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.
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
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Went to kbin after deleting my reddit account, so outside of occasionally lurking I don't really have a need for reddit.
It won't be the same, but I like the idea of it a lot more than Reddit right now. Some questions for everyone...
**5-10 years down the road, what's to stop another Digg-Reddit-exodus from happening? As users, what can we do to keep this community prosperous, useful, and "good"? **
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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.
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.
For me, there's not enough activity on here yet and still some subreddits that haven't got equivalents here.
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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So far I like Lemmy quite a bit! The vibe is good and positive, really nice to see.
I've abandoned Reddit ever since a couple days before the blackout and it's been really nice. It feels refreshing to be part of what seems to be an upcoming community.
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.
My Kbin account has been seeing quite a bit of usage today if that counts.
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I haven’t been back. Creddit can get fucked. Apollo deserved better.
In saying that, I have missed the abundance of content. In saying that, Lemmy has grown in order of magnitudes since I got here a few weeks ago. And after the June 30 API cut, I think this place will jump in users.
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.
I spend all my time here now, I actually uninstalled reddit and blocked it at the router, removed the want of using it tremendously
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I only use Lemmy now as a daily app, I just use Reddit as a glorified backlog (to search for some tech problem, or some product buying recommendation). For better or worse, there is a lot of useful information in there, but I won't actively engage with the website anymore.
Though this is my first post over here, uninstalled RIF on the 12th (after buying premium as a thanks for the last decade of using that great app) and haven't been back to reddit since.
There are certainly plenty of subs I miss and things aren't all rosy here yet, but I refuse to ever go to reddit again. They brought me from a 4hr/day, decade long happy reddit user to a complete boycott overnight. Amazing business acumen.
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I am still trying to figure out what exactly means to subscribe/register in a instance instead of another in the fediverse. I'm currently using kbin.social, but not yet sure what that means in the end as far as content delivery and reach and I consider myself quite tech savy, so this part is a bit more difficult. Apart from this, I am lacking a solid Android app, so if there's anything good out there, please do let me know.
Lemmy and kbin are two different platforms, but are both on the ActivityPub network so they have access to the same content. Imagine if Reddit and Facebook were connected and anything posted to a Facebook group was viewable on Reddit as a subreddit with the same name as the Facebook group. You post to one, and it immediately shows up on the other. That's basically what's happening here between Lemmy and kbin. If someone makes a community on Lemmy, you can search for it on kbin as a magazine. The names are different depending on which platform you use (say, Facebook Group vs Subreddit - same thing, different name), but the content and comments are identical. What's great about the ActivityPub network is that you can use any server/platform on its network and it's all the same.
I use kbin because I find its layout a bit nicer than Lemmys, but that's personal choice. If I decided to switch to Lemmy, I could subscribe to the exact same communities there as here. There is no functional difference between the content on kbin and Lemmy regarding community/magazine. kbin also has the added benefit of working with Mastodon which is a Twitter-like service that is also on ActivityPub, so everything is shared between that and kbin too (called microblog on kbin). I don't really do the Twitter thing so that's not really interesting to me, but it's cool that kbin can do both Lemmy communities and Mastodon Toots from a single platform.
kbin also seems to work pretty well in mobile browsers, but I haven't tried commenting or anything so there could be issues I don't know about. Eventually getting an app would be nice, but for casual scrolling I don't find using it in a browser to be very objectionable. Hopefully all that makes sense to you.
The only thing I look at on reddit now is save3rdpartyapps for updates, and check my 3rd party app subreddit from news from the dev hoping he announces a Lemmy app.
This is coming from someone with a severe reddit addiction where minutes couldn't pass without opening the app lol. 13 year old account.
Thanks for curing my addiction spez!
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'd use Lemmy more if half the content wasn't about Reddit.
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.
After signing up here I deleted my Reddit account. So yea :) It's really nice here, I hope it stays this way.
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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.
Only open reddit by accident and muscle memory. Need to find time to read/save the "saved". Right after that will Art. 17 GDPR my account.
I am for sure. I just head over for one maybe two subs that I cannot replace (yet), and only once or twice a day (instead of constantly).
Besides that may random scrolling and news related needs are fully satisfied by lemme.
Only came back to reddit to edit my profile stating where Ive switched to (kbin in my case).
Left one comment on a post asking for advice telling them an answer was posted on the subs's kbin equivallent.
Other than that, I don't plan to log back in, and if I need to search something I do it adding https://reddit.adminforge.de/
Me, I stopped browsing reddit actively unless trying to find an answer on Google.
Pitoo. Scum! Reddit is dead to me.