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I am theoretically switching over from Reddit to Lemmy. Finding myself spending more time on Lemmy than on Reddit. Maybe it's because I am limited to using the desktop and can't aimlessly browse Reddit on my iPhone. Of late, the only subreddits I cared for were on sports and their matchday threads and r/watches. I found myself aimlessly browsing through r/AskReddit and asking and answering pointless questions.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I will until I run out of content here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I got suspended for ban evasion the first day of the blackout. How they found out is an interesting question. Probably not changing my porn account and logging on with the same IP. Anyway I deleted all my accounts and I only go on Reddit for reference purposes now. Now it's just here and Hexbear.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Killed all four of my accounts (cleaned all posts first) when they doubled down and it became apparent they were not going to budge no matter what, and insulted both mods and the community too.

Even if they do relinquish now, I'm sticking with Lemmy; if Reddit owners can treat us this badly now, what's to prevent it from happening again in the future, whether it's by the ham-fisted machinations of the past week, or by a "secret incremental changes we hope you won't notice" plan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have converted to Lemmy fully now. I deleted my reddit favourites and Relay for Reddit, and just replaced them with Lemmy. Now when I subconciously click where reddit used to be, I get Lemmy instead. It's helped a lot.

I'm still struggling with some aspects of Lemmy. I'm on a small instance called "Toast.ooo", and I'd like to subscribe to the starfield community on "Lemmy.zip", but I just can't do it. If I try to search for it, it doesn't appear. If I go direct to Lemmy.zip, I can't log in to my account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

is this an issue with the federation of lemmy? or do you think this is a one-off for you?

i'm still wrapping my head around it a bit. i signed up on lemmy.world and it was seamless, but i honestly don't know the scope of lemmy, how far it goes, or if i should have signed up on a different instance.

editing to add: i found this post and thought it might solve your issue? https://lemmy.world/post/335116

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm the same way. A buddy of mine sent me a blog post that was essentially lemmy and federation for dummies. It helped me get started and I'm also on lemmy.world but not sure where to go from here. I'm down to leave reddit though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've spent all my time between Lemmy and kbin.

It's been a lot of fun, and while I know it's a little fractured, it's been giving me a really great bit of variety

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Still scroll reddit for certain communities, but the conversation here is refreshing and I find myself participating more, that's a good thing. Lemmy needs sustained engagement more than a honeymoon phase. We will see once third-party apps shut down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just signed up and still exploring. Hopefully I will spend more time on here than Reddit though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not sure if this is good or bad to post, but I thought it's at least interesting. A subreddit content mirroring instance/bot https://lemmit.online

But - I've definitely kicked the reddit habit. Was easy to during the blackouts. I was never a contributor anyway - just a mindless scroller/lurker. I still occasionally use imgur.com if I need to mindlessly scroll and lemmy doesn't have enough content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I barely even used Reddit in the first place... but I did find myself spending more time on Mastodon than Twitter after the whole Elon thing happened. Noticeably less toxicity in the places I hang out in. Even went as far as to wipe my account clean with a service so I'm not contributing any content to them, but keep my handle so nobody can steal it from me and say things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. It was pretty easy too. I didn't use the desktop version, but the Legere client instead. I just had to remove the Legere shortcut that I was used to click on when I was waiting for something to load. Now I never go to reddit on desktop. I still have Infinity on my phone but I don't like phone apps so It's just sitting there.

Now for meme-addict people Lemmy may seem a bit empty, but that's fine by me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Loading this page took 10 seconds. This is too slow right now to function as a replacement for Reddit. Also, I HAVE to have the “hide” feature. I always hide posts after I have mentally processed them. That way my feed is always fresh. Without that feature, I am constantly seeing the same stuff over and over, which I hate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I already have 10 lemmy accounts and like 2k compounded points in 12 days!! I have ruined my sleep schedule because I stay on Lemmy till like 8 am! I have procrastinated my well paying job to get more hours into this and even developed plug-ins for lemmy when I could've been developing shit for my job! Yes, I've been using Lemmy more than Reddit. 😭😔

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Heavy Reddit user here. Joined Lemmy today. I like what I'm seeing when accessing Lemmy through a desktop browser but the mobile experience leaves a lot to be desired. Nonetheless, I'm excited to be here and look forward to rapid improvements as new users keep joining.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Since I deleted both of my reddit accounts I've spent all me social time on Lemmy. First couple of days sucked, but now I'm really enjoying it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same. I'm scaling down my Reddit use and preferring the use of Lemmy. So far, many of my main communities are still Reddit first, but that is decreasing ever more.

I guess it's currently about 70/30 percent of my time split across these two, favouring Lemmy in spite of the fact that I'm not yet following all the communities that I want to follow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I still occasionally lurk on reddit, just a few obscure subs like r/fedora. Lemmy is the first social platform I've actually commented on.

Honestly I wasn't to interested in the whole "movement" against the API changes. Being a nerd, the underlying tech behind activitypub is what got me interested.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I do, I barely visit Reddit anymore. The only time I visit it is when I unconsciously click reddit on a search engine's results (Although I figure out how to filter websites on the search results so that problem is minimal now)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Used Reddit everyday. Left last week. Lemmy everyday. Slowly subscribing to be subs as they appear. I get confused sometimes with the changes (subscribing, federation). The apps aren't as feature rich as the well matured 3rd party apps I was used to (losing my place when I nav away from app, can't find a post I was half way through reading. But I'm Happy. Oh yeah. I comment on Lemmy. Never really did that on Reddit.

I guess it's like I get to grow with the community, rather than crashing the party.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is my first comment on Lemmy. So far I've just been lurking to get used to how it works... but I've quit reddit completely, so the answer is yes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Deleted my Reddit account last week.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've completely moved over but I miss it. It was so established. I've been drawn to game walk-throughs and nude celeb searches but I've fought it off.

Fuck spez

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Only came back to reddit to edit my profile stating where Ive switched to (kbin in my case).
Left one comment on a post asking for advice telling them an answer was posted on the subs's kbin equivallent.
Other than that, I don't plan to log back in, and if I need to search something I do it adding https://reddit.adminforge.de/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I used to browse Reddit for at least an hour a day. Now I never go there but I go on Lemmy for maybe 10 minutes. Reddit was a content fire hose so there's a bit of an adjustment period to the slower pace here.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Im 90 % Lemmy and 10% Reddit right now. But i think that i soon will be 100% Lemmy. Only thing that stopping me from making the switch totally is some minor things about the mobile apps for Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes. Rotating between Lemmy & Kbin.

Actually getting work done during the day also.

Reddit on Mobile is completely dead to me and I will only use it on my desktop for specific searches if the info is not available elsewhere (last resort).

0.1% of the time wil be spend on Reddit, with an ad blocker of course.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yup, stopped using it before the blackouts, deleted my account and now I'm here..or on kbin. But Lemmy feels a bit more to my taste.

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