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

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.

It is a right bitch that the reason to leave is 100% the bastards in charge. The community was fine. (Okay, giant asterisks all over that, but you know what I mean. The community was not the cause for masses walking away with a sea of middle fingers lit by burning bridges.)

I'm not here because it's better. I'm here because fuck Spez. And fuck enshittification. Fifteen years and these greedy incompetents made it impossible to come back without feeling like betrayal. The only reason I'm not deleting anything is that I don't do that shit. Nothing any human being put effort into deserves to be lost forever.

Elmo did us the favor of turning his stolen harassment engine into an all-stick-no-carrot experience in a fucking hurry.

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.

I use Reddit still for certain kinds of porn. As it was meant to be

I will bounce in every week or so, but since I can’t use Apollo for quick, clean, ad-free, non-intrusive browsing, I get sick of it all pretty quickly.

I am trying other sources for news. Someone mentioned GroundNews app, and it’s pretty nifty, even without going to pro version. I am also using The Guardian app more often.

Even FB just sux so bad, I can’t stay on it for long.

Except for the damn reels. Argh.

Anyway, we all need to post more here, and also on other new playforms. Discuit is pretty cool.

As lemmy grows I go on reddit less and less, these past few weeks have been much better for content actually

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 only open reddit when something there comes up in a search result, and even then only through Libreddit.

Honestly I'm still suprised that Lemmy communities are this active, but I'm very happy.

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’m using kbin, lemmy, and reddit for context. IMO reddit has started to turn sour. Kinda hard to explain, but it’s like nobody reads what you say for context anymore. They immediately twist what was said or use specificity (or lack thereof) as some way to discredit your point while ignoring the whole. It’s getting frustrating to try to have a conversation there.

It makes the content in reddit far less enjoyable.

OTOH cruising around lemmy and kbin I get shocked by the extremists posting fascist, pro-russian, or other political extremes, yet you can find a lot of the (reasonable) people here actually want to have a conversation.

No content issues for me here. Lemmy has completely replaced reddit for me. Been here since early June. The content is getting better and better. The one thing I do want is a multi-community interface where I can have say all my "news" communities all show up on the same page. I'm a novice programmer but the API documentation doesn't hold my hand enough for me to grasp it or I'd do it myself. Tbf I haven't looked for a month or two.

I migrated from Reddit during the Reddit protests. Most days I forget that I left and that it was a thing. I use the Lemmy app now and it’s indistinguishable from Apollo.

I’ve had no problems with content, although I’m a casual user. I subscribed to a dozen things, and it’s enough to keep my page fresh. I’m probably only on here 30-60 mins per day tho.

Nope. Two months of not using reddit. Not doom scrolling, not feeling that heart rate lift when I see I've had a bunch of new replies and wondering whether I said something wonderful, or something dumb and a hundred people are now calling me an arsehole.

I do get your point about some reddit communities being genuinely nice places with great content, and if it was just that I'd still be there. But my mental health is better through having left it. Also, having read the posts about Reddit's attitude to its users and supporters during the Apollo posts made me realise just how toxically they view us. Fuck them, they can go to hell without me.

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

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

These days, Reddit is for fapping only.

I just use both lemmy and reddit

I have enough of the superiority complex of some lemmy users who think they are better than others for using a certain website

The only thing I have been going back to Reddit for is the Tears of the Kingdom subreddit. Once I'm done playing through the game I probably won't touch it at all. I haven't logged in for weeks.

At this point Lemmy is giving me what reddit did in smaller, healthier doses. I'm not constantly scrolling like I used to.

No.

Nah. Reddit content is noticeably worse after the API changes. I don’t find myself going back unless I’m searching for something technical for my job. I’m not actively trying to avoid it, but that’s just how it’s working out.

I still use reddit for specific communities, but only on desktop. I wasn't intending to 100% quit reddit anyway though, just to primarily use Lemmy (or whatever alternative I liked best, which is Lemmy so far)

I need it to steal content from programminglanguages.

No, simply because I don't "have to" have content. If Lemmy lacks interesting content, I go outside for a while.

I didn't leave Reddit because of the API changes. I left it because the content was repetitive and community I followed turned into groupthink circle jerk.

I still go back to Reddit - I don't spend as much time on there as I used to (especially as I don't use the app), but I'm also on lemmy, kbin, discuit (but no longer squabbles).

I'm with you especially since what I use Reddit/Twitter for the most is sports highlight clips/discussion during games. Those communities just aren't here. I love chatting with other Orioles/Panthers/Penguins fans in the game threads on Reddit during the game since none of my friends are fans of those teams other than my brother being a Penguins fan too.

Luckily a lot of the Twitter follows I had which were mainly for College Football are on Bluesky so I can use that more but missing out on the rest here. Once Boost for Reddit stops working (still works if you mod a sub) I won't be using Reddit anymore though. The official app is that bad.

I Will host a petition to force people to put TLDRs on top of the comment ....

Yeah, I get the same thing as you. What I've done so far is I made a few communities here and am trying to fairly reliability populate them with content. Some of those communities are niche and I feel like I'm posting into the void sometimes, but occasionally I've gotten someone else actually posting some content in them. It does definitely take some commitment to bootstrap a new community, as people just won't start posting on their own there until there's a critical mass. So you just gotta take the hit, post into the void a while, slowly increase that subscribe count, until finally others start to join in.

It's easiest with communities focused around memes or links, but I think it'll take more effort with more niche hobby or technical communities, e.g., for programming languages or niche hobbies.

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.

Not in the slightest reddit is for plebs and soon it will get purchased by some media conglomerate and continue to die a slow death