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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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same. Deleted accounts, uninstalled app, installed Jerboa, and replaced the bookmark with my instance.

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

i have not been back since the blackout started.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same here, deleted my profiles, one of which was about 10 years old.

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Second this. Though if Lemmy gets really popular, same thing will happen.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Eternal September comes for all sites eventually. Arguably, we're the first waves of Lemmy's Eternal September for some folks here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

100% on Lemmy, I used a script to remove all my comments and posts from my account. The account is still there, but totally empty. Is Kbin accessable via Lemmy and vice-versa? Reddit is dead to me,

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am mainly a mobile user. Unfortunately the Lemmy apps are still pretty limited. Despite that I refuse to use Reddit from now on even though I find myself often opening Apollo (muscle memory I guess), I always close it immediately. Really hoping the lemmy apps improve as I see a lot of potential.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm on kbin but I've barely been on reddit at all since I switched. I'm enjoying watching the fediverse grow and begin to mature into the begining of a real threat to major social media monsters like reddit, twitter, Facebook, and others.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

After 10 years on reddit, it wasn’t easy at first (at first being just the threat of apps not working). And I wasn’t sure where to go: Mastodon, Discord, Lemmy, etc. But as the communities grew, content increased, and I even found similar groups in the fediverse, I’ve been spending more and more time on Lemmy, and much more certain this the right direction.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

About 25% of time is spend here. I feel like Lemmy isn't "there" yet but I want it to be. I'm thinking of creating my own instance with a custom GUI with a light-weight, less cluttered interface with some custom defaults.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I only get info from Reddit now and comment almost exclusively here. Old stuff is still good there, but it's time to move on

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My Kbin account has been seeing quite a bit of usage today if that counts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the advantage of kbin? I haven't tried it yet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I honestly don't know, but if I had to hazard a guess, it would be being able to interact with the Beehaw crowd.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are other lemmy instances not federated with beehaw?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As far as I'm aware, only lemmy.world and some other instance I forgot the name of got defederated by them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That sucks and seems pretty short sighted :/

Does this mean posts from beehaw will not be in my lemmy feed, or is it simply I cannot interact with those posts in such a way that beehaw users would see?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Beehaw will still be in the feed unless Lemmy defederates from them too. The comments you leave on beehaw posts will not be viewable to beehaw users though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. Rotating between Lemmy & Kbin.

Actually getting work done during the day also.

Reddit on Mobile is completely dead to me and I will only use it on my desktop for specific searches if the info is not available elsewhere (last resort).

0.1% of the time wil be spend on Reddit, with an ad blocker of course.