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Lemmy all the way, all Reddit accounts I had since the Digg days have been deleted but not before I replaced all posts and comments with gibberish. Scorched Earth

[โ€“] Arcanus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Staying here for sure

[โ€“] kakes@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

I'm likely going to stick with Lemmy regardless of how Reddit steers course. I love that it's "by the people," and I don't mind the smaller community.

Plus, I'm old enough now that I'm getting used to moving on to "the next" online community.

[โ€“] Dad@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Stay here, might be that I land on Reddit when googling stuff but I'll look for news, memes etc. here.

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[โ€“] howarddo@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

just come back to reddit and tell people to move here guys. Other than that, just add reddit to google search to get better result, that's it. I wish lemmy will have better SEO in the future.

[โ€“] wasd4321@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Use both, cannot entirely abandon reddit just yet

[โ€“] Andy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Preferably staying here. We need to keep growing Lemmy.

[โ€“] Prometheus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Switch back to what? I nuked my account's posts and comments, then deactivated it, and I'm here.

So yeah, I'm here to stay, like it so far. I'm just hoping the enthusiasm I feel, and see with the others, won't die out in a few days/weeks.

[โ€“] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 8 points 1 year ago

If things keep improving and growing the way they are I'll be staying. Will probably be inevitable that I'll end up on Reddit due to a Google search but I hope that as friction decreases higher quality contributors will continue to find a home here.

[โ€“] dear_faye@halubilo.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll be using both - Reddit because of habit, and mostly to just lurk. I won't upvote/downvote or contribute anything - it can't be debated that it's still a treasure trove of knowledge. But I'll be actively contributing here on Lemmy for sure because I want this to be the next home :)

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[โ€“] SteelBeard@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Both kinda, if RIF is gone I'll only use it through old.reddit for research purposes and make Lemmy my main app.

[โ€“] ngwoo@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm going to keep using Lemmy because I want it to succeed but reddit is pretty indispensable (for now) for finding answers to technical problems so I'll probably never fully leave.

That official app is never touching my phone though.

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[โ€“] Ech@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Personally, while I've decided to stay off Reddit for the foreseeable future, I am gonna hop back on here and there to more or less finalize my stuff there. My "cakeday" is in a week or so, so I figure that's a good final day to say goodbye.

My soft timeline is to stay off for the year and see where things stand then.

[โ€“] rammer@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

I'll mainly stay here and contribute content to Lemmy. But I'll probably go back for a few specialty subs. e.g. r/HFY

[โ€“] buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I'm having fun here but will be glad to maybe have useful results for my obscure tech support googling again

[โ€“] mikytoast@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i plan on going on reddit to see if any communities are migrating, but I'm liking Lemmy a lot. only exception would be for r/askmechanics

[โ€“] ShadyGrove@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah im hoping some of the smaller hobbyist communities start moving over.

[โ€“] Alex@feddit.it 7 points 1 year ago

I'll stay here

i'v been here less than 24 hours and am already making preparations to abandon my reddit account

[โ€“] Arcanus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Staying here for sure

[โ€“] Denaton@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Just joined a few minutes ago, i used Mastadon before but didn't it like it, feels stiff (i never was a Twitter user) but this is easier to use since i have been using Reddit for a while, but i don't quite understand where i search for communities, what app do you all use?

[โ€“] positiveWHAT@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The app isn't quuuite there yet. I think https://browse.feddit.de/ is the place to search.

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[โ€“] Guitarded@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Now that I'm more comfortable with Lemmy, I'm enjoying it more. I'll probably browse reddit from time to time, but I'd like to make this my new home.

I'd also like to see what this place can be when everyone is talking about something besides reddit.

My only complaint thus far is the communities on separate instances I've subscribed to still say "subscription pending," so I can't see them on the mlem app.

Edit: Actually, it appears I can see them. The "subscribe pending" just seems to be some kind of error.

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[โ€“] piezoelectron@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think I'm going to stick to Lemmy and use Reddit only to promote Lemmy. I've been created a few new communities here and will plug them to Reddit users.

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[โ€“] anders@rytter.me 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@zinklog I'm staying on Fedi

And use Reddit to read communities which aren't here

[โ€“] steakfries@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stay on Lemmy. Obviosuly there's probably going to be some reasons to go back to reddit every once in a while but i think that will be less and less overtime. fuck reddit.

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[โ€“] momentary@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I've already let Jerboa take Boost's place on my app bar, but I'm sure I'll keep using Reddit too until Boost ceases to function.

For me Jerboa just isn't there yet in terms of functionality, but I'm hoping it'll get there soon!

[โ€“] areyouevenreal@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I will be using both for now.

I think the reddit controversy is overblown. As a private company they need to at least break even otherwise they won't be able to keep it online forever. That being said it sounds like there API pricing is unreasonable for no reason; though I am glad they have made an exception for accessibility focused apps and some moderation tools.

I am actually brand new to lemmy and the fediverse, it's something I am very glad exists though. It's the kind of open source project I think could be very beneficial to a lot of people. From what little I have seen so far it's very promising with a few rough edges.

P.s. also hoping they can work out a deal with Reddit Sync, otherwise I could be spending a lot more time here ๐Ÿ˜‰

[โ€“] champion@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Will be using both for now until more people jump ship

[โ€“] DinX@be-lemmy.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Being mostly a lurker it's going to depend mostly by the content.

But that's what I'm starting to like about Lemmy. Being in my 40s i've had my share of newsgroups, bulletin boards, forums,... And at the end Reddit.

A big plus is/was that nearly anything you can think of is on Reddit. But that's also the downside of it. You just don't know where to start sometimes.

That's great about Lemmy. You have instances where you can start and that can have a focus on specific topics. A tech instance, a science instance, a country instance,... You can just open the community lust there and see straight away what they have to offer.

It's like it's a mix of the old newsgroups with forums with Reddit.... I love it.

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[โ€“] KahunaDaKine@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have some helpful information posts saved for future use, which I'll try to archive if the subs they were on are up, but given some are now talking about extending the blackout and other users are deleting their posts, if the stuff isn't there I'm just going to stop using Reddit altogether. No sense prolonging the inevitable.

[โ€“] TheFrirish@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I go back to reddit it will be to redirect people to Lemmy

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[โ€“] janonymous@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think I'm going to stay. I'll try it for a few days or weeks. If I can get used to new interface, especially on mobile (jerboa currently) then I'm going to delete all my comments and posts on Reddit and delete my account. Going to use this as the final motivation to delete my Twitter and Facebook accounts as well. I'm not using them anymore anyway. I hope this is going to be the start of a bigger change around the internet away from these corporation owned sites.

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During the blackout I redacted all my comments over the past 10 years but I don't think it let me redact the ones from private subreddits, so I'll return to redact those as they open up. After that I don't plan on going back. Sad times. High hopes for the fediverse though.

[โ€“] s4if@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I will use both. I still need to follow some subreddit to get news on money-grabbing-mobile-games I'm addicted to.. lol
I will try to use lemmy more as much as I can though...

[โ€“] linearchaos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I already erased all of my post history for all of my accounts on Reddit. I'm not saying that I won't go back to a specific group to read something if I need it or Google search something If the sub still exists in the data still there. But there would have to be something pretty substantial for me to ever actually log in and recontribute to any community there.

Whether I stay on Lemmy or not depends on the content here. I'm not one to spend hours a day doom scrolling, My work is 10 minutes on 5 minutes off kind of thing so it's nice to have something to read and ponder in my down time but honestly I was spending way too much of it on Reddit anyway.

I won't go back unless they reverse the changes. And even the it would just be for the subreddits that don't have equivalents here at the moment

I'll do both for a bit and see what happens.

I'm done posting on reddit, and I'm only interacting with specific subs (maybe via web with an ad blocker). But until the community here gets a little bigger I'll probably still go there to look at content.

That said, I'm trying to make an effort to post a few things daily somewhere in Lemmy. Be the change you want to see and all that jazz.

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