From recent experience it feels like Reddit is stricter with bans and access than FB, and applies more tracking and detection tech, lest your previously anonymous internet persona upset a mod.
I still use reddit for a few niche communities and browsing comments. I post alot and love my time here but the activity isnt enough to replace it for me yet
I don't really post anything, I just lurk and read the discussion, don't really have motivation to post since I'm kinda anti-corporate right now, but I just wanna absorb all the info they have to satisfy my brain's curiosity.
I have it blocked (just the communities, not the users) so I can't really say but isnt ani.social pretty popular? I see tons of users, I figured there'd be posts too
On occasion I’ll check in on some niche hobby boards that don’t really have an active Lemmy variant, or large archive of content yet. Sometimes you want to see a flashlight beamshot comparison of a Nichia 519a 5000k led compared to a 5700k from a particular manufacturer, and it’s just not on Lemmy.
Any sort of in-depth discussion about games (War Thunder, Dota, CS, and a few others), talk about TV and books (although my tastes are admittedly more niche there), occationally subreddits for niche subjects where I can ask for support, some more general lifestyle communities, and local communities. Basically, everything but news and politics.
I still use Reddit for niche and polarizing topics. Lemmy feels like groupthink to me, especially about politics — it’s always “Ukraine good, Russia bad” and “Palestine good, Israel bad.” I like hearing both sides, but divergent opinions get smothered here. Imagine an average Christian joining the Fediverse: they’d have to leave many of their beliefs at the door and adapt to the herd, or risk being unwelcome, having posts downvoted to oblivion, and being told to leave. It’s already happened to me a few times with opinions that aren’t welcomed here. It’s a far cry from what Lemmy’s decentralization promised.
When someone disagrees with you, you have the opportunity to more clearly define what you think. This might mean changing your mind to a greater or lesser degree; it could mean understanding more completely why you hold the view you already have. If the votes show that a lot of people disagree with you, well, conventional wisdom is often enough not very wise.
In my experience, fediverse people have been more reasonable than reddit people - but you're going to find petulant children on any public forum.
Lemmy feels like groupthink to me, especially about politics — it’s always “Ukraine good, Russia bad” and “Palestine good, Israel bad.” I like hearing both sides, but divergent opinions get smothered here.
Enlightened centrism 101 folks. Reduce both sides until they have zero nuance so that you can ignore the substance of any given consensus.
I don’t see a slow drip of Christian right, just allowing themselves to be converted to this freewheeling mass known as the fediverse, one by one. They’d hop their own pirate barge on an instance, lobbing bible verses at us en masse.
I suspect we’re all looking forward to it too because it’s what the fediverse promised us. We get to be whatever we want to be, and god dammit we can float our own barges if we’re weird enough.
Real Christians wouldn't have to change whatsoever to participate in lemmy/reddit. Because real Christians are too preoccupied loving others to be policing people's sins.
All these FAKE Christians are pigs dressed in sheeps clothing, made in china and sold to them by their dear wolf leader.
If my large, angry (hypothetical) neighbour decides I'm an a-hole - and, let's say I am - it still doesn't give him the right to come into my house and beat me bloody. Nor does it give him the right to change the fences around the yards or remodel my house for me.
Atheism 1.45K users / month, Religion 9 users / month, religion isn't gonna fly on Lemmy. You may be as christian as you like but how many times have you been able to talk religion here. And the same goes for any topics that goes against the current group think.
What would you even talk about on the religion community? Like of course it has no users it's a pointless community. If not even dedicated to a religion but the concept of religion in general? That sounds so pointless.
"Hey Hindus don't you love having religion? We sure do Jews. What about y'all Buddhists? Oh we love it. How's it hanging Christians aren't we glad we're all here together?"
Same. I'm an agnostic Christian. I adhere to the teachings and values of Jesus, but my definition of God doesn't conform to the Bible's and cannot be verified AFAIK.
sounds like you should just use Friendica than you'd have all these. (as long as your instance has BlueSky and Tumblr plug-ins installed). You'd still need an account that exists on those two sites, but you wouldn't have to actually log into a separate webpage/app anymore.
Search results (usually for specific video games, though some politics and history stuff is also from there) and a small amount of pornography.
Haven't added content or even logged in to an account since moving to the Threadiverse, though.
EDIT: I think the most-recent content I looked at was earlier this week, when I got search results regarding discussion on Nazi Germany's war plans for fighting the US in World War II:
this feed feels more like reddit front page used to be, the feed there sucks, I still use my custom feed ocasionally, blender and comic discussion is non existant here, I have been using blenders forum and league of comic geeks more.
Only for communities which are not available/active enough on fediverse. Haven't scrolled reddit's algorithm since they killed all the good apps though.
I tried to use it a few days ago and the toxicity is insane, it feels like Reddit is filled with trash talking kids to draw attention to themselves or AIs.
You can't have a healthy discussion there anymore.
I would add Friendica Groups (f/k/a Friendica Forums) to that list. But I digress, I still do for sports. Particularly /r/wildhockey & /r/cricket. The later I actually subscribe to the RSS via old.reddit.com/r/Cricket/.rss on Friendica so the posts show in my regular feed, but If I want to comment or post new I still have to actually open the cesspool that is Reddit in 2025. Like others said if there was more content of these on the 'verse I wouldn't.
On every single Reddit post I accidentally end up on these days, I just get annoyed because there's someone making an incorrect statement about something and I can't make a remark or correction because I deleted my account. So I just try to avoid the site altogether. That's just one of many reasons though. Others include the obvious ideological problems with Reddit, and the way it looks nowadays.
I liked their fosscad community, but that's gone now too. So now I just create new accounts with temporary emails and get mega hostile to anyone supportive of the current bullshit.
r/nba and my city’s sub. Both have equivalent communities here but aren’t as active, so I visit from time to time to see what’s going on. But that’s it, I don’t browse anywhere else on the site.
I still pop my head in to see what the people who fall for ragebait daily are talking about. Sometimes one will have touched grass recently enough that I get a brief peek into something worth looking at, but the number of subs I'm seeing anything meaningful on is shrinking.
More often though I go to r/conservative to observe the mental gymnastics of bots and klandmas. Feels important to have a finger on their pulse as the situation continues to devolve.
As much as I hate to say it, I’d still much rather go to google and search reddit, than go on any other website google proposes. Everything is just trying to get you to buy nonsense or scroll through a 10 page article for a one sentence solution that is probably outdated.
Nothing unless it comes up in search. And then I have set rules which will redirect reddit to a different frontend (RDX) so that I can just read the info without visiting that awful place.
I have a new Reddit account, running on Brave on a VM at work. I use it as a news and pop culture aggregate. I used to post in the big UK sites for well over a decade, but recently got a site wide permanent ban for ban evasion (I hadn't realised that throwaway accounts were no longer allowed).
My new account has insufficient karma to post (another petty rule), but having been on Lemmy for a few months Reddit now seems cold, hostile and impersonal in comparison.
My new account has insufficient karma to post (another petty rule)
This drives me up the wall, especially when they don't even tell you how much you need. I get why they do it, but it just promotes shit-posting in other subreddits for the sole purpose of being able to post in another subreddit.
98% off Reddit, I browser Reddit without an account on private tab just for 2-3 subs.
I'm very happy with what Lemmy and in general fediverse gives, I wouldn't change it.
Edit: if you really want to see more action here, make a community or overtake a community and promote it! We have communities that can help you with that.
To participate in smaller local/regional communities, because they don't exist or are basically dead on Lemmy. On reddit, almost every city has it's own community, while on Lemmy some countries don't even have communities or just a few people there looking more like a private group chat.
It could be party due to the decentralized nature, every community perhaps has it's own server, but unless I am able to find it...
Pretty much everything remotely niche. Subs devoted to individual video games, for instance. The only game I play that's on lemmy is lemmy.world/c/pixeldungeon.
It's just objectively true that a very specific type of person makes up most of Lemmy, which results in the only active communities being either very broad topics, or the handful of interests common to the kind of people who use Lemmy. I don't fit into any of these.
Music production holds me back. Didn't test gaming, but I have faith that it's more or less the same experience as the Steam Deck, and that would tie into a general sentiment I've seen around that gaming is no longer the biggest barrier to Linux adoption.
A. FL Studio runs like shit on WINE for me. Maybe it's usable on a CPU under ten years old (I'm currently on an FX-8320) because I've heard others claim it runs at near-native speeds for them, but on Windows I only have performance issues on a project file that has every reason to be intensive. Even if I switched DAWs to something Linux native I'd still need FL Studio to work so I can open my old project files.
B. Two of my most used VST plugins don't work, and I didn't even test all of them so others might not work. One I can't install because the installer doesn't work, but the other is a free plugin, and that one's GUI just doesn't render (and last time I tested Linux it didn't render under LMMS either, so it has to be a problem with WineVST.)
the day Apollo stopped working I deleted the account and quit cold turkey; now only if I find something there while researching a problem I read a thread anonymously and that’s it
Most of my limited reddit usage is for work. I do IT work,and sometimes solutions can be found there, or at least hints. It's still pretty low, maybe 10% or less of stuff I search for find actionable hit on reddit. Only other thing is stuff like comments on Tom Carey videos, which I do like to see. I know stuff like YouTube, insta,tiktok, etc will have em too, but sometimes I'm in the mood to see from multiple sources, and I don't usually find those type of niche reactions on Lemmy. I do see fans of course, but not as often.
For example discussions about specific games or series because Lemmy just doesn’t have any of that. It seems to be only interested in Linux, politics and general news.
I created a lurker account for Reddit after I deleted my main, so I can visit all subreddits. But I don’t subscribe to anything and don’t really hang out there a lot.
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FiveMacs
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •aiment
HeadfullofSoup aime.
don't like this
Wrestling Fan n'aime pas.
zjti8eit
en réponse à FiveMacs • • •Wrestling Fan aime.
FiveMacs
en réponse à zjti8eit • • •exactly.. they are all the same to me.
corporate garbage
aiment
HeadfullofSoup et Wrestling Fan aiment.
Wrestling Fan
en réponse à FiveMacs • •Ask Lemmy à partagé.
n7gifmdn
en réponse à Wrestling Fan • • •FiveMacs
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •YeahIgotskills2
en réponse à FiveMacs • • •simple
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •aiment
DaGeek247, dhhyfddehhfyy4673 et Wrestling Fan aiment.
「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •TV, Movie, Anime, Video Game, Discussion Threads.
It's non-existent on Lemmy.
I don't really post anything, I just lurk and read the discussion, don't really have motivation to post since I'm kinda anti-corporate right now, but I just wanna absorb all the info they have to satisfy my brain's curiosity.
aiment
DaGeek247, dhhyfddehhfyy4673 et Wrestling Fan aiment.
glimse
en réponse à 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma) • • •tal
en réponse à glimse • • •lemmy.fediverse.observer/ani.s…
172 monthly active users
lemmy.fediverse.observer/lemmy…
14,934 monthly active users on lemmy.world.
EDIT: For good measure, over here at lemmy.today:
lemmy.fediverse.observer/lemmy…
We're at 306 MAU.
EDIT2: I don't know for sure whether lurkers are counted as active users, mind.
Fediverse Observer checks all sites in the fediverse and gives you an easy way to find a home from a map or list or automatically.
lemmy.fediverse.observerWrestling Fan
en réponse à tal • •Ask Lemmy à partagé.
PlzGivHugs
en réponse à Wrestling Fan • • •glimse
en réponse à tal • • •Wrestling Fan aime.
pruwyben
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •Communities that don't exist or are inactive in the threadiverse: Jake and Amir; Northernlion; UFO 50; Eternal (card game)
When I switched to Lemmy I stayed on Reddit but unsubscribed from everything but a few like these.
dontsayaword
en réponse à pruwyben • • •pruwyben
en réponse à dontsayaword • • •Vandals_handle
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •aiment
Wrestling Fan aime.
Wrestling Fan
en réponse à Vandals_handle • •Ask Lemmy à partagé.
embed_me
en réponse à Wrestling Fan • • •cm0002
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •Homelabsales, non-existent here
Harvesting of posts to help niche comms here, like !undervalehotel@lemmy.cafe
Occasional Threadiverse advocations
aiment
Wrestling Fan aime.
thesohoriots
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •aiment
Wrestling Fan aime.
tal
en réponse à thesohoriots • • •omgitsaheadcrab
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •aiment
Wrestling Fan aime.
cdzero
en réponse à omgitsaheadcrab • • •I remember the F1 communities here being pretty good and active around the reddit API change exodus times.
Not sure if they still are as I stay away due to not being able to watch most races live.
aiment
Wrestling Fan aime.
FRYD
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •aiment
Wrestling Fan aime.
Dave
en réponse à FRYD • • •itsgroundhogdayagain
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •aiment
Wrestling Fan aime.
bert_macklin_fbi
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •aiment
Wrestling Fan aime.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •PlzGivHugs
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •Davy Jones
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •Triumph
en réponse à Davy Jones • • •When someone disagrees with you, you have the opportunity to more clearly define what you think. This might mean changing your mind to a greater or lesser degree; it could mean understanding more completely why you hold the view you already have. If the votes show that a lot of people disagree with you, well, conventional wisdom is often enough not very wise.
In my experience, fediverse people have been more reasonable than reddit people - but you're going to find petulant children on any public forum.
n7gifmdn
en réponse à Triumph • • •Triumph
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •Canaconda
en réponse à Davy Jones • • •Enlightened centrism 101 folks. Reduce both sides until they have zero nuance so that you can ignore the substance of any given consensus.
runway608
en réponse à Davy Jones • • •I don’t see a slow drip of Christian right, just allowing themselves to be converted to this freewheeling mass known as the fediverse, one by one. They’d hop their own pirate barge on an instance, lobbing bible verses at us en masse.
I suspect we’re all looking forward to it too because it’s what the fediverse promised us. We get to be whatever we want to be, and god dammit we can float our own barges if we’re weird enough.
Canaconda
en réponse à runway608 • • •Real Christians wouldn't have to change whatsoever to participate in lemmy/reddit. Because real Christians are too preoccupied loving others to be policing people's sins.
All these FAKE Christians are pigs dressed in sheeps clothing, made in china and sold to them by their dear wolf leader.
palordrolap
en réponse à Davy Jones • • •n7gifmdn
en réponse à Davy Jones • • •Davy Jones
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •njm1314
en réponse à Davy Jones • • •What would you even talk about on the religion community? Like of course it has no users it's a pointless community. If not even dedicated to a religion but the concept of religion in general? That sounds so pointless.
"Hey Hindus don't you love having religion? We sure do Jews. What about y'all Buddhists? Oh we love it. How's it hanging Christians aren't we glad we're all here together?"
Lol.
Canaconda
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •bestboyfriendintheworld
en réponse à Davy Jones • • •They downvoted him for telling the truth.
Lemmy is an echo chamber.
144mb
en réponse à Davy Jones • • •RodgeGrabTheCat 🇨🇦🏴☠️
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •aiment
wildncrazyguy138 et Triumph aiment.
SoftestSapphic
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •Wrestling Fan
en réponse à SoftestSapphic • •aiment
Wrestling Fan aime.
Ask Lemmy à partagé.
n7gifmdn
en réponse à Wrestling Fan • • •SystemQ
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •Denjin
en réponse à SystemQ • • •Wrestling Fan n'aime pas.
JamesTBagg
en réponse à Denjin • • •Wrestling Fan n'aime pas.
Victor
en réponse à JamesTBagg • • •diffaldo
en réponse à Victor • • •Victor
en réponse à diffaldo • • •Oops, sorry. That's "Oglaf" with a "g", my mistake.
!oglaf@midwest.social
njm1314
en réponse à Denjin • • •yermaw
en réponse à Denjin • • •fibojoly
en réponse à Denjin • • •bestboyfriendintheworld
en réponse à Denjin • • •Spykee
en réponse à Denjin • • •ltxrtquq
en réponse à Spykee • • •Mot filtré: nsfw
n7gifmdn
en réponse à SystemQ • • •serpineslair
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •aiment
Wrestling Fan aime.
tal
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •Search results (usually for specific video games, though some politics and history stuff is also from there) and a small amount of pornography.
Haven't added content or even logged in to an account since moving to the Threadiverse, though.
EDIT: I think the most-recent content I looked at was earlier this week, when I got search results regarding discussion on Nazi Germany's war plans for fighting the US in World War II:
old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians…
aiment
Wrestling Fan aime.
dil
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •Wrestling Fan
en réponse à dil • •Ask Lemmy à partagé.
dil
en réponse à Wrestling Fan • • •Chezus9247
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •sbv
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •News about my city. TTRPGs. Home repair.
I've tried to kick up conversation in appropriate communities here, but I don't get comments.
n7gifmdn
en réponse à sbv • • •sbv
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •iegod
en réponse à sbv • • •dhhyfddehhfyy4673
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •CodenameDarlen
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •I tried to use it a few days ago and the toxicity is insane, it feels like Reddit is filled with trash talking kids to draw attention to themselves or AIs.
You can't have a healthy discussion there anymore.
Dataprolet
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •don't like this
Wrestling Fan n'aime pas.
Wrestling Fan
en réponse à n7gifmdn • •aiment
Wrestling Fan aime.
Ask Lemmy à partagé.
zxqwas
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •aiment
Wrestling Fan aime.
Victor
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •YiddishMcSquidish
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •scytale
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •Krudler
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •There is one community JimCornette and I visit one time a week just to check a couple rantings about different ratings for different shows
It's almost the same posts/comments every time, and it's been that way for 5+ years
But I still go because it's not a giant circle jerk for basement sweatys and there is the occasional informative or enriching post
DarkDiamondK
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •mirisgaiss
en réponse à DarkDiamondK • • •m-p{3}
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •Beersux1516
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •sad_detective_man
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •I still pop my head in to see what the people who fall for ragebait daily are talking about. Sometimes one will have touched grass recently enough that I get a brief peek into something worth looking at, but the number of subs I'm seeing anything meaningful on is shrinking.
More often though I go to r/conservative to observe the mental gymnastics of bots and klandmas. Feels important to have a finger on their pulse as the situation continues to devolve.
ApollosArrow
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •th3dogcow
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •HubertManne
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •mesa
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •ThatGuy46475
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •YeahIgotskills2
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •I have a new Reddit account, running on Brave on a VM at work. I use it as a news and pop culture aggregate. I used to post in the big UK sites for well over a decade, but recently got a site wide permanent ban for ban evasion (I hadn't realised that throwaway accounts were no longer allowed).
My new account has insufficient karma to post (another petty rule), but having been on Lemmy for a few months Reddit now seems cold, hostile and impersonal in comparison.
blackn1ght
en réponse à YeahIgotskills2 • • •This drives me up the wall, especially when they don't even tell you how much you need. I get why they do it, but it just promotes shit-posting in other subreddits for the sole purpose of being able to post in another subreddit.
ComradeSharkfucker
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •davetortoise
en réponse à ComradeSharkfucker • • •Jankatarch
en réponse à davetortoise • • •Tedesche
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •blackn1ght
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •Libb
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •rose56
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •98% off Reddit, I browser Reddit without an account on private tab just for 2-3 subs.
I'm very happy with what Lemmy and in general fediverse gives, I wouldn't change it.
Edit: if you really want to see more action here, make a community or overtake a community and promote it! We have communities that can help you with that.
Hossenfeffer
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •Fedditor385
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •To participate in smaller local/regional communities, because they don't exist or are basically dead on Lemmy.
On reddit, almost every city has it's own community, while on Lemmy some countries don't even have communities or just a few people there looking more like a private group chat.
It could be party due to the decentralized nature, every community perhaps has it's own server, but unless I am able to find it...
bestboyfriendintheworld
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •r/politicalcompassmemes
r/IsraelPalestine
r/livestreamfail
r/all
r/popular for select countries.
uhmbah
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •Toes♀
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •AngryCommieKender
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •Nikls94
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •Psythik
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •chunes
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •angstylittlecatboy
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •EnsignWashout
en réponse à angstylittlecatboy • • •Can I interest you in Linux Mint, today?
I am joking.
Unless you want to try Linux, in which case let me (or any of us) know....
angstylittlecatboy
en réponse à EnsignWashout • • •I actually just tested Linux Mint again recently.
Music production holds me back. Didn't test gaming, but I have faith that it's more or less the same experience as the Steam Deck, and that would tie into a general sentiment I've seen around that gaming is no longer the biggest barrier to Linux adoption.
A. FL Studio runs like shit on WINE for me. Maybe it's usable on a CPU under ten years old (I'm currently on an FX-8320) because I've heard others claim it runs at near-native speeds for them, but on Windows I only have performance issues on a project file that has every reason to be intensive. Even if I switched DAWs to something Linux native I'd still need FL Studio to work so I can open my old project files.
B. Two of my most used VST plugins don't work, and I didn't even test all of them so others might not work. One I can't install because the installer doesn't work, but the other is a free plugin, and that one's GUI just doesn't render (and last time I tested Linux it didn't render under LMMS either, so it has to be a problem with WineVST.)
EndlessNightmare
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •Snowclone
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •aesthelete
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •manmachine
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •PillowD
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •chatokun
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •LockheedTheDragon
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •ThatWeirdGuy1001
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •Porn.
Though they got rid of my favorite category so I've been using it less.
VM_Abrantes
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •agamemnonymous
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •ClassifiedPancake
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •For example discussions about specific games or series because Lemmy just doesn’t have any of that. It seems to be only interested in Linux, politics and general news.
I created a lurker account for Reddit after I deleted my main, so I can visit all subreddits. But I don’t subscribe to anything and don’t really hang out there a lot.
BussyGyatt
en réponse à n7gifmdn • • •