurel oak in their yard asking a bunch of stoners if it looks diseased Lolol
lmao that is hilarious