Asklemmy

I love chilling with Uncle Lenny on Lemmy

I'll be honest - as much as I hate u/spez after everything that happened in June, I would probably still be using Reddit if not for them outright killing third party apps. Losing Reddit is Fun was one thing, but I will never downloading the official app.

So yeah! Lemmy here we come. Hopefully the community continues to get livelier as time goes on.

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I am trying to lower my use of Reddit and increase my use of Lemmy.

One thing I would really like to be accepted (since its already in the proposals on Github) is to have multiple communities that have same topic somehow be joined and their news aggregated together.

I'm trying. I've moved over here for the most part, but there are a handful of Reddit subs that I enjoy that don't really have similar communities on Lemmy. I'm subscribed to those subs in my RSS reader now, so I don't actually have to open Reddit unless I come across a post where I want to see the comments.

Yes... 13+ years on Reddit on my main account (different name than my Lemmy account), and it's gone. I've deleted all my posts and thousands of replies. I was active in several communities, including the Linux and open-source communities.

I used a script to edit my post history and replace my posts with random text, and then after a waiting period, delete the posts entirely. It took a couple of days to sift through it all. Then once I was down to zero posts... deleted my account.

I have started the switch, but like others have said Reddit still has a lot of content. I am hoping that more people make the switch to Lemmy over time.

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That's a good question, but I'm not sure I'd wanna do that.

Just started Lemmy today. Any good recommendations for gaming sci-fi nerds to sub to?

Only because I staunchly refuse to use their garbage app on android. As many have said, this was an entirely self-inflicted wound. I brows(ed) reddit maybe 70% on mobile before, so making the mobile experience absolutely unbearable and removing all NSFW content made it just not for me.

I did, ever since the first day of the blackout. I have only gone on reddit like maybe two or three times since then, since I redirected it to lemmy in my main browser.

I dipped out when I heard about the protests last month. I've noticed reddit getting worse and worse and this is what I needed to stop using it.

Occasionally I still have to view reddit posts for troubleshooting/reviews as theres not a site quite like it. Even then, I usually keep the search results to last to make sure no where else has good input.

I’m an Apollo refugee, just don’t want to support what’s inevitably becoming another Facebook type place. Wasn’t sure how well I was gonna be able to switch over until I found the wefwef web app, it’s such a game changer and I’m slowly getting used to how this works

As a "homepage" for news and content, yeah.

Sadly my hobby and porn subreddits I still meed reddit for though.

*Lemmy

Until AskHistorians moves Ill still be using reddit. I make a point to use LibReddit instead of the actual site though.

Yep! 100% since Sync shut down. There's enough content here already to keep me engaged though not for as long as I'd scroll on Reddit. But watching new communities pop up and grow is fun!

There are niche reddit communities I might still interact with.

But I have a combo of NoScript/adblock/ublock origin hard mode and a cancelled premium making sure they don’t get a penny from me, and I’ll prefer to post any useful info on Lemmy instead.

yep, feels like old reddit and i'm so so happy!

Yes, like many many others. For me, Baconreader was Reddit. Once that stopped working, I left Reddit.

I wonder how many people have 1st July as their Lemmy "cake day".

Im trying. But, for the love of god, i cant seem to understand how all this works.

Absolutely. Fuck ads.

Yes. I left after the protests began and realized most of the posts were just a competition of who could make the wittiest or funniest comments regardless of the subject. I think the killing of Bacon Reader put the last nail in the coffin for me on mobile as well.

YSK, you can edit titles here.

99% so far. I rarely open Reddit at all aymore.

I've fully stopped using Reddit. Lemmy seems great, apps are rapidly improving, and the userbase is growing. What more do we want?

Lenny = white Karl = black

It's not "replacing", I don't think you can "replace" just the shear amount of information/images/shitposts on the site.

It however is serving as a fine "supplant" of the site. It's the same general image/link aggregation with the community of commenters...

I came over from Reddit right after Apollo shut down on June 30, and TBH, I wasn’t sure I’d be able to stay after that first week. I was seeing the same posts each day no matter how I sorted, and barely any of the posts had any interaction. I’ve seen a huge jump in quality posts and conversation in the last 2-3 days for some reason, and I’ve been popping over to Reddit less just to have something to browse. I’m hopeful that it keeps getting better from here.

Yup and this is my first post!

My app for Reddit stopped working, so yeah, hahah. New reddit is useless and old reddit for me constantly gets redirected to new reddit, so I haven't even bothered trying to get back in. My subs here are already filling with content often and it feels like reddit before it swelled up with too many people. I liked reddit back when I could actually talk to subreddit regulars.

I'm currently about 90% Lemmy, 10% Reddit for general topics, mostly still hanging on to Reddit for specific games that I haven't found out here yet.

Gradually, I hope. At the moment there are too many communities missing. Mods of Subreddits need to move here.

I’m on lemmy a lot but not all the communities that I frequent on Reddit moved or have enough people over at lemmy.

Reddit has become so bad lately that I am trying to. Still a few smaller communities I am missing though sadly.