No Stupid Questions

Joined today and I'm loving it so far. Hopefully it is herento stay.

I still occasionally lurk on reddit, just a few obscure subs like r/fedora. Lemmy is the first social platform I've actually commented on.

Honestly I wasn't to interested in the whole "movement" against the API changes. Being a nerd, the underlying tech behind activitypub is what got me interested.

About a week since i read or posted on Reddit.

Reading Christian's rebuttal was genuinely shocking to me and I decided I didn't want to continue supporting Reddit's management by being associated with it.

I demodded myself (sole moderator of a 13 year old sub, plus another two smaller ones), deleted all my many thousands of posts and comments and stopped using it.

I'm planning on deleting my 11 year user with a lot of karma on the 1st to join the protest then (I need to revisit to check that's still happening)

I quit reddit years ago, but joined lemmy after learning about the drama, just out of curiosity... so, yes.

The Lemmy software is kind of bad at the moment, has a lot of usability issues and bugs, and clearly wasn't "ready" for this type of massive influx of users.

...but, it's far from unusable. The content I've seen so far is pretty good (if sparse). The quality of discussions is definitely better than what I remember from reddit. I just hope the issues get fixed so that less techy users can migrate without frustrations, and we can hopefully see more varied discussions in the lemmyverse.

Yep, I moved completely over. I miss the smut, admittedly, but with the principles at play I think I can make the sacrifice :)

Yup just got here. Never heard of this site u til yesterday on Reddit LOL

Used to binge Reddit all day everyday. Now it’s Lemmy/Kbin instead and haven’t even thought going back to Reddit.

Yeah, if Reddit keeps going the way it is I'm not expecting it to be a very usable site in the future so I just jumped ship early.

If Reddit backpedals enough and the whole thing blows over I might go back but that doesn't seem to be what's going down. Lemmy is a pretty good replacement for my needs and the smaller community is a plus.

I just joined and this is my first comment ever. I am curious as to how this site functions.

Probably 50/50, maybe slightly more on the Reddit side of things, so 60/50 in favor of Reddit? While a lot of my old subs are here on the Fedi, a lot aren't, arguably most of the ones I spent most of my time in aren't. The ones that are present, are noticeably a lot quieter.

First post, i hope this is a viable reddit alternative

Haven't used Reddit much since the turn of this year as it was negatively affecting my mental health (the atmosphere, aggressiveness etc). So yeah I guess I've been browsing this one more. I have tried "niche" websites many times before and they do always have that "wonder of the beginning" phase. Whether I'll stick around tho... fully dependant on if there is interesting threads being posted in the future and the discussion isn't hostile (unlike my experience of Reddit. You can say literally anything and someone will show up to argue with you over the dumbest, most meaningless thing for no other reason than just to argue. Never signed up for that treatment so yeah if that happens here I'll be OUT.)

Not sure if this is good or bad to post, but I thought it's at least interesting. A subreddit content mirroring instance/bot https://lemmit.online

But - I've definitely kicked the reddit habit. Was easy to during the blackouts. I was never a contributor anyway - just a mindless scroller/lurker. I still occasionally use imgur.com if I need to mindlessly scroll and lemmy doesn't have enough content.

Not even going to Reddit at all. The main subs I followed have locked anyway.

i am here to browse less, and engage more. I hope to spend about the same amount of time on Lemmy as I did on Reddit, as everyone's time is finite. I am not going back after browsing through the communities, which I think will grow in time.

Engagement is key

I don't use Reddit anymore. I put time into learning Lemmy, and Kbin more specifically, and have really started to settle in and enjoy it. Robust communities are active and growing quickly. Feels a lot like when I first switched from Digg and Reddit felt like really grassroots and special place. It has been going down hill for years and became just a constant source for fighting and baffling opinions, and this place has just been really refreshing by comparison.

I have quit Reddit but struggle to spend the same amount of time on Lemmy as I would Reddit. I guess it’s just because there was no app offers the same browsing experience as Apollo.

Edit: found wefwef and boy does it feels just like the native Apollo app

Yes. Pretty pissed at Reddit even though I realized it.

I haven't contributed to anything on Reddit since the blackout, and have tweaked my bookmarks/phone habits to favor Lemmy now. Eventually, I will delete my account, but I am part of a few threads and specific communities that I still want to be notified about, so that won't happen right away.

It's actually nice to start with a clean slate, and I'd much rather support Lemmy than some morally bankrupt, anti-community, "sometimes good, but mostly garbage" platform. LOL

What will really be a game changer is if/when search engines or a browser plugin comes out that will link to Lemmy instead of Reddit for search results.

I deleted the acc. Not because what was happening, I think I started to dislike it before. This latest developments just gave me the last push to do it. Lemmy is fun, kind of innocent still.

Here. Lemmy seems to have reached the tipping point of having a big enough community to have interesting conversations. Bye, Reddit!

Let's look at what Snoosite has been historically good at.

• propagating web content
• providing a space for derivative communities of content

The web content is already all over the place and takes no more than a dedicated core moderation team to begin driving discussion. The latter - content communities - is what really made Snoosite exceptional, and what drove that engagement was principally the aggregation aspect in the beginning combined with a distaste for the alternatives.

Lemmy is modeled very closely after Snoosite, obviously, and shares the same potential for link aggregation. The community building is really an organic function, and if we're able to ride the wave, we may not continue to blast into the stratosphere but arriving at a decent plateau to provide a viable federated alternative is a noble and lofty goal.

The secret sauce, if the Lemmy devs implement features creatively, is ActivityPub. Cross pollinating conversations and communities between microblogging, distributed image sharing and tagging, and link aggregation communities of content using built-in features of hashtags and boosting is ... well, it's game-changing, and it gives me tingles to think about how well it COULD be done.

I'm not really wasting any time on Snoosite anymore other than for archaeological purposes. Now, it's only been a few days, so I can only speak from my own history - when I made a decision to drop Birdsite like a hot rock, I did so completely and deleted my account. I'm a little less inclined to be as drastic with Snoosite because of historical significance relating directly to technical interests of mine. But as time passes and the Fediverse grows, and Lemmy (or another technology) matures into the space, I think the relevance of Snoosite will fade like so many farts in the wind before it.

Time will tell honestly, i hope we get something else working, because i get a deep pit in my stomach everytime i hear of the shit the reddit admins are pulling rn.

Even though I mostly lurk, I spend more time in Kbin/Lemmy/Mastodon than Reddit/Twitter.

Since uninstalling rif from my phone and installing jerboa I use Lemmy much more

i am gradually making my migration towards Lemmy. once the Doomsday approaches {June 30th}, and RIF dies, i'll bid Reddit farewell. here's to hoping the communities I'm interested in will migrate in due time or get alternatives in here.

I haven't been back to reddit. I love the small community vibe in the lot lemmy communities.

I stopped using reddit at the start of the black out and created an account on lemmy.world a couple of days ago.

I hope that as time goes on lemmy and applications like it continue to grow so that moving forward online human interaction/knowledge exchange won't be "owned" by a corporation.

The only reason I logged into Reddit at all in the last 12 days was to request my data. Unless something drastic changes, I don't think I'll go back to Reddit at all. It was the only social media platform I still used.

I was on Reddit through all the bad times and I think they finally had a really good user base of people who actually cared about the platform. It was inevitable that it was going to all fall apart though. That's just how capitalism works. They try to wring blood out of stone until they squeeze so hard that they crush the stone.