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This seems like a good place so far tbh

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[–] AlaskaMan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

99% yes, effective July 1. The 1% is the Ukraine war daily thread on World News. I monitor it while logged out.

[–] Ghostc1212@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

On my phone, yes. I intend to still use old.reddit on my PC in order to keep up with my favorite communities.

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[–] festus@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Seems that way - I'm not logging onto Reddit most days and the few times I am I'm only spending a few minutes, versus the ton of time I used to spend there.

[–] Bibawen88@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Hello this is my first post here, I hope this network becomes what Reddit used to be

[–] hitagi@ani.social 4 points 1 year ago

There's a few subs on Reddit that might have a hard time looking for a home here in Lemmy unless they make their own instance but they're pretty small communities. I don't think Reddit's advertising partners like them anyway lol

Yes. This place is growing and feels like home

[–] johndroid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I still subscribe to a couple of niche subreddits because their lemmy equivalents haven't taken off yet. But aside from the occasional check-in, I don't really visit any more. Amazed at how much time I wasted each day on nothing.

[–] NameGooseHere@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yep, after Rif died, immediately looked for alternatives to reddit.

[–] sethal@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m trying. It’s seems to grow every day. Went from opening Apollo almost every 10 minutes to browsing Reddit mobile site three times a week tops.

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[–] dr_rugby@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, I did. I was a lurker and not really a heavy user. It was fun while it lasted. Let's make this the real frontpage.

I am not replacing it.

I have already done it few weeks ago.

[–] howarddo@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

I just hope lemmy instances are more searchable like reddit. That would kill any usage of reddit for me for sure

I have! I closed my reddit account 3 weeks ago in protest and finally succeeded in standing up a Lemmy instance this morning. Yeah, I am not the brightest bulb but the dimmest either. It took some persistence and going through the dog's breakfast of the documentation of I got it done.

[–] ilikemoney@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm going the supplementation route for now. Reddit official app is not enjoyable to use. I currently have a work around for my 3rd party app of choice. If the work around ever fails and reddit doesn't improve their app, I'm hopeful Lemmy will grow enough in the meantime to fully fill the reddit void.

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[–] TheGiantKorean@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I deleted my Reddit account the other day. I'm all in.

[–] Shmoot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

After installing Liftoff today, I'm done with reddit

[–] ilovetvshows@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Right now using both.

[–] o1o12o21@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

On desktop, not yet. On phone, no.

If I must, on a phone, then I use old.reddit.com.

[–] coaxil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Already have a month ago, really like it here!

[–] manapropos@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve been strictly here and 4chan

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[–] m4tthu@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will be if I can get a good app to use on my phone. I'd also love to see some qol features like RES offers for my browser. But I am enjoying it so far!

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I like using Connect for lemmy so far. A little getting used to but going good.

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[–] mog77a@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I'll be completely real, no.

It's more like it added another folder to my bookmark bar with all of my lemmy instances. I do like the fact that the source code is open source and the overall engagement is through the roof. That's always a good sign.

While lemmy did populate faster than I expected, the experience is not quite the same. It honestly never could be due to the decentralized federated nature of it.

Reddit's mobile experience with patched apps is leagues ahead of lemmy. Desktop is pretty similar though, so all that remains is the size of the community.

I use both maybe 50/50 but my biggest concern is validated every day. The fragmentation is the thing that gets you. It basically places increased burden on the user to manage it. Not sure if there will be a seamless solution to it, or if I have to develop one myself.

[–] revlayle@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just started Lemmy a couple days ago. I uninstalled Reddit app 3 weeks ago and closed all my tabs. Occasionally a search results in Google for info will pop up a relevant reddit thread, of I think it has an answer I need I will click it. I didn't delete my reddit account or anything tho, just logged out.

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[–] AnAnxiousCorgi@lemmy.reddeth.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not entirely. There's a couple larger subreddits I enjoy and tbh it's still my go-to for doomscrolling.

However my desire to interact with reddit couldn't be any less. Zero desire to post or comment anything due to the sheer hostility of the site to it's users.

I think if lemmy continues to grow in userbase it could completely replace reddit, but not at this immediate moment.

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Please don't tell anyone how I live!

[–] Alphadef@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm certainly going to try. Will it work out? I hope so.

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[–] t0m5k1@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For the most part I have, there are a few subs that i'd like to see here but Lemmy is still kinda new so it'll take time.

I've also dropped twitter for mastodon but same issue there too.

I really like the federation feature like the ability to respond to Lemmy via mastodon.

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[–] Taleq@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Definitely. For now I just need Relay for Lemmy.

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Yes, I am now 90% on Lemmy - the new Memmy app for my iPad is close to Apollo-quality and Liftoff on my Android phone (S21) is β€œalmost” as good as Sync for Reddit was.

For Reddit, I am using RSS feeds only to browse for any posts that interest me - I am trying to not give them traffic if at all possible.

The content on Lemmy is getting better every day!

[–] Fantasmita@lib.lgbt 3 points 1 year ago

Partially.... It's similar situation that I have with Twitter and Mastodon. Simply, there are subreddits that not have (yet) the equivalent on Lemmy or refused to move to Lemmy (or moved to Radle)

[–] Bluefrog1313@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Nope I'm replacing with Lemmy. 😝

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, but I've found myself browsing a lot more on different sites too. Instead of opening RiF to find stuff, I just look at YouTube or redgifs directly. Turns out I never needed a middleman for that, so there's no need to use the fediverse for that now.

The important news and discussion is plentiful here, so that'll be my main purpose of opening wefwef or whatever app is better.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I have replaced it as my active site,

So there is still stuff that's more active on reddit, like football news, but I am now just a lurker there I don't contribute I just read if there is an update then if it's relevant I post it from there to Lemmy, so we can start building a community here.

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