I went cold turkey after the third party app debacle but I really missed the home assistant subreddit. There is a home assistant community but it’s nowhere near as active.

Not OP, but there are a lot of niche subreddits where you simply can't get information anywhere else. I quit Reddit entirely after the APIocalypse, and I know around that time people started replicating the extensive network of Sports team subreddits in various places here. But, there are simply not enough people here to make that work.

I have not logged in (other than to manipulate the crypto out of my Reddit Vault and sell it before it crashed) since then. There are precisely four subreddits I monitor via RSS because the info simply doesn't make it here. But Reddit has already announced their RSS access is going away. When it does, I guess I'll just have get that info somewhere else.

I've been clean cold turkey from Reddit for over 3 years now since I made my Lemmy account but I still really miss active discussions about newly released games :(

You can make a post in one of the gaming comms here and sometimes you'll get a couple folks, but it doesn't really catch on the same. I had a grand old time reading tons of build discussion and memes when Elden Ring came out, but since Nightreign came out I effectively haven't interacted with its community at all.

I like Lemmy specifically because it is smaller and more close knit, usually. But it misses out on some of the bigger town-square types of discussion that reddit could enable because reddit had sixty five gorillion users, especially in the gaming space.

I expect that whatever discussion of this type doesn't exist on reddit probably exists on Discord but that also sucks for a completely separate, but similar, set of reasons. I still use Discord, as of currently, but I hate interacting in big public servers and never do it, and it misses a lot of the thread-and-comment structure that I liked so much about Reddit. (Discord does technically support threads, but they work differently and nobody uses them properly anyway.)

I read reddit but no longer contribute in any way. Activity level is just way lower here, especially for niche interests. I've increased the amount of other websites I look at (here, hacker news, steam forums) overall

Most of my habits stemmed from the fact that I found the general chaos of Mastodon overwhelming and too complex for daily use. For instance, while Reddit has its own straightforward website and app, Mastodon lacks a clear, simple interface—which made it seem overly complicated to me from the start. Consequently, I always found it much easier to quickly hop onto Reddit to post or leave a comment. Most importantly, the number of active users on Mastodon is, unfortunately, still far lower than on Reddit.

Don't know what his subreddits were, but I still go there for guitar, and luthier (well 8 guitar related subs in total).

We have a NDP community here, but it's not very active, even though I suspect that the sub is mostly bots at this point.

Hamsters for one. Opae Ula, Wallsted Method, ecosphere, other sort of niche hobbyist/petcare topics

Lemmy does not have a very active Boardgames community or a Blood on the Clocktower community. Just doesn't have the numbers for it.

I try to keep mostly to lemmy, but the American football scene and the OSRS scene are nearly non-existent here. OSRS being the worst of the two, there's almost never any updates or posts even. Yeah yeah, be the change I wanna see, but I don't wanna talk to myself, that's how dead it is lol

"we don't want you to participate anymore but we still want you to look at ads"

I left when the great conservatisation started before the API issues. When they basically wanted more conservative moderators in "liberal" places for fair and balanced approach. When people were being banned left and right for speaking out against the regime or telling LGBT people to arm up.

Seriously. At least back then their Android app was basically unusable. I haven't tried it since, but suspect that because ads I'd probably hate it anyways. It was an unhealthy addiction.

Same here. I just found it appalling, the way users were, and are, being treated. Was getting some strong "livestock" vibes. And all the bots and brigades don't exactly help Reddit's cause.

Both for me. I got banned there, evaded the ban for years, then when things got shit I came on lemmy. My new account is still fine, I just prefer staying here.

Hear hear

Same here. Just now, I've created this account and Reddit will be erased off my phone.

Dunno how long you have been gone, but it’s been bad for a long time. I deleted my account when the TPA thing was going on, and it was already bad by then. Have not been back and won’t.

The first four of those also apply to Lemmy too though. Depending on the instance, Lemmy mods are even worse than Reddit mods. And there is no “authority” to appeal to here either. The only difference is that there aren’t advertisers that they’re trying to appease, it’s just whatever neckbeard you pissed off that will have a vendetta against you.

The other thing that makes it feel like an abusive relationship is how huge it feels. How grand it seems, and how you just can't imagine life without it. I'm still healing from when I recently got sitewide banned for some alleged ban evasion bullshit

And... as someone who's actually been in abusive relationships, I can attest to your analogy

Only difference is, I still hope to get back in, and am waiting on my second appeal. It's not a perfect comparison because it still has its occasional good uses, but still I agree

You forget step 0.5, spamming gifs of Luigi twerkin

It's really bad these days. A lot of the smaller subs are riddled with blatant AI slop posts and comments. What's even the point of being on the site when you're talking with bots?

Nazis like nazi shit, but they don’t like someone reminding them their nazi shit is nazi shit.

Kinda insane if you showed this photo to someone in 2023 one might think it's photoshopped.

Someone was complaining that in their country, everything requires identity verification under the guise of "age verification." I mentioned the existence of "VPN Gate"—a completely open-source, non-profit, educational VPN project that uses residential IPs rather than standard VPN IPs. My account was likely flagged as spam.

I got a violation, (never banned yet but went through maybe 10 accounts in 3 years of use,) one of the later ones was for suggesting Musk should ride his spaceships up into orbit.

Apparently it's threatening violence. Appeal denied.

If it keeps happening, search your ip on the internet blacklits, just search that and click on the site and they will do it for you, there are several dozens.

After multiple emails and other sign ups were immediately frozen, leaving me unable to get an email even, I checked and found I was on one, all I did was read the news and comment on social media, and work stuff. I think Israel is putting people on there that piss them off.

Thanks :)

apparently not, reddit trying to take down the spammers, and bots, that arnt propaganda. but it also catches strays which are normal users too. they lost alot of content/ traffic from banning people in the last year.

I'm in for saying riot police should quit their jobs in shame following the Roe v Wade ruling. Nowadays I'm blocked from even accessing reddit.com for some fucking reason, even without a VPN

yup use POWERSUITE delete. very simple, best to do only few subs at a time., as trying to do multiple sub deletes seems to cause it to stall.

I think the “feminist” one (quotations because that’s not what feminism is about, Charlie Brown) was FemaleDatingStrategy. Basically red pill but for women. Terrifying stuff

just use tor.

thats reddits AI moderation for you, very arbitrary, unless you are a propaganda bot, which they barely touch or deal with. they do go after the spammers that reddit isnt getting thier slice of the pie in.