Welcome.
I’ve been here a year and it’s great. Prior to leaving Reddit, I was really disenfranchised with their community. Everyone on Reddit are insanely negative, pedantic fuck weasels. Subs were rife with bots that posted the same banal content, and turned into giant echo chambers. It was near impossible to have an opinion contrary to the popular one.
Lemmy is smaller, but our content is great and our communities are very friendly. You get to be you without much worry of some dickcheese jumping down your throat.
You’re gonna like it here
I alway wonder if people browse the main reddit site and not their own feed. Reddit is shit but that’s mostly just the look and feel.
Yeah, browsing my own curated subs on old.reddit with RES and uBlock Origin is nowhere near as bad as people are making reddit out to be. Don’t get me wrong, reddit IS shit, but my experience isn’t the kind of shit people say it is.
I always used to use a 3PA that had no ads or recommendations, just my own curated sub list, and I honestly loved that. There were definitely echo chambers but things worked well for me as long as I stayed conscious to that. Then when the APIpocalypse happened I browsed reddit on the web and in their official app for the first time in almost ten years and just noped right the fuck off.
At one point in my feed it went:
- Ad
- Suggested Subreddit
- Ad
- Suggested Post
- Post from subscribed feed
- Ad
- Suggested Post
Like, only 1/6 items were things I had actually asked to see. It was atrocious. Default reddit is absolutely cancer now, and I really struggle to empathise with people who are still using it vanilla without any extensions or domain changes.
Ironically the website in Firefox mobile and ublock origin works better than the mobile app. Still shit but better
