I know, I know, reddit sucks ass. I’ve been using firefox with ublock to read the best ofs for the unquenchable need for bullshit drama in my life.

But now it’s not just a pop up saying to use the app, but a full ass unpassable thing. Old Reddit still works, but that’s just another step for something that’s already so not worthwhile.

Welp…

  • Watermark710@piefed.socialEnglish
    651·
    4 hours ago

    I was on reddit every day for damn near 20 years, and if I’m being 100% honest, the fediverse is 10,000% better. The only problem is that not enough people interact. I’ve never seen a post with more than like 200 comments. It feels a bit empty here. But, on the other hand, 200 decent comments is better than 2000 shitty ones.

    Once this place gets a few more users, it’s gonna be the GOAT.

    • Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      2 hours ago

      Fedi being way slower than Reddit was a godsend to me. It helped me detox from the endless content on Reddit because I was going loopy.

      After the 5th scroll past the same boring hornypost I’m like “ugh I guess I’ll put the phone down and go to sleep.”

    • realitista@lemmus.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      I absolutely fell in love with reddit when I joined 19 years ago. Up until the Digg migration I loved it maybe even more than the BBS’ I was on in my youth. But it steadily went downhill from there, and I thank Jebus every day for the fediverse because it brings back that good old energy that I was missing. Reddit is so unpleasant compared to here.

    • Lojcs@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      I think it’s fine as is. The worst part of reddit was opening an interesting post and finding the comments full of jokes and badly remembered quotes.

      Edit: That was probably due to the awards creating perverse incentives but still, the more comments there are the more striking a comment needs to be to be on top

      • realitista@lemmus.orgEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        It had a lot more with being first to comment than it did about the quality of your comment. After about 100 comments your chances of being near the top were pretty much gone.

    • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      10·
      4 hours ago

      I agree with you. Coming up on at least my second year here and I do love it, but I miss some parts of having the bigger crowd.