I deleted my Reddit account during the blackouts and haven't gone back.
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2024
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No and No.
I am happy to let this place grow organically with no pressure. I will not and have not been back to Reddit since coming here. Frankly, I am sick of hearing about Reddit; itβs like someone constantly going on about their ex.
Only time I use reddit is if I Google something and it leads to a reddit thread. I hope more people will use Lemmy so when I Google stuff Lemmy comes up first. Fuck reddit I hope their servers get attacked
i don't post on most reddit communities but we're sorely lacking a c/randomactsofblowjobs
I haven't logged in for a good long while. Occasionally I visit old discussions on there as a guest, though, just because it's where obscure stuff tends to gets discussed.
Yes (ββ _β ). I am gonna do completionist++.
Lemmy will thrive anytime Reddit experiences another exodus and the servers don't crash.
I donβt use Reddit whatsoever. Being away from that site for 18 months has really shown how low quality the content there is. I know longer have any desire to ever interact with that site if I can help it, even if the fediverse is missing some of the active niche communities on reddit
This place feels like a breath of fresh air. It genuinely helped me cut down on social media usage.
I recently got booted off of Reddit and I'm hoping participating here on Lemmy will help me get over the need for social media I hadn't realized I had developed.
Good luck. It has certainly helped me.
Thank you.
It's mostly a matter of getting over it in my own head.
RSS feeds (Feeder) for read-only mode of subreddits that don't exist here, and re-post to Lemmy if I want to discuss a specific topic that bad
100% since they killed Apollo but in general less of everything.
After Apollo went down, made me realize how much unnecessary screen time I was wasting my life on. The smaller size and scope of the fediverse is probably better for my mental health than Twitter/Reddit were
Hard to use reddit when your favourite reddit app no longer works
I browse Reddit anonymously nowadays on a web browser. I still absolutely hate the experience. It lags way too much, videos suddenly become "no longer available", spend enough time and it will yell at you again for getting the app as if it didn't when you first opened the site (at least it's not as insistive as Instagram, an even worse website), that new logo reeks of Discord and Android having a baby, and not to mention, comments with a negative karma score are automatically hidden for whatever reason.
I only continue browsing that site to catch up with some communities with no real equivalent on Lemmy.
Reddit sucks the butt. And you can quote me on that.
Yea sorry Boost doesn't work for Lemmy anymore so...plus Lemmy is better and collectively smarter.
If i'm looking for something online and the only info is on some niche subreddit, then I go to reddit. Other than that, I pretty much just lurk here in the shadows, muttering to myself about vengeance and being the night
Stop talking about your ex
I moved completely here after the reddit API thing.
Me too!
I'm not using reddit ever since they broke all the 3rd party clients.
I mean you can still use them, it's just more finicky
I'm never going back to corporate social media. If it's not FOSS and available to self host reasonably, I'm not interested anymore.
So that means, lemmy and others like it only from now on for me. Already close to 1k posts made.
Yeah, I hear you. I couldn't find yet a replacement for YouTube. It has quite a lot of content there, for the good and the bad, but some are quite helpful
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Left reddit as soon as the blackout happened, was actually impressed at myself being able to stay off it. Haven't been back except when I google a question, and the answer is on an old reddit thread (I do not reply or comment).
My opinion is Lemmy needs more communities and more DAUs. Have been trying to tell people why they should switch but I'm not techy, my friends are not techy and they just don't care about data/ownership etc. I'm hoping reddit shits the bed further so more laypeople jump ship.
Same goes for mastodon which needs more content although I only previously used twitter on days with big events (oscars, grammys, f1 race days etc).
i hate that we are here stuck trying to convince laypeople when we used to be the ones to shape the internet. now its just coporations making us ruin it 9-5 every day, for laymen to just use the shittiest option because its the one with the biggest marketing budget.
uh no not really. I'm just here for memes and doomscrolling
me too. far too many fundamentalists running around already
Fediverse, Forums, or bust.
And if forums just add fediverse integration like discourse is already doing, just win-win
Damn, the future is rad.
Yep, for now I just add the Discourse forums to my RSS reader in Nextcloud and catch the new posts in the Nextcloud News app
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Haven't been to Reddit since the API changes last summer. I'm trying my best to be a good Lemmite but I don't post enough OC, so that's my bad
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slashdot.org > digg > reddit > lemmy.
always 100% until hard pivot to next 100%
Exactly same path, but Google Reader instead of shashdot.org
Btw, I was always curious why people abandoned /. as it didn't have any drama iirc.
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