I miss that thing where any time there was a difficult question, someone with real expertise would jump into the comments. And sometimes it was someone who literally wrote the book on the subject. Sometimes it was the person who invented the thing being talked about. It was crazy. It happened all the time. It seemed like everyone was on Reddit and you could really trust you were getting solid answers.
Fwiw, I’ve been able to get good advice on a few things already. I had a geologist here give me details on a rock I found at the beach, for instance.
That’s cool!
I felt like there were a lot of blowhards on reddit and many highly voted comments would get it wrong. It happened enough times in areas I’m knowledgeable in so I almost never trusted a comment without others validating it. Maybe without the numbers lemmy doesn’t have as vast or varied of a knowledge across its users but I’m actually more trustworthy of it so far.
Niche communities full of useful info. The subreddit for a game I’m playing rn was the one of the largest sources of information for the game, and now the subreddit is privated and all that info is inaccessible
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I miss this too. I’m usually in too much of a hurry when writing a reply because I get eager, so I make a lot of mistakes.
I can’t just let them stand and come off as an uncultured swine*, but the “edited” mark implies that I might have “altered the record” or something 🙁
*I’m not this critical about other people making mistakes, just myself lol
I see you altered the record in this comment, too 😭
I don’t care if a comment has been edited. I always assume typos rather than some sinister intent.
/r/askhistorians. The only truly good subreddit.
They still didn’t switch to Lemmy? Loved that community, think its weird they still stick to Reddit while they appeared to be some of the strongest Lobbies against API changes and were driving a huge part of the protest
Is Multireddits the correct term…? Being able to categorize my feeds instead of just having everything lumped together in “Subscribed”.’
The rest is just taking a bit of time to adjust to. Currently takes a bit longer to research something, though I find my need for answers on Reddit itself is growing less and less!
Sports subreddits. The majority of users on the sports subs I followed got all high and mighty when the strike happened, thinking that they were more important. I made the only post so far on nfl memes and barely got any interaction.
People not asking what others miss from Reddit, mostly.
Nothing, I’m still there, unfortunately. Fact is, there just isn’t that much engagement here, and smaller niche subs that I like will have new posts daily on Reddit, but will sometimes take a week or more.
I like the idea of Lemmy quite a bit, and I appreciate the hell out of Memmy and Mlem (can’t decide what I like more), but I also am using Apollo still, and I may have to stick with that for a while.
How do you still use Apollo?
You can use this.
