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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Are you committed to make Lemmy thrive? Do you keep posting your discussions on Reddit?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

I deleted my Reddit account during the blackouts and haven't gone back.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Lemmy will thrive anytime Reddit experiences another exodus and the servers don't crash.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Only time I use reddit is if I Google something and it leads to a reddit thread. I hope more people will use Lemmy so when I Google stuff Lemmy comes up first. Fuck reddit I hope their servers get attacked

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

No and No.

I am happy to let this place grow organically with no pressure. I will not and have not been back to Reddit since coming here. Frankly, I am sick of hearing about Reddit; it’s like someone constantly going on about their ex.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

It took years for Reddit to achieve mass appeal (remember Digg???). For now, Reddit is still far superior for niche communities, especially the knowledge base. I tried to be 100% Lemmy, but the need for highly technical specific information always drives me back to Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I go to Reddit for two niche subreddits and I look forward to the day I can abandon it for good for Lemmy. The front page doesn't even entertain me anymore, every discussion there is so boring.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

I don’t use Reddit whatsoever. Being away from that site for 18 months has really shown how low quality the content there is. I know longer have any desire to ever interact with that site if I can help it, even if the fediverse is missing some of the active niche communities on reddit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

There's one small community on Reddit that just doesn't exist here. Well, it does, but there's like 5 members lol. If it weren't for that I'd jump ship entirely. I am thinking maybe I'll find a separate specific forum just for that one topic...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Im very glad seeing more and more comments on any thread on lemmy. I kept using it and interacting with it for a whole year since the exodus, vowing to still use it even if it got slightly deserted because I believe in this project that isn't mine. Im so happy you guys did as well. (Im just a user) I hope it will grow and that we will overcome the human tendency to pollute whatever space they're in to finally call this home.

I still use other media though, i swear it was only one time baby!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I only use lemmy and 4chan as social media now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I gave at the office.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I haven't logged in for a good long while. Occasionally I visit old discussions on there as a guest, though, just because it's where obscure stuff tends to gets discussed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

RSS feeds (Feeder) for read-only mode of subreddits that don't exist here, and re-post to Lemmy if I want to discuss a specific topic that bad

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I got permabanned from reddit across all accounts including any new ones I make all because I decided to argue against racists. So I'm in it for the run with Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I got permabanned from there once, I made a comment on anpost about the pedo leadsinger of the lostprophets saying something like " he deserves to die in the least humane way possible".

I appealed it by saying "Google him and tell me you don't agree with me" 2 days later I was unbanned.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

What is Reddit?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

i don't post on most reddit communities but we're sorely lacking a c/randomactsofblowjobs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Yes (βŒβ– _β– ). I am gonna do completionist++.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not using reddit ever since they broke all the 3rd party clients.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm never going back to corporate social media. If it's not FOSS and available to self host reasonably, I'm not interested anymore.

So that means, lemmy and others like it only from now on for me. Already close to 1k posts made.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah, I hear you. I couldn't find yet a replacement for YouTube. It has quite a lot of content there, for the good and the bad, but some are quite helpful

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I'm glad you're here :) I'm trying to get better at noticing opportunities to post and contribute myself

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Aren't you like the main mod of the r/piracy community?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I used to be until the blackouts where I was demoded by the admins for blacking out the sub.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Haven't been to Reddit since the API changes last summer. I'm trying my best to be a good Lemmite but I don't post enough OC, so that's my bad

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Find stuff and post it here. Our memes comrade.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel guilty, that is why I asked. Yesterday, I even posted a question on Reddit instead of here. I feel that I should believe more on the Lemmites

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I thought we were lemmings πŸ˜₯

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I moved completely here after the reddit API thing.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Left reddit as soon as the blackout happened, was actually impressed at myself being able to stay off it. Haven't been back except when I google a question, and the answer is on an old reddit thread (I do not reply or comment).

My opinion is Lemmy needs more communities and more DAUs. Have been trying to tell people why they should switch but I'm not techy, my friends are not techy and they just don't care about data/ownership etc. I'm hoping reddit shits the bed further so more laypeople jump ship.

Same goes for mastodon which needs more content although I only previously used twitter on days with big events (oscars, grammys, f1 race days etc).

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm Lemmy 99%. Can't do 100% because sometimes there isn't an equivalent community on Lemmy so I have no choice but to use Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You could make one and then post it to both communities.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

If it's a topic I'm super passionate about & there's no community on Lemmy then sure. But I'm not going to start a new Lemmy community every time I want to post a random dog photo or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This place feels like a breath of fresh air. It genuinely helped me cut down on social media usage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I recently got booted off of Reddit and I'm hoping participating here on Lemmy will help me get over the need for social media I hadn't realized I had developed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Good luck. It has certainly helped me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Thank you.

It's mostly a matter of getting over it in my own head.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'm sometimes checking reddit now, because Lemmy is mostly memes. Where are the discussions? Why aren't they taking place?

But obviously not using their shitty app. Just browser with adblocking.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Deleted my old account(s) a few weeks back, when i use reddit now its usually from the browser just to see the answer to something, no more accounts for me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Fediverse, Forums, or bust.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

100% since they killed Apollo but in general less of everything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

After Apollo went down, made me realize how much unnecessary screen time I was wasting my life on. The smaller size and scope of the fediverse is probably better for my mental health than Twitter/Reddit were

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Yes, since I don't have a Reddit account

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Hard to use reddit when your favourite reddit app no longer works

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Never post on Reddit never browser it and ask my questions on here. Sometimes I look at a Reddit post for an answer to an obscure question but if it’s something I ask I use Lemmy.

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