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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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[-] Noreia@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

I deleted my reddit apps and decided to not use it anymore, so yeah, I am only on Lemmy now using it on desktop and on phone I use jerboa for lemmy

[-] CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same. Deleted accounts, uninstalled app, installed Jerboa, and replaced the bookmark with my instance.

[-] Noreia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Same, while I do feel Lemmy and Jerboa need some work, I feel like they are enough there already to make it work. In a lot of ways it feels better than reddit, idk why

[-] ritswd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

For me, it’s the community. I’ve only had pleasant exchanges around here, everyone seems approchable, when on Reddit it’s quite hit-and-miss.

I deleted the Reddit app from my phone just to avoid opening it out of force of habit, and I thought it’s take some self-convincing to stay on Lemmy; but the reality is, 2 weeks in, I don’t miss Reddit at all in the end. I was mostly using it for scrolling through interesting content I’m subscribed to, and so far Lemmy does this just as well.

[-] primevandal@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

i have not been back since the blackout started.

[-] malloc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Same, “feel” happier as well. But will reassess in a few weeks lol.

I usually go back to Reddit to check for updates and the people that are still posting and feeding the Reddit machine are kind of deadass. Almost feels like they are bots.

[-] p5f20w18k@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Same here, deleted my profiles, one of which was about 10 years old.

[-] the_kung_fu_emu@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Absolutely! The vibe is more chill. There's not the content churn there was on Reddit, but when I examined my consumption habits on Reddit I realized most of the churn was just reposts anyway. Lemmey is all the meat, and none of the fat.

[-] the_kung_fu_emu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh! Almost forgot, most of the instances are getting hammered and are all volunteer run, so big helpings of kindness and patience are helpful, and if you're able doing the whole "Toss a coin to your Witcher" thing will help keep the lights on. I'm trying to think of a commercial website or service that has undergone this level of growth without just completely falling over, and I'm coming up blank. I blame FOSS. 😉

[-] Steve@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I gave up Reddit 100% the day the blackout started, so by default… yes. Way more time on Lemmy. As someone that isn’t on these sites that much of the time, I like Lemmy way better since I can actually contribute and have conversations. On Reddit I’m only ever replying to a post once there are a thousand replies already and it’s always buried. Here it’s much easier to chat.

I was thinking about setting up an instance to help me learn some more development stuff and practice my Terraform use, or maybe build an iOS app to learn Swift in my spare time… but I don’t really have spare time, so those things have a 99.9% chance of not happening haha.

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[-] 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.

[-] 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,

[-] 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.

[-] 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.

[-] jimbo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I am spending no time on Reddit and a little time on Lemmy, so yes.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Last week I switched from 100% reddit / 0% Lemmy to 0% reddit / 100% Lemmy overnight.

Fuck /u/spez

[-] 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.

[-] Arotrios@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

10% on Reddit, 10%-15% on Lemmy, 10000% on Kbin - beats the pants off of other platforms IMHO, which is surprising considering it's early development. The combo of content from both Lemmy and Mastodon instances is pretty darn cool.

[-] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

10% on Reddit, 10-15% on Lemmy, 10000% on Kbin

>100% error!

How are you manufacturing extra time‽ The greatest physicists of our day want to talk to you!

(Unless you mean to say that you spend 100x time on Kbin what you used to spend on Reddit…that makes more sense…carry on.)

[-] gamebuster@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

About 25% of time is spend here. I feel like Lemmy isn't "there" yet but I want it to be. I'm thinking of creating my own instance with a custom GUI with a light-weight, less cluttered interface with some custom defaults.

[-] upper@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

i am here to browse less, and engage more. I hope to spend about the same amount of time on Lemmy as I did on Reddit, as everyone's time is finite. I am not going back after browsing through the communities, which I think will grow in time.

Engagement is key

[-] Marduk73@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Well I am now. Now that Slide quit working. I was looking at both. I still can see Reddit in my browser at home but this was a nice kick in the pants to make me really focus here at lemmy.

[-] Cha0zz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I am mainly a mobile user. Unfortunately the Lemmy apps are still pretty limited. Despite that I refuse to use Reddit from now on even though I find myself often opening Apollo (muscle memory I guess), I always close it immediately. Really hoping the lemmy apps improve as I see a lot of potential.

[-] 4am@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Mlem and Memmy are having big updates everyday. Stick Apollo in a folder somewhere and replace the icon in its old position with one of those.

Mlem scrolls like Apollo used to but it doesn’t have dark mode. Memmy has dark mode and swipe gestures but the feed is huge comparatively. Both receiving almost daily updates.

(You need TestFlight from the Apple App Store since both apps are in beta)

[-] KuroJ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Not sure if you’ve tried Memmy yet on iOS, but I’m loving it so far and even though it’s in beta I’m able to do everything I need to do through the app!

[-] Brenda_babylon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] rikudou 4 points 1 year ago

There's plenty of smut, go to https://lemmyverse.net/communities and click "Show NSFW" twice. Not at Reddit level, that's for sure, but you can find some stuff.

[-] skrttskrtt911@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I quit using Reddit entirely when the blackout started. I didn't immediately jump all in to Lemmy, but I've found myself checking in more often and staying on the site for longer periods of time as it continues growing

[-] chrisisaguy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, uninstalled reddit and everything. Finding the nicest lemmy app was the most annoying bit, but settled on wefwef for now.

[-] ISOmorph@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I vehemently refuse to support Reddit in any way. I deleted all my accounts and apps. When google answers my question with a Reddit link I access it through the way back machine.

Reddit has proven time and again that it is anti community and that it will stop at nothing to satisfy their greed. Anyone who understands the dynamics at play and still drives traffic to them is proving that the masses can be manipulated to go along with anything

[-] thegenesis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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.

[-] bric@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I've quit reddit 100%. I was a little bit addicted, so I used the blackout as a way to quit cold turkey. Lemmy kind of scratches the itch, enough that I don't go back to Reddit, but I don't spend as much time here as I did there. I'm counting that as a good thing

[-] nadram@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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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[-] croobat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Guatch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Technically yes, but I spend 0 time on Reddit soooo.

[-] 0485919158191@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

99% time on Lemmy, 1% on Reddit telling people to migrate to Lemmy.

[-] confluence@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm currently enjoying Lemmy through Jerboa on Android!

EDIT: I'm now also using WefWef, which is virtually indistinguishable from Apollo. I've never used Apollo though so I'm getting still getting used to it, but I like it!

I can't seem to find a way to edit comments on it, though... So I here am back on Jerboa 😅

[-] Zippythezigzag@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm on kbin but I've barely been on reddit at all since I switched. I'm enjoying watching the fediverse grow and begin to mature into the begining of a real threat to major social media monsters like reddit, twitter, Facebook, and others.

[-] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I am... but they nuked all my main/alts except a few. I keep them to keep control of my mod rights, but its coming to a point of I don't want to bother.

[-] Sorenchu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don't miss a thing about reddit. I was using the platform for about 9 years and the whole debacle about who gets to profit off our content resulted in me moving to something less shitty. SO far, Lemmy has proven to be what the internet was before big corporations took over and I will stay here. I just started donating to the patreon for lemmy.world (or rather mastadon.world, but same dev) and I intend on staying here. I like the engagement so far and hope that the community sticks with this platform. Thanks to reddits malarkey I was introduced to the fediverse and for that I am thankful

[-] FleaCatcher@lemmy.world 1 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.

[-] freebrick@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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 and 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.

[-] Art3sian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] HorseFD@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I’m spending much more time here now that I am spending at reddit. I’m hoping for another big influx of users (and therefore content) on July 1.

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