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I am theoretically switching over from Reddit to Lemmy. Finding myself spending more time on Lemmy than on Reddit. Maybe it's because I am limited to using the desktop and can't aimlessly browse Reddit on my iPhone. Of late, the only subreddits I cared for were on sports and their matchday threads and r/watches. I found myself aimlessly browsing through r/AskReddit and asking and answering pointless questions.

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

I quit Reddit altogether. Here it feels less addictive.

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

I only use reddit when looking at the current blackout and api situation. I am also sharing the word of lemmy and the fediverse to users who don't know what it is. But i no longer browse trough reddit, only on lemmy. Nore specificslly the jerboa app on Android.

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

Used Power Delete Suite to edit all my comments and point to lemmy.world on my main account. Only check Reddit once every few days to upvote spez debauchery.

[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

I don't scroll through Reddit but scroll here instead. Not as much as leaps out at me as it used to but at the same time I am glad it's more focused and less shitposting.

Haven't deleted my account, see no reason to. But for sure, my account will show next to little activity, no commenting, no login, nothing.

I'm just a commenter unfortunately, never been much of a poster and contributer. More into the comment discussions!

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

I'd use Lemmy more if half the content wasn't about Reddit.

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

You can also browse Lemmy aimlessly on your phone. The app is called "Jerboa for Lemmy". And yes, I just switched too. So far I like Lemmy, I see myself migrating here permanently.

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

100% on Lemmy, I used a script to remove all my comments and posts from my account. The account is still there, but totally empty. Is Kbin accessable via Lemmy and vice-versa? Reddit is dead to me,

[–] Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yea, I spend 90% of my time on Lemmy, and it's been really fun seeing it grow so quickly.

Most of my recent posts on Reddit have been mod actions, or pumping Lemmy.

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

I have bookmarks to Reddit I use on desktop, old version so I can get updated on niche stuff. I use Reddit about 1% and always with Adblock and logged out.

[–] FaizalR@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hello. I'm new here. This is my first reply and first subscribe on #kbin.

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

I stopped using Reddit entirely. It's got too popular for its own good. The API thing was the last straw. Feels like whenever the money men take over something it goes to shit. These walled gardens are cancerous in a way that the average user doesn't understand until it's too late. The EU is the only big institution that is pushing back against this tendency and my countrymen decided they wanted to leave because they are too stupid to understand this kind of nuance.

Down with proprietary, closed, throwaway culture. Long live open, transparent, modular, reusable technology.

[–] xaon_rider92@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm definitely spending more time on lemmy than reddit nowadays. Reddit still has too many great resources and info to abandon completely, but with more time to grow, hopefully lemmy will eventually replace reddit for me.

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

I just made my account, figuring out how to use the app.

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

I stopped using reddit since day 1 of going dark. Sometimes Google redirects me there so I have to find other results. Jerboa for Android is a great experience - spending most of the social media time here

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[–] bezerker03@lemmy.bezzie.world 3 points 1 year ago

I only use Reddit when I'm forced to now. I don't do it on mobile at all.

[–] nadram@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yup. I was using the official app and I just went cold turkey on reddit. Now just on lemmy. I used the jerboa app for a few days but it's slow and I get a timeout toast anytime I do anything, so instead I installed the lemmy.world PWA

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

I'm just getting used to it and adapting, but I'm liking it.

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

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

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

I have, 7 days clean off Reddit.

[–] HRDS_654@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm a refugee and honestly I like it here better than a lot of the Reddit communities so far because people actually seem interested in discussion rather than arguing. Of course that could be just because there are not as many people. Not really sure.

I'm not ditching Reddit, but I'm spending more time reading and discovering Lemmy. Since I selfhost a lot of services, I started my own Lemmy instance. Must say, it feels kinda barebones, but that's because of the lack of advertisements etc. on pages.

I kinda find it peacefull and I hope Lemmy survives as eco-system.

[–] SkierniewiceBoi@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

On lemmy or kbin I try to be more active to increase the user engagement 😎

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

I haven't been on Reddit since the blackout. Not sure if I'm going back

[–] runningromeo@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

I periodically find myself opening Sync Pro out of habit... I should just bite the bullet and uninstall hey.

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

Full time Lemmy, using Jerboa app on my phone and just lemmy.world on desktop. Haven't gone back to Reddit other than vote for the funny polls to reopen subs.

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

I haven't been on Reddit since sunday 11th.

[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The only reasons I still go to Reddit now are to:

  1. shit on Reddit and promote Lemmy, using RIF on mobile and an adblocker on desktop so that they get $0 revenue from me;
  2. check out the tiny NSFW shitposting sub I'm in as I made some friends there.

For anything else I go straight to lemmy.world which is my new home now.

[–] LostCause@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I quit cold turkey a few days ago. Apollo is deleted as it‘s gonna be dead soon anyway, removed my bookmarks to Reddit and now refrain from going there entirely.

It‘s been good, the experience on kbin is so similar that I don‘t miss it much. Sure, some of my communities don‘t exist here yet, but the seemingly endless stream of random stuff to comment on is working for me here too.

Hopefully many more will follow and we can rebuild some of what is missing together and even if not, I am learning to contribute more by myself, so maybe I‘ll just do it.

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

I occasionally go back to check on the chaos, but I am enjoying Lemmy a lot more. The older people at my workplace and my friends/family are beginning to echo the sentiment that Reddit killed itself, and that opinion spreading among average people is a sign that Reddit's days are numbered.

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

I blocked reddit from my network so I would accidently go there. The only two things making it hard for me to use this is news and worldnews aren't super well moderated and I can't figure out how to make it not auto update the feed while im on top day with garbage new posts.

[–] CMGX78@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Full time Lemmy right here. There's only a handful of subreddits that I am missing, but I'm sure clones of those subs will make it here eventually.

[–] iSharted@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] freebrick@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 an 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.

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

Currently full time lurking on Lemmy. I have only used Reddit when there is absolutely no analogue for my issue (in this case, used fightsticks for FGC titles)

Using the Memmy app on iOS

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

Stopped reddit completely on my phone because Boost died. On my PC I still open it by habit sometimes, but doing it less and less.

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

Just joined Lemmy myself. Used a script to wipe all my content from 5 accounts. Plan to delete in July.

[–] Snowpix@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago

I haven't used Reddit for more than 5 minutes since the blackout. The site clearly has absolutely zero interest in changing their terrible decisions, and they've shown their hand to everyone. I'm fully moved onto the Fediverse, and I feel all the better for it. I'd been using RIF since 2019, and I refuse to use the stock Reddit app. The community here is wonderful.

[–] p0ppe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Gone cold turkey and completely dropped Reddit. Lemmy, Hacker News, Techmeme and some traditional news sources has so far been good enough.

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

I just got on Lemmy today so that I've been using it a ton to find communities and reddit not at all. I do miss the history and size of reddit. Although on reddit I mostly lurked. Since this is smaller and newer and not corporate I'm going to try and be a more active user.

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[–] gardenmwm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I purposely have started spending more time on Lemmy. After the recent drama I decided that I didn’t want to give Reddit any more of my time and have stopped using the site completely. Not sure Lemmy will be the successor, but its not to bad although mobile ui is worse than the reddit app.

[–] kratoz29@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I enter to Reddit for the memes (with all the shitshow it is occurring right now) and for the community itch that Reddit used to scratch there is Lemmy.

[–] oesezetao@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I just just visit reddit to read r/ModCoord, r/RedditAlternatives and related. I am visiting Lemmy daily but honestly I am still expecting to see more content. I am trying to colaborste summiting some things, something I never do in Reddit.

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