This seems like a good place so far tbh
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I completely left Reddit. A week before Apollo shut down I slowly started to leave subreddits and cleaned my post and comments. The moment Apollo stopped working, Reddit was dead to me either. Lemmy is now my new home.
Same, but after RiF. Reddit became a posterchild for the corporate greed so fuck them.
I am sad about RIF. It blocked all the ads, didn’t show all the shitty awards, was super clean, the video player worked well and the mod tools were awesome.
On a side note, its sad demise led me to Lemmy, so all is well.
Reddit is Fun was among the first apps I installed on my first smart phone, way back in 2011. I thought, “oh reddit will come out with their own app eventually, I’ll just use this until that happens.” Turned out that 99% of my time spent on reddit over the last 12 years would be through RiF. I’m sad too, man. Lemmy seems pretty cool though
Same for me. The day Apollo died was the day I quit. I’m starting to warm up to Lemmy more and more over time as it scratches that same itch.
Same. I’ve completely adapted to Memmy and have left Reddit behind. So far the only thing I miss is the sports communities. But otherwise I feel no compulsion to browse Reddit.
tips for cleaning comments fast?
Shreddit is what I used to clean them all
Exactly what I did. I added a handful of niche subs as RSS feeds to a reader just so I can keep up on stuff that I have no other way of seeing, but otherwise Reddit is died for me on 30th June
This is my alternative. Still getting used to it. Hi everyone!
I think a lot of us are still getting accustomed to Lemmy and finding our flow. For me, personally, the move exposed a bunch of new communities and topics I didn’t know / or forgot I was interested in and am now excited to be a part of!
Likewise, I’m finding my feed is once again filling with things I am actually interested in. Reddit had drifted slowly towards mindless content but here on Lemmy I feel back in control.
Amen to that! And more engaging conversations so far as well.
How do you find communities here that are analogs of the ones you enjoyed on Reddit? I see big communities here like 196 that is basically the same as the Reddit community, and lemmyshitpost is a new type of meme community - but let’s say I’m interested in math and history. How do I find communities with in depth discussion of those topics?
Thank you! Just starting here myself too.
This is where the fun begins!
On Lemmy you can edit your post titles.
Op purposely used Lenny, to get more engagements.
Uou know, the old adage of saying something wrong in the internet to get the right answers quicker
Ah yes, the Streisand Effect.
I’m not on “Lenny” terms yet, I still refer to him as “Leonard”.
As for Lemmy, it’s almost completely replaced Reddit for me. Except for the times I search for something and the best result is a Reddit thread from 3 years ago
Lenny! Memento is such a fkn good film
Not used Reddit for a while now ^^ Just a couple subs I miss but most things are here on Lemmy now
Request them on [email protected]
Or even start them yourself. I’m running a couple.
I’m hoping a few missing subreddits I was on will come over. I really would do it myself but I’m dealing with a multitude of health and irl issues right now.
Same. I didn’t create or mod any community on Reddit but I’m finding it a lot more satisfying to be involved.
Same here, there’s a couple that I go back to browse because the community is still there but I’m mostly here now.
there are calyx institute c/ es but they are tiny
btw i run a calyx vpn c/
Not Lenny!
Came for this
I still dip in to Reddit, but about 75% less than before. As more Lemmy content becomes available, I expect that to further diminish.
Same. I still report to reddit when I need to check something technical. For example, was looking at doing some work on my HVAC and wondering if some new pipe fittings were any good. Googled the product name plus Reddit to get the professional discussions from the HVAC experts.
Yeah, same here. To be honest, the web will lose a great repository of information when Reddit goes the way of the dodo. I wonder if archiving efforts are underway anywhere?
Ya, I use Reddit for stuff I’m working on like learning a language that isn’t on Lemmy right now, but I only use Reddit ~25% of the time I used to now.
yep, feels like old reddit and i’m so so happy!
That’s a good question, but I’m not sure I’d wanna do that.
Absolutely. Deleted account.
I don’t trust anyone named Lenny. Lemmy is cool though
Simply yes. Not going back
Yup, and not just because of Reddit’s CEO.
The culture here is better - people read and reply rather than just upvoting. It’s a good place to help folks out, and be helped out.
Speak for yourself! I’m just replying to random comments and upvoting whatever I want! I didn’t even read your comment!
This is the kind of quality logical paradox I love!
I still go to reddit as a resource when looking up stuff online, but I no longer browse reddit. The only subreddit I consistently go to is the small one I moderate, as it’s large enough I can’t simply convince each individual personally to move to the fediverse, but small enough that trying to convert would result in negligible numbers here.
I go and browse the neovim subreddit still, from the web browser. Just to catch up on new plugins. But that’s it.
Here’s the thing. Reddit had me hooked on it like no other until the API fuck up. Pretty much dropped it on it the spot.
After the first week it dawned on me how much time I was spending there.
So while I setup here, much less time is being spent online overall. But the interaction has jumped up immensely.
My garden is looking better and I’m hitting the gym much more often.
