Sadly, the majority will keep on using reddit(I'm talking overall about reddit users). I will use it only if some of my favorite communities don't get created here. I was banned on reddit for whoever knows what reasons(aka sweaty mods) so I can't really communicate there. And if I create a new account it gets banned too - tracking your device - is that even legal? When I reported racism, sexism, etc. they didn't even check it or said it wasn't breaking their rules - I think that sums it all up about reddit, their morals and policy. People are going back to reddit, communities are opening from being private, unfortunatelly nothing really changed. SomeOrdinaryGamers made a pretty good video explaining the reddit 'blackout'. You either cut the head off or it will eat you. Reddit community got eaten this time.
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I already have 10 lemmy accounts and like 2k compounded points in 12 days!! I have ruined my sleep schedule because I stay on Lemmy till like 8 am! I have procrastinated my well paying job to get more hours into this and even developed plug-ins for lemmy when I could've been developing shit for my job! Yes, I've been using Lemmy more than Reddit. ππ
I stopped using Reddit on the day of the blackout and I've been wasting my time with playing sudoku instead. I go on lemmy a few times a day because I switched out Jerboa on my RIF shortcut and I go on it out of boredom.
For me, there's not enough activity on here yet and still some subreddits that haven't got equivalents here.
Went to kbin after deleting my reddit account, so outside of occasionally lurking I don't really have a need for reddit.
I am for sure. I just head over for one maybe two subs that I cannot replace (yet), and only once or twice a day (instead of constantly).
Besides that may random scrolling and news related needs are fully satisfied by lemme.
I just moved over from kbin.social from another Lemmy instance. I feel like the Lemmy I was on I wasn't reveiving all the comments and upvotes on my posts vs on Kbin social.
As of today I have decided not to give Reddit any traffic. I don't look at it and I am very careful about clicking on any links directing me to it. I know there are so many discussions on Reddit that are related to my Google searches, it's so damn hard but I am sticking to my guns.
Kbin/Lemmy has been far supperior in everyway, despite it having less users, I feel like it's for the best.
I check lemmy a few times per day, reddit now a few times per week, and only the few subreddits that have no good alternatives yet.
Using lemmy most of the time since the blackout. Kinda hard not to feel guilty now when I scrolled aimlessly on reddit. Now I only go there to find specific things. But ngl really miss having moment of discovery when I stumbled upon something while I browse reddit, since the amount of content here is limited.
I unsubbed from most of the default reddit subs and from the subs where the mods didn't seem to care about the protest.
For the future, I intend to limit my engagement to a few subreddits related to the war in Ukraine, because that's something I follow closely and care about a lot. The communities on lemmy/kbin just aren't active enough yet to stay up to date.
Me, I stopped browsing reddit actively unless trying to find an answer on Google.
I've replaced the spot where Reddit Sync has been for like 10 years with a shortcut to Kbin. That said, I find myself browsing less as there's less content in the meantime. I try avoiding going to Reddit on my computer unless there's literally no other matching Google searches.
I hope we eventually get a lot of that random historical context and information reposted at some point onto any Lemmy instance.
It's not even completely gone, and I already really miss sync, it's such a great application, it made reddit not suck :) so good :)
I've spent FAR more time on kbin than I have reddit since the blackouts. I know the Relay app will be gone at the end of the month, so I figured I'd get a jump on trying to get used to another platform. I refuse to be forcefed ads, so there is no other option for me with reddit as a mobile user.
Went basically cold turkey on Reddit before the blackout, switching over to Kbin.
I know Reddit will survive, at least for the next while, but after witnessing Reddit's behaviour through all of this, I refuse to be a part of it.
My only use of Reddit will be for Google results, and that will be reading only with an Ad blocker - they won't make a penny off of me anymore if I can help it.
I've got kbin installed as a PWA in the same spot that I had Sync for Reddit. That takes care of the muscle memory thing. The only reason I look at Reddit these days is to see how the shitshow is going.
Did the same thing.. replaced all reddit shortcuts with lemmy / kbin / slashdot and poof i dont even think about it! Kbin just missing collapsable comments for a nice experience
100% Lemmy here.
After signing up here I deleted my Reddit account. So yea :) It's really nice here, I hope it stays this way.
Same
I switched off reddit during the blackout and haven't really missed it (uninstalled from phone but not tablet yet), does appear in some searches. I heard the CeO interview on NPR over the weekend, so looking to delete my comments from most subs (some ask not to so will respect that) before deleting accounts.
World news and a finance subs I liked to contribute to but enjoying the break. Coding and Crafts I browse for ideas but sure something will appear eventually or not.
Only open reddit by accident and muscle memory. Need to find time to read/save the "saved". Right after that will Art. 17 GDPR my account.
I feel like I have spent more time on Lemmy than I used to on Reddit per day, but thatβs likely because of the novelty of it. I assume my usage will level back out to effectively the same as I had on Reddit.
I deleted my Reddit account after that idiot's comments about "landed gentry". Still trying to wrap my head around the fediverse!
I scrubbed all my Reddit post and comment data just before the blackout then, after the admins started doing their stupid shit and booting mods out of subs so they could open them again, deleted my account entirely.
I've now blackholed all of Reddit's domains on my Pi-hole servers and added a regex to exclude the same domains from any search results on my Whoogle instance.
Spez can get fucked. Not one more bit of data from me to Reddit.
I'm now working on getting my own Lemmy instance up and running for my close circle of friends/family that are interested in also making a break.
Same. I'm scaling down my Reddit use and preferring the use of Lemmy. So far, many of my main communities are still Reddit first, but that is decreasing ever more.
I guess it's currently about 70/30 percent of my time split across these two, favouring Lemmy in spite of the fact that I'm not yet following all the communities that I want to follow.
Same. Im just starting to get the hang of Lemmy but the more communities I find here the more im staying.
I just wish more people come.
I only use reddit through Relay third party app, once it is gone, I cannot use reddit anymore, reddit without it is so bad that it is same to jump to Lemmy. So I am adjusting now and just using Lemmy/Jerboa.
Yeah I stopped using Reddit when the boycott started and don't plan on going back(went back to add nonsense to my old comments). Hoping to see a larger migration as well.
I check back in periodically, but I'm making an effort to participate on here as much as possible. Loving it so far. Yeah, there are still a few kinks to be worked out, but overall the transition has been seemless to me.
The biggest issue I have come across is trying to wrap my head around instances and how to browse what where.
I dowloaded Jerboa and started on lemmy.world, and when I found out about all the others instances and different sites to browse and subscribe to.
Im sure with some more time, I'll get a handle on it.
No, I haven't spent any time on Reddit since the closure, except for looking at r/Pics and their John Oliver err, protest. I haven't spent too much time on Lemmy though, that's because I've been busy helping out with an app for it :P