I've been here a year and it's great. Prior to leaving Reddit, I was really disenfranchised with their community. Everyone on Reddit are insanely negative, pedantic fuck weasels. Subs were rife with bots that posted the same banal content, and turned into giant echo chambers. It was near impossible to have an opinion contrary to the popular one.

Lemmy is smaller, but our content is great and our communities are very friendly. You get to be you without much worry of some dickcheese jumping down your throat.

You're gonna like it here

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It was near impossible to have an opinion contrary to the popular one

You're wrong, and you should feel dumb and embarrassed for having a wrong opinion! Come on everyone, dogpile him! /s

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

We don't do that here, but fuck this guy amirite? Jk

[–] LittleBorat2@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I alway wonder if people browse the main reddit site and not their own feed. Reddit is shit but that's mostly just the look and feel.

[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, browsing my own curated subs on old.reddit with RES and uBlock Origin is nowhere near as bad as people are making reddit out to be. Don't get me wrong, reddit IS shit, but my experience isn't the kind of shit people say it is.

[–] Instigate@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I always used to use a 3PA that had no ads or recommendations, just my own curated sub list, and I honestly loved that. There were definitely echo chambers but things worked well for me as long as I stayed conscious to that. Then when the APIpocalypse happened I browsed reddit on the web and in their official app for the first time in almost ten years and just noped right the fuck off.

At one point in my feed it went:

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Like, only 1/6 items were things I had actually asked to see. It was atrocious. Default reddit is absolutely cancer now, and I really struggle to empathise with people who are still using it vanilla without any extensions or domain changes.

[–] LittleBorat2@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Ironically the website in Firefox mobile and ublock origin works better than the mobile app. Still shit but better

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean you've gone to great lengths to hide all the shit.

That doesn't mean it's not there.

The day they finally kill old.reddit is the day I give it up completely. Pretty much only go when looking for something specific even more anyway.

[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The day they finally kill old.reddit is the day I give it up completely.

Same here, for sure. I do lemmy on my phone and reddit on my laptop, I'll just switch to lemmy on both when that day comes.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

The general negativity here is also strong and more like doomsday towards non F(oss) things.