On Reddit it felt useless to comment, when I found an interesting topic the discussion was already drowning with one word comments and other useless stuff. Here on Lemmy the discussions feel more genuine. Probably it’s because the userbase is more mature, or the nature of Lemmy is not to generate money.

Yeah my browsing time has gone down compared to Reddit. But Lemmy has far less mindless content, if I’m on here I’m more engaged and actively read articles linked or write comments.

Adding to your point on responsibility: Call out people who insult others in their comments. There should be no place where insults are ok.

Some more stuff you can do:

You can subscribe to a community on a different lemmy instance, this community will then be mirrored to your local instance for you to view. The comments will be distributed the same way.

In case you missed it: if you have Lemmy open in the browser, use the share button and Add to Home Screen. Feels and looks like an app that way.

Well here we are fighting other people like us who just want to be entertained in one way or another. In the mean time another entity is making a profit off all the attention their product is getting through all of this.

Interesting that spez talks about democracy regarding Reddit while he looks like a dictator trying to push his opinion regarding other people making a living, 3rd party App devs are willing to pay a reasonable price that’s justified to use the api. But that’s not enough for spez…

Mostly power users will leave for something else, which in turn leads to worse content on Reddit.

My guess is, that they‘ll wait as long as possible to pay mods. This would set a precedent for the whole platform.

They have been doing this since March 2020.

Source: https://www.redditinc.com/blog/introducing-reddits-new-offering-for-advertisers-trending-takeover/

I still feel a bit like going through withdrawal, especially in the moments where I would just get out the phone and would mindlessly browse through reddit. I still get out the phone and stare at it a bit until I realize what I was trying to do. Didn’t realize how bad it has become until in then last few days.

I think it would be better if @[email protected] would post the errors so the solution to his problems is documented in case someone else has a similar problem.

This way we could google problems and just add lemmy instead of reddit to find a proper solution.