Since I deleted both of my reddit accounts I've spent all me social time on Lemmy. First couple of days sucked, but now I'm really enjoying it.
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
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I haven't used Reddit for a week already
After 10 years on reddit, it wasn’t easy at first (at first being just the threat of apps not working). And I wasn’t sure where to go: Mastodon, Discord, Lemmy, etc. But as the communities grew, content increased, and I even found similar groups in the fediverse, I’ve been spending more and more time on Lemmy, and much more certain this the right direction.
I'm constantly making a conscious effort to avoid going back to reddit. It's not been easy, as it was my most used app maybe after youtube, but I've succeed so far. Last december I deleted my twitter account I created back in 2009. It hurt a bit, but I survived and found a nice place on a Mastodon instance. My reddit account is 11 years old, and I'll be deleting it too, soon. It'll hurt too, I know, but I'll survive too. Lemmy is my new home.
For sure. I hereby consider Reddit to have died, along with the 3rd party app that I used to view it with. (RIP Boost, you will be missed 🚀)
From now on, only Lemmy exists to me and I've fully replaced it, partially out of spite.
I've basically made the switch 100%, and I'm finding myself a lot more active on here so far. Everything I've posted in any given community has resulted in a lot more friendly discussion here than it tended to on Reddit... honestly, so far this feels a lot better lol.
I've abandoned Reddit ever since a couple days before the blackout and it's been really nice. It feels refreshing to be part of what seems to be an upcoming community.
Oh definitely. I've been on a continuous Lemmy/kbin binge since Friday. This place is way more enjoyable than reddit because:
- Your voice matters. People actually upvote and reply!
- There is no karma! One less thing to obsess over (though you can see how many posts/comments a user has made).
- The content is much more interesting and reminiscent of the early days of Reddit.
- Maybe I'm too nerdy but I like how clean the site is.
- There is absolutely zero commercial interest across the entire lemmyverse and it's awesome. You can talk to actual people and have fun!
- It feels magical that there are all these different Lemmy and kbin servers and you can see people from 10 instances talking to each other in the same thread.
I just got started here after days of no reddit as more mainstream media picked up the protests and mentioned the Fediverse. Honestly, I love it for the reasons you outlined. Can't imagine going back. There's still some communities I don't have here, but I imagine they will form up eventually, and if they don't there's nothing I'd really miss, or if I did I'd create it myself.
I had eyeballed joining Mastodon when he-who-sucks took over twitter but wasn't real comfortable with figuring out something new at the time (for personal reasons). Glad I've gotten the kick in the butt to join the Fediverse! It's fun here!!
I am proud of myself! Haven't touch reddit since the 11th! I am free! Ahahahahaha! Ahem. For real though It feels good to break the habit. Course I replaced one addiction. With another by landing over here. Oh well. That is how it goes I suppose.
I only use Lemmy now as a daily app, I just use Reddit as a glorified backlog (to search for some tech problem, or some product buying recommendation). For better or worse, there is a lot of useful information in there, but I won't actively engage with the website anymore.
Technically yes, but I spend 0 time on Reddit soooo.
I'm currently enjoying Lemmy through Jerboa on Android!
EDIT: I'm now also using WefWef, which is virtually indistinguishable from Apollo. I've never used Apollo though so I'm getting still getting used to it, but I like it!
I can't seem to find a way to edit comments on it, though... So I here am back on Jerboa 😅
10% on Reddit, 10%-15% on Lemmy, 10000% on Kbin - beats the pants off of other platforms IMHO, which is surprising considering it's early development. The combo of content from both Lemmy and Mastodon instances is pretty darn cool.
10% on Reddit, 10-15% on Lemmy, 10000% on Kbin
>100% error!
How are you manufacturing extra time‽ The greatest physicists of our day want to talk to you!
(Unless you mean to say that you spend 100x time on Kbin what you used to spend on Reddit…that makes more sense…carry on.)
my biggest problem is, that i have to create multiple accounts to watch my furry anatomy threads
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I’ve not touched Reddit since the blackout started, and I won’t be going back.
Fuck u/spez
I'm starting to. Trying to force myself to use this one more.
The Mlem app is getting pretty good. I’m running a new branch this evening with some new gestures added and it’s clear that they’re moving towards Apollo clone. Or maybe Apollo+! Either way, it’s moving in the right direction.
Just kbin on desktop, but I'm still using Apollo. Not sure what's going to happen on July.
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@AskThinkingTim No, I mostly used Twitter (still) and used Libreddit and Stealth for Reddit because I didn't communicate anyway
I unsubbed from most of the default reddit subs and from the subs where the mods didn't seem to care about the protest.
For the future, I intend to limit my engagement to a few subreddits related to the war in Ukraine, because that's something I follow closely and care about a lot. The communities on lemmy/kbin just aren't active enough yet to stay up to date.
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I bailed off of Reddit three months ago, after /r/Pathfinder2e started reaching peak echo chamber.
Not yet.. none of my favorite communities made it over yet.
You can use Lemmy Explorer to search all the (900 or so) Instances for your community. If those Instances are federated with this one (most of the are), you can subscribe and post into that Instance's community without having to create another account.
When Reddit collapses for good, it will be the end of Lemmy. There will be nothing to talk about, no subject to talk about.
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Yes. Rotating between Lemmy & Kbin.
Actually getting work done during the day also.
Reddit on Mobile is completely dead to me and I will only use it on my desktop for specific searches if the info is not available elsewhere (last resort).
0.1% of the time wil be spend on Reddit, with an ad blocker of course.
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My Kbin account has been seeing quite a bit of usage today if that counts.
What's the advantage of kbin? I haven't tried it yet.
I honestly don't know, but if I had to hazard a guess, it would be being able to interact with the Beehaw crowd.
Are other lemmy instances not federated with beehaw?
As far as I'm aware, only lemmy.world and some other instance I forgot the name of got defederated by them.
That sucks and seems pretty short sighted :/
Does this mean posts from beehaw will not be in my lemmy feed, or is it simply I cannot interact with those posts in such a way that beehaw users would see?
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Yes, since yesterday I replaced Sync Pro on my screen with Jerboa, so I click it dozens of times per day. Today I haven't go on Reddit once.
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Im 90 % Lemmy and 10% Reddit right now. But i think that i soon will be 100% Lemmy. Only thing that stopping me from making the switch totally is some minor things about the mobile apps for Lemmy.
As soon as I found couple of the most valuable (for me) communities here, I was done with reddit
Exactly, and there's honestly no need for them to have 100,000+ people in them either. 1,000 people goes a long way too. There's a point of critical mass when you can have sustained discussions and there are enough upvotes to form a sensible feed by popularity in the community, and that critical mass isn't that huge IMHO. There also often comes a moment when greater popularity is detrimental and worsens it.
I could also jump onto Lemmy almost right away as my most loved communities were already forming here. I think Lemmy has a better outlook than Mastodon in this regard because the community is waiting for you, rather than Mastodon is expecting you to form your circle, which can take a lot of effort in the midst of fediverse confusion.
I only get info from Reddit now and comment almost exclusively here. Old stuff is still good there, but it's time to move on
I'd use Lemmy more if half the content wasn't about Reddit.
Please forgive me for doling out unsolicited advice. You may find it more beneficial to subscribe to communities and then browse your subscribed by default (it's in settings). The difficulty at this time is going to be getting engagement in the communities and getting people who would normally post elsewhere to also post here.