This seems like a good place so far tbh
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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 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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
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.
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!
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.
Amen to that! And more engaging conversations so far as well.
How do you find communities here that are analogs of the ones you enjoyed on Reddit? I see big communities here like 196 that is basically the same as the Reddit community, and lemmyshitpost is a new type of meme community - but let’s say I’m interested in math and history. How do I find communities with in depth discussion of those topics?
Thank you! Just starting here myself too.
This is where the fun begins!
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
ah, Lenny. I really love Lenny.
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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.
Yup, and not just because of Reddit’s CEO.
The culture here is better - people read and reply rather than just upvoting. It’s a good place to help folks out, and be helped out.
Speak for yourself! I’m just replying to random comments and upvoting whatever I want! I didn’t even read your comment!
This is the kind of quality logical paradox I love!
Not used Reddit for a while now ^^ Just a couple subs I miss but most things are here on Lemmy now
Request them on [email protected]
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.
Same here, there’s a couple that I go back to browse because the community is still there but I’m mostly here now.
there are calyx institute c/ es but they are tiny
btw i run a calyx vpn c/
Yes and no. My daily scrolling habit has been moved to lemmy and I haven’t really felt any loss.
However, and this is a big caveat: Reddit remains a huge source of institutional knowledge. Half a dozen times weekly I’ll look something up and the most relevant answer/discussion will be from Reddit. As I understand it, lemmy will never fulfill this need, because it’s not scraped the same way Reddit is? Or perhaps I’ve misunderstood something about the way federation works. If that’s true, it’s a huge blow to the long-term use of lemmy v. Reddit.
I wonder if that could be built into it. Reddit was not a very useful place for information in 2011. Then the communities came.
Right, I may be totally misunderstanding the problem.
If it’s just that lemmy needs time and interaction from the community to build that knowledge, then great! No problem. But what I understood was that lemmy’s communities and conversations simply aren’t made accessible to wide-searching like that.
Looking at the /robots.txt file on a few different instances, there’s nothing preventing Google or any other web crawlers from indexing Lemmy. I was even able to find some posts by searching
site:lemmy.ml.I think part of it is that all the separate instances make for bad SEO. And there just isn’t enough content here yet to compete with Reddit and other search rankings. Hopefully it’ll keep growing and eventually take over.
Okay, sounds like I did misunderstand. I’m happy to be wrong, thanks for explaining!
Google and other search engines can crawl lemmy just fine. The only downside is that the information will be split across domains unless google puts in a special case for lemmy/fediverse or something.
Yeah, I think I did misconstrue the actual issue. SEO might not be as strong, but everything can be searched just as well. Great!
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 have started the switch, but like others have said Reddit still has a lot of content. I am hoping that more people make the switch to Lemmy over time.
yep, i’m here now, but i do also have a reddit tab open…
Not Lenny!
Came for this
yep, feels like old reddit and i’m so so happy!
I don’t trust anyone named Lenny. Lemmy is cool though
Absolutely. Deleted account.
That’s a good question, but I’m not sure I’d wanna do that.
