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
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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
Ahh, you’re on android I’m guessing? I’m iOS :( looks like Mlem is the only option rn, and it’s young & buggy :( but still using it! :) and I’m def sticking with Lemmy!
@Barack_Ollama If you don’t mind the interface you should go to lemmy.world on your browser/Safari . It takes about 1 day to get used to then you will be an expert. the only thing about the website since it’s still new is that when you reply comment or create a post it looks like its loading. give it about 30 seconds and it will post. it looks like its loading but it’s actually posted already. other then that everything is good
I’m using the browser interface mostly. There are still some issues, though. Like, I got the notification of your comment & the only way I can find to view it in the context of the other comments is to tap on the post name (going to the main post), then scrolling down to find my own comment & your reply. Manageable now, but certainly not manageable if/when Lemmy gets more popular :(.
It would be great to be able to select the notification to take me to the post page, highlighting the comment from the notification, and only loading the thread that comment is in (basically what happened when I tapped on the notification in the Apollo App).
@Barack_Ollama Did you tap the notifications icon on the top right that should say 1 or 2 tap it and you should see the replies and other things
Upvotes and upvote button doesn’t seem to work correctly, yea exactly!
Nah reddit can fuck itself. I don’t want to support them.
I went there for a moment to check if any of my subreddits were making polls and the amount of redditors against this strike was depressing. I’m happy that I left this shithole and those braindead people behind.
Bit of a self-selecting group being polled right now, tbf
Yeah, I was going to say, anyone who’s creating polls on Reddit rn doesn’t know much about how to sample & avoid bias…
Reminds me of when Elon was making polls on how to run Twitter (although even with a biased sample people still wanted him out as CEO 😂).
People can have different views. No reason to call the braindead. I plan on using both but to be primarily here.
i likely do that too but i will never install the official app so i only access it when i need informations about something like programming. So i going to treat it more like an extension of search engines
I’ll still use Lemmy. The people here are way nicer.
This all the way - and way more understanding compared to Reddit
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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
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.
Gonna stick with Lemmy, but monitor Reddit’s activity.
I expect a lot of subreddits will be left indefinitely closed as well, which the admins are probably going to take over forcefully.
Lemmy is pretty nice to use so far.
Yeah, Reddit is currently a useful repository of some kinds of information and that won’t instantly migrate. It’s sad that even though every comment must be suspect when there can be any ulterior motive, it’s still often more informative than browsing the general internet, not least because the results from Google are dominated by manipulative trash sites.
But I’d definitely apply pressure towards Lemmy - I intend to use it first and encourage people to come on over. Reddit brings nothing special to the party, it’s just a simple but well conceived framework for people to interact (come to that, in 15 years has it improved in any way apart from 3rd party plugins and and apps?). The people are the thing, the platform just facilitates and protects the interactions (the latter will be the big challenge for Lemmy if it takes off).
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 staying here on lemmy. I was sensing the quality decline for years and was looking for something else before the recent drama anyway.
Lemmy is the first time I’ve been excited about the internet in a while and most things people complain about here are non issues to me.
Federation and some fracturing? It’s a fail safe feature not a bug. And things will slowly become more centralized over time.
Difficult to grasp conceptually and on board? It’s creating a positive barrier to entry keeping smart and persistent people as the ones entering in.
UI and UX issues? The second biggest instance rn lemmy.world was created only 10 days ago! Chill out and be patient! As the community grows in confident we will get all the QoL features we want.
Small community? It’s growing so rapidly we’re having outages and crashes, people are coming in faster than ever. And your posts will actually be seen and can create real connections with people.
It’s an opportunity to get in on the ground floor and help determine what this place will be!
People are looking at it wrong who are complaining imo and if not then they’re simply not the people I want to interact with anyway. They can go back to corporate ass ad ridden sites like reddit and continue their mindless scrolling there. I’ll be staying here
+1, lemmy/kbin/mastodon are communities users can shape and contribute to (literally to the code as well) far more than reddit. That alone with along with the recent influx of users, makes it a far more interesting place than reddit.
I’m actually kind of excited to start fresh, I have been working to break out of the loops I have been in after noticing every day is just feeling a repeat.
Very well written.
And absolutely , yes to everything.
I am probably going to use both for different reasons until June 30 and then just be here full time. Like you wrote , i have being having so much fun here like I have never had before with internet people. Since reddit was the only place I social networked , i am glad Lemmy is the way it currently is and I am excited to what’s to come.
Deleted my reddit today. Staying here cause
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 completely replaced my Reddit addiction with a Lemmy addiction. Don’t feel any pull to go back tbh.
I’m surprised how easy that was for me
Same… but then again I thought I could go the entire 48 hours Reddit free.
First 80 minutes and I was already looking up Lemmy and how to join.
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.
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Same here, I will occasionally use reddit while Apollo is still up, but once it shuts down I’ll stick with lemmy, at most browsing old.reddit.com if I need to search for something specific
So what I saw on an instance is that they have a sort of bot that basically archives entire posts and conversations from a subreddit, and I was thinking that perhaps for certain subreddits (like ones good for reference) they should do the same
Did they reverse the API charges. No. Then they can fuck off. If yes, then they can fuck off. Reddit has made it quiet clear were their priorities are at. And it ain’t the community
Yeah I’m going to follow Christian to his next project as well. I could see him making a super polished Lemmy or Kbin app. That I would love to pay for.
I’m sticking to lemmy at this point because of the principal.
I may only be one person out of millions, but I’m not giving reddit a lick of traffic unless Spez publicly acknowledges and apologizes to the dev for the false accusations, and to it’s communities.
I figure, if my time on reddit is a just drop in the bucket, people should have no room to be angry with me if I leave reddit permanently. If the user base is so unimportant, reddit shouldn’t miss us when we go. If the CEO is going to imply that people will get attacked by us for wearing reddit merch, then I want NOTHING to do with that platform.
People are hilarious if they think that reddit will suddenly stop it’s shenanigans at removing 3rd party apps. When they go public, you can probably kiss most of your favourite content goodbye.
It’s ironic too, because certain specific communities who are angry at the blackout will probably truly lose free speech when reddit goes public. Everything will likely have to be very suitable to advertisers and whoever has a stake in ownership.
I agree. Reddit has been pushing me away since they did away with the one-time purchase premium account I had, then started implementing loads of ads into everything. Good riddance.
I’ll be using both but I hope the strike goes on longer. Reddit mods have no idea how to strike or what a strike entails. Imagine if ghandi broke his hunger strike because he got hungry.
Going to stay with Lemmy for now. I had already been looking for an alternative to reddit even before this whole fiasco and Lemmy has what I’m looking for so far.
