There’s a bunch of different looks to try, personally a.lemmy.world has been my favorite so far.

This is the way.

I haven’t been able to participate because mine is stuck at authenticating, but I am a void user so it’s probably for the best.

Such a small amount of users on Reddit submit links or comment. The thing that they “won” was splitting a portion of their community of power users who maintain and create the content on their site from the masses who simply consume and doom scroll the main page. I am happy with the type of discussion that is happening on Lemmy, I don’t need a post to have 7000 upvotes or a comment to have 1500 votes and a shit load of coins attached to it to make it valuable or interesting.

!mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml Destroy your wallet with us.

Reddit for me was a place to develop niche hobbies and talk about them with other people without having to overwhelm the people around me with opinions on pottery or which is the clackiest keyboard imaginable.

Some I’ve been listening to lately:

• Hard Fork - podcast about technology and science from the NYTimes that does a pretty good job of being varied and interesting.
• Search Engine - newer podcast by PJ Vogt from Reply All about understanding weird or poorly understood topics.
• Darknet Diaries - IT security stories, hacking, and red vs blue team defense of infrastructure.
• Behind the Bastards - Stories about terrible people and their effect on society. Start with the Dulles Brothers or Kissinger.
• Mother Country Radicals - Limited series about key members of the Weather Underground during the civil rights era.

Is this loss?