Asklemmy

Reddit hasn't been TOO bad. What's been harder for me is Twitter, mostly due to all the artists I follow.

There's a couple of sports and tech subs I have bookmarked via old.reddit that are still the de facto place for the community, all in a browser with aggressive privacy measures. I check in on them when "stuff happens" in that area, but don't post and don't hang around.

Otherwise from the odd search hit, I made a clean break back in June and haven't really looked back.

I use Lemmy for the "general" undirected browsing when I'm bored. I also increased the friction by removing Reddit from my bookmarks, and adding Lemmy.

I do still use Reddit for the smaller communities that have no realistic alternative on Lemmy.

Things take time, getting the momentum moving to another platform is always super hard to do

Be the change you want to see.

i still browse it sometimes when researching something but i use libreddit (when it works) and have yet to interact with anything including posts, comments, or upvotes

never really intended to give it up. I don't expect certain communities to move here that fast, and I see no reason not to participate in them

Trouble completely avoiding it? Yes. I exclusively treat it as a search engine / knowledge resource now though, which I think is reasonable since it's a part of the Internet.

However, I contribute absolutely nothing to it and am now always signed out. Over time this would lead to it becoming an archive while decentralized platforms become the real meeting ground where new knowledge is accumulated. It's a long-term play. There's so much information on Reddit that it would be foolish to completely write it off - this is going to take a really long time, but anyone here knows that.

It took years to build Reddit to its glory and it will take years here - at least there are some awesome apps already and it feels like there is a good head start this time. We should not call out people for using Reddit for information, but we should encourage people to contribute to a more sustainable, community run alternative.

Yep... still much more active and more content there. I think Lemmy is great but Lemmy still has a long way to go.

Be the change you want to see. Or come back when everybody else has built it.

I just pay for a quality newspaper now. I went to reddit a while back but it's just not doing it for me anymore. And not only because the experience has degraded... The content is just not that interesting? There's so much to do with your time.

I’ve gotten around it by just getting more into reading. It’s also healthier and more enjoyable.

That said I sometimes visit Reddit to see more obscure topics or to get first hand research. That said the user interface is so horrible I usually don’t stick around anymore. I just can’t get over how horrible the interface is and it’s a genuine reason for why I can’t use the site as much anymore.

I suppose I was lucky in some ways. I stopped using Reddit a few months ago, after 5 years of addiction, but I was on the way out anyway. I had some bad experiences asking for help, never really posted otherwise and just generally the community made me feel like being inexperienced with anything was the same as being an asshole. I moved to lemmy and I instantly started posting more, answering questions and basically just enjoy talking to people on here. I haven't been back and deleted my account months ago.

I'm spending more and more time on lemmy. I hope it will grow. How can we advertise it on Reddit?

I think I was partially addicted after having used it routinely out of boredom and free time for over a decade...

But once RIF and the other 3rd party apps got strangled out, and RES went into a state of no longer being updated, I couldn't power use Reddit anymore. So once those were uninstalled and removed, I had given myself no choice. Out of principle I couldn't support them and how they treated their mods or communities, nor could I use the site in their epically stupid vanilla default way, I had to just quit.

Cold turkey since.

Will admit, I have to search online for technical help, and a lot of discussion did and still does happen on Reddit, so I'll still occasionally have to use the site for reference. But no interacting with it at all.

I still feel the twitches and urges to use it from so many years of habit, and it's difficult, but I've managed to do it.

Shame there's not as many people so inclined to use Reddit just a little less, doesn't even need to be cold turkey; it WOULD make a difference. But there's nothing wrong with using it, and you shouldn't be judged for it either. It's fine to be anti Reddit, but not anti user... in most cases ha ha! I'm pro voice and choice! ;D

I'm trying to use this as an alternative, and out of necessity as content does run thin sometimes on Lemmy I do end up using it less than I did with Reddit. But that's healthy for me personally.

There's less pressure and competitiveness on here for me, so I try to post better quality comments/content than I may have used to on Reddit. When Lemmy isn't down or breaking my comment/post submissions I'll have a better time engaging with the site, I don't find myself rushing to comment before 400 irrelevant (sometimes one word) comments wash it away and bury it like on Reddit. I don't find myself writing half a comment, and then deciding to quit half way as much.

Plus, people engage with posts and see them much longer than on Reddit, usually after a single day their posts would be entirely dead; guess it's mostly due to less users at this point though.

The main subs or sublemmies or whatever they're called on here have enough users that it's a perfect alternative to Reddit.

Little niche subreddits, like my favorite gaybros and askgaybros, just a few dozen users and I'm going back to Reddit for that.

It was pretty easy for me. I just needed to get off the habit of swapping R to L, for browser to autocomplete lemmy instead of reddit. Occasionally I go to reddit out of muscle memory, I do check the immediate front page while I'm at it, but there's not much to see these days.

RIF stopped working, so I opened the app a handful of times until I learned it takes me nowhere.

I only open reddit when something there comes up in a search result, and even then only through Libreddit.

Honestly I'm still suprised that Lemmy communities are this active, but I'm very happy.

I’ve got a couple communities on Reddit that don’t exist here, so I find myself on Reddit occasionally for those.

I don't use reddit for doomscrolling anymore and only ever go on that site when I'm struggling to find an answer to a problem (usually coding or tech related) that was answered years ago.

It's a good source for info because the links to it are listed high in search by google, and are way better than stupid articles that repeat the question 10 times and then ask you to sign up.

It is a right bitch that the reason to leave is 100% the bastards in charge. The community was fine. (Okay, giant asterisks all over that, but you know what I mean. The community was not the cause for masses walking away with a sea of middle fingers lit by burning bridges.)

I'm not here because it's better. I'm here because fuck Spez. And fuck enshittification. Fifteen years and these greedy incompetents made it impossible to come back without feeling like betrayal. The only reason I'm not deleting anything is that I don't do that shit. Nothing any human being put effort into deserves to be lost forever.

Elmo did us the favor of turning his stolen harassment engine into an all-stick-no-carrot experience in a fucking hurry.

I need it to steal content from programminglanguages.

I still use reddit for specific communities, but only on desktop. I wasn't intending to 100% quit reddit anyway though, just to primarily use Lemmy (or whatever alternative I liked best, which is Lemmy so far)

I use Reddit still for certain kinds of porn. As it was meant to be

I will bounce in every week or so, but since I can’t use Apollo for quick, clean, ad-free, non-intrusive browsing, I get sick of it all pretty quickly.

I am trying other sources for news. Someone mentioned GroundNews app, and it’s pretty nifty, even without going to pro version. I am also using The Guardian app more often.

Even FB just sux so bad, I can’t stay on it for long.

Except for the damn reels. Argh.

Anyway, we all need to post more here, and also on other new playforms. Discuit is pretty cool.

I intentionally locked myself out of reddit to make good on my social media detox and switch to the fediverse fulltime; but I find myself spending more then 5x lurking on reddit as unregistered user then all of the fediverse instances I'm registered to combined everyday.

I wish the fediverse wasn't so vanilla so that it could have some content.

No, simply because I don't "have to" have content. If Lemmy lacks interesting content, I go outside for a while.

I'm annoyed by how often Google sends me to Reddit for my stupid D&D questions.

I still use Reddit for the small subreddits. Highly focused topics seems to be the only way Reddit is tolerable now.

I also just picked up reading again. Turns out part of my enjoyment of Reddit was reading comments and when that went to shit just reading books worked out for me. On my third book since the fiasco started.

I go to lemmy first, but it doesn't have nearly enough content to replace the endless scrolling of Reddit.