I completely left Reddit. A week before Apollo shut down I slowly started to leave subreddits and cleaned my post and comments. The moment Apollo stopped working, Reddit was dead to me either. Lemmy is now my new home.
Same, but after RiF. Reddit became a posterchild for the corporate greed so fuck them.
I am sad about RIF. It blocked all the ads, didn't show all the shitty awards, was super clean, the video player worked well and the mod tools were awesome.
On a side note, its sad demise led me to Lemmy, so all is well.
Reddit is Fun was among the first apps I installed on my first smart phone, way back in 2011. I thought, "oh reddit will come out with their own app eventually, I'll just use this until that happens." Turned out that 99% of my time spent on reddit over the last 12 years would be through RiF. I'm sad too, man. Lemmy seems pretty cool though
I had a super busy week with work and moving then, so didin’t have time for reddit housekeeping, might need to go back to delete everything when I have the time
This is my alternative. Still getting used to it. Hi everyone!
I think a lot of us are still getting accustomed to Lemmy and finding our flow. For me, personally, the move exposed a bunch of new communities and topics I didn't know / or forgot I was interested in and am now excited to be a part of!
Not used Reddit for a while now ^^ Just a couple subs I miss but most things are here on Lemmy now
Request them on !requests@lemmit.online
Or even start them yourself. I'm running a couple.
I still dip in to Reddit, but about 75% less than before. As more Lemmy content becomes available, I expect that to further diminish.
I'm not on "Lenny" terms yet, I still refer to him as "Leonard".
As for Lemmy, it's almost completely replaced Reddit for me. Except for the times I search for something and the best result is a Reddit thread from 3 years ago
Not Lenny!
On Lemmy you can edit your post titles.
Op purposely used Lenny, to get more engagements.
Uou know, the old adage of saying something wrong in the internet to get the right answers quicker
I don't trust anyone named Lenny. Lemmy is cool though
Already did. Now I only visit Reddit to check out some niche communities that are not on Lemmy yet.
Already did. Purged all my Reddit bookmarks and account.
Generally: You have to be the change you want to see in the world. If you want to change others, change yourself first. I don't think the mindset "I need to reach that big number of people over there so I'll just be over there as well to teach them" works, or leads to the goal you want. Even though it seems reasonable at first glance. This mindset just leads to you giving the other people AND yourself more reason to never leave from there. Which is contrary to what you want. If you want others to switch to better alternatives, move yourself first, help grow the alternatives, and they will sooner or later also become interested in joining. Things like the latest Reddit and Twitter fiascos also show that no huge proprietary social media platform rules forever. The time to change to better alternatives has never been better than now.
No, I'm replacing it with Lemmy.
I love Lenny!
Yep. When RIF died, Reddit was dead to me. I refuse to give the owners of Reddit the satisfaction of me switching to their app.
I'm also slowly pushing myself from Twitter to Mastodon. Hoping more of the accounts I follow on Twitter make the switch too.
The only time I'd use Reddit now is if I had a specific question about a specific topic that's only covered there.
As far as browsing for fun goes it's Lemmy all the way, it's so much nicer than Reddit.
Who is this Lenny?
Yep, Lemmy is filling a Reddit-shaped hole. It's a bit different but nice.
Trying to. This is a FANTASTIC tool to find new "subreddits" on Lemmy: https://sub.rehab/
I quit Reddit cold turkey on the day the APIs died. Sync was synonymous to Reddit for me. When one died, so did the other.
Lemmy is pretty much my new Reddit much in the same way Reddit was my new Fark.com 12 years ago.
Now that I'm on Lemmy, I'm also exploring Fark again. I'm wondering why I ever left as it still is super relevant.
Who's Lenny? Depends on if they're cool or not
Lemmy/mastodon for mindless browsing has replaced reddit/Twitter for me. For specific research/googling on a niche topic, I still find reddit threads popping up all the time so I'll still click those to learn more, but they web browser only.
Yup, and not just because of Reddit's CEO.
The culture here is better - people read and reply rather than just upvoting. It's a good place to help folks out, and be helped out.
I'm about 90% Lemmy, 9% Reddit, 1% Tribel right now.
As soon as Lemmy has enough people and communities to keep me always reading something new that interests me, I'll be 100%. I've already abandoned subreddits that I modded. There's little to keep me going back.
100%
Using Reddit on web is no good for me since I can't look at it during work and at home I'd rather watch YouTube.
Baconreader was the only 3rd party app I liked and now Connect for Lemmy is a good replacement for it to check occasionally.
I also like that there's less new posts compared with Reddit so I now spend more time reading than I did before.
Also the community here feels much more welcoming.
Up Lemmy!
Here's the thing. Reddit had me hooked on it like no other until the API fuck up. Pretty much dropped it on it the spot.
After the first week it dawned on me how much time I was spending there.
So while I setup here, much less time is being spent online overall. But the interaction has jumped up immensely.
My garden is looking better and I'm hitting the gym much more often.
I left during the Blackout and I've never looked back.
Yes. I plan on using lemmy over reddit from now on. There are enough similar communities here. I'll have to keep using reddit if i'm searching for something and it comes up, but i don't plan on actively using reddit anymore. They showed their true colours: a company's whole business model built around collecting and displaying user content and then has the nerve to pull that they did on 3rd party developers?
They didn't want app competition because they needed to serve ads in their app.
Yes (Lemmy), replaced it about two weeks ago. I only visit Reddit for super niche stuff while logged out and using an as locker with the old subdomain. I will never upvote or reply to a topic on there ever again.
I replaced Reddit with the satisfaction of knowing I won’t be a pawn in Reddit’s plans to monetize the community’s free labor. 😉
I'm an reddit addict so it takes some time, but I'm working on it. It helps that reddit quality dropped and I'v been banned in one of four subs I was interested in.
No, but i spend a lot less time in Reddit since using Lemmy
Nah.
I'm replacing it with Lemmy. Carl can keep Lenny to himself.
Yes, and I will always mourn RIF
The only app i bought on android is not working anymore because of reddit. I guess, answer is obvious
Yes ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Yep, they killed boost, I quit.
On the bright side I like it here and don't feel ashamed of myself for supporting assholes every time I log in
I'm replacing Reddit with Lenin!! Long live the Working Class!
I have moved from 100% Reddit before this month to around 75% Lemmy (via Wefwef) and 25% Reddit. And I see this continually moving towards more Lemmy, less Reddit over time
ah, Lenny. I really love Lenny.
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