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.

  • Noreia@lemmy.world
    30·
    1 year ago

    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

  • bric@lemm.ee
    12·
    1 year ago

    I’ve quit reddit 100%. I was a little bit addicted, so I used the blackout as a way to quit cold turkey. Lemmy kind of scratches the itch, enough that I don’t go back to Reddit, but I don’t spend as much time here as I did there. I’m counting that as a good thing

    • Daitya@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      Me too. I used to spend hours on Reddit. Joined back in the day when Digg users migrated to Reddit. I do miss some of the subs, but I’ve also become bored with so much of the recycling. Lemmy and Kbin are relatively new, but I welcome the open source concept behind federation, and here’s an opportunity to invest in creating and being part of communities that own their contributions.

  • Steve@lemm.ee
    11·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Cha0zz@lemmy.world
    8·
    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.

    • lasagna@programming.dev
      2·
      1 year ago

      Jerboa reminds me a lot of Rif. There are some bugs like the list reseting but it’s mostly a good experience.

    • rarkgrames@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      The apps currently in beta seem to be getting updated every day or so with improvements. I’m posting this using Memmy and it’s working fairly well. Both Memmy and Mlem need a bit more work before they’re ready to go to general release imho but the devs are doing great work.

      I don’t think it will be long before we have fully- functional apps in the App Store.

    • McBinary@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      The mobile web app is far better than Jerboa right now, just FYI. I’ve been using the kbin and the PWA for their mobile website is pretty good for browsing lemmy communities too.

      • Cha0zz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Thanks, I’ll try using the web app for a while to see if that’s better. I guess I immediately tried mobile apps out of habit.

    • AskThinkingTim@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      I can’t test Jerboa on iPhone but it makes me realise that maybe I spend too much inefficient time on the phone. It might be different for you.

      • Cha0zz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I definitely spend too much inefficient time on Reddit, so a reduction in that is definitely a good thing for me.

  • jasparagus@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 year ago

    I’ve basically made the switch 100%, and I’m finding myself a lot more active on here so far. Everything I’ve posted in any given community has resulted in a lot more friendly discussion here than it tended to on Reddit… honestly, so far this feels a lot better lol.

  • finn@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

    I’ve not touched Reddit since the blackout started, and I won’t be going back.

    Fuck u/spez

  • fucking_polite@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    I’m constantly making a conscious effort to avoid going back to reddit. It’s not been easy, as it was my most used app maybe after youtube, but I’ve succeed so far. Last december I deleted my twitter account I created back in 2009. It hurt a bit, but I survived and found a nice place on a Mastodon instance. My reddit account is 11 years old, and I’ll be deleting it too, soon. It’ll hurt too, I know, but I’ll survive too. Lemmy is my new home.

  • Manu@feddit.de
    6·
    1 year ago

    I moved here with the intention to stay. I just use reddit to promote Lemmy now.

  • Strolleypoley@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    I made an account on both kbin.social and Lemmy and use jerboa to browse Lemmy on mobile.

    I haven’t been on reddit in a week, and have deleted my account so on the occasions that I do end up there I won’t be adding to their content or participating.

  • Drinkoffee@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    One day I used to browse Reddit. Basically next day I switched to Lemmy / Kbin.
    I only arrive to reddit when the search engine gives me what I’m looking for over there. No regrets. It is valuable info that deserved to be consumed. When I make effort to create valuable info I now create it in federated media.

    • Beegzoidberg@lemmy.one
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m in the same boat and have similar time spent on rif, I don’t really have a choice since their app is my only ‘choice’ and I refuse to use it.

  • kentaromiura@feddit.it
    5·
    1 year ago

    Since when I registered here I’ve been visiting lemmy more than reddit, although I go there from time to time to follow the shitshow as it’s entertaining.