Are you 100% lemmy/mbin/piefed for your forum/thread life or are you still using reddit for something?
Like a lot of others here, I still add “reddit” to my searches when doing research on products or troubleshooting.
I need a steady drip feed of bonehurtingjuice that Lemmy has not been able to sufficiently provide
Porn.
Though they got rid of my favorite category so I’ve been using it less.
I no longer use my reddit accounts. But still do some tech searches with “reddit” at the end.
Some technical topics
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
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.
I don’t fit into any of these…yet
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…
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.)
Pretty much everything remotely niche. Subs devoted to individual video games, for instance. The only game I play that’s on lemmy is https://lemmy.world/c/pixeldungeon.
Niche subs
Nothing as of a few months after they killed third party apps. It took me a couple more months to stop using it as a source.
I stopped ages ago. But my buddies that won’t switch say they are married to the large communities around their interests.
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…
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.
Nothing. I don’t use it anymore.
Sometimes I will have really obscure tech issues that only 10yr reddit threads can solve. That’s about it though
Yup. The backlog reddit has is currently kinda unbeatable. Although as reddit is increasingly swamped with AI, that’ll become less and less valuable
