Asklemmy

Yes.

I have not touched reddit since this debacle... I added a bunch of subreddits to my RSS reader, but I'm honestly not looking at it.

Unfortunately searching for information often brings me to a reddit post, but I'm trying to avoid it and so far found the information elsewhere.

Yes

My local cities daily thread is more active than it what's left on Reddit, despite the Reddit community having 600k subs. 410 comments on the Reddit thread, 480 on the lemmy community thread.

It's been like this daily.

MUCH more active here for me

Yes, I am significantly more active here than I was on Reddit (at least recently, my decline on posting/commenting on Reddit started a few years ago).

i definitely agree! being part of a growing community is a special feeling. although i had been on reddit for about ten years, it felt like by the time i joined, the community was already established and any comments i made got drowned out by a sea of other comments. here, it feels easier to be "seen".

I'm not sure it matters more TBH... but I basically stopped Reddit for 2 days, and now just get drawn back to read the occasional post - but don't bother commenting.

With the downtick in Reddit, I remembered that I hadn't read a book for a month or two, so I headed over to Annies Archive and grabbed a bunch to add to my Kindle...

So I now downloaded 3 versions of 'Great Expectations' and am reading that book before watching them - but also have "Welcome to the MonkeyHouse" by Kurt Vonnegut and "The Book Thief" grabbed from Annie's Archive.

Basically now I'm spending less than half the time on net than I was before.

100% Lemmy content is just so much more up my alley

I feel like I have seen more conversations on Lemmy about Reddit than original content

Im more active when I'm here and I spend less time online overall. I spend less time angry.

Although probably here still a bit too much. I should go touch grass but to fair it's over 110 F outside and I have to be near my laptop for work so, here I sit.

I did more shitposting on Reddit but I do more seriousposting here. I haven't found people with a similar sense of humor here yet. But I enjoy the conversations about the fediverse.

I am! Feels like a fresh start. Also, wanting to stay active to make a better community.

I can actually post on Lemmy...so yup.

I’m not active on Reddit at all, so I’m definitely more active here. And I agree, the community here is a much better fit, so far at least.

I agree, and am more active here than rdit.

I was mostly active on askreddit and haven't found a good asklemmy replacement yet. I'm also dumb and don't understand lemmy that well so I might be missing something obvious

I wouldn’t say I’m any less “lurk-y” than I was on Reddit, but here just feels like a group of friends hanging out. Feels more friendly :)

Looking forward to a fresh start and also looking forward to a new Sync lemmy app too.

So I truly believe that Reddit just got too big to the point where it prevented me from engaging very much. I’d say about 80-90% of my posts were ignored or I’d see a similar thought to my own and not even bother writing a response. The smaller subs were a bit better, but most of the time it felt like whispering in a hurricane. There were some good moments where I’d time it right and get a ton of upvotes and replies which was fun, but it was so few and far between that trying to engage at all on Reddit was a pretty lonely experience most of the time.

In Lemmy however I know that there are people actually reading my replies instead of just getting my comment thrown to the bottom of a massive pile of comments stacked on top of it. There’s definitely value to that, and I think separate instances will continue to support the small town vibe.

There’s a downside though, and it really comes down to searching for answers or guidance to anything you’re curious about. It’ll take Lemmy ten years to get to the point where there’s enough historical data to rival the amount of useful info that Reddit has.

I've never been much of a poster (not even 2 posts/yr for the almost dozen years I've had a reddit habit), but I was a regular commenter in various specific-interest subs.

I am, as a rule, no longer contributing content to Reddit, since they've made it clear they plan to finish their transition from "hosting communities" to "extracting value from users." Frankly, it's not as much of an imposition as I feared, because many of those communities seem to be broadly taking the same attitude.

I'm actively trying to comment heavily here to to try to help establish communities. If I had a little more free time I'd do some posting and/or try to help spin some successor communities for my interests.

Honestly, I'm trying to be more active in here. The whole defederation thing going around has me confused about where my account lives and replicating what's on it. Makes it hard to stay active if I don't know what's going to happen haha

yes, never had a reddit account.

Have recently made the jump from Reddit. With a brilliant 3rd party app - go figure!! I expect to be more active here.

Yeah

Honestly, not really, but I also was crazy active on reddit. Now I haven't posted anything there for the past week and I also completely removed Infinity from my phone. Bye bye reddit

I'd mostly comment on shitposts, and there's less here so I feel like I comment less

I never posted on Reddit. Every time I did it was a bad time. I could post the most innocuous thing imaginable (The sky is blue. Water is wet), and without fail have at least a few people telling me I was stupid, naive, woke, a Nazi, whatever. There is a ton of extremist energy around here too, but the radical left is much easier for me to stomach than the radical right.

So far trying to find my old communities I would run with, can’t seem to find all of them.

I did once find /r/FeedTheBeast on lemmy but no longer can find it on here!

Once I get my rotation I will def use this way more.