I won’t download your stupid app

Same. I don't miss it. I'm really enjoying Lemmy and the fediverse!

/c/Risa is all I need.
- I never knew how much I needed Star Trek memes in my life until Stamets and The Picard Maneuver graced us with their presence. Walk with the prophets, my child.
Still, when I'm looking for a solution for a specific problem, reddit is basically the only reliable source at the moment.

Wish there was a quick way to search for posts across all instances using search engines.
- Reddit has years of community data. Lemmy will get there one day as long as we keep at it.
  
  Yeah. What Reddit has is the advantage of getting there first. We can catch up.

Same. But I do miss it.

I miss some content but lemmy has been getting better and better, and after Boost for lemmy I won't ever come back to reddit.
- Connect is my jam, but there are a bunch of solid clients to choose from
I did at first, but I don't miss it at all anymore. Too many assholes at this point. It stopped being useful a long time ago. Finding old Reddit threads can be helpful sometimes, but current Reddit is a shitshow.
I miss the niche content. Lemmy isn't big enough yet to have sorted into big "stupid" subs vs smaller niche subs that tend to attract smarter and more well-informed users. The result is that the signal-to-noise ratio on Lemmy still kind of sucks and any comment thread is likely to consist of three quarters banal gibberish and condescending idiocy and maybe one quarter actually intelligent, thoughtful and informed opinion.

I rarely make a comment on Lemmy without pissing off people on all sides of any given issue, which tells me that Lemmy's users aren't really good at nuance or complexity.

When looking something up, especially technical product information the best answer is still often a reddit link. That will change in the future but it will take time.

Old.reddit is the only way yo access this information without account but i paradoxically cant wait for them to shut it down cause the quicker reddit completely dies the faster other places will become knowledge hubs.

reddit has been talking about blocking search crawlers, so it may die (for you) that way first.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/20/23925504/reddit-deny-force-log-in-see-posts-ai-companies-deals
- lol. And you know they won't be fixing their own search engine any time soon. Its like they want their site to die jfc.
Ehhh, even for that I've had issues, even before the API stuff. The solutions I came across either came from casual word of mouth on Discord, tutorials on GitHub or forums other than Reddit.
- It never was the pinnacle of knowledge, i am not on many different forums and only in the last year have started to avoid internet search where possible but often neither google or bing have satisfying results with only a single reddit link that may have the answer.

There are some communities that just don't exist on Lemmy.

start it
- It gets a bit boring after being the only poster for a while :(
- Yes, but what about the userbase?
  
  if you build it they will come
- One subreddit I still check occasionally is just for Skyrim mods made by one guy. This community of mere hundreds is wherever he makes his posts, and moving would annoy some of his Patreon supporters. The switching cost is high relative to the benefits of switching.

Sadly some of the more specific subs didn't migrate to Lemmy :/

I recreated a few of my favs. Nobody posts. ☹️
- Keep it up, maybe you're establishing a lurker base that will spring into action on some random post eventually.
Some of them did and just died. Lemmy doesn't have a USP and it's starting to show.
- Reddit also doesn't have one except for the Network-Effect keeping users there.

Wait until you need to read an answer to a technical question which was only answered on Reddit. Can't wait when such pages will be replaced with Lemmy.

I was trying to find if is safe to mix LSD with energy drinks and the only place where someone was answering that was on reddit, restricted because is 18+ somehow. Had to use the tip given from OP to see it outside the app. The general consensus (because this shit can't be properly researched) is that caffeine in general is not recommended with LSD.
- I wouldn't take drug-mixing advice from some rando on reddit or lemmy or any other similar site.
  
  That being said, please limit yourself to one substance at a time, get some fentanyl test strips and narcan if you're able, and always have a wingman with you. Assuming it's possible where you live, buy your drugs from a regulated dispensary or at least a source you know and trust (whose source they trust).
  
  Have fun, but stay safe. The times they are a changing...even weed has dangerous shit mixed in nowadays.
  
  That's my drug advice from a rando on a lemmy.
  
  I mean , you can’t exactly go ask a doctor how to use lsd. Sometimes you just want to read up on something based on someone else’s personal experience. The website might be doing some dumb shit lately but it’s hard to replace the vast number of people who have answered exact questions you’re looking for. Lemmy just doesn’t have the 10+ year head start
- Did you check erowid? They're good in my experience.

Same. I was wasting way too much time there anyway. The only thing I still use it for is discussions for TV shows.

I don't actively use it either, but sometimes you're trying to fix some esoteric error that no one has experienced since the existence of the Western Roman Empire and the only place where a solution exists is Reddit. In those cases I kinda have to visit that wretched hive.

Same. However, I have rarely been able to solve a technical problem with Reddit posts or comments. It's a better source for random experiences about something.

For random technical problems with new software or hardware, Reddit quality is not as good as it used to be, IMHO.

For somewhat niche hobbies, like my mushroom growing, subjective experiences may be helpful to take into account. Reading dozens of different opinions about a problem in a hobby that has hundreds of different variables has its uses. (For example, if you want to test something specific, you can get an idea about the range of conditions to test.)