i’ve found that, since the third party app shutdown, i’m really not using reddit very much. turns out that was mostly a mobile-only experience for me.
ah well. hope the nebulous short-term gain was worth it for them.
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I am a cynic but I really suspect the upcoming IPO is an exit strategy and the people who will make money off of it don't actually have a solution to the revenue problem.
i don't really understand lemmy. don't understand how "subreddit" discovery is supposed to work, don't understand how i'm supposed to pick an instance, etc etc. hasn't been explained well to me yet
Hm. Well apologies if this is information you didn't actually care about but
- The way I use it is I just pull up https://beehaw.org/ every few days and read the front page. This is one way in which Lemmy is an improvement over Mastodon (that there's a perfectly workable logged out experience)
- I don't think it matters how you pick an instance, I joined one that was created as overflow for a single subreddit I used to read and I can comment on Beehaw fine from there.
- How subreddit discovery works: You simply do not discover subreddits. Or at least I don't
I feel like Lemmy really works by pretending the one site you're on (Beehaw for me) is the entire thing and you can just occasionally pipe in a feed from somewhere else
I am treating it as a series of disconnected sites what allow me to post using my account from another site, like it's blogs with Disqus or something. Maybe I am using it wrong. But I never subscribed to Reddits so maybe I was using Reddit wrong too.
I've found that reddit has just gotten generally more rancid and lower-effort over time anyway. It's gotten truly awful as just a source of something to scroll through because the volume of reposting and low effort content is overwhelming everything.
i've tended to be pretty selective with my subreddit subscriptions which has absolutely helped, but yeah overall it's gotten much worse.
Yeah, same. I only really read one subreddit, usually on my phone, and I guess I just found other things to read on other sites instead.
Same. I used to interact with it for at least a little bit every day. I had my subreddits pretty tightly curated so I was getting just stuff I thought was interesting.
Now I guess I could use it on desktop but I'm spending most of that time here instead, and the same goes for mobile.
yeah I would kinda, browse it occasionally via Apollo but now it's like, ehh, too much effort
I just, found at some point that I have not been using Reddit much at all.