I am theoretically switching over from Reddit to Lemmy. Finding myself spending more time on Lemmy than on Reddit. Maybe it’s because I am limited to using the desktop and can’t aimlessly browse Reddit on my iPhone. Of late, the only subreddits I cared for were on sports and their matchday threads and r/watches. I found myself aimlessly browsing through r/AskReddit and asking and answering pointless questions.

  • Noreia@lemmy.world
    22·
    3 years ago

    I deleted my reddit apps and decided to not use it anymore, so yeah, I am only on Lemmy now using it on desktop and on phone I use jerboa for lemmy

      • Noreia@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 years ago

        Same, while I do feel Lemmy and Jerboa need some work, I feel like they are enough there already to make it work. In a lot of ways it feels better than reddit, idk why

        • ritswd@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 years ago

          For me, it’s the community. I’ve only had pleasant exchanges around here, everyone seems approchable, when on Reddit it’s quite hit-and-miss.

          I deleted the Reddit app from my phone just to avoid opening it out of force of habit, and I thought it’s take some self-convincing to stay on Lemmy; but the reality is, 2 weeks in, I don’t miss Reddit at all in the end. I was mostly using it for scrolling through interesting content I’m subscribed to, and so far Lemmy does this just as well.

          • hemmes@vlemmy.netEnglish
            0·
            3 years ago

            Yeah, same. I’m on VLemmy and just use the web app on my iPhone. Works quite well!

            But yeah no more Reddit and I couldn’t be happier. There’s of course not as much content. But I’m having a great time using Mastodon and Lemmy to fill my content craving. Finding myself checking out the Apple News app more as well.

            I’m content but excited to see the growth of my Fediverse favorites.

            Shoutout to mas.to and my boy @rodti@mas.to 🙌

            • ritswd@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              3 years ago

              I’ve been checking out Apple News more than before too! It’s been nice, quality content.

              I tried Mastodon when Elon started plastering Twitter’s walls with fecal matter (!!), but it didn’t catch my interest much; but it had been years already at that point that I had been gradually disinterested in Twitter, and I think that’s probably why. I didn’t feel there was anything wrong with Mastodon, it just wasn’t my thing.

              But I was addicted to Reddit as heck, and it’s nuts how easy it’s been to move on from it!

  • Steve@lemm.ee
    8·
    3 years ago

    I gave up Reddit 100% the day the blackout started, so by default… yes. Way more time on Lemmy. As someone that isn’t on these sites that much of the time, I like Lemmy way better since I can actually contribute and have conversations. On Reddit I’m only ever replying to a post once there are a thousand replies already and it’s always buried. Here it’s much easier to chat.

    I was thinking about setting up an instance to help me learn some more development stuff and practice my Terraform use, or maybe build an iOS app to learn Swift in my spare time… but I don’t really have spare time, so those things have a 99.9% chance of not happening haha.

  • Maphquack@lemmy.world
    8·
    3 years ago

    I went cold turkey on Reddit when my app died yesterday. I haven’t used reddit on desktop since like 2013 so no problem there.

  • i_am_hungry@meganice.onlineEnglish
    5·
    3 years ago

    I deleted my Reddit account at the beginning of the blackout and haven’t opened it since (except when Google takes me there for some search results).

  • kentaromiura@feddit.it
    5·
    3 years ago

    Since when I registered here I’ve been visiting lemmy more than reddit, although I go there from time to time to follow the shitshow as it’s entertaining.

  • bric@lemm.ee
    4·
    3 years ago

    I’ve quit reddit 100%. I was a little bit addicted, so I used the blackout as a way to quit cold turkey. Lemmy kind of scratches the itch, enough that I don’t go back to Reddit, but I don’t spend as much time here as I did there. I’m counting that as a good thing

    • ___hulk@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 years ago

      Ditto. Don’t want to be a part of it anymore. It might not make much difference to them, but it makes a bunch to me, and that’s all that matters.

    • intelati@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 years ago

      I’m sitting at like 95% Lemmy/3% Reddit is fun/2% oops I opened a tab of Reddit by default

      I need to clear the history

  • Tygr@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 years ago

    Just joined Lemmy myself. Used a script to wipe all my content from 5 accounts. Plan to delete in July.

  • trainsaresexy@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 years ago

    Last week no, this week yes. The learning* curve is steep compared to reddit. I still haven’t taken the time to learn enough.