I find the quality and variety of discussions on the fediverse to be lower than what I had on reddit. Lemmings have strong preconceived notions and little interest in changing viewpoints from new information. I think I’ll be switching back.

Edit: you’ll find that most of the comments deny any shortcomings of the culture and go directly to invalidating my opinions via character assassination. If lemmy was a community that actually stood for the ideals which it espouses it would take constructive criticism in the spirit in which it was intended. QED.

  • iheartneopets@lemm.ee
    7·
    11 months ago

    Why not just access via browser? If they try to hit you with the “unverified” or “NSFW” content pop up, just put ‘old.’ before reddit in the URL. I refuse to put that shit app on my phone for spez to use as a data farm.

      • edric@lemm.ee
        2·
        11 months ago

        Apart from having to zoom a lot, it’s still manageable. I’m on IOS, and I have both old and new reddit as bookmarks on my homescreen. Then I have SinkIt for Reddit that makes the mobile browser version more tolerable if I choose to not use old.reddit. Never needed to install the official app.

    • TurboDiesel@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 months ago

      I do! Firefox with pretty much everything blocked. It’s just annoying that Spez has made it so I basically have to