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It's so interesting. My partner is still on Reddit and she was complaining to me about the massive amount of bots, trolls and general negativity. My response was basically, yeah, that's why I left and don't miss it one bit. I found a much better place that has actual discussion and nowhere near that level of toxicity. I asked her if she wanted to know about it and her answer was just "No". LOL. She's also a fan of super drama filled reality TV so I guess if you like one you like the other.
I'm low-key glad for the Reddit API debacle that caused me to migrate over here. Although it seems that Reddit has become especially awful nowadays, Lemmy made me realise that this degradation had been happening for years.
Part of what masked it is that my favourite parts of Reddit were the niche communities that still had quality discourse in them. I especially liked the craft subreddits, which were full of vibrant users and useful resources. In hindsight, by the time I left Reddit, I was spending most of my time in these small communities, rather than the defaults.
To some extent, Reddit's front page and default subs have always been a bit of a cess-pool of toxicity, but it wasn't always as bad as it was when I left. It seems like it's even worse now though. I wonder how much of that is because people who care about quality discussion migrated to platforms like this. Given how much I enjoy the vibe of Lemmy, my gut says that surely must have had a significant impact. However, my brain says that I'm probably overestimating the significance of our little pocket here.
Regardless, I'm glad to be here, and I'm glad you are here too. I hope that people like your partner will eventually find their own pockets of enjoyable psuedonymous community, whether on Lemmy or elsewhere — I'm not a drama enjoyer myself, but it'd be nice if people who like that could have a place where they can indulge in that without the unpleasantness you describe. I sympathise with people who feel overwhelmed by the fediverse, and I sometimes have to try not to evangelise too hard.
I left Reddit and deleted my account after 15 years, and millions of up votes on comments and posts. I do not regret that decision.
However, my much older slashdot account is still there.
sounds like getting to complain is part of the experience for her, no offense to either of you but i kinda see why reddit suits her lol
Huh... That might be a valid point.
I’ll be honest, a good number of the content and comments on Lemmy are just people ripping on Reddit
As in talking shit about reddit or ripping off content from reddit?
I know what you typed but autocorrect could have changed your "on" to "off". I see a lot of reddit bashing here (to be expected in my opinion) but I don't go to Reddit anymore so I don't know if most stuff here are just reposts
Shit talking
Was on a thread that caught onto the post history of one user going from being a teacher, to 18, to a girl with period issues, to a guy with a "child from an ex he just found out about"
The user had a post history going back like a decade and it seemed to be just a chain of made up identities, but no political stuff so not necessarily a psyop etc
You think your internet addiction is rough? You kids these days with your just 1 personality that is addicted to the Internet... Back in my day if you had multiple personalities they all had different interests and did different things. They didn't communicate and often didn't even know each other existed. Now they all just sit around on the internet and argue with each other. They can't even be bothered to make their own accounts.
Just your Common or Garden Internet Looney.