When I joined Lemmy during the Reddit exodus it felt like a new breeze and very positive. It feels like this has changed, posts and comments are more negative. Lots of complaints, even positive news posts receive a lot of negative comments. I am always trying to see the positive in things. Just doesn’t feel fun anymore. Perhaps it’s just me though.
Also still mainly see technical posts, lots of Windows/MS bashing. I’d like to see more communities about non technical things. Perhaps I haven’t discovered them.
Nah, it’s kind of been like that. I think at this point, all of the people who got swept up “sticking it” to Reddit have gone back onto Reddit, so all we have left are the tech-savvy people and the doomers/gloomers in the news- and politics-related communities.
If this has taught me anything, I found that the best communities are still small forums - like the old school kind, not like here and Reddit. And sadly, those will probably go away with time, and then we’d have just shitty social media sites or the digital frontiers like the Fediverse.
I’m personally a Reddit deserter and I really don’t think others like me have all gone back to Reddit. The primary issue most left over is still very much an issue. I haven’t used it once since the day RiF stopped working.
I’ve run through everything on kbin and tried to return to reddit a couple of times, and I can’t do it, or just don’t have the tolerance anymore. The ads are more obvious, the false product reviews, fake relationship advice posts, reposts for karma, fake “best of” chains written by one person with commenters saying they know its fake, but “hey, I was entertained.” It feels like shopping Black Friday with a bunch of strangers, knowing some of them are actors there to convince you the prices are actually great, when you know they were lower last week and Black Friday is bullshit. It feels, in a word, Lame.
You can get a whole lot more content on kbin if you start interacting with the “microblogs” sections which are full of mastodon etc.
I am one as well. I have zero interest in going back. Yes there are things that I miss about that sight, but I can’t patronize a business that has such a vile attitude towards their customers and their product.
Same for me. The day RIF made its first announcement, I shredded my complete post/comment history that overwrote them with random BS. When RIF shut down, I deleted my account. Been here ever since. It’s really not too bad, if you just resolutely block the most notorious crossposters, and always block any community/user you don’t want to read content from.
Note that the person you’re replying to created their account during the Reddit Exodus so they might as well be part of the movement too even if they’re speaking like they were here for a long time 😂
I’m still around too, though, for me, it was less about “sticking it” to Reddit and more about Reddit not feeling fun anymore. I’ve noticed the same thing as OP and was hoping to find some insight from longer-term Lemmy users about whether this is a result of the influx of new users being more negative, or just a return to form for Lemmy. From other comments around here it sounds like it may be the latter, alas.
There’s no perfect social media. You either get a bubble room where nothing is interesting or has any weight to it and all people post is Tumblr level material, or you get a Nazi hellscape where half the words on the entire site are just the N word. Lemmy is currently dead center in the middle of all that and that’s probably the best you can hope for.
I don’t feel like I left to “stick it to Reddit” so much as they made it miserable to use. If RiF worked I’d use it.
Same, but I simply never went back after the June blackout started.