Asklemmy

These days, Reddit is for fapping only.

I just got into more of the fediverse instead. Firefish.social for example is lovely alongside Lemmy. I miss falling down subreddit rabbit holes sometimes, but instead I just go read a book. It's healthier I think.

Reddit hasn't been TOO bad. What's been harder for me is Twitter, mostly due to all the artists I follow.

I haven't really gone back, not in the way I have when I had an app. Basically just for indexed answers on the internet, and once for...art....while the artists rebuild here. They actually have the sub here, it just is only about two weeks old.

Not really. Sure reddit has more content and users, but for me lemmy has enough of both (and as time goes on I think it'll increase).

Lemmy has no surveillance capitalism and a choice of applications to use.

I suppose currently reddit may be more user friendly than lemmy but I think lemmy will get better in time. Hopefully lemmy gets it's own version of a "multi-reddit"

I ultimately left reddit because they pulled support for third party apps, which got me thinking more about the surveillance capitalism that comes with using reddit and decided I was done with it (except in the way I mention below).

Edit: If a reddit post shows up in a search result I will click on that if I think it'll help me answer my question. That's the only way I'll use reddit.

I'm spending more and more time on lemmy. I hope it will grow. How can we advertise it on Reddit?

never really intended to give it up. I don't expect certain communities to move here that fast, and I see no reason not to participate in them

Be the change you want to see.

Things take time, getting the momentum moving to another platform is always super hard to do

Yep... still much more active and more content there. I think Lemmy is great but Lemmy still has a long way to go.

I think I was partially addicted after having used it routinely out of boredom and free time for over a decade...

But once RIF and the other 3rd party apps got strangled out, and RES went into a state of no longer being updated, I couldn't power use Reddit anymore. So once those were uninstalled and removed, I had given myself no choice. Out of principle I couldn't support them and how they treated their mods or communities, nor could I use the site in their epically stupid vanilla default way, I had to just quit.

Cold turkey since.

Will admit, I have to search online for technical help, and a lot of discussion did and still does happen on Reddit, so I'll still occasionally have to use the site for reference. But no interacting with it at all.

I still feel the twitches and urges to use it from so many years of habit, and it's difficult, but I've managed to do it.

Shame there's not as many people so inclined to use Reddit just a little less, doesn't even need to be cold turkey; it WOULD make a difference. But there's nothing wrong with using it, and you shouldn't be judged for it either. It's fine to be anti Reddit, but not anti user... in most cases ha ha! I'm pro voice and choice! ;D

I'm trying to use this as an alternative, and out of necessity as content does run thin sometimes on Lemmy I do end up using it less than I did with Reddit. But that's healthy for me personally.

There's less pressure and competitiveness on here for me, so I try to post better quality comments/content than I may have used to on Reddit. When Lemmy isn't down or breaking my comment/post submissions I'll have a better time engaging with the site, I don't find myself rushing to comment before 400 irrelevant (sometimes one word) comments wash it away and bury it like on Reddit. I don't find myself writing half a comment, and then deciding to quit half way as much.

Plus, people engage with posts and see them much longer than on Reddit, usually after a single day their posts would be entirely dead; guess it's mostly due to less users at this point though.

I just pay for a quality newspaper now. I went to reddit a while back but it's just not doing it for me anymore. And not only because the experience has degraded... The content is just not that interesting? There's so much to do with your time.

I’ve gotten around it by just getting more into reading. It’s also healthier and more enjoyable.

That said I sometimes visit Reddit to see more obscure topics or to get first hand research. That said the user interface is so horrible I usually don’t stick around anymore. I just can’t get over how horrible the interface is and it’s a genuine reason for why I can’t use the site as much anymore.

Be the change you want to see. Or come back when everybody else has built it.

i still browse it sometimes when researching something but i use libreddit (when it works) and have yet to interact with anything including posts, comments, or upvotes

The main subs or sublemmies or whatever they're called on here have enough users that it's a perfect alternative to Reddit.

Little niche subreddits, like my favorite gaybros and askgaybros, just a few dozen users and I'm going back to Reddit for that.

I go to lemmy first, but it doesn't have nearly enough content to replace the endless scrolling of Reddit.

Trouble completely avoiding it? Yes. I exclusively treat it as a search engine / knowledge resource now though, which I think is reasonable since it's a part of the Internet.

However, I contribute absolutely nothing to it and am now always signed out. Over time this would lead to it becoming an archive while decentralized platforms become the real meeting ground where new knowledge is accumulated. It's a long-term play. There's so much information on Reddit that it would be foolish to completely write it off - this is going to take a really long time, but anyone here knows that.

It took years to build Reddit to its glory and it will take years here - at least there are some awesome apps already and it feels like there is a good head start this time. We should not call out people for using Reddit for information, but we should encourage people to contribute to a more sustainable, community run alternative.

No, but I would have trouble giving up Lemmy because I am quite content here.

I intentionally locked myself out of reddit to make good on my social media detox and switch to the fediverse fulltime; but I find myself spending more then 5x lurking on reddit as unregistered user then all of the fediverse instances I'm registered to combined everyday.

I wish the fediverse wasn't so vanilla so that it could have some content.

I find Lemmy has plenty of content for my level of use but I didn't browse tons of communities back on reddit so my feed was fairly stagnant. I like being able to see peoples opinions and conversations about things going on in the world. I can find news topics elsewhere but no where else but reddit and now lemmy really had any worthwhile discourse about them. I don't mind the same topics showing up in my feed as long as there are new comments that I haven't read. Reddit was getting pretty hard to use for this though honestly, if there were any serious replies they were way down below the jokes and rage bait comments most of the time.

I’ve got a couple communities on Reddit that don’t exist here, so I find myself on Reddit occasionally for those.

I still use Reddit for the small subreddits. Highly focused topics seems to be the only way Reddit is tolerable now.

I also just picked up reading again. Turns out part of my enjoyment of Reddit was reading comments and when that went to shit just reading books worked out for me. On my third book since the fiasco started.

I don't want to give up reddit. I use reddit and lemmy, for different purposes.

I'm annoyed by how often Google sends me to Reddit for my stupid D&D questions.

Make the posts you want to see, that's the key here. I'm posting and making topics in my own communities that I want to thrive. As well, lemmy is still in alpha. There is a lot to improve upon, and it's moving forward pretty rapidly.