I’m all-in on Lemmy and hope you all will stick around too. I blew away my Reddit account and all my post history today.
16 year reddit veteran here. I’m gonna stay here, create communities, and submit content in the hopes that others do the same. Honestly, we don’t need even .1% of the users to make a great community, we just need the users we have to be active.
I’ve removed my Reddit account, including all comments, this morning. So I’m here to say!
Lemmy is my new home now and it’ll stay that way.
I’m not going to be drastic on reddit yet, I intend to make a GDPR request to get all my data, but I’'ll immediately unsub from all the subs I’m currently in save for a few very niche that are hard to replace (for now).
I’ll probably check in every now and then those niche but I’ll definitely stop posting.
I intend to make a GDPR request to get all my data
I did this last week using their official portal and they haven’t gotten back to me yet… I wonder how many others have done the same lol
Edit: fix formatting
Submitted my GDPR request a few minutes ago, I too would love to know how many are doing the same, would be nice to flood them with it :D
Thanks for the share! Just submitted my own request :)
Same here. I’ve already replaced my mobile app with one for lemmy and used these two days to take on the habit coming here instead of reddit. I’ve submitted a request as well. Will delete my account shortly after. I was using reddit to lurk mostly or get angry at trolls/toxic people anyway, it’s just better for me if I just forget about it.
What app are you using for Lemmy?
@Barack_Ollama @crius All of them. Jeroba, Lemmy website on mobile, lemmy Desktop and mastodon. Why cause i can. Thanks for opening my eyes Third-party apps
i’v been here less than 24 hours and am already making preparations to abandon my reddit account
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 😉
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!
I’m here and I don’t have plans to go back to reddit. Regardless of what happens, spez showed his hand, and I don’t want to support that kind of bullshit.
Also: FOSS is awesome, and that’s another reason in my view to stick to Lemmy.
I’ll still use Lemmy. The people here are way nicer.
I feel the same way about Mastodon. Way more civil and intellectual compared to Twitter. Whereas on places like Twitter/Reddit it feels like you can feel your braincells dying when you interact with the majority of idiots that congregate on those sites.
Yeah I saw a similar sentiment on another thread that summarizes to: Lemmy being a little hard to figure out might be a feature, not a bug.
I’m absolutely no elitist, but I think a lot of us can attest to the overall quality of reddit content decreasing over time. I browse r/all and so tired of seeing the constant reposts, many by bots etc etc.
Remains to be seen how everything will shake out. But Lemmy does seem chill so far, and less vitriol in general
This all the way - and way more understanding compared to Reddit
Hell yea!
Idk. The lemmy.ml instance seems practically overrun with CCP/Russian apologists. From literally defending the Tienanmen Sq. massacre to just the tankiest tankies that ever tankied - I’ve definitely seen my fair share of shitheads in the past week here.
If you’re not happy with your instance, use a different instance.
Both. Eventually want to change to just Lemmy/kbin tho
I deleted all my reddit accounts days ago, never going back
I may still click Reddit links in Google searches if I can’t find answers elsewhere.
My plan is to try to use this exclusively and advertise it to my friends who are looking to get away from Reddit as well.
Make sure to see the cached version if you don’t want to give them traffic
I’m gonna go back to reddit long enough to get the rules for important support groups I’m in to make them here on Lemmy. I’ll then post about it in the support groups before leaving Reddit.
Hey could you pick me up a coulpe memes while your there?
Thnx
I gotcha fam.
What kinda memes? I’ve got 5 year’s worth in my Google drive.
Friend Ill take anything you got. If you want to just post stuff that would be cool.
Hell ye. Where you want them posted?
I think [email protected] is good! I’m still finding meme communities!
Was trying the same but instead grab some nice content that I once saved… But none was available yet. Once that is done, I will delete my Reddit account
I’m happy to move to a tighter community with more engagement and honestly I like that the fediverse has a higher bar to entry. Reddit discussions used to provide answers, but the quality of dialog there has regressed to the mean.
There’s literally not anything left on reddit that I wish to see anymore. It’s all controlled and bloated and designed to keep you addicted and angry. I’ve been increasingly bored and annoyed with the platform for a while, so this made the transition to lemmy even easier. Honestly, a lot of people are better off without it.
