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.

And convince people to come and create content here.

More freedom, no ads, not a profit seeking private company, privacy respecting.

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.

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.

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.

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.

That is exactly the process I went through when I moved from Twitter to Mastodon.

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.

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.

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.

@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.

Do you think people will actually convert to Lemmy? Or do you think they'll just end up going back to reddit?

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.

This is my plan also. There is no real advantage to going "cold turkey" in fact it probably just really puts a huge load on the lemmy network for no reason as thousands of people are switching so completely in a matter of days. It's great, and it's a great sign for the future of this network, but in a practical sense it just makes it challenging for lemmy to keep up with the traffic and the registrations. Gradual organic growth or even fast growth is a lot easier to manage from a scaling and development point of view than huge sudden spikes like this. It's impressive that the system has scaled as well as it has.

But to focus back on the individual user experience, I think it's fine (and healthy) for your move to lemmy to be gradual. Content is not going to become available overnight, nor should it due to the scaling problems above. If you come here expecting all your huge firehose of reddit content to be replaced instantly, you'll inevitably end up disappointed, and then you'll stop coming here and end up back on reddit full time. Instead, consider this a first step to replace reddit over time, if it's already enough to become your go-to that's great! But if it's not, that's fine too, and you don't have to feel guilty or disappointed about it. Just make the commitment to keep checking occasionally and not forget about it. Add it to your bookmarks, or your homescreen, or your desktop, or wherever it's going to pop up to remind you to check it occasionally. You've planted the seed, give it time to grow into your life.

I am a longtime lurker going back ten years. I probably could count the number of posts on two hands. What worries me is being able to make the switch to the fediverse as a concept. Just hoping Lemmy is the right choice for now.