For sure. I hereby consider Reddit to have died, along with the 3rd party app that I used to view it with. (RIP Boost, you will be missed π)
From now on, only Lemmy exists to me and I've fully replaced it, partially out of spite.
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
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I havenβt been on Reddit in days. Thatβs it for me. You should go cold turkey and delete yo Reddit.
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I'm lost atm and I'm trying to figure out KBIN. A lot of time I have lags and stuff but the community seems to be awesome. I don't use Reddit anymore because it is full of spam and noise and memes now. I'm missing that there is one place but I've accepted that times change. I was born in 1981. I have seen a lot of stuff come and go. I miss the old Battle.net (Diablo 2). I miss Steam being the only PC gaming platform and every friend was just on Steam (and maybe Battle.net). I miss ICQ. And IRC. I miss 40 friends being on one teamspeak. I miss some really great forums. Times change.
Had to block reddit for a bit and replace my shortcuts to reddit with lemmy, but now I find myself enjoying my time on lemmy a lot more than on reddit. I don't know if I will ever stop using reddit due to the amount of old information over that is still very useful and because it's where most of my viewers come from, but only time will tell I guess.
This site is super janky, when I load All, it just keeps adding new posts and moving things I'm reading. Hot doesn't bring up the most popular posts, but how do I filter for that? I am just filtering by most commented for now.
I'll keep using it, after all, if the experience is worse, I'll use it less which is actually a plus. And as a substitute, it is enough to keep me off Reddit. But it is categorically worse, even if it did have all the same content.
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Definitely me, haven't opened reddit since the protest.
It won't be the same, but I like the idea of it a lot more than Reddit right now. Some questions for everyone...
**5-10 years down the road, what's to stop another Digg-Reddit-exodus from happening? As users, what can we do to keep this community prosperous, useful, and "good"? **
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Short answer: Yes!
When the blackout started, most of my content was inaccessible. And what was accessible, I did not want to engage with (strike breakers).
So I was pretty much exclusively on lemmy from the beginning.
When I should accept new terms and conditions on the app, I deinstalled it.
I'm only on the other site to advertise for the future, or edit/delete my posts and comments. Might cross post content from here to the sinking ship to help others see where to go.
Went to kbin after deleting my reddit account, so outside of occasionally lurking I don't really have a need for reddit.
Deleted my account there and moved here. But I hope all pathological downvoters will stay there...
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I've replaced the spot where Reddit Sync has been for like 10 years with a shortcut to Kbin. That said, I find myself browsing less as there's less content in the meantime. I try avoiding going to Reddit on my computer unless there's literally no other matching Google searches.
I hope we eventually get a lot of that random historical context and information reposted at some point onto any Lemmy instance.
Iβm trying to! Unfortunately Iβm subbed to quite a few niche communities that havenβt quite gained traction over here yet and I donβt want to be the sole poster.
I just got on Lemmy today so that I've been using it a ton to find communities and reddit not at all. I do miss the history and size of reddit. Although on reddit I mostly lurked. Since this is smaller and newer and not corporate I'm going to try and be a more active user.
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It's the community that makes reddit what it is. Lemmy cannot become reddit unless the community moves. The community will move if we make high effort content here.
I have switched from Relay for reddit to Jerboa for lemmy. But Jerboa still opens too much in browser, and I'm missing my mix of stuff. I could waste couple hours on reddit just consuming. Here, I run out of stuff in half an hour.
Also, the communities for the games I play are still over in reddit. Movie discussion threads are still on reddit. There are enough normies there that they will stick to reddit even after the protests. I can move my scrolling to Lemmy, that is my plan, but occasional visits to a few select places on reddit, will continue to happen.
On reddit i usually was 1 hour a day, now I'm 3/4 on kbin. Imo it's more entertaining than reddit
That's... why I'm here.
You can also browse Lemmy aimlessly on your phone. The app is called "Jerboa for Lemmy". And yes, I just switched too. So far I like Lemmy, I see myself migrating here permanently.
Gone cold turkey and completely dropped Reddit. Lemmy, Hacker News, Techmeme and some traditional news sources has so far been good enough.
I spend all my time here now, I actually uninstalled reddit and blocked it at the router, removed the want of using it tremendously
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I haven't cut Reddit out completely, as much as I dislike the organisation, I did enjoy the community and it'll still be a huge source of information for a while yet. But once RIF stops working I won't be using my phone anymore, just my PC. Lemmy is growing and it's fun to witness it
So far I like Lemmy quite a bit! The vibe is good and positive, really nice to see.
I havenβt 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.
I purposely have started spending more time on Lemmy. After the recent drama I decided that I didnβt want to give Reddit any more of my time and have stopped using the site completely. Not sure Lemmy will be the successor, but its not to bad although mobile ui is worse than the reddit app.
Went basically cold turkey on Reddit before the blackout, switching over to Kbin.
I know Reddit will survive, at least for the next while, but after witnessing Reddit's behaviour through all of this, I refuse to be a part of it.
My only use of Reddit will be for Google results, and that will be reading only with an Ad blocked - they won't make a penny off of me anymore if I can help it.
I've been here since the 10th, deleted my Reddit account yesterday.
My Kbin account has been seeing quite a bit of usage today if that counts.
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I haven't been on Reddit for a bit now. I think more people will switch when July 1st hits.
I only use reddit when looking at the current blackout and api situation. I am also sharing the word of lemmy and the fediverse to users who don't know what it is. But i no longer browse trough reddit, only on lemmy. Nore specificslly the jerboa app on Android.
No, I haven't spent any time on Reddit since the closure, except for looking at r/Pics and their John Oliver err, protest. I haven't spent too much time on Lemmy though, that's because I've been busy helping out with an app for it :P