Different strokes for different folks, as they say. That’s precisely one of the things that I value most in social media— exposure to people and ideas outside of my day-to-day experience. I don’t understand the femcel memes, or c/ich_iel, for example, but that’s what makes them so fascinating. I was thinking of leaving Reddit even before the API fiasco, because the feed changed daily while not changing at all. I didn’t find it valuable to see the same breaking news story posted to 15 different subreddits, nor the same “Men of Reddit: Do you pee through the underwear flap, or over the waistband?” question posted (literally! I watched and counted one day!) every 5 minutes. I didn’t replace Reddit with Lemmy, I just stopped using the former when Apollo stopped working. Lemmy drew me in over the course of a couple of months. It’s quiet, but you can have conversations instead of shouting into the void.
Different strokes for different folks, as they say. That’s precisely one of the things that I value most in social media— exposure to people and ideas outside of my day-to-day experience. I don’t understand the femcel memes, or c/ich_iel, for example, but that’s what makes them so fascinating. I was thinking of leaving Reddit even before the API fiasco, because the feed changed daily while not changing at all. I didn’t find it valuable to see the same breaking news story posted to 15 different subreddits, nor the same “Men of Reddit: Do you pee through the underwear flap, or over the waistband?” question posted (literally! I watched and counted one day!) every 5 minutes. I didn’t replace Reddit with Lemmy, I just stopped using the former when Apollo stopped working. Lemmy drew me in over the course of a couple of months. It’s quiet, but you can have conversations instead of shouting into the void.
For me, Lemmy is far more successful.