Same here. Haven’t been back since Apollo shutdown.
Honestly at this point, I’m not sure I’m missing out. Lemmy has been great so far and it’s only getting better.
Hey a fellow ex-Apollo user. Yeah I basically made an ultimatum with myself that I'd never try another Reddit app, if Apollo dies I'm gone.
I've gone back and my main feed is mostly posts about women asking for their "rating", weird af. don't miss it at all with lemmy and all the alternatives available.
Those are professionals just trying to drive customers to their only fans.
You can check by clicking their profile 9/10 they have NSFW pictures.
My local city subreddit is still very active and where a lot of local conversations are happening. That’s the only parts I have reason go back to and visit
I mean, how many articles do you need that you're never going to read on Reddit? You can load up Lemmy with enough communities to keep a good feed of news going.
Since Reddit is fun was killed I refuse to go back. You don't kill a damn near perfect UI and get to keep my internet traffic.
RIF was Reddit for me. Now that it's dead, so is Reddit.
Some might say reddit is no longer fun
I was bitter about RiF but it didn't really sink in that I was not returning until I realized it was all just in bad faith. No point in going back somewhere that doesn't respect third-party apps or its own users. All the developments since then have made that very clear.
That was it for me too. If there was a transition and they wanted to enshittify gracefully because money, investment pressure, capitalism.. I get it.
But to completely cunt your way through the process in a short time. Bad form. I wish them ill.
/s/Reddit is fun/Boost/
Same. What do you use now for Lemmy? I'm using Connect and while it's not perfect, I like it for what it is.
I use Sync and it's amazing, reminds me of RIF but has some small QoL improvements that I wish RIF had
My wife and I haven’t been back on since Apollo shutdown. I was/am so pissed about that shit. Fucking assholes.
I was on Apollo as well and then found this after looking at a few other thingees…
I’m trying both Avelon and Memmy as replacements for lemmy, and pretty happy with both so far. My Reddit account was 16+ years old when I dropped it because of Apollo. What a dumb decision.
I was using Memmy as my daily driver but I was getting frustrated with how fast it resets when I close and reopen it. Mlem stays where you were at. So far I like it better. The ecosystem of third party apps for lemmy is awesome, as well as the open source nature and attitude of it all.
My account was also 16 years. I’m holding out hope this place gets the interactions and niche topics over time. I don’t even like commenting right now but it’s worth the effort to help build it.
I haven't been back to Reddit since the first day of protests.
Not gonna lie though, I miss it. The niche stuff I went to Reddit for in the first place came here during the drama, but despite an initial push to get some replacement communities going here, they've gone almost completely inactive now.
Lemmy has been a decent replacement for /r/all browsing, but it's not at all a replacement for most of the subreddits I was actually subscribed to
Yeah I love Lemmy but I don’t see it taking off. The separation of federation instances is confusing for new users. There are plenty of communities but they all feel isolated due to the same community existing on multiple instances. There’s a reason why the biggest communities are all Linux/Programming related.
I feel like development of Lemmy has slowed the past few weeks too. I've been following plenty of issues on GitHub both on the front-end and back-end, and there just hasn't been any progress on them. It's a shame because Lemmy has so much potential, but I'm with you I just don't think it will take off. With that said, obviously I will keep using it, and I'm not going back to reddit. It's a shame because I really do miss the smaller niche communities on reddit but reddit is dead to me now because the CEO is really quite the dickhead and I refuse to go back.
Yeah, reddit is dead to me just like Twitter is dead to me. Lemmy will grow over time, it will take years but eventually people will realize ad-free and privacy are very important long-term
Without actually having looked at the issue track but knowing how such things go down: Less visible progress should be expected right about now even presuming constant development efforts.
The great migration brought many users and uncovered various bugs and requirements for new features and devs have been scrambling to address as much of it as fast as possible -- which means going for low-hanging fruit first and if it's not low-hanging, hack around the issue to produce a quick fix. Now that the worst is over proper software development practice dictates that you should worry more about addressing technical debt you just incurred as well as refactor and redesign until high-hanging fruit are hanging lower so you can pluck them. Doesn't make sense to build 100 ladders when you can take an axe to the tree and fix everything with three very well-planned and executed strikes.
I’m going to get crucified for this but without monetary incentive I don’t see improvements coming anytime soon. I respect the Lemmy creators but they’re running on donations and goodwill. Reddit/Digg had a team of dedicated employees working on the user experience because it was their livelihood.
This is true but aren't the two main Lemmy devs paid to work on this full-time? That's something at least, it's better than being truly unpaid to work on this.
I didn't visit reddit on purpose for two full months. I still don't have the app installed.
I have to admit though I am visiting for game threads now that the NFL has started up. Sports is non-existent on Lemmy. I'm participating in the communities for my teams, but there's like half a dozen of us in each one. It just isn't the same thing and I realized that dicking around in comment sections is a big part of how I enjoy sports these days.
They're still not getting content from me, I'm not going to use their app. But it's hard to keep completely away when there is simply nothing even closer on lemmy or anywhere else.
I can't believe how the mods caved. They could have taken their balls and gone home and Reddit would have felt it
I may have missed some steps but I recall reddit removing and replacing mods of many subs.
It doesn't matter, because the damage is done. Small communities aren't what they used to be and the big subreddits are even lower quality.
According to Google trends, the people who left are an insignificantly small number, Reddit has still grown in search popularity over the last year. However, if you've browsed Reddit since the shutdown, you know that this isn't the whole story, engagement and quality are both down.
It will take a long time for the numbers to reflect reality. Look at Twitter, it's still chugging along and it's gotten way shittier than reddit has in the same time frame.
The quality time Reddit is really bad. And the app is trash, all ads and promoted posts, and a new feature to be like tiktok. Fkn gag me
Edit: Gotta take the flow and promote !bassment@feddit.de while this post is hot. A community for Bass-Guitar players I've been building since the Reddit blackout. Come join us!
Same. I stopped visiting after the boycott started. A couple of days before rif went down, I popped back in to say bye to my friends on there and that was it.
Count me in. I do really miss Reddit though and Lemmy is nowhere near as interesting as Reddit. But no one said protesting is easy.
Well summarized!
The issue with FOSS software is it attracts people who use FOSS software. I'm not saying I want the reddit of 2021 back, but the reddit of 2016 would be nicer than the reddit of 2009 we are emulating now.
Once a few of us get our friends on board and we grow a touch more, I think Lemmy has a real chance of capturing some more of the "middle" tech literacy users, giving us some of what I, and I presume you, miss about Reddit.
FOSS software
PIN number
ATM machine
Correct. I meant to say FOSS stuff, but my shame will live on the internet forever.
This. And I've found that putting my Sync for Lemmy app where reddit was on my phone makes it easier, I impulse scroll sometimes. Yah it's dryer but also I don't waste hours scrolling, I get a small taste and move on.
I did. Said I'd be leaving when they did the API thing and stuck with it. Missed reddit for a week and then moved on. Sync for Lemmy is fine. Lemmy is quieter but there's also less bullshit.
Same. I had been there since Digg shot itself in the foot. When Apollo died, I bailed.
I stopped using Reddit on my phone, which was most of my Reddit time, but I still use it on my PC.
On mobile I exclusively browse Lemmy.
I would totally migrate completely to Lemmy, but the general audience here is a bit too... radicalised for me. Sometimes I just want to relax, read some interesting link and interact in the comments.
Exactly the same for me.
I'll add that there's just less going on here. My front pages have new stuff about every day, but not more than that
Check out the instances that have defederated with the radicalized ones? I hang out in 2 Lemmy instances, still working to finish migrating from here to the other.
To some extent groups like Lemmy and Mastodon are self-selecting for activists. People who are fed up with stuff and want to seek change. We're the people who see bad stuff happening and take action.
I had been using Relay for Reddit for years, and they didn't shut down like other third party apps, so I made a Lemmy account as a backup plan and then continued using both Lemmy and Reddit for a while.
Then the creator of Relay announced that they couldn't afford to continue service as it was and would be migrating toward a monthly subscription-based service to stay alive. That day, I moved to Lemmy and never went back. As much as I'd love to pay someone else just to stick it to Reddit's CEO, I felt that getting financially invested in a failing website just wasn't worth it in the long run. Besides, Sync for Lemmy had just been released and it was a familiar experience. I had used Sync for Reddit before I discovered Relay for Reddit.
Lemmy (and the fediverse as a whole) is much better than Reddit anyway. There are enough people here to have fresh content every day and I'm still discovering interesting niche subs (magazines? I'm still not sure what they call the categories here). There's also not too many people here, so when I find an interesting topic to comment on (like this one), it's not already 5,000+ comments deep. Nothing more demoralizing than commenting on a popular topic and getting absolutely no reaction from the community. No comments, no upvotes or downvotes. Makes me feel like I wasted my time trying to add my two cents to a conversation, and I tend to delete those comments later.
And if I run out of things to browse on Lemmy... oh well. It keeps me from being stuck on my phone all day. A smaller community means the feed isn't endless, so it keeps me from doom-scrolling all day and night. I much prefer it here, and I'm officially done with Reddit.
The comments point you make is a really great one. I was the same on Reddit, never engaging on something because by the time it appeared in my feed, it would be thousands of comments deep. Everything that needed to be said had been said.
But on Lemmy, it's much easier to jump in and actually have a conversation.
I switched over when it was announced Sync for Reddit was closing, but became much more active when Sync for Lemmy arrived due to it being an interface I had been familiar with for a decade. But the move came at a time where I was taking steps to reduce my empty consumption too, deleting social accounts and replacing them with books and newspaper subscriptions. The lower content count on Lemmy is perfect for that as it means I still get great stuff in my feed, but it's not really possible to scroll forever. Instead I now open a newspaper app, use Pocket to read an article I've saved or pick up my book on the Kindle app. I'm generally just consuming much better quality media due to much fewer distractions.
Me. The way the API thing was handled just pissed me off too much to log in or contribute there anymore. I do occasionally load the "old." version of the site up and read some of the specialized communities. I'd been there since the mass migration from Digg.
Lemmy is too slow with new content (my Lemmy frontpage has 2-3+ day old posts) and there are fewer interesting comments to engage.
I do think reddit's frontpage is noticeably worse off now, but I wish there was some metric to see how that looks statistically.
Hopefully Lemmy continues to grow.
It seems lemmy way to show hot and active kinda broken. I've changed my default to TopDay or Top - SixHours, to get new contents
Thanks for that suggestion, I hadn't even found that sorting option until just now! It does look better already.
When reddit shut down their api every single subreddit on the site went down in comment activity by 75% or more. Comment activity has only been decreasing in the month since then. Post activity has been in decline as well.
Whether this means people stopped using the site entirely or not is up for debate. But in terms of damage to the community on the site it is the single biggest social media failure I have seen on the web since Digg. Even Musk hasn't damaged Twitter as much as the api change has damaged reddit.
Wow. Where did you get those numbers, would love to peruse
Go to literally any subreddit, scroll to the comments per day graph and check out the drop on July 11th. The official date of the change was July 1st but they delayed it or something with a grace period. That drop on July 11th is the api drop.
Some examples in order - /r/mildlyinfuriating /r/whitepeopletwitter /r/gaming /r/Askreddit
Hahaha wow. Thanks
What is happening over there is one of the biggest disasters I've ever seen online and the fact that it's going unreported on while Twitter and Musk continue to get all the attention is absolutely ridiculous. Reddit is collapsing and unless they do something enormous it is currently in a death spiral.
Reddit is collapsing and unless they do something enormous it is currently in a death spiral.
I don't know what the numbers are but I haven't gone back minus the occasional google search that pulls up a Reddit post in the results. Even then, I use my browser without logging in.
Im.the same. The pain is that if the post is about some issue and you can see the post which probably explained the problem is deleted😅 fuck u/spez
I've almost completely stoped using Reddit, I only see it if I find it in a web search and it has an answer I'm looking for, this community is amazing, btw.
Me! I'll still end up on Reddit occasionally from Google searches for stuff but I very much appreciate having a place to mindlessly scroll and read which isn't capitalistic
But, I do have something to say about the lemmy experience. It's not that there's less. There is but i don't think that an issue.
What I do have an issue with is the insane amount of politically charged posts. It's almost making me return to that other place.
Like I get it, the rich should all die horrible deaths, you're socialist, not communist, you do support freedom just not capitalism.
Aren't we all deep down inside socialists?
I mean jesus started it, we've been spoon fed it for 2k years. It's just that We're all also greedy and egoistic sacks of shit so there are some weaving flaws in that system.
Great. Can we now get back to real content? Let's not talk about politics. Let's talk about world issues, Foss, games, books, movies, news (Libya, morroco) I dunno anything but politics.
Politics and religion never unite. Fun stuff and real tragedy does.
It's sounds funny if you say it, but if you scroll through all, reddit is simply much more diverse than lemmy right now
I dropped Reddit but my Lemmy usage certainly isn't what my Reddit usage was. I wish more of the websites I frequented had their own forums like the old days.
Hardly use reddit anymore. Won't lie, Lemmy doesn't seem to be anywhere near as rich in content but its a blessing in disguise because I mindlessly scroll less.
It takes time, effort and people to build cool spaces, and those spawn additional spaces for more obscure stuff. Lemmy is just new and hopefully it will grow with time but it's up to us to help how we can.
Same. I’ll still search there for stuff like BIFL or sone of the niche hobby subs but I don’t just go to scroll at all anymore. I’m kind of glad I’m getting a more reasonable amount of content at one go on Lemmy - I read more, have better sleep habits.
Edit: I still miss you Apollo!
The second I couldn't use RIF I was out of there. Accidentally went there twice or thrice and instantly noped from all the ads.
I was mostly a lurker so my dropping it didn't have much impact other than deleting a decade old account. If there's niche knowledge or communities I might still look (if it comes up in search results) but the urge to do so voluntarily is gone.
That doesn't matter. People look for revenge on numbers and will like to see Reddit burn and fail.
But that is not what is important. You don't need to justify your decision by looking at how much Reddit loses, but if you are happy here in Lemmy.
The same goes if you left Twitter and switched to Mastodon. It's like feeling better if your ex is doing worse after you get apart. Empty satisfaction imo
I left and haven't been back since they killed off 3rd party apps. I was a Sync user on Reddit and now that there's Sync for Lemmy I can't really tell the difference except for some of the content here and there.
Tbh I dont think that the traffic data Ive seen suggests that there was a long term drop but subjectively the content on a lot of subs has dried up substantially. It seems like people still go there but the actual content being made is just a trickle compared to what it used to be
I did! But as for estimates of people, you could probably compare total daily users in like, March to total daily users today, and that eould get you most of the way there
I've not been there since a month before the apps were borked.
I've been looking in when I need info, by searching and ending up there, but I've not looked at Reddit by habit since.
This is word for word how I could describe my migration as well
At first I was sad about the changes, but I’m in the same boat. Starting with the blackout, I basically lost all interest contributing to Reddit again. I still read about things occasionally but I contribute very little.
I think this app shutdown was one of the best things to happen to my health though. Instead of wasting hours a day on Reddit, I now do sports or go on a run. I am fitter than I have been for years.
Too many didn't seem to drop their own internal Reddit before coming to Lemmy.
I still check the hobby and city subs that are relevant to me and I've noticed r/all has become a reactionary mess. Specifically noticed a pattern of hatred for climate change activism and support of vigilante or police suppression of these movements. I'm not sure if regular libs have been migrating to Lemmy leaving only the worst posters or if they are just becoming shittier.
I'm not sure if regular libs have been migrating to Lemmy leaving only the worst posters or if they are just becoming shittier.
Oh it is pretty clear now libs were never going to actually support real climate activism in the long run, anything that actualy threatens to disrupt their comfortable lives and treats.
I think also its just the fact any real climate action is inherently against the liberal democracy that continues to fail despite constantly promising e.g all the climate accords. The libs will naturally see protests against this inaction as a protest against democracy therefore everyone will be declared eco-fascists/tankies or worse.
I was a heavy reddit user. Don't go there anymore. I'm done. There's just a moral line that was crossed, and that's that. Same with facebook. It's over. Now it's the constant fight to keep google at bay, but that's what it is.
Pretty much the same story for me, including the moral line. I wish more people would draw that line when it comes to all those unethical companies...
I did so by Nielson ratings logic about 2400 of us?
I cut my Reddit usage by about 90%. I never intend to fully quit while it still offers things I can't get anywhere else.
Lemmy gives me the dose of random scrolling I want and Reddit gives me specific info I need
I made the switch after the API.changes. i wasn't about to endure a bullshit interface. Also. It's been 10~ years of using reddit, as an adult looking to grow, it was time to find new and strange pastures. Lemmy may not be where we all end up, but its a journey and so far being an 'Internet forum surfer' from AOL 4.0 days. things have been a wild ride
I actually use both. Reddit to watch or partake in nonsensical angry at the internet posts and Lemmy for real discussion in a niche that I fancy.
Lemmy feels like Reddit did 10 years ago.
I haven't been back. I suspect that may be true for many regular users of Lemmy.
I was using Reddit Is Fun on mobile and a heavily curated desktop feed and migrated here fully when RiF died.
When I've looked at Reddit on desktop, it feels like a shadow of it's former self in so far as some of the default subs are missing and others just seem filled with the same content reach time I've looked.
While the place won't die overnight, it will become more overrun with bots and karma farmers posting same content over and over.
I have only been back a handful of times in the browser. Usually when information I need is only on reddit. From someone who used reddit for hours and hours a day I'm shocked how little I miss it. I'm glad it went down the toilet.
Yeah, I feel like Lemmy has just enough content to satisfy that urge to browse a Reddit-like site, but not enough to suck me in, and I’m really pleased about that. It’s like a nicotine patch.
I'm now spending 90% of my shit scrolling time here instead of Reddit (using Sync mainly) and I love it!
I still have my account on Reddit, but have not logged in since the API events.
Very happy to have found Lemmy, with great content and great people.
Same about going from Twitter to Mastodon.
No Appolo, no reddit for me. I will still go to searches that link there.
I stopped using Reddit the moment sync for Reddit died, I occasionally end up in the website when I'm googling for a tech problem
Found myself there recently for a tech-related google search. Was happy to see the answer I was there for was removed by its author and their account was deleted.
I only use it for sports discussion, as the third party app I use still works with a patched version. If the third party app stops working, I'll stop. It's not like the discussion on Reddit is high quality anyways.
I had forgotten about reddit until I saw this post.
I made the switch when RiF died. In all honesty I wish it wasn't necessary, because the niche communities here are a shadow of what Reddit had before the blackouts. And while Reddit had trolls just like Lemmy, it was big enough that you didn't have to share general spaces with them.
Where have you been finding trolls on Lemmy?
I've found it has been substantially better than reddit.
I'd say the more pressing issue here is malicious users or instance owners sending out gore / CP for other people to cache on their personal servers.
I mostly did 3 years ago and have kinda nixed most of the rest of my reddit habits once RiF went down. It does move a lot slower, I cannot spend all day browsing askreddit or whatever in a depressive funk. I do still sometimes go on as part of searches for things.
I have no idea how many people though. The number of people on hexbear (daily users) is way lower than r/chapotraphouse at its height, assuming a continuity of community. There would be some people (possibly even a majority) who spend a decent amount of time on both.
I left Reddit after 14 years. Was really sad to see what it had changed into over time.
yeah it went through a few phases and definitely became rather unpleasant over the last few years imo.
Left after RiF went down. Stuck with Lemmy, mostly because my consumption of useless doomscrolling was in need of a reduction. Still here, even if lemmy does have a stark difference in user interaction compared to Reddit.
This place is slightly less toxic overall, and I think that's worth something.
I still visit Reddit, but I stopped participating- I don't post, comment, or vote.
I visit Reddit via googling "[thing I want an answer to] Reddit". The whole Internet has become a frustrating quagmire and reddit seemed on the level for awhile. So the older posts answering my question are still useful.
Until I find something I want to comment on to help or correct something and I realize the post is several years old haha
Now that sync works with lemmy, I pretty much forgot about reddit. I wish there were the same communities, but I figure it's just a matter of time.
reddit culture sucks and I left it behind as a social media site a while ago.
still have to use site:reddit.com to get half decent search results tho
Ex Apollo user here. Dropped Reddit as soon as Apollo shut down and haven’t looked back. Occasionally a Reddit post will return in my search but that’s about it for Reddit.
I check Lemmy everyday before going to bed, only time I use reddit is when it comes up in web search results for my queries. I’ll use reddit again if they announce fair pricing for 3rd party apps as I miss my small communities there.
I left out of principle but there are a few communities I'll scan from time to time because they don't quite exist here and I don't have the energy to make it myself.
I spent 99% of my time on Reddit through Sync. When they decided to restrict API use, which killed third-party apps, I decided I was done. If the Sync dev didn't switch over to making a Lemmy app, I probably never would have heard about it. I've only gone to Reddit a handful of times since, and that's only because I was searching for something and a Google search took me to a Reddit thread.
Ditched reddit the moment 3rd party apps stopped working. I'm rooting for Lemmy to grow. I especially n hope that nieche communities feel less dead in the future.
Me. Probably wouldn't have stayed this long if it wasn't for the Sync app. There's just no other good Reddit-like app.
I never came back after the protests. I don't understand the people who said "why should I care if I don't use 3rd party apps". After seeing reddit's true colors on full display, I didn't want anything more to do with that company.
I gave up reddit. When Infinity announce a subscription I was done. I didn't want go through all the hassle getting an app key in whatever way when this is easy. Also Reddit CEO is a piece of crap, like pretty much all CEOs.
I've cut my reddit consumption drastically but I haven't dropped it completely. There are two communities that I still check out a few times per week and I still Google "what is the best ______ reddit" or "how do I do ______ reddit" when I need to. But I'm never scrolling r/all anymore.
I did. When The site administration sided with racists nazis I was glad to leave. I got perma-banned for saying "Ork is a dehumanizing racial slur. Calling Russians 'Ork' is racist hate speech." Occasionally I open a recent link and I nearly always regret it.
Count me as one. I haven't been back since sync went dark. I do get frustrated with not being able to find that niche information/answer to a question by adding site:Reddit to a search though - I know it's my choice though
Deleted my account on Reddit and never went fuck. Fuck Reddit and fuck Spez.
Look at the user figures for Lemmy instances and it becomes very clear that the number of people using Lemmy isn't even in the hundreds if thousands. So yes I'd say it is possible to estimate that less than 100k people made the switch.
I never use reddit unless someone sends me a link for something specific (that someone could be google) - I don't have their app installed and I never go to them naturally...I probably see 1 reddit post a week on average.
I dropped and deleted the account. Only time I go to Reddit now is if I am searching for something and a Reddit link is part of the search and happen to have the answer I need.
I definitely left. I still occasionally lurk on Reddit but I never post or vote anymore. Real shame, because I really want to share my Factorio Bob's+Angels (much harder and more complicated mod of Factorio) victory on r/factorio, but I won't because of Spez's actions.
Haven’t been back since I deleted my account after the blackout. No Apollo, no Reddit.
I did. Once sync was out it was a pretty easy transition. I just wanted an app to scroll mindlessly for a couple minutes a day, and Lemmy does the job. The content stream is a lot slower, but for low usage users like myself, it's fine.
That said, from what I've gleaned from other threads, it still seems like most people still use Reddit in some capacity.
I've deleted all my reddit accounts and haven't added any new content to reddit since I switched, Though I must admit I still end up there from time to time when I search for specific things.. mostly related to niche topics. I use Lemmy for mindless browsing, news, laughs, etc.
I use both. Lemmy by deafult. Reddit for the few very specific communites Lemmy is lacking .
Also questions go to Lemmy since beacuse lemmy is smaller pepole are actually answering you instead of ignoring your questions or mods deleting them beacuse this belongs to the daily thread for small questions or the similars.
I have. Lemmy is especially good for content geared towards news, tech, FOSS, privacy, memes (if, unlike me, Reddit-style memes are your thing), et cetera. For me, that checks off all the boxes for what i used Reddit for, so when i started using Lemmy, there wasn't really anything i was missing from Reddit. So, while i'm willing to miss out on some content in order to drop Reddit, i haven't really needed to.
However, this definitely isn't the case for most people. If people are just using Reddit for certain things they just don't see on Lemmy, that's totally fine (though i hope they're using an ad blocker or something), especially if they stick around for when Lemmy does start having that kind of content.
Growth isn't a straight line and there will be points of fluctuation, stagnation, and decline.
Dropped Reddit since the beginning of the protest waves. But most importantly, due to this, my screen time plummeted from 10h per day to 2 or 3 hours.
I was a sync user. Waited until the last day. Been quite until recently. I think I've had more conversations here then in my four years with Reddit. Something about the sizes of the communities made it hard to feel like a part of the conversation.
I didn't fully drop Reddit but I use it significantly less.
I only lurked on Reddit through third party apps. Now I am permanently here, and I can comment and post with good conscience too!
Purged my main account by editing every post and reply. Then deleated all of them. Then deleated the account. . There are bots to do that automatically and make it easy.
I still have a NSFW account that Is exclusively used for NSFW stuff. I kept that one, but honestly that will probably be gone soon too. The vast majority of NSFW subreddits just feel like a bunch of only fans actors trying to self promote. Nothing against them or onlyfans, but I have no interest in it and would rather see stuff from people that are just having some fun. Not trying to make a living doing it.
I'm still not entirely sure what Lemmy is, but I mostly quit reddit and moved to hexbear when reddit banned /r/chapotraphouse. I still went on reddit to check local COVID stats but since Biden said and the CDC stopped tracking, there's no reason to go back.
Full time Lemmy conversion here. I will never go back
I've stopped using it on mobile entirely, but still use Reddit for some communities like r/bash and the like, or otherwise things related to my job -- though, only on desktop.
That said, I'd like to fully move off of the platform eventually.
I switched.
left reddit completely and found a replacement for every community I am interested in. i love lemmy
I did. And I did it exclusively because of reddit sync. I used that app to browse reddit during my decade plus old account. Once reddit sync left, the app maker said he's moving to lemmy. I never even heard of lemmy until then. Now I'm here on sync.
I left reddit for good. I will not knowingly enhance reddits traffic stats on principle for the crap spez pulled. Everyone should do the same.
Left reddit after 13 years, never looked back. Fuck Reddit
I left and haven't looked back. Honestly with the consistent growth of lemmy there's been now need.
Present ✋
There are some communities that never transitioned to Lemmy, so I'll be using them untill old.reddit is disabled.
I did. Occasionally visit old.reddit.com put of nostalgia, but never logged in, never controbute. It's not as busy here, but i like it. Lemmy has an OG nerd feeling to it.
I dropped mobile reddit for Lemmy. I still use reddit on my PC, but never on my mobile devices.
Still using reddit read-only through Libreddit but I don't even check it every day anymore.
I hit up my niche self-hosted and Linux subs, take a peek at /r/all, get immediately put off by all the bot content and toxicity, and come right back to Lemmy.
Deleted my reddit account a while ago. Don't really use lemmy as much as I used to use reddit, but I see that as a good thing. the quality of the use I get is a lot better here too.
I only go back when a site like this or /v/ links me back.
I used infinity for reddit app to surf reddit, when they started charging for api, app become unusable then i switched to eternity for lemmy and i love it
I sure did. I was already tired of their terrible moderation policies and the arbitrary power some mods abused all to hell. Good riddance.
I only used baconreader, and so did my wife. So no more reddit for us.
I haven't participated on Reddit since leaving for Lemmy, and I've barely participated on blahaj since leaving for hexbear
If "dropped Reddit for Hexbear" means getting perma-banned from Reddit, then sure.
Edit: No, it's not because I did anything cool. I actually don't know and nobody from the corp responded to why my inactive account got zapped
I dropped reddit for sure, but can't say I'm exactly an avid Lemmy user. There just isn't enough things I'm interested in. I pop in every once in a while but I'll probably drop this too soon. I have absolutely no idea how I will even get any news, since I don't watch tv, and that kinda scares me. On the other hand, I started reading books again, which I hadn't touched ever since I became a redditor
I only looked at Reddit on Sync so when that stopped working I stopped visiting Reddit.
Now I look at Lemmy on Sync but not as much
I really don't think there's a way to estimate. Personally, as a long term Sync user, I switched even before Sync was reddit for Lemmy. There's no real way to measure it though.
Only on Reddit for a couple communities. But, Lemmy kind of became my main Social site overall. Replaced all of them for me.
I mapped reddit.com to 127.0.0.1. My life is so much better now!
technically, i dropped reddit for tumblr.....lemmy is a sometimes indulgences
I dropped reddit and facebook. Don't miss them much.
When im desperate for information and all I'm getting are ai generated article results, I will still resort to appending to reddit to my Google searches but otherwise I've deleted everything on reddit and keep up with major current events and bad memes here on lemmy. It really could be a better experience but it's better than... well... endorsing reddits decisions.
I'm still using both. Lemmy is my main but for communities that are non-existent on Lemmy, I revert to Reddit.
I now mostly use Reddit to tell people about Lemmy
I don't passively use it anymore, but I'll use it as a reference for past posts.
"How to determine undertone lemmy" doesn't really work like "... reddit"
Same here, for me it was when I saw how Spez was treating mods that I pulled out.
Also obligatory “Boost Gang 🙌”
More than 4
I refuse to use their shitty app, but I still use old reddit on the desktop. If they remove old.reddit.com, I will probably not use it at all.
On mobile, I tried a few apps. Lemmy feels very empty and devoid of content and communities. Mastodon is not that interesting. I feel that hacker news is the best alternative right now. Even though it doesn't have that many users, the fact that it has a single "community" helps it feel far less empty, and more focused towards technical people.
Well, I dropped reddit because rif stopped working. Whether it was "for Lemmy" is kind of a "for now" thing. Something better comes along and I'm likely to migrate there (or use it in addition).
Dropped reddit. Have been using Fediverse apps since.
I did, it wasn't easy but I'm here.
Right here. Have you been on reddit lately? It's worse than usual. And I'm not just talking about all of the hardcore conservative/borderline fascist subs that all of a sudden materialized. The discourse on most subs is clearly dominated by bots now.
It's all the New users on Lemmy since June 2023
I dropped it completely. It was a garbage dump.
Sort of. I had an account but I'd posted like 3 times one one topic in 2017. Never logged back in. Started using the terrible app in the last year but didn't care enough to find or use a better 3rd party app.
Decided to not use it during the blackout, read a suggestion to use Jerboa app.
Haven't looked back. How dare they take away my right to procrastinate on improving my own user experience.
I didn't have a choice. I was the victim of a sitewide ban from an overzealous mod...
I also finally received my data archive from Twitter. For weeks, the verification emails weren't being delivered. When they were, the codes had expired. Repeat. I have no proof to indicate this was a way of locking me in, but it seems suspicious because it had never happened before.
For me, it's not about being petty or spiteful against these platforms just for the hell of it. It's just that I'm tired of their unethical business model. Hostile practices. Their lock-in. Lack of interoperability. The user hostility.
It's not good for us, it's only good for the platform, which then only serves to give that platform more power, which means more user abuse, enshittification, etc.
Feels good to not contribute to that and not continue digging that hole, as well as invest in a better web for all of us.
i'll occasionally go back and browse on desktop only but i don't interact. all interaction is here along with most of my browsing
Left when Infinity went sub. I just couldn't get over how bad reddits default app was. When searching around for something else I saw conversations about lemmy and got interested. Decided to dive in with Sync and now I've been only using this. Still have Geddit to open any links I have to open if they are reddit links but overall it's been a great experience so far. With all new things might take a bit for community to grow.
This one. Second my app stopped working I never went back. Have been an avid daily contributor for a decade.
I was a lurker there and I actually participate here. I still go there for videos in specific communities, but I no longer scroll ALL.
+1 left when RIF stopped working
I think we should focus on quality and thoughtful discussion. I appreciate stupid memes too, but if it were up to me that would be secondary - even if overall popularity takes a hit.
Also, less concern over Reddit would be nice. I was there from the Digg exodus until the API drama, so I understand the change aspect quite well, but if genuine conversation is what matters to you, the correct people are here now.
Yep. Cold turkey.
I nuked my 10yo account. I was so pissed about the API thing. Sadly, I do still find myself on random reddit threads if I'm looking for some specific info though...it's just not as easy to search for relevant info through Lemmy. But I do love the community for what it is though.
left reddit for good w/ a 50k sub I modded for over a decade. the best thing since: when modcodeofconduct tried to recruit replacements from the userbase, the users ignored them. the new mods are some randos, the subs are full of spam and garbage.
Great works Spez you fucking dolt.
I think if Reddit was really good, 90% of the people here would not have a good reason to use Lemmy. I was on Lemmy before the blackout & it wasn't great; had I plugged it then, many would be reluctant to switch. Now, it is amazing, and Reddit ensured that Lemmy got a nice influx of users to make that happen :)
Me
Dyed in the wool sync user
I did! They banned my account after a dispute with a Mod claiming I was being islamaphobic for asking about professor who was killed for supposedly showing a picture of Muhammad (which later turned out the daughter lied about) by a girl's father who was mad man who claimed Islam. The post was praising Islam for being a religion of peace and anyone who said differently didn't understand... so I asked about that case.... got banned from the sub.. argued with the mod, who then reported.e for harassment to the Reddit team and boom, permanently banned, no appeal option... My four year account and 97k karma gone.. then they banned my Alt account because of my phone IP address... I was so pissed.. tried VPNs too.. no good after a while..
Then I googled reddit alternatives, and a few scrolls down, I saw a forum from lemmy discusing how it had just launched as the reddit alternative and to try it.. I am glad I did. I like this better.. I wish there was more content though.. I love certain shows and love discussion about them. Like MTV the challenge or what we do in the shadows... Lemmy is so new, it doesn't have all those communitys just yet but I am happy to be here and watch the site grow.
I did, I really just follow the sync app ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If they didn't pull that API bs for sync, I wouldn't be here.
No regurtz on the move tho
Me me me
I use reddit only 2-3 times a month since the kill of third party apps.
Too many and, yet, not enough.
I got a Lemmy account with the main exodus, but my 3rd party Reddit app continued to work (though it slowly broke bit by bit) until just a couple days ago when it completely stopped working at all.
Now I've fully swapped off of Reddit and onto Lemmy.
I wasn't sure whether I should completely drop Reddit, but now, after a month on Lemmy I can say that I stopped using Reddit
I've not been able to stop using Reddit because quite simply, some subs never migrated and they are major subs for me, such as /r/hockey. I've been using it less for sure and I've used Lemmy more, especially with Sync now available, but only time will tell.
Mostly. It helps that Voyager looks exactly like Apollo. I forget I’m on lemmy sometimes.
I deleted my reddit account and browse lemmy daily. I do miss a few subs on reddit concerning ancient greece/greek and corvids, but it is what it is. I'm fairly satisfied with lemmy.
Haven't opened Reddit since the new API pricing dropped, Lemmy is doing fine for me so far!
lemmy publishes activate user data, im pretty sure most or all came from reddit, but no way to know how many still active there
When Sync stopped working on Reddit, I found kbin and Lemmy, and haven't looked back. Especially with Sync being on Lemmy. Reddit isn't worth the agitation anymore.
I did I enjoy lemmy for what it is. Like any social media just block defaults you don't like and tune it to your own subscriptions an its fine.
Another +1
I didn’t stop using Reddit but I use it much less now, and I seldom post anymore. I’ve noticed a significant drop in quality; lots of good posters and mods left.
Left after I found lemmy
I've been almost exclusively on Lemmy, but even after several months still miss user content on some of the more niche communities like my local sports team subreddit. I'll still hold out for a bit longer, if only to see what else is out there, but the itch is real.
I think it's worth keeping in mind that for some of this you'll need to use more than one platform for a while. Sports content was one of the last things that really popularised on reddit and that's because it's less popular among early adopters, who tend to be more into tech than physical activities.
Dropped it and haven't looked back.
I was on RIF for years, deleted everything and haven't gone back. It's kinda liberating, I don't spend nearly as much time here as I did Reddit, and it scratches the itch.
I still use it occasionally for some things, though I’ve noticed a steep quality drop on Reddit. I spend much more time on Lemmy.
Lemmy > Discovery, Reddit > Specific Subs that haven’t yet migrated.
Maybe make a poll?
I have dropped it, approximately by 98%
I mainly browse Lemmy here with Sync for Lemmy, and when I want some more niche stuff I head up to Reddit with patched Sync for Reddit, so yeah, Sync is always with me.
I quit when Joey for Reddit finally got taken down.
Honestly, the people here seem kinder and more intelligent, even if I don't agree with what they're saying.
You can't actually leave Reddit. That's like leading the city to go to the desert. The people are still in the city. No matter how many blackjack and hookers you bring to the desert.
I've been in "the desert" for years, it's great out here, we have sandworms and shit that makes you clairvoyant
I dropped Reddit, but I'm still not 100% into Lemmy. To put it another way: Reddit was a pinned tab, as is Mastodon, webmail, Qobuz, and a whole bunch of other essentials. Lemmy is unpinned and gets looked at briefly every 2-3 days.
not enough
I kept Infinity installed until it finally stopped working. In the last few weeks, there was basically nothing good on Reddit anyway so I'm ok with dropping it.
I'm hoping more people come to Lemmy and we get lots of content here!
I am switching between Sync for Lemmy and ReVanced clients for Reddit, generally since Lemmy doesn't have enough content that is interesting for me (ff14 community is basically dead on Lemmy, random maghjong riichi content is not there on Lemmy, world/news is basically the same as my meduza feed instead of random "what's around the globe", specific/non-general memes are not there, discussions are not active).
I hope it improves with time. I much prefer the notion of ActivityPub than that of centralized SM, but I guess the only real way forward is to force content gatekeepers to implement open apis...
Without RiF, there is no Reddit for me.
14
I'm still mostly on Reddit, but I've definitely cut down my participation. For example I stopped up/downvoting posts entirely. And haven't really been participating in askreddit / eli5
The post I've made are either mirrored, or limited to relatively obscure communities.
As for lemmy, still lurking, not quite ready to dive in.
I did. signed out of all Reddit accounts once on my PC and uninstalled Apollo when it was on life support once Spez started outwardly idolizing Elon Musk. Fuck that shit I’m out
Now I only use Reddit wherever I need tech support and google has something for me that I need. I also installed Reddit to redirect extension to the wayback machine it I go there
I was a part of the chapo exodus and found myself just going to the hexbear instead of the reddit to the point that I just pop into reddit like once or twice a year.
Not sure but add 1 to the count.
Same here. Haven’t been back since Apollo shutdown.
Honestly at this point, I’m not sure I’m missing out. Lemmy has been great so far and it’s only getting better.
Hey a fellow ex-Apollo user. Yeah I basically made an ultimatum with myself that I'd never try another Reddit app, if Apollo dies I'm gone.
I've gone back and my main feed is mostly posts about women asking for their "rating", weird af. don't miss it at all with lemmy and all the alternatives available.
Those are professionals just trying to drive customers to their only fans.
You can check by clicking their profile 9/10 they have NSFW pictures.
My local city subreddit is still very active and where a lot of local conversations are happening. That’s the only parts I have reason go back to and visit
Same. Used it a few times in the months since the API stuff to research some obscure shit but I have no account there now.
Same here. It's been a nice transition.
Still bunch of assholes, but seems there are more people willing to discuss things rather than brickwalls with opinions.
There are dozens of us. DOZENS!
+1
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🙋♀️
More than dozens.
I mean, how many articles do you need that you're never going to read on Reddit? You can load up Lemmy with enough communities to keep a good feed of news going.
Since Reddit is fun was killed I refuse to go back. You don't kill a damn near perfect UI and get to keep my internet traffic.
RIF was Reddit for me. Now that it's dead, so is Reddit.
Some might say reddit is no longer fun
I was bitter about RiF but it didn't really sink in that I was not returning until I realized it was all just in bad faith. No point in going back somewhere that doesn't respect third-party apps or its own users. All the developments since then have made that very clear.
That was it for me too. If there was a transition and they wanted to enshittify gracefully because money, investment pressure, capitalism.. I get it.
But to completely cunt your way through the process in a short time. Bad form. I wish them ill.
/s/Reddit is fun/Boost/
Same. What do you use now for Lemmy? I'm using Connect and while it's not perfect, I like it for what it is.
I use Sync and it's amazing, reminds me of RIF but has some small QoL improvements that I wish RIF had
My wife and I haven’t been back on since Apollo shutdown. I was/am so pissed about that shit. Fucking assholes.
I was on Apollo as well and then found this after looking at a few other thingees…
I’m trying both Avelon and Memmy as replacements for lemmy, and pretty happy with both so far. My Reddit account was 16+ years old when I dropped it because of Apollo. What a dumb decision.
I was using Memmy as my daily driver but I was getting frustrated with how fast it resets when I close and reopen it. Mlem stays where you were at. So far I like it better. The ecosystem of third party apps for lemmy is awesome, as well as the open source nature and attitude of it all.
My account was also 16 years. I’m holding out hope this place gets the interactions and niche topics over time. I don’t even like commenting right now but it’s worth the effort to help build it.
Same here. No regrets, loving lemmy.
I haven't been back to Reddit since the first day of protests.
Not gonna lie though, I miss it. The niche stuff I went to Reddit for in the first place came here during the drama, but despite an initial push to get some replacement communities going here, they've gone almost completely inactive now.
Lemmy has been a decent replacement for /r/all browsing, but it's not at all a replacement for most of the subreddits I was actually subscribed to
Yeah I love Lemmy but I don’t see it taking off. The separation of federation instances is confusing for new users. There are plenty of communities but they all feel isolated due to the same community existing on multiple instances. There’s a reason why the biggest communities are all Linux/Programming related.
I feel like development of Lemmy has slowed the past few weeks too. I've been following plenty of issues on GitHub both on the front-end and back-end, and there just hasn't been any progress on them. It's a shame because Lemmy has so much potential, but I'm with you I just don't think it will take off. With that said, obviously I will keep using it, and I'm not going back to reddit. It's a shame because I really do miss the smaller niche communities on reddit but reddit is dead to me now because the CEO is really quite the dickhead and I refuse to go back.
Yeah, reddit is dead to me just like Twitter is dead to me. Lemmy will grow over time, it will take years but eventually people will realize ad-free and privacy are very important long-term
Without actually having looked at the issue track but knowing how such things go down: Less visible progress should be expected right about now even presuming constant development efforts.
The great migration brought many users and uncovered various bugs and requirements for new features and devs have been scrambling to address as much of it as fast as possible -- which means going for low-hanging fruit first and if it's not low-hanging, hack around the issue to produce a quick fix. Now that the worst is over proper software development practice dictates that you should worry more about addressing technical debt you just incurred as well as refactor and redesign until high-hanging fruit are hanging lower so you can pluck them. Doesn't make sense to build 100 ladders when you can take an axe to the tree and fix everything with three very well-planned and executed strikes.
I’m going to get crucified for this but without monetary incentive I don’t see improvements coming anytime soon. I respect the Lemmy creators but they’re running on donations and goodwill. Reddit/Digg had a team of dedicated employees working on the user experience because it was their livelihood.
This is true but aren't the two main Lemmy devs paid to work on this full-time? That's something at least, it's better than being truly unpaid to work on this.
I didn't visit reddit on purpose for two full months. I still don't have the app installed.
I have to admit though I am visiting for game threads now that the NFL has started up. Sports is non-existent on Lemmy. I'm participating in the communities for my teams, but there's like half a dozen of us in each one. It just isn't the same thing and I realized that dicking around in comment sections is a big part of how I enjoy sports these days.
They're still not getting content from me, I'm not going to use their app. But it's hard to keep completely away when there is simply nothing even closer on lemmy or anywhere else.
I can't believe how the mods caved. They could have taken their balls and gone home and Reddit would have felt it
I may have missed some steps but I recall reddit removing and replacing mods of many subs.
It doesn't matter, because the damage is done. Small communities aren't what they used to be and the big subreddits are even lower quality.
I am trying to get the Pokemon instance talkative again but I'm just one woman
Once I get around to updating it I'll start a Radical Red AAR series there for you
According to Google trends, the people who left are an insignificantly small number, Reddit has still grown in search popularity over the last year. However, if you've browsed Reddit since the shutdown, you know that this isn't the whole story, engagement and quality are both down.
It will take a long time for the numbers to reflect reality. Look at Twitter, it's still chugging along and it's gotten way shittier than reddit has in the same time frame.
The quality time Reddit is really bad. And the app is trash, all ads and promoted posts, and a new feature to be like tiktok. Fkn gag me
Dropped Reddit and never went back.
Edit: Gotta take the flow and promote !bassment@feddit.de while this post is hot. A community for Bass-Guitar players I've been building since the Reddit blackout. Come join us!
Same. I stopped visiting after the boycott started. A couple of days before rif went down, I popped back in to say bye to my friends on there and that was it.
Count me in. I do really miss Reddit though and Lemmy is nowhere near as interesting as Reddit. But no one said protesting is easy.
Well summarized!
The issue with FOSS software is it attracts people who use FOSS software. I'm not saying I want the reddit of 2021 back, but the reddit of 2016 would be nicer than the reddit of 2009 we are emulating now.
Once a few of us get our friends on board and we grow a touch more, I think Lemmy has a real chance of capturing some more of the "middle" tech literacy users, giving us some of what I, and I presume you, miss about Reddit.
PIN number
ATM machine
Correct. I meant to say FOSS stuff, but my shame will live on the internet forever.
This. And I've found that putting my Sync for Lemmy app where reddit was on my phone makes it easier, I impulse scroll sometimes. Yah it's dryer but also I don't waste hours scrolling, I get a small taste and move on.
I did. To all the people on Reddit who confidently said "you'll be back in a few days" turns out you were very wrong lmao
Sure it is possible to estimate, but the chance the estimate is any better than a guess is pretty much zero.
The only definite number I have is one.
And my axe. This is still funny, right?
Absolutely
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. I can keep going, they're all winners.
We'll watch your carreer with great interest.
A perfect 5/7!
And my Old Spice.
I did. Said I'd be leaving when they did the API thing and stuck with it. Missed reddit for a week and then moved on. Sync for Lemmy is fine. Lemmy is quieter but there's also less bullshit.
Same. I had been there since Digg shot itself in the foot. When Apollo died, I bailed.
I stopped using Reddit on my phone, which was most of my Reddit time, but I still use it on my PC.
On mobile I exclusively browse Lemmy.
I would totally migrate completely to Lemmy, but the general audience here is a bit too... radicalised for me. Sometimes I just want to relax, read some interesting link and interact in the comments.
Exactly the same for me.
I'll add that there's just less going on here. My front pages have new stuff about every day, but not more than that
Check out the instances that have defederated with the radicalized ones? I hang out in 2 Lemmy instances, still working to finish migrating from here to the other.
To some extent groups like Lemmy and Mastodon are self-selecting for activists. People who are fed up with stuff and want to seek change. We're the people who see bad stuff happening and take action.
Just being here makes us radicalised, a bit.
I had been using Relay for Reddit for years, and they didn't shut down like other third party apps, so I made a Lemmy account as a backup plan and then continued using both Lemmy and Reddit for a while.
Then the creator of Relay announced that they couldn't afford to continue service as it was and would be migrating toward a monthly subscription-based service to stay alive. That day, I moved to Lemmy and never went back. As much as I'd love to pay someone else just to stick it to Reddit's CEO, I felt that getting financially invested in a failing website just wasn't worth it in the long run. Besides, Sync for Lemmy had just been released and it was a familiar experience. I had used Sync for Reddit before I discovered Relay for Reddit.
Lemmy (and the fediverse as a whole) is much better than Reddit anyway. There are enough people here to have fresh content every day and I'm still discovering interesting niche subs (magazines? I'm still not sure what they call the categories here). There's also not too many people here, so when I find an interesting topic to comment on (like this one), it's not already 5,000+ comments deep. Nothing more demoralizing than commenting on a popular topic and getting absolutely no reaction from the community. No comments, no upvotes or downvotes. Makes me feel like I wasted my time trying to add my two cents to a conversation, and I tend to delete those comments later.
And if I run out of things to browse on Lemmy... oh well. It keeps me from being stuck on my phone all day. A smaller community means the feed isn't endless, so it keeps me from doom-scrolling all day and night. I much prefer it here, and I'm officially done with Reddit.
The comments point you make is a really great one. I was the same on Reddit, never engaging on something because by the time it appeared in my feed, it would be thousands of comments deep. Everything that needed to be said had been said.
But on Lemmy, it's much easier to jump in and actually have a conversation.
I switched over when it was announced Sync for Reddit was closing, but became much more active when Sync for Lemmy arrived due to it being an interface I had been familiar with for a decade. But the move came at a time where I was taking steps to reduce my empty consumption too, deleting social accounts and replacing them with books and newspaper subscriptions. The lower content count on Lemmy is perfect for that as it means I still get great stuff in my feed, but it's not really possible to scroll forever. Instead I now open a newspaper app, use Pocket to read an article I've saved or pick up my book on the Kindle app. I'm generally just consuming much better quality media due to much fewer distractions.
Said bye bye ever since the blackout, haven't been back. RIP RIF
RIP Sync for Reddit.
-- Sent from Sync for Lemmy
Once RIF was out I haven't looked back.
After reading @StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml's comment, I'm not sure if there is a way to estimate.
I do think we can reliably say: Not enough. However, it's pretty cozy here so I don't mind for now.
I'm smart enough to know you're looking for a calculated estimate, yet dumb enough to add "I did it" for you to add to your count. Happy counting!
Me. The way the API thing was handled just pissed me off too much to log in or contribute there anymore. I do occasionally load the "old." version of the site up and read some of the specialized communities. I'd been there since the mass migration from Digg.
Lemmy is too slow with new content (my Lemmy frontpage has 2-3+ day old posts) and there are fewer interesting comments to engage.
I do think reddit's frontpage is noticeably worse off now, but I wish there was some metric to see how that looks statistically.
Hopefully Lemmy continues to grow.
It seems lemmy way to show hot and active kinda broken. I've changed my default to TopDay or Top - SixHours, to get new contents
Thanks for that suggestion, I hadn't even found that sorting option until just now! It does look better already.
When reddit shut down their api every single subreddit on the site went down in comment activity by 75% or more. Comment activity has only been decreasing in the month since then. Post activity has been in decline as well.
Whether this means people stopped using the site entirely or not is up for debate. But in terms of damage to the community on the site it is the single biggest social media failure I have seen on the web since Digg. Even Musk hasn't damaged Twitter as much as the api change has damaged reddit.
Wow. Where did you get those numbers, would love to peruse
https://subredditstats.com
Go to literally any subreddit, scroll to the comments per day graph and check out the drop on July 11th. The official date of the change was July 1st but they delayed it or something with a grace period. That drop on July 11th is the api drop.
Some examples in order - /r/mildlyinfuriating /r/whitepeopletwitter /r/gaming /r/Askreddit
Hahaha wow. Thanks
What is happening over there is one of the biggest disasters I've ever seen online and the fact that it's going unreported on while Twitter and Musk continue to get all the attention is absolutely ridiculous. Reddit is collapsing and unless they do something enormous it is currently in a death spiral.
where will all the nazis go!?
Twitter by the looks of things.
I don't know what the numbers are but I haven't gone back minus the occasional google search that pulls up a Reddit post in the results. Even then, I use my browser without logging in.
Im.the same. The pain is that if the post is about some issue and you can see the post which probably explained the problem is deleted😅 fuck u/spez
I've almost completely stoped using Reddit, I only see it if I find it in a web search and it has an answer I'm looking for, this community is amazing, btw.
Me! I'll still end up on Reddit occasionally from Google searches for stuff but I very much appreciate having a place to mindlessly scroll and read which isn't capitalistic
I just switched from Sync to Sync. The transition was bumpy but I'm still on Sync.
Once sync went down I deleted my account and moved. Haven't been back since.
Sync is now a lemmy client anyway: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.syncapps.lemmy_sync
I quit with the death of RiF.
My username checks out
Check. I'm here not there anymore.
But, I do have something to say about the lemmy experience. It's not that there's less. There is but i don't think that an issue.
What I do have an issue with is the insane amount of politically charged posts. It's almost making me return to that other place.
Like I get it, the rich should all die horrible deaths, you're socialist, not communist, you do support freedom just not capitalism.
Aren't we all deep down inside socialists?
I mean jesus started it, we've been spoon fed it for 2k years. It's just that We're all also greedy and egoistic sacks of shit so there are some weaving flaws in that system.
Great. Can we now get back to real content? Let's not talk about politics. Let's talk about world issues, Foss, games, books, movies, news (Libya, morroco) I dunno anything but politics.
Politics and religion never unite. Fun stuff and real tragedy does.
It's sounds funny if you say it, but if you scroll through all, reddit is simply much more diverse than lemmy right now
I dropped Reddit but my Lemmy usage certainly isn't what my Reddit usage was. I wish more of the websites I frequented had their own forums like the old days.
Hardly use reddit anymore. Won't lie, Lemmy doesn't seem to be anywhere near as rich in content but its a blessing in disguise because I mindlessly scroll less.
It takes time, effort and people to build cool spaces, and those spawn additional spaces for more obscure stuff. Lemmy is just new and hopefully it will grow with time but it's up to us to help how we can.
Same. I’ll still search there for stuff like BIFL or sone of the niche hobby subs but I don’t just go to scroll at all anymore. I’m kind of glad I’m getting a more reasonable amount of content at one go on Lemmy - I read more, have better sleep habits.
Edit: I still miss you Apollo!
The second I couldn't use RIF I was out of there. Accidentally went there twice or thrice and instantly noped from all the ads.
I was mostly a lurker so my dropping it didn't have much impact other than deleting a decade old account. If there's niche knowledge or communities I might still look (if it comes up in search results) but the urge to do so voluntarily is gone.
That doesn't matter. People look for revenge on numbers and will like to see Reddit burn and fail.
But that is not what is important. You don't need to justify your decision by looking at how much Reddit loses, but if you are happy here in Lemmy.
The same goes if you left Twitter and switched to Mastodon. It's like feeling better if your ex is doing worse after you get apart. Empty satisfaction imo
I left and haven't been back since they killed off 3rd party apps. I was a Sync user on Reddit and now that there's Sync for Lemmy I can't really tell the difference except for some of the content here and there.
Tbh I dont think that the traffic data Ive seen suggests that there was a long term drop but subjectively the content on a lot of subs has dried up substantially. It seems like people still go there but the actual content being made is just a trickle compared to what it used to be
I did! But as for estimates of people, you could probably compare total daily users in like, March to total daily users today, and that eould get you most of the way there
I've not been there since a month before the apps were borked.
I've been looking in when I need info, by searching and ending up there, but I've not looked at Reddit by habit since.
This is word for word how I could describe my migration as well
At first I was sad about the changes, but I’m in the same boat. Starting with the blackout, I basically lost all interest contributing to Reddit again. I still read about things occasionally but I contribute very little.
I think this app shutdown was one of the best things to happen to my health though. Instead of wasting hours a day on Reddit, I now do sports or go on a run. I am fitter than I have been for years.
Me. I can use Sync for Lemmy .
Ditto
Too many didn't seem to drop their own internal Reddit before coming to Lemmy.
I still check the hobby and city subs that are relevant to me and I've noticed r/all has become a reactionary mess. Specifically noticed a pattern of hatred for climate change activism and support of vigilante or police suppression of these movements. I'm not sure if regular libs have been migrating to Lemmy leaving only the worst posters or if they are just becoming shittier.
Oh it is pretty clear now libs were never going to actually support real climate activism in the long run, anything that actualy threatens to disrupt their comfortable lives and treats.
I think also its just the fact any real climate action is inherently against the liberal democracy that continues to fail despite constantly promising e.g all the climate accords. The libs will naturally see protests against this inaction as a protest against democracy therefore everyone will be declared eco-fascists/tankies or worse.
I was a heavy reddit user. Don't go there anymore. I'm done. There's just a moral line that was crossed, and that's that. Same with facebook. It's over. Now it's the constant fight to keep google at bay, but that's what it is.
Pretty much the same story for me, including the moral line. I wish more people would draw that line when it comes to all those unethical companies...
I did so by Nielson ratings logic about 2400 of us?
In that case make 4800 of us.
I did. Fuck reddit.
As soon as they announced the recent API changes, jumped ship, never looked back
I did. Way less content, but higher quality content.
Meh. I just need something to scroll on, and a place to read comments. Without contributing to an evil agenda, preferably.
I cut my Reddit usage by about 90%. I never intend to fully quit while it still offers things I can't get anywhere else.
Lemmy gives me the dose of random scrolling I want and Reddit gives me specific info I need
I made the switch after the API.changes. i wasn't about to endure a bullshit interface. Also. It's been 10~ years of using reddit, as an adult looking to grow, it was time to find new and strange pastures. Lemmy may not be where we all end up, but its a journey and so far being an 'Internet forum surfer' from AOL 4.0 days. things have been a wild ride
I actually use both. Reddit to watch or partake in nonsensical angry at the internet posts and Lemmy for real discussion in a niche that I fancy.
Lemmy feels like Reddit did 10 years ago.
I did. RIF stopped working
I left when Apollo died. Never went back.
I haven't been back. I suspect that may be true for many regular users of Lemmy.
I was using Reddit Is Fun on mobile and a heavily curated desktop feed and migrated here fully when RiF died.
When I've looked at Reddit on desktop, it feels like a shadow of it's former self in so far as some of the default subs are missing and others just seem filled with the same content reach time I've looked.
While the place won't die overnight, it will become more overrun with bots and karma farmers posting same content over and over.
I have only been back a handful of times in the browser. Usually when information I need is only on reddit. From someone who used reddit for hours and hours a day I'm shocked how little I miss it. I'm glad it went down the toilet.
Yeah, I feel like Lemmy has just enough content to satisfy that urge to browse a Reddit-like site, but not enough to suck me in, and I’m really pleased about that. It’s like a nicotine patch.
I'm now spending 90% of my shit scrolling time here instead of Reddit (using Sync mainly) and I love it!
I still have my account on Reddit, but have not logged in since the API events.
Very happy to have found Lemmy, with great content and great people.
Same about going from Twitter to Mastodon.
No Appolo, no reddit for me. I will still go to searches that link there.
I stopped using Reddit the moment sync for Reddit died, I occasionally end up in the website when I'm googling for a tech problem
Found myself there recently for a tech-related google search. Was happy to see the answer I was there for was removed by its author and their account was deleted.
I only use it for sports discussion, as the third party app I use still works with a patched version. If the third party app stops working, I'll stop. It's not like the discussion on Reddit is high quality anyways.
I had forgotten about reddit until I saw this post.
Not using it at all.
You might find your responses here a bit biased.
At least 6
7 if you count me in!
I made the switch when RiF died. In all honesty I wish it wasn't necessary, because the niche communities here are a shadow of what Reddit had before the blackouts. And while Reddit had trolls just like Lemmy, it was big enough that you didn't have to share general spaces with them.
Where have you been finding trolls on Lemmy? I've found it has been substantially better than reddit.
I'd say the more pressing issue here is malicious users or instance owners sending out gore / CP for other people to cache on their personal servers.
I mostly did 3 years ago and have kinda nixed most of the rest of my reddit habits once RiF went down. It does move a lot slower, I cannot spend all day browsing askreddit or whatever in a depressive funk. I do still sometimes go on as part of searches for things.
I have no idea how many people though. The number of people on hexbear (daily users) is way lower than r/chapotraphouse at its height, assuming a continuity of community. There would be some people (possibly even a majority) who spend a decent amount of time on both.
I left Reddit after 14 years. Was really sad to see what it had changed into over time.
yeah it went through a few phases and definitely became rather unpleasant over the last few years imo.
I haven't been back since RIF died.
Left after RiF went down. Stuck with Lemmy, mostly because my consumption of useless doomscrolling was in need of a reduction. Still here, even if lemmy does have a stark difference in user interaction compared to Reddit. This place is slightly less toxic overall, and I think that's worth something.
Well, theres only one way to find out. Ill start:
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I still visit Reddit, but I stopped participating- I don't post, comment, or vote.
I visit Reddit via googling "[thing I want an answer to] Reddit". The whole Internet has become a frustrating quagmire and reddit seemed on the level for awhile. So the older posts answering my question are still useful.
Until I find something I want to comment on to help or correct something and I realize the post is several years old haha
Now that sync works with lemmy, I pretty much forgot about reddit. I wish there were the same communities, but I figure it's just a matter of time.
reddit culture sucks and I left it behind as a social media site a while ago.
still have to use site:reddit.com to get half decent search results tho
Ex Apollo user here. Dropped Reddit as soon as Apollo shut down and haven’t looked back. Occasionally a Reddit post will return in my search but that’s about it for Reddit.
Same here but I was using RIF.
I check Lemmy everyday before going to bed, only time I use reddit is when it comes up in web search results for my queries. I’ll use reddit again if they announce fair pricing for 3rd party apps as I miss my small communities there.
I left out of principle but there are a few communities I'll scan from time to time because they don't quite exist here and I don't have the energy to make it myself.
I did
I have to stop by there every now and then because I'm looking for something and the answer is on a reddit post.
But for daily chilling/posting I'm all for Lemmy.
I spent 99% of my time on Reddit through Sync. When they decided to restrict API use, which killed third-party apps, I decided I was done. If the Sync dev didn't switch over to making a Lemmy app, I probably never would have heard about it. I've only gone to Reddit a handful of times since, and that's only because I was searching for something and a Google search took me to a Reddit thread.
Ditched reddit the moment 3rd party apps stopped working. I'm rooting for Lemmy to grow. I especially n hope that nieche communities feel less dead in the future.
Me. Probably wouldn't have stayed this long if it wasn't for the Sync app. There's just no other good Reddit-like app.
I never came back after the protests. I don't understand the people who said "why should I care if I don't use 3rd party apps". After seeing reddit's true colors on full display, I didn't want anything more to do with that company.
I gave up reddit. When Infinity announce a subscription I was done. I didn't want go through all the hassle getting an app key in whatever way when this is easy. Also Reddit CEO is a piece of crap, like pretty much all CEOs.
I've cut my reddit consumption drastically but I haven't dropped it completely. There are two communities that I still check out a few times per week and I still Google "what is the best ______ reddit" or "how do I do ______ reddit" when I need to. But I'm never scrolling r/all anymore.
I did. When The site administration sided with racists nazis I was glad to leave. I got perma-banned for saying "Ork is a dehumanizing racial slur. Calling Russians 'Ork' is racist hate speech." Occasionally I open a recent link and I nearly always regret it.
Count me as one. I haven't been back since sync went dark. I do get frustrated with not being able to find that niche information/answer to a question by adding site:Reddit to a search though - I know it's my choice though
Deleted my account on Reddit and never went fuck. Fuck Reddit and fuck Spez.
Look at the user figures for Lemmy instances and it becomes very clear that the number of people using Lemmy isn't even in the hundreds if thousands. So yes I'd say it is possible to estimate that less than 100k people made the switch.
I never use reddit unless someone sends me a link for something specific (that someone could be google) - I don't have their app installed and I never go to them naturally...I probably see 1 reddit post a week on average.
I dropped and deleted the account. Only time I go to Reddit now is if I am searching for something and a Reddit link is part of the search and happen to have the answer I need.
I definitely did, but I know barely anyone else who did.
I definitely left. I still occasionally lurk on Reddit but I never post or vote anymore. Real shame, because I really want to share my Factorio Bob's+Angels (much harder and more complicated mod of Factorio) victory on r/factorio, but I won't because of Spez's actions.
I left and haven't been back, I won't even click on a link from a search engine for them. That's how I roll.
We could estimate this by randomly sampling some Lemmy users, with the following questions:
And then comparing it with the total amount of Lemmy users.
Haven’t been back since I deleted my account after the blackout. No Apollo, no Reddit.
I did. Once sync was out it was a pretty easy transition. I just wanted an app to scroll mindlessly for a couple minutes a day, and Lemmy does the job. The content stream is a lot slower, but for low usage users like myself, it's fine.
That said, from what I've gleaned from other threads, it still seems like most people still use Reddit in some capacity.
I did as soon as Sync came out.
+1
I've deleted all my reddit accounts and haven't added any new content to reddit since I switched, Though I must admit I still end up there from time to time when I search for specific things.. mostly related to niche topics. I use Lemmy for mindless browsing, news, laughs, etc.
I use both. Lemmy by deafult. Reddit for the few very specific communites Lemmy is lacking . Also questions go to Lemmy since beacuse lemmy is smaller pepole are actually answering you instead of ignoring your questions or mods deleting them beacuse this belongs to the daily thread for small questions or the similars.
I did once Infinity stopped working
I fucking did. Long live 196
I have. Lemmy is especially good for content geared towards news, tech, FOSS, privacy, memes (if, unlike me, Reddit-style memes are your thing), et cetera. For me, that checks off all the boxes for what i used Reddit for, so when i started using Lemmy, there wasn't really anything i was missing from Reddit. So, while i'm willing to miss out on some content in order to drop Reddit, i haven't really needed to.
However, this definitely isn't the case for most people. If people are just using Reddit for certain things they just don't see on Lemmy, that's totally fine (though i hope they're using an ad blocker or something), especially if they stick around for when Lemmy does start having that kind of content.
Growth isn't a straight line and there will be points of fluctuation, stagnation, and decline.
Dropped Reddit since the beginning of the protest waves. But most importantly, due to this, my screen time plummeted from 10h per day to 2 or 3 hours.
I was a sync user. Waited until the last day. Been quite until recently. I think I've had more conversations here then in my four years with Reddit. Something about the sizes of the communities made it hard to feel like a part of the conversation.
I didn't fully drop Reddit but I use it significantly less.
I deleted my 11year reddit account
I only lurked on Reddit through third party apps. Now I am permanently here, and I can comment and post with good conscience too!
Purged my main account by editing every post and reply. Then deleated all of them. Then deleated the account. . There are bots to do that automatically and make it easy.
I still have a NSFW account that Is exclusively used for NSFW stuff. I kept that one, but honestly that will probably be gone soon too. The vast majority of NSFW subreddits just feel like a bunch of only fans actors trying to self promote. Nothing against them or onlyfans, but I have no interest in it and would rather see stuff from people that are just having some fun. Not trying to make a living doing it.
I'm still not entirely sure what Lemmy is, but I mostly quit reddit and moved to hexbear when reddit banned /r/chapotraphouse. I still went on reddit to check local COVID stats but since Biden said
and the CDC stopped tracking, there's no reason to go back.
Full time Lemmy conversion here. I will never go back
I did.
I've stopped using it on mobile entirely, but still use Reddit for some communities like r/bash and the like, or otherwise things related to my job -- though, only on desktop.
That said, I'd like to fully move off of the platform eventually.
I switched.
left reddit completely and found a replacement for every community I am interested in. i love lemmy
I did. And I did it exclusively because of reddit sync. I used that app to browse reddit during my decade plus old account. Once reddit sync left, the app maker said he's moving to lemmy. I never even heard of lemmy until then. Now I'm here on sync.
First tried Lemmy during the blackouts, never went back to reddit after Boost stopped working
I started my own instance and haven't touched Reddit since, except sometimes as search results. But I don't browse, login, etc.
I did. Fuck reddit.
I left reddit for good. I will not knowingly enhance reddits traffic stats on principle for the crap spez pulled. Everyone should do the same.
Left reddit after 13 years, never looked back. Fuck Reddit
I left and haven't looked back. Honestly with the consistent growth of lemmy there's been now need.
Present ✋
There are some communities that never transitioned to Lemmy, so I'll be using them untill old.reddit is disabled.
I did. Occasionally visit old.reddit.com put of nostalgia, but never logged in, never controbute. It's not as busy here, but i like it. Lemmy has an OG nerd feeling to it.
I dropped mobile reddit for Lemmy. I still use reddit on my PC, but never on my mobile devices.
Still using reddit read-only through Libreddit but I don't even check it every day anymore.
I hit up my niche self-hosted and Linux subs, take a peek at /r/all, get immediately put off by all the bot content and toxicity, and come right back to Lemmy.
Deleted my reddit account a while ago. Don't really use lemmy as much as I used to use reddit, but I see that as a good thing. the quality of the use I get is a lot better here too.
I only go back when a site like this or /v/ links me back.
I used infinity for reddit app to surf reddit, when they started charging for api, app become unusable then i switched to eternity for lemmy and i love it
I sure did. I was already tired of their terrible moderation policies and the arbitrary power some mods abused all to hell. Good riddance.
I only used baconreader, and so did my wife. So no more reddit for us.
I haven't participated on Reddit since leaving for Lemmy, and I've barely participated on blahaj since leaving for hexbear
If "dropped Reddit for Hexbear" means getting perma-banned from Reddit, then sure.
Edit: No, it's not because I did anything cool. I actually don't know and nobody from the corp responded to why my inactive account got zapped
I dropped reddit for sure, but can't say I'm exactly an avid Lemmy user. There just isn't enough things I'm interested in. I pop in every once in a while but I'll probably drop this too soon. I have absolutely no idea how I will even get any news, since I don't watch tv, and that kinda scares me. On the other hand, I started reading books again, which I hadn't touched ever since I became a redditor
I only looked at Reddit on Sync so when that stopped working I stopped visiting Reddit. Now I look at Lemmy on Sync but not as much
I really don't think there's a way to estimate. Personally, as a long term Sync user, I switched even before Sync was reddit for Lemmy. There's no real way to measure it though.
Only on Reddit for a couple communities. But, Lemmy kind of became my main Social site overall. Replaced all of them for me.
I mapped reddit.com to 127.0.0.1. My life is so much better now!
technically, i dropped reddit for tumblr.....lemmy is a sometimes indulgences
I dropped reddit and facebook. Don't miss them much.
When im desperate for information and all I'm getting are ai generated article results, I will still resort to appending to reddit to my Google searches but otherwise I've deleted everything on reddit and keep up with major current events and bad memes here on lemmy. It really could be a better experience but it's better than... well... endorsing reddits decisions.
I'm still using both. Lemmy is my main but for communities that are non-existent on Lemmy, I revert to Reddit.
I now mostly use Reddit to tell people about Lemmy
I don't passively use it anymore, but I'll use it as a reference for past posts.
"How to determine undertone lemmy" doesn't really work like "... reddit"
Same here, for me it was when I saw how Spez was treating mods that I pulled out.
Also obligatory “Boost Gang 🙌”
More than 4
I refuse to use their shitty app, but I still use old reddit on the desktop. If they remove old.reddit.com, I will probably not use it at all.
On mobile, I tried a few apps. Lemmy feels very empty and devoid of content and communities. Mastodon is not that interesting. I feel that hacker news is the best alternative right now. Even though it doesn't have that many users, the fact that it has a single "community" helps it feel far less empty, and more focused towards technical people.
Well, I dropped reddit because rif stopped working. Whether it was "for Lemmy" is kind of a "for now" thing. Something better comes along and I'm likely to migrate there (or use it in addition).
Dropped reddit. Have been using Fediverse apps since.
I did, it wasn't easy but I'm here.
Right here. Have you been on reddit lately? It's worse than usual. And I'm not just talking about all of the hardcore conservative/borderline fascist subs that all of a sudden materialized. The discourse on most subs is clearly dominated by bots now.
It's all the New users on Lemmy since June 2023
I dropped it completely. It was a garbage dump.
Sort of. I had an account but I'd posted like 3 times one one topic in 2017. Never logged back in. Started using the terrible app in the last year but didn't care enough to find or use a better 3rd party app.
Decided to not use it during the blackout, read a suggestion to use Jerboa app.
Haven't looked back. How dare they take away my right to procrastinate on improving my own user experience.
I didn't have a choice. I was the victim of a sitewide ban from an overzealous mod...
+1 here 🙋🏽♂️
I also finally received my data archive from Twitter. For weeks, the verification emails weren't being delivered. When they were, the codes had expired. Repeat. I have no proof to indicate this was a way of locking me in, but it seems suspicious because it had never happened before.
For me, it's not about being petty or spiteful against these platforms just for the hell of it. It's just that I'm tired of their unethical business model. Hostile practices. Their lock-in. Lack of interoperability. The user hostility.
It's not good for us, it's only good for the platform, which then only serves to give that platform more power, which means more user abuse, enshittification, etc.
Feels good to not contribute to that and not continue digging that hole, as well as invest in a better web for all of us.
i'll occasionally go back and browse on desktop only but i don't interact. all interaction is here along with most of my browsing
Left when Infinity went sub. I just couldn't get over how bad reddits default app was. When searching around for something else I saw conversations about lemmy and got interested. Decided to dive in with Sync and now I've been only using this. Still have Geddit to open any links I have to open if they are reddit links but overall it's been a great experience so far. With all new things might take a bit for community to grow.
This one. Second my app stopped working I never went back. Have been an avid daily contributor for a decade.
I was a lurker there and I actually participate here. I still go there for videos in specific communities, but I no longer scroll ALL.
+1 left when RIF stopped working
I think we should focus on quality and thoughtful discussion. I appreciate stupid memes too, but if it were up to me that would be secondary - even if overall popularity takes a hit.
Also, less concern over Reddit would be nice. I was there from the Digg exodus until the API drama, so I understand the change aspect quite well, but if genuine conversation is what matters to you, the correct people are here now.
Yep. Cold turkey.
I nuked my 10yo account. I was so pissed about the API thing. Sadly, I do still find myself on random reddit threads if I'm looking for some specific info though...it's just not as easy to search for relevant info through Lemmy. But I do love the community for what it is though.
left reddit for good w/ a 50k sub I modded for over a decade. the best thing since: when modcodeofconduct tried to recruit replacements from the userbase, the users ignored them. the new mods are some randos, the subs are full of spam and garbage.
Great works Spez you fucking dolt.
I think if Reddit was really good, 90% of the people here would not have a good reason to use Lemmy. I was on Lemmy before the blackout & it wasn't great; had I plugged it then, many would be reluctant to switch. Now, it is amazing, and Reddit ensured that Lemmy got a nice influx of users to make that happen :)
Me
Dyed in the wool sync user
I did! They banned my account after a dispute with a Mod claiming I was being islamaphobic for asking about professor who was killed for supposedly showing a picture of Muhammad (which later turned out the daughter lied about) by a girl's father who was mad man who claimed Islam. The post was praising Islam for being a religion of peace and anyone who said differently didn't understand... so I asked about that case.... got banned from the sub.. argued with the mod, who then reported.e for harassment to the Reddit team and boom, permanently banned, no appeal option... My four year account and 97k karma gone.. then they banned my Alt account because of my phone IP address... I was so pissed.. tried VPNs too.. no good after a while..
Then I googled reddit alternatives, and a few scrolls down, I saw a forum from lemmy discusing how it had just launched as the reddit alternative and to try it.. I am glad I did. I like this better.. I wish there was more content though.. I love certain shows and love discussion about them. Like MTV the challenge or what we do in the shadows... Lemmy is so new, it doesn't have all those communitys just yet but I am happy to be here and watch the site grow.
I did, I really just follow the sync app ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If they didn't pull that API bs for sync, I wouldn't be here. No regurtz on the move tho
Me me me
I use reddit only 2-3 times a month since the kill of third party apps.
Too many and, yet, not enough.
I got a Lemmy account with the main exodus, but my 3rd party Reddit app continued to work (though it slowly broke bit by bit) until just a couple days ago when it completely stopped working at all.
Now I've fully swapped off of Reddit and onto Lemmy.
I did
I wasn't sure whether I should completely drop Reddit, but now, after a month on Lemmy I can say that I stopped using Reddit
I've not been able to stop using Reddit because quite simply, some subs never migrated and they are major subs for me, such as /r/hockey. I've been using it less for sure and I've used Lemmy more, especially with Sync now available, but only time will tell.
🙋♂️
I blows my mind that people still use it.
Mostly. It helps that Voyager looks exactly like Apollo. I forget I’m on lemmy sometimes.
I deleted my reddit account and browse lemmy daily. I do miss a few subs on reddit concerning ancient greece/greek and corvids, but it is what it is. I'm fairly satisfied with lemmy.
Haven't opened Reddit since the new API pricing dropped, Lemmy is doing fine for me so far!
lemmy publishes activate user data, im pretty sure most or all came from reddit, but no way to know how many still active there
I did. Used a tool that purged my entire history.
When Sync stopped working on Reddit, I found kbin and Lemmy, and haven't looked back. Especially with Sync being on Lemmy. Reddit isn't worth the agitation anymore.
I did I enjoy lemmy for what it is. Like any social media just block defaults you don't like and tune it to your own subscriptions an its fine.
Another +1
I didn’t stop using Reddit but I use it much less now, and I seldom post anymore. I’ve noticed a significant drop in quality; lots of good posters and mods left.
Left after I found lemmy
I've been almost exclusively on Lemmy, but even after several months still miss user content on some of the more niche communities like my local sports team subreddit. I'll still hold out for a bit longer, if only to see what else is out there, but the itch is real.
I think it's worth keeping in mind that for some of this you'll need to use more than one platform for a while. Sports content was one of the last things that really popularised on reddit and that's because it's less popular among early adopters, who tend to be more into tech than physical activities.
Dropped it and haven't looked back.
I was on RIF for years, deleted everything and haven't gone back. It's kinda liberating, I don't spend nearly as much time here as I did Reddit, and it scratches the itch.
I still use it occasionally for some things, though I’ve noticed a steep quality drop on Reddit. I spend much more time on Lemmy.
Lemmy > Discovery, Reddit > Specific Subs that haven’t yet migrated.
Maybe make a poll?
I have dropped it, approximately by 98%
I mainly browse Lemmy here with Sync for Lemmy, and when I want some more niche stuff I head up to Reddit with patched Sync for Reddit, so yeah, Sync is always with me.
I quit when Joey for Reddit finally got taken down.
Honestly, the people here seem kinder and more intelligent, even if I don't agree with what they're saying.
You can't actually leave Reddit. That's like leading the city to go to the desert. The people are still in the city. No matter how many blackjack and hookers you bring to the desert.
I've been in "the desert" for years, it's great out here, we have sandworms and shit that makes you clairvoyant
The Fediverse, fuck yeah!
I dropped Reddit, but I'm still not 100% into Lemmy. To put it another way: Reddit was a pinned tab, as is Mastodon, webmail, Qobuz, and a whole bunch of other essentials. Lemmy is unpinned and gets looked at briefly every 2-3 days.
not enough
I kept Infinity installed until it finally stopped working. In the last few weeks, there was basically nothing good on Reddit anyway so I'm ok with dropping it.
I'm hoping more people come to Lemmy and we get lots of content here!
I did.
I'm only now switched over because infinity for reddit free finally died
Stopped using Reddit when Infinity died
I am switching between Sync for Lemmy and ReVanced clients for Reddit, generally since Lemmy doesn't have enough content that is interesting for me (ff14 community is basically dead on Lemmy, random maghjong riichi content is not there on Lemmy, world/news is basically the same as my meduza feed instead of random "what's around the globe", specific/non-general memes are not there, discussions are not active).
I hope it improves with time. I much prefer the notion of ActivityPub than that of centralized SM, but I guess the only real way forward is to force content gatekeepers to implement open apis...
Without RiF, there is no Reddit for me.
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I'm still mostly on Reddit, but I've definitely cut down my participation. For example I stopped up/downvoting posts entirely. And haven't really been participating in askreddit / eli5
The post I've made are either mirrored, or limited to relatively obscure communities.
As for lemmy, still lurking, not quite ready to dive in.
I did. signed out of all Reddit accounts once on my PC and uninstalled Apollo when it was on life support once Spez started outwardly idolizing Elon Musk. Fuck that shit I’m out
Now I only use Reddit wherever I need tech support and google has something for me that I need. I also installed Reddit to redirect extension to the wayback machine it I go there
I was a part of the chapo exodus and found myself just going to the hexbear instead of the reddit to the point that I just pop into reddit like once or twice a year.