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This seems like a good place so far tbh

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Please dont tell anyone how I live

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Other than some specific subs, yes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I did. I had one sub that I wanted to keep up with so I added them into my RSS reader and spend my time on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

TBH I could have continued using Reddit as it was in may. Now I'm basically kicked off of a Reddit experience that doesn't treat me like livestock in a cage (the official app). So here I am.

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

I haven't been back in a couple of weeks now but haven't gone so far as to delete my account. As a software developer, I donated some of my time helping people with beginner programming questions and decided to leave those comments in place for anyone who might find them useful still.

But I think it's fair to say I've moved on from reddit. It's so stupid what they did, but I also like this idea of social media being maintained by the community it serves rather than some faceless corporation, so I don't see myself going back out of principle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I believe you made the right choice. To me reddit is no more than an encyclopedia now. But it also may be the best encyclopedia ever created.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yep, left reddit and came to lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

100%....Havent even looked back since last Friday around 7 when RIF stopped working...spent a couple hours finding Lemmy and eventually Liftoff, I have a new home now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I am definitely replacing Reddit with Lemmy/kbin. I am done with Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I went all in on Lemmy and honestly am having a better time than I did on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yup, I've done the full switcheroo. Not going to be using Reddit's app and 90% of my Reddit use is on my phone...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, for sure. Felt like Reddit where going downhill for a long time. This frog is finally jumping out of the pot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Now that Boost no longer works, I have no reason to go to Reddit. Lemmy all the way at this point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I registered to try it out. Looks nice so far. Hopefully more users switch and start filling this place with content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I haven’t been on Reddit since Apollo went dark. I’m done with it except for a couple specific communities until similar ones are available here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yep, there's just a couple communities stuck on Reddit that I still look at, but overall I'm around 80% Lemmy 20% Reddit now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not replacing. But trying to be honest. And I'm liking Lemmy with "Connect" app pretty much.

Can't believe Reddit can't pay to any of these Devs to revamp their shitty low performance app.

But anyway. I'm like the idea of the Lemmy instances etc.

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

They can they just deliberately chose to make it shitty.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Happens at the governments, happens at the companies.

I work in some IT projects with like 20-30 people and literally 3-4 of us would be enough. Same thing is probably happening at Reddit.

I can't imagine how many managers, Devs, offshore etc are involved in that shitty Reddit app that is 100 times worse than Infinity, Boost and many more Reddit 3rd party apps.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yes. It's different enough that I am not taking it as a one to one replacement, but moving on to a quieter, calmer place.

I thought I might use Tumblr for another angle of replacing part of reddit, but it doesn't seem to be the place for me. I'm not a rabid fan of any one thing, so it seems like so much hype and I don't like the lack of conversation there.

This place has the threaded comments, and respectful conversation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I'm using it on my phone, but still browsing Reddit on PC. Going well so far and I assume as I find more communities on Lemmy that I enjoy my use of reddit will slowly decrease.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

with my 3rd party app of choise diem my reddit usage so no more reddit for me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I came here before June 15th and Lemmy seems more alive every day. I only ever used Reddit's official app but I haven't been back since the API changes took place.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I'm trying, but there are a lot of people and communities who don't follow. The corporate are just too powerful at the moment. Like Facebook's new Threads is replacing Twitter, instead of Mastodon. Here in Finland Mastodon had it's moment and people were migrating to that, but I dunno.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, next question

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How do you find your favorite community? Can't anything yet. I'm using connect on Lemmy.world. every search ends up with nothing much.

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