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This seems like a good place so far tbh

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So far I'm liking it. I wasn't fond of the general attitude people had on reddit though, and I'm seeing some of the pop up as a result of the migration.

I have concerns that the lemmy community will become as toxic as reddit is. Other than that, I am enjoying how small communities are here. I don't feel like my voice is being drowned out by other users or bots.

[–] dvdnet90@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

not yet. because Lemmy is still quite small tbh. But, the thing is Since Reddit new API policy starts, my Reddit home feed filled with spam,bots and double posts from many subs. So, if this problem overwhelms my home feed. I might move to Lemmy permanently.

[–] revlayle@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I just started Lemmy a couple days ago. I uninstalled Reddit app 3 weeks ago and closed all my tabs. Occasionally a search results in Google for info will pop up a relevant reddit thread, of I think it has an answer I need I will click it. I didn't delete my reddit account or anything tho, just logged out.

[–] Grungeehamster@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I'm in the process... Since they destroyed RiF, I've been going to the old Reddit website but it's just not the same anymore. I've been resisting downloading the Reddit app due to what they've done to the community but it's not easy.

Lemmy is nice and all but I find it confusing as it shows several communities (some with 0 MAU and some with plenty) whenever I search for it. I'm excited for the future of this one and the Mastodon one but they're just not as polished as their more established counterparts.

As much as I want to move on to the fediverse, there are occasions where Reddit is better, such as finding specific questions that were answered; it’s like the stack overflow for general life. Now I just browse the cached version if I need to search for something like that.

[–] thmnwlf@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

jesssir, deleted all my reddit accs

[–] green_dot@le.fduck.net 5 points 1 year ago

Yes. Reddit is only checked for about 2-3 subreddits, but I'm not checking it daily. Lemmy and Mastodon are my new best friends.

[–] kakise@mlem.a-smol-cat.fr 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, the official Reddit app makes me want to puke.

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[–] babetoduarte@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Just made the change, and I'm pleasantly surprised. Spent a bit of time looking for similar communities to the ones I subscribed on reddit, and it's starting to feel like home again.

Probably will keep my reddit account handy, but I look forward to only consulting reddit when I must. For everything else, Lemmy seems to have everything I'm looking for!

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep, thats the plan anyways. I believe in free speech and, as a former Apollo and Joey user, I have zero tolerance for bullshit companies whose entire goal is to turn my words into training tools for AI in their pursuit of a multi billion dollar IPO.

If they want me back, they can pay me.

That being said, its looking like this transition may take awhile. Im not even sure if my ev, worldnews and other subs exist here yet.

But, its exciting times! Reminds me of the first time I posted to slashdot news back in 1999 and reddit back in 2012.

Edit - I also have a mastadon account, Salty Muskrat can eat it too.

[–] s0q@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The community reddit had was really good. I hope it is replicated here. I wonder is there is a way to transfer some of the reddit data here?

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[–] shectabeni@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Definitely. I don't plan on downloading the official Reddit app anytime soon and for years I have been more of a lurker on Reddit but I am trying to break that and participate more on Lemmy. Really enjoying it so far.

[–] FujiTive@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yup girldick, I replaced Reddit with Lemmy and I'm happy!

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[–] rolofox@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So far, so good , yes I like it just waiting for sync and boost for lemmy

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[–] danimal92@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lenny is dead, replacing him with George.

(But yes, switching to Lemmy from Reddit πŸ˜€)

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Yes. 100%. Tinkering with my own lenny instance for me and my friends atm. Once "Sync for Lenny" drops ill bring them all aboard so its a smooth experience for the non-tech users. Also this is my first test post form my lenny instance! All hail LENNY!!

[–] giantshortfacedbear@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. Trying at least; (imo) Lemmy hasn't quite got the critical mass yet. The official Reddit app is so crappy that each time I find myself being drawn back in, I leave really quickly. I didn't expect me to find it that bad.

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[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

I've basically left reddit for good. There's some thing I miss there but in general Lemmy fills that void enough that I don't have the urge to go back anymore. If I end up scrolling less because of smaller amount of content then good.

I've abandoned reddit.. just hoping that them nsfw subreddits come over too..

[–] Swallowtail@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I have half replaced Reddit with the Fediverse and half replaced it with this exciting new discovery I made of this thing called called IRLβ„’.

[–] zsnell02@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Sure am. Been using Lemmy exclusively (shoutout to Memmy) for the past 3 weeks

[–] chokidar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I already have. I deleted all my Reddit posts and comments and deleted my account the other day. I'm all on the Lemmy train now.

[–] mysoulishome@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Pretty much

[–] upt@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I am slowly, over the long term. I am still glancing and reading some of the reddit subs that haven't made the move, but I figure over time they'll eventually migrate away. One day I probably won't even look anymore and will have forgotten about Reddit completely.

[–] icyboyy@lemmy.icyserver.eu 5 points 1 year ago

No, for the time. I like the idea but i see a lot of issues that hopefully get fixed in the future. For example the existence of 5 communities with the same name. Where do I join? it makes things more inconvenient. Finding communities is hard without 3rd party websites. If I search on my instance for a community that is on a different one I would like it to be shown as a search result and not having to get the URL and paste it in. Time will hopefully fix all these problems and Ill invest some time of my own to add features to this platform.

[–] ilovetvshows@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Right now using both.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mostly have by now, had to look for community analogues of the subreddits most important to me and create communties that I missed on lemmy. On Reddit I was mostly lurking around but here I actually have the motivation to post and manage communities, since I this is an open and decentralized platform.

[–] Joe_0237@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I think you meant to post on asklenny xD

[–] ben@lef.li 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I deleted my reddit account (and all my content beforehand) so yeah...still looking around for matching communities though.

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[–] Sev@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

On mobile absolutely, the past few days has seen a considerable amount of activity bump up. I am logged in on a new lurker account on reddit, but that's only for wrestling news and a podcast sub of mine. Fuck All.

[–] TheHighRoad@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm more of a Carl guy, but Lenny will do.

Seriously, I can see this becoming a full replacement if users continue to migrate. Once Sync for Lemmy is out I will definitely be using that for my bored moments. For now, patched Reddit Sync is still working, so I'm still using it while I can.

That said, Reddit feels dead to me. Browsing now is absolutely not the same as before. As far as I'm concerned they committed suicide.

[–] Orionza@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

There are only two subreddits I'm checking right now. One will be defunct when reddit shuts down that app. The other is a gaming subreddit where I'm not going to get the kind of discourse here that is there (yet). I can use their forums but...I like simplicity these days and having everything in one place is just easier.

[–] Laffytaffer@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I browse Lemmy almost exclusively, but adding "reddit" to the end of a Google search is still the easiest way to solve issues I'm looking up.

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