This is not going to be a blogpost about "Why do people still use Reddit instead of everyone moving to Lemmy?". I noticed that even with Mastodon users, who already understand and like the advantages of decentralized platforms, the usage of Lemmy is extremely small, and more people use Reddit. Most of them haven't even heard of Lemmy. To be fair, the Reddit usage also seems to be fairly low.

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[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 15 points 18 hours ago (7 children)

The real answer, that we all know but dare not speak, is that it's miserable here.

Once you've blocked the tankies, porn, and militant dweebs, it's wall to wall politics and titty memes.

I'm here because I'm also a miserable asshole.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 hours ago

Don't forget about the cats!

[–] toothpaste_sandwich@thebrainbin.org 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

That's terrible! Outrageous! Where can I find these titty memes so I can block them?

[–] SirHaxalot@nord.pub 3 points 11 hours ago

It’s been a thing on !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world for the past days or two..

… but it’s more meme than titty.

[–] gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

to block all the politics communities should be an option at sign-up, or better yet, even when you browse without being signed in.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 4 points 15 hours ago

yeah, having tags for each community would be great.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

There was beans before there were titty memes, also there's a lot of owl and cat pictures, and random comics

[–] TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Moths, off and on.

[–] Obituarykidney@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (4 children)

There was a glorious few months before Reddit enshittified even further, before the bigger migration of users. After that it turned into 90% American politics.

Edit: downvote me all you want Americans, but the rest of the world is kind of sick of your shit ngl.

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 1 points 58 minutes ago

A lot of us are sick of it, too. Not happy about being stuck on this ride.

[–] orbital@infosec.pub 3 points 11 hours ago

I didn't downvote your comment but I'm American and most of us are sick of it too. We're trying. I vote in every election.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 2 points 11 hours ago

PieFed helps with this

[–] pnutster@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

My main reason for looking for alternatives. Wanted to stop my morning coffee doom scrolling to consist of only US politics… if you can call it politics that is… Lemmy fits the bill.

As someone has said before, I agree with a bit of lack on on-boarding, you need to be a little bit more insistent on setup to ensure you get the communities you want. Not hard, but can definitely imagine that would stop some from trying out lemmy any further.

[–] Obituarykidney@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Yeah that was a big part of why I swapped, but it's getting flooded again.

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Conservatives did this to you. I'm sending you some "cheer up" tiddies.

[–] makeshift0546@lemmy.today 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

You can be in the left and know this place is filled with the most broken progressives we have 🤷

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today 2 points 16 hours ago

Conservatives did this to us. We're gonna need some more "cheer up" tiddies.

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca -3 points 13 hours ago

Soapy Titty memes are a breath of fresh air compared to recurring bean memes TBH 🫘