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.

  • chrizbie@lemmy.nz
    262·
    10 months ago

    I was very bolshy in deleting my reddit account and made a real solid commitment to only use Lemmy the instant that the api changes where announced, … Two months later and I started feeling a bit stranded, at times it seems like there’s nothing but content about programming, Linux, Foss, privacy, and Ukraine but at other times it can be really engaging…

    However I have ended up making a new reddit account just so I can lurk from time to time

    • zzz@feddit.de
      8·
      10 months ago

      I really miss a somewhat niche forum about a video game I’m playing… but I also don’t find the time to put in the effort of re-creating and moderating it myself here again.

    • FatLegTed@feddit.uk
      5·
      10 months ago

      Same here. I don’t regret making the move though, and we have to remember that it’s all rather new to (most of) us. This can never be as big as reddit, nor would I want it to be.

      It’s refreshing to be away from the firehose of crap that would flood out of some threads.