right now, it's a little hard to say. it depends a lot on increased activity in my interests
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Deleted four accounts of 3-11 years. Yup. Bye. I ain't waiting around to see reddit turn into "myspace after tom"
I'll definitely stay. I like the idea that it's run by individual people rather than a huge corporation, and I love that the smaller user count gives it a greater sense of community. It made me realize that I don't enjoy using mainstream social media due to how lonely it makes me feel.
The lemmyverse is getting better everyday! No reason to go back
I'll stick around in both reddit and lemmy until enough communities move over here or reddit just dies.
I'm doing the same but spending more time here. As more communities move over, my time with reddit will decrease. If I knew the copyright laws better, I'd host a few servers of my favorite shows.
I'm in the same boat as you, account deleted and all. Personally, I was never really that active on Reddit but I've enjoyed Lemmy and the positive community feel. So for me, I won't be going back since I actually enjoy using this platform. My only fear is that others will jump back to Reddit eventually and these communities may go quiet. I guess we'll see.
Yeah my biggest fear over the last two days has been that people will just hop back over to Reddit again. I’ve been secretly kind of hoping Reddit doesn’t reverse the API changes just so more people will stay here. I honestly do like Lemmy more than I’ve ever liked Reddit. Trying to keep engagement high is why over the last two days I’ve commented more on Lemmy than I have on my 10+ year old Reddit account.
Reddit fucked up pretty good. Not only they shot themselves in the foot by scraping 3rd party devs (and ofc the userbase attached to it), but also pissed the mods (which are making slave labor for free) so bad, that if they leave, the site pretty much becomes the Wild Wild West of spam and scams, which, if you acknowledge the piece of shit app they made, will at worst hurt and make them look so bad to their investors, which hopefully will trigger a domino effect which will ultimately lead to its demise
Thanks to the blackout I got to know about lemmy. Otherwise may never have tried this. Now I know , it might be hard to go back. If my favourite subreddits end up here or have their own instances, it will be great. But even if they don't , I am done with reddit. The quality of comments in reddit has been in the downward direction for a long time now. I remember when I stopped using digg. It was upgraded to mongo db and nothing was available for a while. That was when I went to reddit and forgot about digg completely. Reddit blackout is when I joined lemmy.world and forgot about reddit 😂
The enshittification of Reddit is inevitable and seems to be accelerating lately. Been looking for a reason to ditch reddit and dive into federated platforms and such so yeah, well timed for me.
Now that I've managed to hook up Mastadon to here and pull tweets from twitter, I think i'm pretty firmly here rather than there. There's one community I'll be sad to not interact with on the regular, but I'll manage.
Wait... Can you log in here with a mastodon account? I knew you could reply to comments and follow from mastodon, but the experience is pretty clunky.
can't log on from mastodon to here, but you can do that other thing.
Ah fair, so it's the way I thought. Shame, it would be a great feature (not sure if it's possible to implement though).
Nah man what Reddit is doing is ridiculous. I'm staying with Lemmy. I just hope the user base can grow.
There are some things I miss about reddit, I just noticed spoiler tags don't seem to work (at least on Jerboa), and sometimes the image display is way too small. That being said, I'll be sticking around here more because I genuinely think it can be better than reddit in the long run if it picks up enough steam.
Definitely won't be deleting my reddit though, as I'd like to believe some of my comments/posts were actually helpful for niche questions. As an example, A few weeks ago my several-year-old post got a comment describing a solution for my 2012 HP server that wasn't detecting more than 1 core in Proxmox (a server OS). Regardless of how bad reddit is, it saved me in weird problems like that multiple times, so I'm personally against giving up all of that information just for the sake of protest.
I'll be staying but I'll still use Reddit on the desktop as I still do need it for a few things. I'll certainly contribute to L.W's communities though. I suspect when they finally shoot old.reddit in the face is when the overall mass exodus will occur if a better platform isn't out by then.
Crazy to me that maybe 10% of people use old.reddit, but even if only a fraction of them move over that would still be a big growth to LW
I'm staying for sure. I will be posting on reddit for a short time.but just to preach the good news about lemmy.
I think I'll stick around. I never posted or commented on reddit before so there's really nothing for me there aside from the small communities I follow. All of which have a decent discord presence now. So anything related to news in those circles I can keep up with there. I am hoping more will move away from reddit after the blackout so we will see.
I would really like to stay here, but I mostly used reddit on my phone and I've found the mobile experience so underwhelming that I have already given up on it. The MLem app crashes on me after ~60 seconds every time I try to use it, too.
If we could entice the developer of Apollo or RIF or Sync or any of the big platforms to make a really slick app for Lemmy, I might never go back to Reddit.
Staying for sure.
Lemmy feels so much more exciting than Reddit, finding all these new communities and instances is a lot of fun.
Yep, staying
Idk if I'm gonna stay, but I won't return to reddit.
In the short term I'll probably still be on both, but in the long run I am probably not going to stick around on reddit with the progressively shitty decisions being made.
Lemmy is one of the sites that I'm checking out to try and replace Reddit. Unfortunately, so far, I can't find a replacement for my porn needs, but I think that'll help resolve a bigger problem I have.
I dunno, man. I sorta like it here. I'm on here and Squabbles, but my one sub is still sitting there for approval. Reddit was like a default itch scratch. Maybe fuckem but idk. We'll see if this kicks off cuz I'll stick around.
I am not expecting the blackout to be over to be fair. Reddit is not backing down. While I will miss it, I am prepared to use only Lemmy for quite some time perhaps even indefinitely. And it's not difficult in fact.
I was one of those weird Redditors that liked to browse "all" as almost every subreddit offered some interesting posts for me. Because of it I am not too worried about staying only at Lemmy as most conversations or post peak my interest.
Currently in the process of saving off my saved content. After that, I haven’t decided if I want to delete my account. Will probably stay off mobile, and give Lemmy/kbin/squabbles/tildes/Spyke some time to mature before dropping reddit entirely.
I’m staying. This may not be the Big Thing, but in my eyes, it’s a worthy contender.
Reddit simply isn’t anymore, if it ever truly was.
The reaction from spez has moved me from “just don’t go back” to “learn enough about scripts to run that salt the earth thing I saw from GitHub.”
I'm planning on staying, interacting here is a lot more fun than Reddit in my opinion.
I share the same fear, but I plan to stay I really enjoy lemmy, more than I have reddit in the last year or so. The atmosphere is great, and I feel more of a connection with the people and the community.
Haven't decided yet if I'll stay, or get rid of this type of social media entirely. We'll see. Not going back to Reddit though, I think.
I am liking my experience so far. I did a decade on Reddit and feel like I got the full experience (including moderating a subreddit big enough to have front page problems). I was already a bit tired of it when I got called a Nazi like 30 times for posting on a specific subreddit a few times. This new enshittification kinda clenched that I want to move to a different place. Not sure if it’s Lemmy or not, but I’m trying it.
Wiped and deleted. I'm putting down roots.
Just created an account to check out Lemmy. I'm not sure I fully understand the concept of this, but time will manage, I guess
This place feel so much better. The only downside is the user base isn't here yet. Let's hope many more people move over.
Other than transitioning the subs I moderate to other people, I'm done with active reddit use. I won't turn down search results from there, but I'll be fucked if I give them anything ever again.