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I completely left Reddit. A week before Apollo shut down I slowly started to leave subreddits and cleaned my post and comments. The moment Apollo stopped working, Reddit was dead to me either. Lemmy is now my new home.
Same, but after RiF. Reddit became a posterchild for the corporate greed so fuck them.
I am sad about RIF. It blocked all the ads, didn’t show all the shitty awards, was super clean, the video player worked well and the mod tools were awesome.
On a side note, its sad demise led me to Lemmy, so all is well.
Reddit is Fun was among the first apps I installed on my first smart phone, way back in 2011. I thought, “oh reddit will come out with their own app eventually, I’ll just use this until that happens.” Turned out that 99% of my time spent on reddit over the last 12 years would be through RiF. I’m sad too, man. Lemmy seems pretty cool though
I have a friend that still uses RIF. He says it isn’t down and hasn’t shut down. Is this true?
I had a super busy week with work and moving then, so didin’t have time for reddit housekeeping, might need to go back to delete everything when I have the time
If the tools don’t work anymore (did they need API access?), on desktop you can sort by top and delete those manually. Those are the high visibility ones anyway.
PowerDeleteSuite does not need API access. It runs in your browser. I used it to scrub what was left after Redact stopped working.
That is my backup plan, I think I can purge most in a 30 min sitting
I was doing the same and did a Power Delete Suite of my account. It’s going to take a while to get used to Lenny after 10 years at the other site.
Same. I’ve completely adapted to Memmy and have left Reddit behind. So far the only thing I miss is the sports communities. But otherwise I feel no compulsion to browse Reddit.
I am currently switching back and forth between Memmy, Mlem and Wefwef (which is getting renamed to Voyager soon). All apps are in active development and have their pros and cons.
Same for me. The day Apollo died was the day I quit. I’m starting to warm up to Lemmy more and more over time as it scratches that same itch.
Exactly what I did. I added a handful of niche subs as RSS feeds to a reader just so I can keep up on stuff that I have no other way of seeing, but otherwise Reddit is died for me on 30th June
Same, the moment they started to announce Apollo was closing I started looking for alternatives and landed on lemmy.
Testing a few apps, memmy is my favorite thus far.
Yep, same here. Deleted my account and made sure to delete all posts and comments before. Been on Lemmy with Memmy ever since. Never going back, I don’t miss it at all.
Same
I completely left July 1st when Apollo shut down. The Memmey ap is really close to a replacement.
Lemmy reminds me of old reddit and I like it much better.
I thought I was going to stick around on desktop at least, but I’ve found myself using Lemmy instead. This is more fun.
tips for cleaning comments fast?
Shreddit is what I used to clean them all
This is my alternative. Still getting used to it. Hi everyone!
I think a lot of us are still getting accustomed to Lemmy and finding our flow. For me, personally, the move exposed a bunch of new communities and topics I didn’t know / or forgot I was interested in and am now excited to be a part of!
Amen to that! And more engaging conversations so far as well.
Likewise, I’m finding my feed is once again filling with things I am actually interested in. Reddit had drifted slowly towards mindless content but here on Lemmy I feel back in control.
It’s basically old reddit. It feels like I just left Digg and I def enjoy it much more. I’d have left back when they changed to new reddit if Lemmy was around.
Lemmy doesn’t support videos. That’s what I liked about reddit.
This is where the fun begins!
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Hiya!
It’s Payne! Whack him!
Hello! 👏
Hello there!
bitch I’m gray to the death ay
Howdy!
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Hello!!
Hi there!
I stan Stanwich
Yo yo!
Hi :)
Me too, hi
Hi @Stanwich@lemmy.world!
Not used Reddit for a while now ^^ Just a couple subs I miss but most things are here on Lemmy now
Request them on !requests@lemmit.online
Or even start them yourself. I’m running a couple.
Same. I didn’t create or mod any community on Reddit but I’m finding it a lot more satisfying to be involved.
I’m hoping a few missing subreddits I was on will come over. I really would do it myself but I’m dealing with a multitude of health and irl issues right now.
Join me at tinnedseafood!
They do already have community but not many moved over ^^ Hopefully it picks up
It’s for “path of exile” and it’s a bit of a slow period for the game until a couple of weeks from now.
What is that doing? Just automated creation of subs? Most of the links the bot there posts dont even work.
It’s grabbing reddit content and posting it here. You can request any subreddit but not the comments.
Same here, there’s a couple that I go back to browse because the community is still there but I’m mostly here now.
I still dip in to Reddit, but about 75% less than before. As more Lemmy content becomes available, I expect that to further diminish.
Same. I still report to reddit when I need to check something technical. For example, was looking at doing some work on my HVAC and wondering if some new pipe fittings were any good. Googled the product name plus Reddit to get the professional discussions from the HVAC experts.
Yeah, same here. To be honest, the web will lose a great repository of information when Reddit goes the way of the dodo. I wonder if archiving efforts are underway anywhere?
Ya, I use Reddit for stuff I’m working on like learning a language that isn’t on Lemmy right now, but I only use Reddit ~25% of the time I used to now.
I’m not on “Lenny” terms yet, I still refer to him as “Leonard”.
As for Lemmy, it’s almost completely replaced Reddit for me. Except for the times I search for something and the best result is a Reddit thread from 3 years ago
Lenny! Memento is such a fkn good film
I still use reddit for researching problems at work, but that’s it.
Not Lenny!
Came for this
Only noticed it now and i already seen the post earlier
On Lemmy you can edit your post titles.
Op purposely used Lenny, to get more engagements.
Uou know, the old adage of saying something wrong in the internet to get the right answers quicker
Ah yes, the Streisand Effect.
Indeed you are correct. Thanks for providing the info.
Ahh! This wasn’t how it was supposed to work at all!
;)
lmao
I don’t trust anyone named Lenny. Lemmy is cool though
Come on… You can totally trust this face!
He squishy you like little mouse.
Already did. Now I only visit Reddit to check out some niche communities that are not on Lemmy yet.
exactly. the front page sucks ass. lemmy has a better all page.
Lots of new, unique communities and the occasional titty? I’m sold.
Yeah, I’ll probably still check Reddit when it’s in Google search results, too, but I’m no longer visiting regularly and I hope that someday I’ll be able to replace it for the niche cases, too.
Already did. Purged all my Reddit bookmarks and account.
Generally: You have to be the change you want to see in the world. If you want to change others, change yourself first. I don’t think the mindset “I need to reach that big number of people over there so I’ll just be over there as well to teach them” works, or leads to the goal you want. Even though it seems reasonable at first glance. This mindset just leads to you giving the other people AND yourself more reason to never leave from there. Which is contrary to what you want. If you want others to switch to better alternatives, move yourself first, help grow the alternatives, and they will sooner or later also become interested in joining. Things like the latest Reddit and Twitter fiascos also show that no huge proprietary social media platform rules forever. The time to change to better alternatives has never been better than now.
It took me way too long in life to realize you can’t change other people. There is a famous Persian poet (Rumi) who stated “when I was younger I wanted to change the world. Now I want to change myself.” Really it’s made me a lot happier as well. No more stressing over why people don’t believe me or spending hours in pointless arguments. Just focus on what I know is needs improvement in my life.
I should have left reddit a long time ago and I even tried a few times, but the lack of an alternative to keep me connected (it was my only social media) always had me coming back. So I’m proud to say I’m at least a week without any reddit whatsoever, not even peaking in my rearview mirror at this point.
Love a bit of Rumi. He says so many beautiful things.
People can be changed, it just takes time and it might be hard. It also depends on how open-minded they are. Also, with technology, you have the additional problem that many people still don’t understand most technology even on a basic level, and they might not know anything better than what they’re currently using. If you show it to them, it might not even be so hard to get them to change. So I think there are a lot of factors at play. But even in the hardest cases, hard doesn’t mean impossible.
As soon as sync died I was on to lemmy. I haven’t used Reddit since, except to check my subs to see if I can find matches here, which I could.
No, I’m replacing it with Lemmy.
I love Lenny!
Eh, Lemmy’s alright, but it’s no bowl of Special K
Now play classical gas!
https://i.imgur.com/IvgRPHq.gifv
Yep. When RIF died, Reddit was dead to me. I refuse to give the owners of Reddit the satisfaction of me switching to their app.
I’m also slowly pushing myself from Twitter to Mastodon. Hoping more of the accounts I follow on Twitter make the switch too.
I blocked Twitter completely already I just can’t stand Elon musk. I just hold my long time OG account so he can’t give it away.
The only time I’d use Reddit now is if I had a specific question about a specific topic that’s only covered there.
As far as browsing for fun goes it’s Lemmy all the way, it’s so much nicer than Reddit.
A lot of non-bullshit answers for games link to reddit, so I still have my account logged in so I get old.reddit when I click them. When they decide to kill that one I don’t know what to do.
I quit Reddit cold turkey on the day the APIs died. Sync was synonymous to Reddit for me. When one died, so did the other.
Agreed, Sync is Reddit. the second it stopped working I went right to Lemmy. I cant wait for the Sync Lemmy app
Same. Love that so many sync users hopped over.