Have you left reddit forever? Have you deleted your account and posts? Just curious
Toxicity-wise I much prefer Lemmy. I’ll definitely end up staying and have stopped using Reddit almost completely. However, there are very niche communities that haven’t switched over yet so it’s not viable for me to completely cut it off. I’ve logged out of my Reddit account and will most likely never use it again. I haven’t deleted my comments or any posts simply because maybe someone else will find use for them (like somebody else said in this thread). Other than that, I’m all for Lemmy.
I’m moving here permanently and never looking back, but I’m leaving my posts because that’s 11 years worth of comments that someone may find useful in the future. I hate the idea of losing all the good comments and discussions that have taken place over the years but I understand why people wish to delete their stuff regardless.
Also decided to move permanently. Running Power Delete Suite now to mass edit all my comments/posts there so they can’t monetize my effort.
That’s the problem with reddit at the end of the day. It profits off of other’s knowledge and hard work. The only problem with Lemmy is its difficulty getting into it. I don’t think this will ever be as big as reddit but one can hope.
Depending on the community, big is not always better though. Especially for technical communities, a smaller and knowledgeable community is preferable.
I honestly do not say this in a ‘gate-keeping’ sort of way, but see the Linux-related communities on Reddit for instance – they have all devolved into “I successfully installed <distro_name> and I am never going back!”, “Look at my shiny new themed desktop”, “Update broke my installation. Help!” etc. This is in stark contrast to the Linux mailing-lists of yore, where users discussed actually interesting stuff.
Oh absolutely. I meant more in a way where Lemmy was the go to for hosting a community rather than reddit. I hate this being labeled as a “niche website” and I want the plethora of information reddit has to offer over here instead where it can’t be profited off of and manipulated. Sadly in order for that to happen I must show you my new PC with a small debian based distro you probably haven’t heard of, Linux Mint. I can’t and won’t ever go back to stinky windows. But for real I had to recreate my Lemmy account since I forgot my login its been so long since I found no actual personal use for this site.
I meant more in a way where Lemmy was the go to for hosting a community rather than reddit.
I would very much like that to happen too, and I hope we do manage to strike a nice balance between too niche and too, well, Reddit-like. I am old school, and almost exclusively use a browser for web content, but I think a good app for Lemmy will help attract and retain more users. After that, if the crowd who doesn’t even want to climb the small hill of getting used to decentralized way of doing things is still not pleased and doesn’t want to come here, or wants to go back to Reddit or wherever, that’s fine by me.
Cheers :)
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I do for sure.
I’m going to stick around here. I’m not letting the official reddit app anywhere near my phone.
I had created an account almost 3 years ago. This reddit API apocalypse reminded me of lemmy. Considering, the subpar experience. It would be stupid to not be on lemmy. I still have my reddit account and posts but, after the blackout and the subpar experience my activity has been super reduced.
I’m definitely sticking with Lemmy. While I do feel there’s a number of communities missing and those that do exist don’t have nearly as much content, I know that this will improve over time as more people switch over. It’s also a little rough around the edges on the software side (having to refresh my page several times for it to load properly), but this will be sorted out as well.
I deleted multiple accounts an I’m never looking back, at most I’ll connect on my phone anonymously for google results using infinity for as long as it works, and then with a mobile browser until that’s no longer allowed
After that, well there might be ways to bypass whatever it is they do, but it won’t be worth it
Lemmy needs a useable search - either integrated or indexed via search engines. Major use of reddit for me is treating it as a giant forum, seeking answers to questions.
Doom scrolling comes second. I need a way to swipe away posts I have no interest in to hide them forever.
I will probably never be entirely done with reddit unless the knowledgebase portion dries up.
Im guessing that’ll be a long time coming. For most of the 14+ years I was on there the running joke was how horrible the search was. Idk if they ever really solved search internally, the difference was when results started showing up prominently in google search.
Yup. If not for mentions of reddit on lemmy I’d have forgotten about it. Seriosuly.
I don’t see myself leaving Lemmy anytime soon. It’s like being in an exclusive club. You don’t want go to back to the that filthy club where the bouncers are pricks.
Deleted my accounts.
Lemmy will have to earn my attention on its own merit, but I’m not going back to Reddit regardless.
I don’t know. So far all I’ve seen is people talking about Reddit. How do I find interesting communities?
Hahaha, that’s true! I’ll try to engage on non-Reddit related content as much as i can.
I left my account, but deleted my posts. Not going back, only miss a few things like the BestOf board. That sub declined for sure but reliably had good content.
I’m on kbin but yeah, I plan to stay. Most of what I saw on Reddit wasn’t even relevant to my interests because their algorithms kept pushing random shit at me. I’m happy to really tailor my own experience here. Goodbye, my 80k karma
What is kbin? I don’t get it.
It’s just another type of instance for the Fediverse. Someone who understands it better can give a more meaningful answer but it’s like Lemmy is gmail and Kbin is hotmail (or vice versa).
