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.
Haven’t gone back to Reddit since. But what I do miss most is the sorting algorithm. I don’t know if it was just the abundance of posts, or better sorting. But on lemmy I keep seeing the same posts over and over again, regardless of my sorting setting. But I’ll be patient and hope that it gets better.
I’ve been using relay for the past month or so since it’s still up, and honestly a lot of content on Reddit feels like bot posting now. The communities seem to have gotten nastier as well, with incel type posts and hateful propaganda being the main themes I’m seeing there. I hope Lemmy can become a last bastion of content for me, but maybe I should just touch grass lol
I am of the opinion the algorithm is fine, these are just the dominant posts both in subject and engagement. And this is the problem. The place just isn’t big or diverse enough.