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Not at all. I went cold turkey and have been off reddit and exclusively on Lemmy and Mastodon for the past 6 weeks. I don't have the app installed so it's easy.

I've given Reddit basically zero of my traffic since I quit it during the "Big Reddit Boycott Of 2023."

But there's definitely stuff I miss. Probably my favorite subreddit was /r/BestOfLegalAdvice. There's a !bestoflegaladvice@lemmy.online here on Lemmy, but all the posts link to Reddit. There would have to be a thriving /c/LegalAdvice on the Fediverse for any /c/BestOfLegalAdvice to thrive without linking to Reddit. So, !bestoflegaladvice@lemmy.online most definitely doesn't scratch the same itch.

Not the only example, but the most poignant for me.

I'm not planning to go back, though.

Definitely less infinite scrolling, which has probably been good for me time management wise.

But yeah, just generally less content and posts. Also find myself ending up on reddit when doing internet searches for questions.

I'm having the same problem. I want more /askphilosophy /askhistorians but good answers require expertise which you don't get over here if the experts don't migrate

There's more than one way to boycott something. I still search stuff there, but giving nothing back, i block ads and trackers, do not post, comment, or vote. For them, i am just a waste of server resources.

Yes, it is a bit frustrating... I also don't really understand how it all works. I know that for some reason I need to make the same account over and over.

Nope. I can still find someone saying something stupid and bully them for it. You just have to be more patient.

Well, no.

Since their shitty app is the only app, the only time encounter reddit is in search results.

Since there's plenty of ways to avoid interacting with the actual site, I do that and never have to deal with the bullshit.

However, I did try to make a post on a niche sub I created for the small number of users. A couple of days ago, I tried logging in to make that post, and got captcha cycled through five damn screens worth before I quit and counted it as a lost cause.

Fuck reddit, fuck their shitty app.

For casual browsing I've given up Reddit. Like a lot of people I used Reddit on mobile 99% of the time so when the apps died I just uninstalled. The only thing I use Reddit for now is when I'm struggling with a research or technical problem. Honestly don't miss the front page at all.

Yes. I follow the same small sub here for my favorite sports team, but there are simply not enough people to have many. posts and great discussions. So I still read the Reddit sub. But I don’t have their app, so it is only from my gaming pc, which severely limits my time there.

Not really, because my primary means of browsing Reddit was taken from me. If baconreader was still up, sure. Maybe.

No just went ....that's it I'm done. Deleted my account and moved across to the fediverse, haven't looked back

I use Lemmy for the "general" undirected browsing when I'm bored. I also increased the friction by removing Reddit from my bookmarks, and adding Lemmy.

I do still use Reddit for the smaller communities that have no realistic alternative on Lemmy.

I never left. What I did is I browse and do what I did regularly on Reddit on Lemmy, except when I want to search for a really specific information about a thing, which can't be done here.

If I want to post something, that's on Lemmy (even if it doesn't get any reaction) and also Reddit if I need replies

Nope. Quit on June 30 and I’ve never been back.

Yeah, there's an amount of niche content that's just not here (yet). I'm not devoting my time to build a community here myself, but I'm also not gonna use Reddit's sad excuse for a mobile app because it literally makes me angry to use that piece of shit. So when I'm bored at work on the desktop, I'll go to reddit, but my traffic is probably down like 60-70%.

Started playing baldurs gate 3, and all my questions seem to lead back to reddit. Frustrating. I do sub to a bg3 community on lemmy of course.

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

I've been a lot more productive since I joined lemmy - reddit was too addictive in my opinion. I still add 'reddit' to my searches when looking for information, but haven't felt the urge to go back. I'm sure I've missed a lot of news and new techniques for my hobbies, but I also haven't seen a single repost for months. Worth it

I stopped using Reddit on June 30 because without the RiF app it is absolutely awful to use. Haven't been back except for the occasional search for information that leads me there.

My niche hobbies are largely not tech related at all, so a lot of the participants have no knowledge or interest in learning about lemmy or learning about why leaving reddit would be a good thing in the long run. Even some of the subreddits rely on a really dedicated group of regulars to keep them alive, since for especially one of them, facebook is where the online community lives and thrives. And I'm also unfortunately not much of a content creator...

I suppose I was lucky in some ways. I stopped using Reddit a few months ago, after 5 years of addiction, but I was on the way out anyway. I had some bad experiences asking for help, never really posted otherwise and just generally the community made me feel like being inexperienced with anything was the same as being an asshole. I moved to lemmy and I instantly started posting more, answering questions and basically just enjoy talking to people on here. I haven't been back and deleted my account months ago.

I feel the struggle too, but I’m refusing to go back, unless it’s some google result to help with something I’m doing.

But ya, it depends on how much you relied on niche communities in your daily life. I can see missing some of that here. I still push this platform when I share links in Discord or to my family and friends though.

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.

It's been easy.

Every time I think about going there I just remind myself that the people that run that site actively hate their users.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm

One approach is to focus on the different kinds of users (early adopters vs pragmatists vs mass appeal etc) and their needs, one at a time.

There's a couple of sports and tech subs I have bookmarked via old.reddit that are still the de facto place for the community, all in a browser with aggressive privacy measures. I check in on them when "stuff happens" in that area, but don't post and don't hang around.

Otherwise from the odd search hit, I made a clean break back in June and haven't really looked back.

I spend more time here than reddit. I never 'go' to reddit. I end up on reddit occasionally when looking up a question and the search engine takes me there. Often, i need to login to view, so i move on, as I deleted my account.

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