Are you 100% lemmy/mbin/piefed for your forum/thread life or are you still using reddit for something?
Like a lot of others here, I still add “reddit” to my searches when doing research on products or troubleshooting.
Pretty much everything remotely niche. Subs devoted to individual video games, for instance. The only game I play that’s on lemmy is https://lemmy.world/c/pixeldungeon.
As much as I hate to say it, I’d still much rather go to google and search reddit, than go on any other website google proposes. Everything is just trying to get you to buy nonsense or scroll through a 10 page article for a one sentence solution that is probably outdated.
the day Apollo stopped working I deleted the account and quit cold turkey; now only if I find something there while researching a problem I read a thread anonymously and that’s it
Whenever it comes up in a web search and I absolutely need it for whatever information I’m looking for, mainly troubleshooting stuff
yeah, sadly there’s a lot of niche technical problems that have only ever been answered as reddit posts. about the only time I go there either.
Porn.
Though they got rid of my favorite category so I’ve been using it less.
Sometimes I will have really obscure tech issues that only 10yr reddit threads can solve. That’s about it though
Yup. The backlog reddit has is currently kinda unbeatable. Although as reddit is increasingly swamped with AI, that’ll become less and less valuable
I mean people much rather ask chatgpt same question 5 times instead of checking reddit now.
Game subs.
I read the comments, since lemmy doesn’t have many
Sometimes it’s in the top few search results. Otherwise I don’t .
I tried to use it a few days ago and the toxicity is insane, it feels like Reddit is filled with trash talking kids to draw attention to themselves or AIs.
You can’t have a healthy discussion there anymore.
Niche subs
It’s just objectively true that a very specific type of person makes up most of Lemmy, which results in the only active communities being either very broad topics, or the handful of interests common to the kind of people who use Lemmy. I don’t fit into any of these.
I don’t fit into any of these…yet
Can I interest you in Linux Mint, today?
I am joking.
Unless you want to try Linux, in which case let me (or any of us) know…
I actually just tested Linux Mint again recently.
Music production holds me back. Didn’t test gaming, but I have faith that it’s more or less the same experience as the Steam Deck, and that would tie into a general sentiment I’ve seen around that gaming is no longer the biggest barrier to Linux adoption.
A. FL Studio runs like shit on WINE for me. Maybe it’s usable on a CPU under ten years old (I’m currently on an FX-8320) because I’ve heard others claim it runs at near-native speeds for them, but on Windows I only have performance issues on a project file that has every reason to be intensive. Even if I switched DAWs to something Linux native I’d still need FL Studio to work so I can open my old project files.
B. Two of my most used VST plugins don’t work, and I didn’t even test all of them so others might not work. One I can’t install because the installer doesn’t work, but the other is a free plugin, and that one’s GUI just doesn’t render (and last time I tested Linux it didn’t render under LMMS either, so it has to be a problem with WineVST.)
To participate in smaller local/regional communities, because they don’t exist or are basically dead on Lemmy. On reddit, almost every city has it’s own community, while on Lemmy some countries don’t even have communities or just a few people there looking more like a private group chat.
It could be party due to the decentralized nature, every community perhaps has it’s own server, but unless I am able to find it…
Nothing. I don’t use it anymore.
