It took me probably less than a month to completely stop checking Digg altogether. Reddit’s decidedly less slick interface had me confused and the content wasn’t as easy to digest as with Digg, but it didn’t take long to completely abandon it. That was like ten years ago.
I guess a small point I’m trying to make is that you shouldn’t feel “shame” for checking reddit. You’ll adjust and learn to love whichever alternative you choose
Out of solidarity with the blackout I’m staying completely off reddit until the 15th. After that I’ll probably keep checking both. I really like lemmy and it’s smaller community feel, but it has some bugs (the eternal scrolling of the “all” page for one) and it’s very tech-oriented at the moment. There’s not yet that many arts & craft or hobby communities yet, and those that exist are very, very quiet. Not that I need it to get as big as reddit, but more than 2 people active would be nice.
And I actually like the different feel of both, the fact that there’s not that many bots (yet) floating around here, people actually discussing things instead of just downvoting you at the slightest disagreement, … The scientific info on Mander is extremely interesting too, lots of great articles being linked instead of reddits’ reposts every couple of days. So I think I’ll stay active on both lemmy and reddit. They offer different things, and that’s great.
I had to delete Apollo. I thought I could stay strong in solidarity but damn …
I had to remove it from my Home Screen just because of the muscle memory. I’ve opened and immediately closed it so many times today.
I had to delete the browser bookmark for Reddit or I just open it without thinking.
And convince people to come and create content here.
More freedom, no ads, not a profit seeking private company, privacy respecting.
Yeah, those ads. I was getting so tired of seeing that Jesus wants me to join the army and buy stuff from Amazon. Jeez.
I didn’t see ads ever cus i was on Apollo, but that sounds terrible. They took my shiny Apollo away so now im gone too. Fuckem
Where were you seeing ads? Not on a browser (ublock origin) and not really on apps (ad blockers and 3rd party reddit apps).
I was seeing them on the Reddit app. 'Was too lazy to check out the alternative apps. If it wasn’t for Lemmy, and the API fiasco, I’d check them out.
Not OP but Baconreader had ads but they were small, obvious, and always in the same place. So I left them there cause I figured gotta fund the thing somehow
Music to my ears. I mean honestly it just feels right compared to being essentially held hostage by chokepoint capitalism and all its fucking dark patterns and data mining.
I agree, I too was planning to not be too drastic, but today I found out one of my favorite communities is migrating here on lemmy.world, that’s exceptional for morale.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been here for almost a week now and I already feel at home, I’m not missing reddit as a platform anymore, just a few communities among the many I was subbed to.
Knowing that at least one is migrating (that is, officially migrating, reddit mods are organizing that) makes me so happy I can barely contain myself :D
That helps a lot IMO in not wanting to go back anymore.
Yep. I’m abstaining for the 2 day blackout, but when the blackout’s over, I’ll probably spend a bit of time there, but I’ll be looking specifically for the subs that are migrating over, so we can reconvene here.
To be honest I’ve settled into using mlem on my phone surprisingly well from Apollo. Obviously I’d rather not have to change at all but if Apollo goes, I’m gone.
Now that I’ve gotten home and have been able to mess around with apps, Jerboa is working just fine for me so far.
There are still some quirks in the app (for example while it lists comment replies, it doesn’t seem possible to reply to those directly, you have to go to the comment chain for that), but considering it’s version number it’s very impressive and totally usable!
Especially in comparison to what we would have to use in the future if we stayed on Reddit.
I’m certain some awesome apps will come along, the openness of the fediverse makes it an excellent opportunity for whomever decides to put in the work
I can understand!
The difference for me will be my Reddit usage. I will not use it via my phone anymore but use it (if necessary) with an search engine to find specific information.
I used Reddit (RIF) on my phone 99.9% of the time.
So Reddit can have 0.1% of my attention. Well done reddit, you played yourself.
That’s the thing with sites that run on user generated (and moderated) content, there’s positive growth/decline feedback. More users -> more content -> more users, and on the flipside fewer users -> less content -> fewer users.
I’m surprised by how often I search for technical questions on DDG/Google and find Reddit threads in the results. I’ve resigned myself to the fact that Reddit will remain an information source for some time.
Only until Reddit tries charging Google for API access.
That is exactly the process I went through when I moved from Twitter to Mastodon.
I’m digging Lemmy so far because you can create whatever you want. I can already a few subs forming that are trying to be the opposite of what the Subreddit turned into. Should be fun to see how same/different certain subs are when it comes to content.
I’m reading and commenting from fedia. Don’t even need to be on the same site as each other to access content.
This has the power to break the mould but eventually someone will need to pay the piper. I think we can bring it together as a community and I have a feeling this could even be done on a voluntary basis too.
for all the “clunkiness” its a surprisingly smooth experience, esp on a small instance.
Depends how the tech unfolds. I’m sure there will be major improvements made once adoption reaches critical mass.
@MonkCanatella Exactly. There are different ways of stopping a habit. Like if you wanna stop smoking, for some people a cold turkey is the best and for some a gradual decrease in usage works the best.
agreed, i feel it, i havent wanted to hop for years even though I hated it, now I feel compelled, I’m pretty sure I know why.
new internet incoming.
Do you think people will actually convert to Lemmy? Or do you think they’ll just end up going back to reddit?
This feels just like when reddit took over from digg. Except a lot of folks remember that and are not going for another closed source VC funded platform, so yeah I think lemmy/kbin will be the new home for this type of thing. For me it will be
I have to admit I occasionally check it just to see how bad it is. I find it entertaining. It’s also really great to see this place picking up momentum.
I hope so, although you gotta admit the concept of Lemmy is a bit confusing, especially for causal people.
