This seems like a good place so far tbh

  • CalvinEnglish
    50•2 years ago

    I completely left Reddit. A week before Apollo shut down I slowly started to leave subreddits and cleaned my post and comments. The moment Apollo stopped working, Reddit was dead to me either. Lemmy is now my new home.

    • @Loce@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8•2 years ago

      Same, but after RiF. Reddit became a posterchild for the corporate greed so fuck them.

      • @remotelove@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3•2 years ago

        I am sad about RIF. It blocked all the ads, didn’t show all the shitty awards, was super clean, the video player worked well and the mod tools were awesome.

        On a side note, its sad demise led me to Lemmy, so all is well.

        • @quinnly@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2•2 years ago

          Reddit is Fun was among the first apps I installed on my first smart phone, way back in 2011. I thought, “oh reddit will come out with their own app eventually, I’ll just use this until that happens.” Turned out that 99% of my time spent on reddit over the last 12 years would be through RiF. I’m sad too, man. Lemmy seems pretty cool though

    • @illumi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      I think a lot of us are still getting accustomed to Lemmy and finding our flow. For me, personally, the move exposed a bunch of new communities and topics I didn’t know / or forgot I was interested in and am now excited to be a part of!

  • stownEnglish
    13•2 years ago

    On Lemmy you can edit your post titles.

    • @Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      Op purposely used Lenny, to get more engagements.

      Uou know, the old adage of saying something wrong in the internet to get the right answers quicker

  • @leosin@lemmy.caEnglish
    12•2 years ago

    I’m not on “Lenny” terms yet, I still refer to him as “Leonard”.

    As for Lemmy, it’s almost completely replaced Reddit for me. Except for the times I search for something and the best result is a Reddit thread from 3 years ago

  • mochiEnglish
    7•2 years ago

    That’s a good question, but I’m not sure I’d wanna do that.

  • feugnisEnglish
    3•2 years ago

    I never really used Reddit. I would scroll through it if I was really bored and occasionally post but never that much. I stopped because of the API just because it was really easy to stop. It could only be good for me to remove that one other thing that tricks my mind into doom scrolling. So will I be using Lenny? It would probably be good for me to not and go do more productive things. But I feel like if I have free time, supporting this is definitely good, I really like the goal and don’t want it to die.

  • @WishbackJumpsta@lemmy.world
    3•1 year ago

    I am not I’ve found it - its nice to have a real “FRONT PAGE” again.

    No bots reposting for Karma, no ads.

    just people on a forum - like how reddit used to be.

    Im so happy I found this place

  • @kyub@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    Already did. Purged all my Reddit bookmarks and account.

    Generally: You have to be the change you want to see in the world. If you want to change others, change yourself first. I don’t think the mindset “I need to reach that big number of people over there so I’ll just be over there as well to teach them” works, or leads to the goal you want. Even though it seems reasonable at first glance. This mindset just leads to you giving the other people AND yourself more reason to never leave from there. Which is contrary to what you want. If you want others to switch to better alternatives, move yourself first, help grow the alternatives, and they will sooner or later also become interested in joining. Things like the latest Reddit and Twitter fiascos also show that no huge proprietary social media platform rules forever. The time to change to better alternatives has never been better than now.

  • @tsonfeir@lemm.ee
    2•2 years ago

    I’m trying to, but finding a good client and trying to find replacement communities isn’t as straight forward as Reddit was.

    I’ll be spending more time on here since I got a random 3 day ban without a reason. This has been happening every few months.

  • @Mane25@feddit.ukEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    The only time I’d use Reddit now is if I had a specific question about a specific topic that’s only covered there.

    As far as browsing for fun goes it’s Lemmy all the way, it’s so much nicer than Reddit.