I’m not trying to cause an argument but when Reddit pulled it’s bs - I said that’s enough. I gave up my Reddit addiction and didn’t open it or visit the site for over 30 days.

The tone and people on Lemmy is great. I don’t miss Reddit. But I miss the content types. For me Reddit was a topic related news source, a place for great discourse about those news pieces, a place where community members asked constructive questions or shared ideas/projects - and lastly a place for some very specific community types.

Over the last few days I noticed that the first 2 categories of content came over to Lemmy no problem. But the second 2 types I outlined above don’t seem to have come. I went back to Reddit this morning and it’s all still there. Certain types of posts just don’t happen on Lemmy, and on top of that many communities never came over (street_photography is a great example. They literally shut down a subreddit with thousands of users and created a new location in Lemmy/kbin, and instead of coming over the community just evaporated). Other communities are also non existent and some that do exist are simply just not enjoying the same types of posts. I like it here, I want to stay - but it’s difficult. Is anyone else having this issue?

Thanks for hearing me out.

TLDR: all of my communities seem to link posts only, many types of posts just don’t seem to happen here.

  • @Sterile_TechniqueEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    When Reddit decided to backstab its app developers / community, I just full-on deleted my account. Makes it a lot easier to not go back when you actually remove the thing you’d go back to.

    Think of it like recovering from alcoholism: are you more prone to relapse if you keep a bottle of some familiar brand of booze in your fridge? Or if you actually get it out of your house?

    Sure you could go back to the store and buy another bottle (make a new account), but that hassle will help reinforce your decision not to. Keeping it in arm’s reach - different story.

    Delete your account. Delete your reddit browser extentions, saved passwords, bookmarks, mobile apps… scrub that shit from your devices. You’ll find yourself much less tempted to relapse, and it’s liberating as fuck.

    I miss a few features from Reddit; but I’m not making a new account and setting RES and such back up again to get them. Fuck that noise.