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As much as I've been enjoying Lemmy and really like it as a platform, I don't think any of this this is fine because there are just too many niche communities that are either unwilling or unable to just pick up and move, which means that in practice to the extent that I only participate here and not on Reddit I am missing out on a lot of content that I used to look forward to.
I actually find it kind of freeing. With Reddit I kept scrolling in hopes of finding something interesting through one of those niche communities, with Lenny I find myself doomscrolling a lot less
I get it, and that is a totally valid experience that you and probably many other people have had, but I personally never considered myself to be doomscrolling when seeing what was new with the Haskell programming language, going through what crazy experience people have had playing Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup lately, learning from the the really insightful in-depth explanations of history that were posted to AskHistorians, and so on. I do not consider the subtraction of these things from my life to have ultimately been a benefit, it just makes me feel less in the loop about the things that I care about.
Me too, I'll engage for around 15-30 minutes then go and do some writing rather than spend 4 hours doom scrolling.
I've legit got so much work done it staggers the mind.
I stopped using Reddit completely on July first, and in that time I've got a reflective log completed and submitted, a report on disruptive fintech completed a week early and submitted and now a mini dissertation completed 2 weeks early.
It's almost as if spending my time doing coursework is better than freaking out trying to finish it and submit to turnitin 30 seconds before the deadline while praying the connection doesn't fail.
Anyway...
This was actually how the internet was before Reddit as well.
People move and adapt. Reddit wasn't always the shining beacon of communities you think it currently is.
Activity Pub is a clear improvement over Reddit, and separating from Spez's incompetence is a bonus.
Some people want it all and they want it now. No patience to help build a better tomorrow when there's a shitty today they can have.
That is true of most people. Those aren't the ones that matterfor building something new and will migrate eventually. It's always been a minority of users who do the heavy lifting of establishing thriving communities and those peoplez by definition, are the ones who are willing to roll their sleeves up and do that work on a new platform when the old one stops working for them.
You are putting words into my mouth that I did not speak nor do I think; I have only pointed out that there are communities on Reddit that do not have a strong presence here whose absence I miss.
While I hope you are correct in this case, this is not always true. Sometimes good things are simply lost.
I agree, which is why I have shifted the vast majority of the time I spent on Reddit here instead.