I refuse to use their shitty app, but I still use old reddit on the desktop. If they remove old.reddit.com, I will probably not use it at all.
On mobile, I tried a few apps. Lemmy feels very empty and devoid of content and communities. Mastodon is not that interesting. I feel that hacker news is the best alternative right now. Even though it doesn't have that many users, the fact that it has a single "community" helps it feel far less empty, and more focused towards technical people.
I left and haven't looked back. Honestly with the consistent growth of lemmy there's been now need.
First tried Lemmy during the blackouts, never went back to reddit after Boost stopped working
I was a sync user. Waited until the last day. Been quite until recently. I think I've had more conversations here then in my four years with Reddit. Something about the sizes of the communities made it hard to feel like a part of the conversation.
I've deleted all my reddit accounts and haven't added any new content to reddit since I switched, Though I must admit I still end up there from time to time when I search for specific things.. mostly related to niche topics. I use Lemmy for mindless browsing, news, laughs, etc.
I dropped reddit for sure, but can't say I'm exactly an avid Lemmy user. There just isn't enough things I'm interested in. I pop in every once in a while but I'll probably drop this too soon. I have absolutely no idea how I will even get any news, since I don't watch tv, and that kinda scares me. On the other hand, I started reading books again, which I hadn't touched ever since I became a redditor
I sure did. I was already tired of their terrible moderation policies and the arbitrary power some mods abused all to hell. Good riddance.
There are some communities that never transitioned to Lemmy, so I'll be using them untill old.reddit is disabled.
I only looked at Reddit on Sync so when that stopped working I stopped visiting Reddit. Now I look at Lemmy on Sync but not as much
I didn't fully drop Reddit but I use it significantly less.
Still using reddit read-only through Libreddit but I don't even check it every day anymore.
I hit up my niche self-hosted and Linux subs, take a peek at /r/all, get immediately put off by all the bot content and toxicity, and come right back to Lemmy.
I haven't participated on Reddit since leaving for Lemmy, and I've barely participated on blahaj since leaving for hexbear
I use both. Lemmy by deafult. Reddit for the few very specific communites Lemmy is lacking . Also questions go to Lemmy since beacuse lemmy is smaller pepole are actually answering you instead of ignoring your questions or mods deleting them beacuse this belongs to the daily thread for small questions or the similars.
I only go back when a site like this or /v/ links me back.
If "dropped Reddit for Hexbear" means getting perma-banned from Reddit, then sure.
Edit: No, it's not because I did anything cool. I actually don't know and nobody from the corp responded to why my inactive account got zapped
When im desperate for information and all I'm getting are ai generated article results, I will still resort to appending to reddit to my Google searches but otherwise I've deleted everything on reddit and keep up with major current events and bad memes here on lemmy. It really could be a better experience but it's better than... well... endorsing reddits decisions.
Deleted my reddit account a while ago. Don't really use lemmy as much as I used to use reddit, but I see that as a good thing. the quality of the use I get is a lot better here too.
Right here. Have you been on reddit lately? It's worse than usual. And I'm not just talking about all of the hardcore conservative/borderline fascist subs that all of a sudden materialized. The discourse on most subs is clearly dominated by bots now.
+1 here 🙋🏽♂️
I also finally received my data archive from Twitter. For weeks, the verification emails weren't being delivered. When they were, the codes had expired. Repeat. I have no proof to indicate this was a way of locking me in, but it seems suspicious because it had never happened before.
For me, it's not about being petty or spiteful against these platforms just for the hell of it. It's just that I'm tired of their unethical business model. Hostile practices. Their lock-in. Lack of interoperability. The user hostility.
It's not good for us, it's only good for the platform, which then only serves to give that platform more power, which means more user abuse, enshittification, etc.
Feels good to not contribute to that and not continue digging that hole, as well as invest in a better web for all of us.
I did. Occasionally visit old.reddit.com put of nostalgia, but never logged in, never controbute. It's not as busy here, but i like it. Lemmy has an OG nerd feeling to it.
It's all the New users on Lemmy since June 2023
Only on Reddit for a couple communities. But, Lemmy kind of became my main Social site overall. Replaced all of them for me.
I dropped mobile reddit for Lemmy. I still use reddit on my PC, but never on my mobile devices.
I really don't think there's a way to estimate. Personally, as a long term Sync user, I switched even before Sync was reddit for Lemmy. There's no real way to measure it though.
I used infinity for reddit app to surf reddit, when they started charging for api, app become unusable then i switched to eternity for lemmy and i love it
This one. Second my app stopped working I never went back. Have been an avid daily contributor for a decade.
Left when Infinity went sub. I just couldn't get over how bad reddits default app was. When searching around for something else I saw conversations about lemmy and got interested. Decided to dive in with Sync and now I've been only using this. Still have Geddit to open any links I have to open if they are reddit links but overall it's been a great experience so far. With all new things might take a bit for community to grow.
More than 4
i'll occasionally go back and browse on desktop only but i don't interact. all interaction is here along with most of my browsing
I don't passively use it anymore, but I'll use it as a reference for past posts.
"How to determine undertone lemmy" doesn't really work like "... reddit"
I didn't have a choice. I was the victim of a sitewide ban from an overzealous mod...
I only used baconreader, and so did my wife. So no more reddit for us.
I haven't fully gave up on Reddit. There are communities that are still active over there but not here. However, I am still pretty optimistic that Lemmy will take off eventually. Reddit had been in the same situation as Lemmy right now when they were just in their beginning!
I was a lurker there and I actually participate here. I still go there for videos in specific communities, but I no longer scroll ALL.