• Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netEnglish
    56·
    28 days ago

    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

    • LittleBorat2@lemmy.ml
      4·
      28 days ago

      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.

      • frostysauce@lemmy.world
        4·
        27 days ago

        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.

        • Instigate@aussie.zone
          7·
          27 days ago

          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.

          • LittleBorat2@lemmy.ml
            3·
            26 days ago

            Ironically the website in Firefox mobile and ublock origin works better than the mobile app. Still shit but better

        • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          27 days ago

          I mean you’ve gone to great lengths to hide all the shit.

          That doesn’t mean it’s not there.

          The day they finally kill old.reddit is the day I give it up completely. Pretty much only go when looking for something specific even more anyway.

          • frostysauce@lemmy.world
            3·
            27 days ago

            The day they finally kill old.reddit is the day I give it up completely.

            Same here, for sure. I do lemmy on my phone and reddit on my laptop, I’ll just switch to lemmy on both when that day comes.

  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
    25·
    27 days ago

    Hey addicts! Here’s some inspiration

    My great grandfather started smoking when he was very young. One day he got a call from his wife’s doctor that she had asthma.

    He quit smoking cold turkey half way through a cigarette and kept that half-empty pack of cigarettes with one half-smoked on his dresser for the rest of his life and never touched tobacco again.

    You can stop drinking and smoking, do it!

  • Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    18·
    28 days ago

    I don’t recall ever seeing ads on reddit, and I know exactly why. On Mobile, RiF barely had ads, and desktop was all adblocked.

    Though they were often the topic of crank posts, specifically the Christian ones around the atheism sub.

    • BenVimes@lemmy.ca
      2·
      28 days ago

      I only ever got one ad in RIF, repeated in every spot. I think it was an app for organizing decks in TGCs, but as I don’t play any TGCs, I never bothered to investigate. As with every other ad on the internet, I only interacted with it by accident.

  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
    13·
    27 days ago

    I was listening to this podcast that had an ad for a government system to help out people experiencing substance use (specifically alcohol) issues…directly followed by a government liquor store ad. In every single episode.

  • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
    12·
    28 days ago

    I’m using the Boost app for Lemmy which has a one time fee to disable all ads. If you’re sticking around it may be worth the investment if you’re avoiding temptation. Stay sober my dude.