Asklemmy

My Reddit app stopped working, and the official app is dogshit; Reddit kind of made the switch for me

Lemmy on phone. Reddit on desktop. Mostly on my phone so find myself using Reddit less and less.

Helps that Reddit is enshittifying.

On reddit I had my feed of favorite subs

On lemmy I use connect and basically Ive blocked out communities that don't appeal to me / are in languages I don't speak. I started broad and narrowed it down which gives me enough content in a day.

delete your account and get always on mullvad vpn, reddit often blocked the vpn exit node, so you just can not use it then lol (but sometimes it works still)

I was never a Reddit poster, and I didn't find Lemmy from Reddit (chapotraphouse was long gone when I joined), so it really wasn't that hard.

I use Redlib occasionally to read Reddit posts, sometimes I need to find obscure things real humans have talked about. You could try setting up Libredirect so you can only see the Redlib version of Reddit (no posting, less algorithm, no interactions, and sometimes it goes down so you're forced to take a break).

I check in on Reddit occasionally to see what the normies are up to.

But it helps that Reddit is an intolerably shitty platform.

use a decent app like sync

I mean I did not like readdit a whole lot and it was more finding out how much federated social media had matured. went to kbin, then mbin, then piefed but its all the federation. I like it despite not getting my vicarious mmo thrills from seeing communities for them.

I use an app called eternal which is based on my favourite Reddit app (back when they allowed other apps). Plus they perma banned me for a bullshit reason.

It was run by unbearable assholes, that helped a lot. I used Relay exclusively, and when the API changes were announced it was not a hard decision.

I have to use old.lemmy to make it not look absolutely terrible. I refuse to check to see if the regular version solves a lot of my problems. But right now the thing bothering me most about Lemmy is the fact that posts with pictures don't expand the picture when I click on the little + icon to expand stuff.

Seems like some basic functionality, and it drives me up the wall that it doesn't just work.

Honestly, just do what you like. You can browse both, too.

I like discussion and hearing different point of views. Lemmy is great for one side but i've supplemented it with reading HackerNews. I find the discussion on there way more good faith and even though its stupidly pro AI I still like reading why people like AI and posts about how they are using it.

Mostly im just hear for Tech and Linux and memes. After leaving Reddit I barely ever return. Sometimes i open up a sub to scroll the top posts of the month to see if anything was missed

Reddit made it simple for me; they banned the app I browsed it with (Boost, along with every other 3rd party app).

I don't browse on my desktop, and I refuse to use their 1st party app, so using Reddit became too inconvenient.

If you are struggling with this, then you are struggling in general. Figure out what's going wrong in your life and fix it.