• Cowbee@lemm.ee
    79·
    1 year ago

    Leaving Reddit was one of the best things I’ve done for my phone addiction. Lemmy isn’t nearly as addictive, and the lack of a profit motive to fuck things up and encourage mass clicking helps control the content.

    • jasondj@ttrpg.network
      33·
      1 year ago

      I’m getting my doomscrolling and worthless banter/arguing with strangers “fix” from lemmy.

      But Lemmy is no replacement for local news/rumormill, or most career/hobby subs, yet. Except for at a very high level. Like metro area, or “gaming”. Reddit is still far superior only because theres already a community there.

      Eventually Lemmy may get to that point. Time will tell. I still haven’t installed the Reddit app, and I basically only end up there when some other search brings me to Reddit. I’ve already stopped muscle-memory impulsively typing it. My autocomplete for www.red is no longer safe-for-work.

      • cjf@feddit.ukEnglish
        91·
        1 year ago

        I caved and downloaded the Reddit app to get my fix for more niche communities that don’t have Lemmy equivalents yet (I don’t have the time nor the energy to stand up new Lemmy communities).

        The app is just so infuriating and information dense. I struggle to figure out what’s actually content and what’s just an advert. Navigating doesn’t make much sense either.

        Stay away from the app. Use the website if you absolutely have to.

      • And009@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I still check reddit for community and user based experiences on topics I don’t trust the Google bias with. The occasional ‘Fuck Spez!’ is a nice reminder.

        Lemmy has the potential to become a future database of such kind but it’ll take time. Well unless there’s a disruption in the industry, that suddenly makes people move to or post more on Lemmy, like going viral through Hollywood maybe.

        We still need to figure out a way to make it easier for younger and older people to use Lemmy, or it never happens.

    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      426·
      1 year ago

      OP is a cuck using the official app.

      If they’re going to browse reddit they could at least use a modded client with API usage with a burner account

    • SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world
      20·
      1 year ago

      This is this years version of Reddit recap or what exactly they call it. They give you some statistics from the past year, similar to Spotify wrap, or at least that’s the meaning of it, I haven’t gotten mine to work sense they started a couple of years ago. This year I haven’t even gotten one.

  • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
    111·
    1 year ago

    Can someone explain what I’m looking at here? Is this the official app? What does the text mean? Is OP making a joke on it? I’ve never seen the official app (because fuck you) so I don’t know what I’m supposed to be looking at.

    (Kinda surprised how many of you get it…)

    • DrMango@lemmy.world
      14·
      1 year ago

      It seems to be from some kind of Reddit end of year highlights reel. I think OP probably engaged with the post about Apollo shutting down a lot (voted, commented, maybe viewed it a great deal of times, etc.) and so Reddit served them this little “highlights” card.

      OP is now sharing it here as a “remember where we came from / fuck Reddit amirite” post

  • unreasonabro@lemmy.world
    6·
    11 months ago

    It would really be nice if a company came along that recognized its relationship to the ecosystem that grows up around it. It seems like that’s an obligation, really, to help those who helped you become what you are. What you don’t have, on the other hand, is an obligation to rape everybody. Which is all capitalism does at this point - enshittification. Make a good product, then fucking ruin it, shitting on the current customers in favour of the ones you’ll get once it’s marketed to the masses.

    Useless, stupid, destructive and cancerous system.

  • swiffswaffplop@lemmy.world
    0·
    1 year ago

    Was on Reddit for 11+ years. Apollo for the last few years. Quit cold turkey in June and honestly my life is better for it.