The content, engagement, and quality of conversations are much better here on Lemmy, and the platform feels considerably less saturated.
Unfortunately, what Reddit used to be, and what made it great, is long gone. That being said, the API changes were the nail in the coffin, not the sole reason for its decline. Reddit had already been on a downward trajectory for years before that.
The one thing I still appreciate about Reddit is that content gets refreshed much more frequently than it does on Lemmy. However, even that isn’t enough to keep me there for more than a few visits a week, usually out of sheer boredom.
Local community content, and content for less popular games like Quake
I definitely miss peak reddit, like 2015 or so. The community and thus the content was awesome. That experience doesn’t exist today though, so I definitely don’t miss reddit in the sense that I’d like to visit the site as it is today. I think Lemmy is getting there though. If we keep this up, we can remake what peak Reddit gave us.
I miss being able to hop into a forum for pretty much any individual game outside of the lousy Steam forums. Even the soulslike fans are a pretty small group here. And I tend toward fairly niche or complicated games with rather small player bases as it is.
I miss Reddit from two or three years ago. But all my favourite communities were overrun by bots.
“Wow, that’s interesting. Could you tell me more about that?”
Anything good that Reddit ever had was because of people. It’s gone now.
i miss niche hobby and academic subreddits full of thoughtful reasonable people where insane nonsense was not tolerated or it was at least mocked relentlessly.
also circlejerk subs that mocked the big hobby subs where folks just endless posted photos of shit they bought and other people jerked them off on spending $1000s bling.
The amateur porn was way better
Amateur porn is how every site gets big. Tumblr was able to get as big as Reddit by allowing amateur porn and Reddit only managed to keep up by doing the same. The only reason you don’t hear about Tumblr now is because they stepped allowing it and scrubbed all their content. By the time they reversed their decision only two weeks later, everyone had moved over to Reddit, their momentum was lost, and the damage was terminal.
I’ll always miss the vastness of communities on reddit. There’s just something for everyone.
What I’ll never miss is the absurd way things are moderated.
Smaller, niche subs. The state/city subs. The specific career subs. The hobby subs.
Game based communities suck pretty much everywhere. But the ones on reddit, you could at least usually count on enough activity to get good info.
/r/gameI’mcurrentlyplaying and /r/showI’mcurrentlywatching
I still lurk occasionally, but I maintain a strict look-but-do-not-touch policy with Reddit now. Never posting there again.
I’ve gone back to reddit for medical stuff, there just isn’t anywhere here for me to ask advice specific for Ehlers Danlos exercise adaptations, for example. I’d just get a bunch of generalized advice that’d be more harmful than helpful.
I miss a lot of Reddit content, especially local and niche content. However, what I really miss is a proper app with which to consume said content.
Yes. I miss lifting/fitness content
The niche boards for problem solving is about the only thing.
