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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I’m enjoying it more than I thought

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm working on transitioning over. I mean all the subreddits I follow are hard to just replace on a whim but slowly I'm getting there. Probably gonna download one of the phone apps for lemmy too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Right now its hard because you are going from a site with a lot of people posting all the time, and here its a lot fewer people contributing.

[–] Showroom7561 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

As of now, yeppp

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I haven't cut Reddit out completely, as much as I dislike the organisation, I did enjoy the community and it'll still be a huge source of information for a while yet. But once RIF stops working I won't be using my phone anymore, just my PC. Lemmy is growing and it's fun to witness it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I quit reddit. It feels nice. Lemmy feels less toxic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No, I haven't spent any time on Reddit since the closure, except for looking at r/Pics and their John Oliver err, protest. I haven't spent too much time on Lemmy though, that's because I've been busy helping out with an app for it :P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Quit reddit entirely after the blackout. Was kind of a wake up call for me. Not to go way over the top but wanna move away entirely from the Zuckerberg empire(WhatsApp, Facebook & Instagram), Twitter and even LinkedIn(if this is even possible?). Baby steps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Since they confirmed that won't change their mind about the API changes, I uninstalled infinity and I only spend time here. So far has been great!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I love infinity. Hopefully they can migrate it onto here. Jerboa is promising but painful and has its issues.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ramping up the Lemmy usage. Once RIF goes down I'll be here for good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I only use reddit through Relay third party app, once it is gone, I cannot use reddit anymore, reddit without it is so bad that it is same to jump to Lemmy. So I am adjusting now and just using Lemmy/Jerboa.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Pretty much haven't gone back to reddit at all. I've been trying to transfer to Lemmy, but getting much of my scrolling fix off instagram nowadays.

[–] ConvertCoffeeToCode 1 points 2 years ago

Sadly not for me. Most of the subs I'm part of are either too niche, unwilling to move, or their fediverse equivalents are just too small. Despite that, I'm still mostly enjoying Lemmy whenever I check it out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yes. The fact that I routinely view by All, and it's pleasant, is lovely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] willybe 1 points 2 years ago

Pitoo. Scum! Reddit is dead to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I haven't been on Reddit for a bit now. I think more people will switch when July 1st hits.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I deleted my Reddit account after that idiot's comments about "landed gentry". Still trying to wrap my head around the fediverse!

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