I've just deleted my reddit account! :-)
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
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I was, then I wasn't, but only because my Reddit is curated with over a decade of finding the subs I like.
However, I'm still slowly trying to find and curate my Lemmy experience, which I expect will pickup even more steam once 3rd Party API's get shut down the end of this month.
It's not even just a matter of principle, the Reddit official app is terrible, which is almost funny since I loved AlienBlue.
Been lurking for a few days and finally decided to take the plunge. I actually prefer the design/UI of this site more than Reddit. Nice and clean.
I think the exodus thus far has been great. Was on Reddit for 12 years so it's a bittersweet feeling but the fact that the CEO has no qualms about catering to the users is pretty telling. Hope to engage in/foster some interesting discussions on here.
I have decided I will only use Lemmy from now on. I've just setup my own instance (where I am the only user for now). I am actually posting this from my instance. I follow most things I used to follow on reddit. I used https://sub.rehab/ to find where the communities have migrated to and subscribed to all of them. It's great!
I will until I run out of content here.
This is my first message.
I have converted to Lemmy fully now. I deleted my reddit favourites and Relay for Reddit, and just replaced them with Lemmy. Now when I subconciously click where reddit used to be, I get Lemmy instead. It's helped a lot.
I'm still struggling with some aspects of Lemmy. I'm on a small instance called "Toast.ooo", and I'd like to subscribe to the starfield community on "Lemmy.zip", but I just can't do it. If I try to search for it, it doesn't appear. If I go direct to Lemmy.zip, I can't log in to my account.
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Not even going to Reddit at all. The main subs I followed have locked anyway.
Just signed up and still exploring. Hopefully I will spend more time on here than Reddit though.
Discussion is better here, I find myself just looking through the local feed. Content specific stuff has some catching up to do
I'm fully onto Lemmy from Reddit now. I'm spending a lot more time here. Quality of posts is better and more interesting. This is where the smart people go.
Also Lemmy is greatly smaller and has a strong community feel. Lemmy is going to grow fast after Reddit kills off mobile apps, but hopefully it can retain the community feel.
I barely even used Reddit in the first place... but I did find myself spending more time on Mastodon than Twitter after the whole Elon thing happened. Noticeably less toxicity in the places I hang out in. Even went as far as to wipe my account clean with a service so I'm not contributing any content to them, but keep my handle so nobody can steal it from me and say things.
I already have 10 lemmy accounts and like 2k compounded points in 12 days!! I have ruined my sleep schedule because I stay on Lemmy till like 8 am! I have procrastinated my well paying job to get more hours into this and even developed plug-ins for lemmy when I could've been developing shit for my job! Yes, I've been using Lemmy more than Reddit. 😭😔
Joined today and I'm loving it so far. Hopefully it is herento stay.
Since uninstalling rif from my phone and installing jerboa I use Lemmy much more
Heavy Reddit user here. Joined Lemmy today. I like what I'm seeing when accessing Lemmy through a desktop browser but the mobile experience leaves a lot to be desired. Nonetheless, I'm excited to be here and look forward to rapid improvements as new users keep joining.
Time will tell honestly, i hope we get something else working, because i get a deep pit in my stomach everytime i hear of the shit the reddit admins are pulling rn.
More. Now I'm in two Lemmy instances and posting regularly on Trust Cafe, Jimmy Wales' new joint that's in beta. I love it, it's three breaths of fresh air at once and I'm feeling lightheaded.
Just switched recently but I feel as if the communities in lemmy produces quality content than reddit
This site is super janky, when I load All, it just keeps adding new posts and moving things I'm reading. Hot doesn't bring up the most popular posts, but how do I filter for that? I am just filtering by most commented for now.
I'll keep using it, after all, if the experience is worse, I'll use it less which is actually a plus. And as a substitute, it is enough to keep me off Reddit. But it is categorically worse, even if it did have all the same content.
Same. Keeps moving things down as posts are added. Kinda of annoying, but not bad overall.
I've stopped using it on mobile as I deleted sync, though my Lemmy app took the spot on my home screen. When at my desk I still load Reddit out of habit though
About a week since i read or posted on Reddit.
Reading Christian's rebuttal was genuinely shocking to me and I decided I didn't want to continue supporting Reddit's management by being associated with it.
I demodded myself (sole moderator of a 13 year old sub, plus another two smaller ones), deleted all my many thousands of posts and comments and stopped using it.
I'm planning on deleting my 11 year user with a lot of karma on the 1st to join the protest then (I need to revisit to check that's still happening)
I am... but they nuked all my main/alts except a few. I keep them to keep control of my mod rights, but its coming to a point of I don't want to bother.
I'm on kbin but I've barely been on reddit at all since I switched. I'm enjoying watching the fediverse grow and begin to mature into the begining of a real threat to major social media monsters like reddit, twitter, Facebook, and others.
I've spent all my time between Lemmy and kbin.
It's been a lot of fun, and while I know it's a little fractured, it's been giving me a really great bit of variety
Same. I'm scaling down my Reddit use and preferring the use of Lemmy. So far, many of my main communities are still Reddit first, but that is decreasing ever more.
I guess it's currently about 70/30 percent of my time split across these two, favouring Lemmy in spite of the fact that I'm not yet following all the communities that I want to follow.
Since I deleted both of my reddit accounts I've spent all me social time on Lemmy. First couple of days sucked, but now I'm really enjoying it.
I haven't used Reddit for a week already