No Stupid Questions

I check back in periodically, but I'm making an effort to participate on here as much as possible. Loving it so far. Yeah, there are still a few kinks to be worked out, but overall the transition has been seemless to me.

The biggest issue I have come across is trying to wrap my head around instances and how to browse what where.

I dowloaded Jerboa and started on lemmy.world, and when I found out about all the others instances and different sites to browse and subscribe to.

Im sure with some more time, I'll get a handle on it.

I’m definitely on Lemmy much more. I still occasionally hit Reddit, but when I do, it’s usually because there’s a post on Lemmy calling out Reddit protest stuff. I’ll hop over and show some support.

Otherwise, I’m here for the duration.

As soon as I found couple of the most valuable (for me) communities here, I was done with reddit

I've been on 99% Kbin. I think I've only gone back to Reddit when I searched something and the answer is still on Reddit.

Not yet.. none of my favorite communities made it over yet.

Nothing is good on reddit right now other than watching it burn, of course people would be on here where the contents are.

I'm happier on Lemmy but I have to remind myself to come here. I need to explore more. I haven't visited kbin yet. But I just finished work and I want to relax and my reddit subs aren't federated, or they are here but there are under a dozen people lurking so I end up on reddit first.

Seems like a lot of people replying to this post have mostly moved to lemmy.

I’m new here, is it stupid that I made an account here and on kbin.social?

I only go on Reddit for gaming leaks since here there's not a lot of great leaks

I just made a fresh new account here. Still trying to find my way around here. Will keep my reddit account for a little bit but just like with Instagram, the ads just became too annoying for me.

I will until I run out of content here.

I jumped to lemmy the day of or the day before the blackout began, and moved to Kbin shortly after. Since then, I think I tapped into Reddit a total of 5-or-so times to check out solutions to web searches without bothering to log in. Three of of those times just led to a private subreddit, so I just backed out and looked elsewhere.

For my usual news binge, Kbin (& Lemmy), has more than sufficed. The fediverse has quickly made abandoning reddit pretty trivial for me.

Went basically cold turkey on Reddit before the blackout, switching over to Kbin.
I know Reddit will survive, at least for the next while, but after witnessing Reddit's behaviour through all of this, I refuse to be a part of it.

My only use of Reddit will be for Google results, and that will be reading only with an Ad blocker - they won't make a penny off of me anymore if I can help it.

My only traffic to Reddit in over a week was search based. My only engagement was here and Facebook.

I miss Relay something awful. The mobile lemmy site has some strong inconveniences, the mobile app is missing some outright features.

I'd still rather be here than there.

Definitely spending more time here but as the lemmyverse (infact the whole fediverse) grows the duplication of communities among instances would be a headache and might lead to fragmentation. But since being able to federate is the sole reason most of us are here, what if we get a tab or option so an instance can combine all the posts of duplicate named communities with every possible instance it can federate with and show it in one place? I mean yes there might be challenges to achieve that but why not! @[email protected] ??

I'm digging it thus far, honestly the only issue is the content. But that's getting better as more and more users start using Lemmy.

Yes but I only see 2 problems so far. The siloing of instances and searchability. I can't search with lemmy yet since there are so many instances with no standard like with site:reddit.com. Way less issues than dealing with reddit so it's a big win for me!

I haven't touched Reddit since the blackout began and I don't think I'm going to do it again. Maybe one more time just to delete my account.

First thing I did was uninstall Relay.

Then logged off reddit on the desktop.

Put Jerboa on the same home screen spot where Relay was.

After a few days deleted my reddit account. Wasn't much of a commenter so just a simple delete for me.

I don't really enjoy Jerboa so whenever I reach for that spot I just remind myself to go to firefox on my phone and go on kbin or lemmy.

I used reddit mostly for doom scrolling and getting frustrated at world news and politics I cannot really influence. So the switch for me was kinda easy and after 12 years I really enjoy something new. I'm also fairly into technology and I am really fascinated by the concept of federation and I really hope it will be popular. I also hope that not all of reddit will move here, because I feel that reddit became huge and you got a sense of emptiness and hopelessness while browsing over there. If that makes any sense.

I've just deleted my reddit account! :-)

I'm very much treating Lemmy like the old BB forums days (I know they are still around but most people just made subreddits for those type of communities). Its kinda fun seeing small communities spark up, and trying to help them grow.

I have used reddit, but so far its mainly been to check my old post history and such, try to mirror some of the communities I was following there.

It's been a real struggle breaking the decade long habit of just opening reddit every time im bored, but I'm trying to ween myself off in preparation for when they kill 3rd party apps at the end of the month since i won't be able to use RIF any longer.

I would say im spending about 80% of my time on kbin now. After the 3rd party app shutdown i'll probably only use reddit when it comes up in top google search results.

The challenge is that Reddit isn't just one community, it's a collection of lots of communities.

For stuff like random tech news and commentary, I'm already 100% happy with Lemmy. You don't need a huge community for people to post reviews of the latest gadgets and discuss them.

While I'm still boycotting Reddit, what I miss the most is some of the smaller communities, the ones that are only possible when you have millions of total users. Stuff like hyperlocal subreddits (there's not just one for my city, there's one for my NEIGHBORHOOD within my city), subreddits specifically for every one of my favorite TV shows, authors, and musicians, and subreddits for more niche topics I'm into like music theory or 3-D printing.

I'm trying to spend time on Lemmy hoping to build up the critical mass there. I'm starting with more mainstream topics that are likely to grow and attract a following, but what I'm really hoping for are the more niche ones.

Went to kbin after deleting my reddit account, so outside of occasionally lurking I don't really have a need for reddit.

Still scroll reddit for certain communities, but the conversation here is refreshing and I find myself participating more, that's a good thing. Lemmy needs sustained engagement more than a honeymoon phase. We will see once third-party apps shut down.

I switched off reddit during the blackout and haven't really missed it (uninstalled from phone but not tablet yet), does appear in some searches. I heard the CeO interview on NPR over the weekend, so looking to delete my comments from most subs (some ask not to so will respect that) before deleting accounts.

World news and a finance subs I liked to contribute to but enjoying the break. Coding and Crafts I browse for ideas but sure something will appear eventually or not.

I'm new here, but I probably spend about 80% of my time on kbin. I'm using Boost for Reddit, but once that stops working I'll fully switch over.

I've spent all my time between Lemmy and kbin.

It's been a lot of fun, and while I know it's a little fractured, it's been giving me a really great bit of variety

I just moved over from kbin.social from another Lemmy instance. I feel like the Lemmy I was on I wasn't reveiving all the comments and upvotes on my posts vs on Kbin social.

As of today I have decided not to give Reddit any traffic. I don't look at it and I am very careful about clicking on any links directing me to it. I know there are so many discussions on Reddit that are related to my Google searches, it's so damn hard but I am sticking to my guns.

Kbin/Lemmy has been far supperior in everyway, despite it having less users, I feel like it's for the best.

Yes.

I’m spending the majority of my time here. There are some subs connected to my job that I still visit but that’s at most once a day in a weekday. I feel no need to browse Reddit.

this is my first time here, imma quit Reddit on July 1st if nothing changes, might even delete my account