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...how many of you will stay? Personally, I wiped my Reddit history and deleted my account, so I'm definitely here to stay. I can see, however, that a number of people see Lemmy more as a distraction until the blackout is over. I wonder what that number would be.

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[–] SickandTwisted@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've been a Redditor for 12+ years, but I will definitely keep hanging out here and I'll keep being active. The community here right now reminds me a lot of the good things of early Reddit, and I like that.

[–] telllos@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think I will stay, I'm a 15 year redditor, I'm really pissed at the management. They've never been great. The community has been doing all the work for so long, posting, commenting, moderating, developping apps and tools. And these guy think they are better? They are even saying it will calm down.

Remove this guy as CEO, cancel this API nonsense and we will see.

But in the meantime. I'm here and the more time passes. The more comfy I get.

[–] RomeCallen@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

ya right

like i have no social media loyalty. reddit was a habit. a time waster. the only thing that sucks about moving away from reddit is im not sure how to find old posts and shit here but im sure either i or someone much smarter will figure it out. in the end, i just want more places to go on the net

maybe im old, but i wax nostalgic for the forum days. and this feels like it

[–] ThatGuy36036@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah bring here certainly doesn't feel like 2023

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[–] Bye@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Same, and I’m hyped for something new and better. This absolutely reminds me of early Reddit and I’m totally here for it.

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[–] Just_Not_Funny@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I became a Redditor during the Digg exodus... Now I'll become a Lemming during the Reddit exodus.

[–] minxee@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Same my dude. I wasn't sure about this at first, but I have 2 12 year old accounts and am thinking of seeing if I can cash in on them somehow.

[–] Tugboater203@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You probably just started something with the Lemming thing.

[–] KermitLeFrog@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

We definitely have to stop calling communities subreddits though.

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[–] scifu@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Definitely here to stay. Even deleted app from my phone and put a bookmark to lemmy where the app used to be. Now I access lemmy as much as I used to Reddit purely because of muscle memory / force of habit and don’t miss Reddit one bit.

[–] fluffyrex@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There are apps for Lemmy! I'm finding the app much nicer to use on my phone than accessing lemmy thru a browser, which is what I'm guessing you're doing based on your description of using a "shortcut."

https://join-lemmy.org/apps

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I'm mostly a lurker, but certainly plan to stay. I probably will use Reddit occasionally, but that usage will be significantly reduced and limited to desktop use only as I have no interest in installing the official Reddit app. Too many web searches lead back to Reddit posts for me to drop Reddit completely.

[–] scrux@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Reddit has been the third party apps for me for years, so shutting those down means I’m gone for good.

[–] You_Are_Breathing@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is one of the sites that I'm checking out to try and replace Reddit. Unfortunately, so far, I can't find a replacement for my porn needs, but I think that'll help resolve a bigger problem I have.

[–] feitingen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was a just a lurker on reddit. It feels more welcoming here so I'm staying for sure.

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[–] Tsunami45chan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget that until the end of this month that reddit will change a lot of stuff. I won't be surprised that new lemmy users will migrate here on July 1.

[–] justaveg@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, in a way its kind of good to have this 2 stage migration, that gives server operators an opportunity to iron out some kinks.

[–] jinarched@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not using reddit again unless to lurk some info here and there if it is needed to find information I couldn't find on lemmy. I won't participate in the Reddit community anymore even if reddit is backing down. The federated philosophy is just much more alligned with my values. If anything, this whole blackout situation accelerated my innevitable switch.

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[–] SallyTAB@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Deleted four accounts of 3-11 years. Yup. Bye. I ain't waiting around to see reddit turn into "myspace after tom"

[–] Shell@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Nah man what Reddit is doing is ridiculous. I'm staying with Lemmy. I just hope the user base can grow.

[–] weepingSpright@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I haven't deleted my reddit account and I'm not sure if I'm going to, but I do not plan on going back or logging back in. Many times I've googled some obscure thing and the only solution to my problem was a 10 year old reddit post. With everyone deleting their accounts all those posts will change to [deleted] and I think that's sad. I've never posted anything that I think would help anyone, but I'm torn between letting my account stay up in the spirit of that and deleting it because fuck reddit.

[–] SQL_InjectMe@partizle.com 4 points 1 year ago

The lemmyverse is getting better everyday! No reason to go back

[–] azura@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Not going back. Here to stay for sure. No matter what.

[–] GolGolarion@pathfinder.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now that I've managed to hook up Mastadon to here and pull tweets from twitter, I think i'm pretty firmly here rather than there. There's one community I'll be sad to not interact with on the regular, but I'll manage.

[–] mim@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait... Can you log in here with a mastodon account? I knew you could reply to comments and follow from mastodon, but the experience is pretty clunky.

[–] GolGolarion@pathfinder.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

can't log on from mastodon to here, but you can do that other thing.

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[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I'm definitely staying. I know there's gonna be a dip in users, I just hope enough stay that we can build communities.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I plan to stay unless Reddit makes their third-party terms a lot more reasonable. The way these API access fees were announced on such a short timeline and the fact they are so high does not make me want to support Reddit any longer by participating in it. I've got 249,000 post karma there.

[–] KermitLeFrog@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm here because I'm hoping we can Digg v4 reddit. If we can't then I'm hoping one of the other alternatives will. As it stands Reddit is hoping everything will just blow over, I'm not gonna stand by and just let that happen

[–] jjewell@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

I’m staying. This may not be the Big Thing, but in my eyes, it’s a worthy contender.

Reddit simply isn’t anymore, if it ever truly was.

The reaction from spez has moved me from “just don’t go back” to “learn enough about scripts to run that salt the earth thing I saw from GitHub.”

[–] i_am_hungry@meganice.online 3 points 1 year ago

I deleted my Reddit account, so I'll stay here. Fediverse to me is how the internet should be, not owned by a corporation, I hope services like Lemmy and Mastodon get more popular.

[–] HoneyBadger@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like Lemmy. I think I'll stay here, and I'll wipe my Reddit account soon. It feels strange, but Reddit also feels super hostile now.

[–] goldenarchmage@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're not the only person I've seen saying that - it might be because all the nice people have stayed away during the blackout leaving the toxic sludge to rise to the top in their absence...

[–] RomeCallen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

the sludge has been dominating for a while, reddit hasnt been cool for a while imo, just a lot of habitual hanging out

i was honestly looking for a reason to leave. i dont care about deleting accounts but if i comment ill be here as long as i keep getting replies

[–] bloodsangre7@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Staying here. Rediscovered what I liked about Reddit in the earlier days - actually engaging. I don't think I've commented, posted, or even upvoted on reddit in like a year. It just seemed pointless and it was just a scroll and read machine. This is much more fun

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[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It breaks my heart to dump 15 years of Reddit, but yes, I'm staying.

I knew this would happen sooner or later, because every good company eventually put their bottom lines ahead of their users.

[–] dox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Just created an account to check out Lemmy. I'm not sure I fully understand the concept of this, but time will manage, I guess

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Currently in the process of saving off my saved content. After that, I haven’t decided if I want to delete my account. Will probably stay off mobile, and give Lemmy/kbin/squabbles/tildes/Spyke some time to mature before dropping reddit entirely.

[–] thesanewriter@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago

I'm planning on staying, interacting here is a lot more fun than Reddit in my opinion.

[–] aragon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks to the blackout I got to know about lemmy. Otherwise may never have tried this. Now I know , it might be hard to go back. If my favourite subreddits end up here or have their own instances, it will be great. But even if they don't , I am done with reddit. The quality of comments in reddit has been in the downward direction for a long time now. I remember when I stopped using digg. It was upgraded to mongo db and nothing was available for a while. That was when I went to reddit and forgot about digg completely. Reddit blackout is when I joined lemmy.world and forgot about reddit 😂

[–] JesusTheCarpenter@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I am not expecting the blackout to be over to be fair. Reddit is not backing down. While I will miss it, I am prepared to use only Lemmy for quite some time perhaps even indefinitely. And it's not difficult in fact.

I was one of those weird Redditors that liked to browse "all" as almost every subreddit offered some interesting posts for me. Because of it I am not too worried about staying only at Lemmy as most conversations or post peak my interest.

[–] Markimus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm likely staying. I've gotten used to lemmy now.

3 days is all it took.

I didn't come here because of the blackout though, I came here in protest; going back to Reddit while they haven't changed their policy wouldn't be helpful.

[–] Rockfury@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I dunno, man. I sorta like it here. I'm on here and Squabbles, but my one sub is still sitting there for approval. Reddit was like a default itch scratch. Maybe fuckem but idk. We'll see if this kicks off cuz I'll stick around.

[–] Bard195@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just joined out of curiosity and I'm rather baffled by how barely any of the reddit forums decided to migrate here or anywhere else, even if just symbolically.

[–] rjc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Interesting you say that. I've had pretty good luck finding equipments of most of my subs (a few more niche ones are missing).

Perhaps check kbin too, I know the exodus split between kbin and Lemmy. Fortunately they can talk to one another now that Kbin reenabled federation.

[–] DarkLead@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I share the same fear, but I plan to stay I really enjoy lemmy, more than I have reddit in the last year or so. The atmosphere is great, and I feel more of a connection with the people and the community.

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