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.
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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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.
I had a super busy week with work and moving then, so didinβt have time for reddit housekeeping, might need to go back to delete everything when I have the time
Not Lenny!
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
Yup , havenβt been back to Reddit since Apollo went dark.
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.
This is my alternative. Still getting used to it. Hi everyone!
It's not really as simple as leaving reddit. I have deleted my reddit info, but haven't deleted my account. I still post on reddit sometimes, because posting a question on lemmy gets almost no responses. I use one of the Redlib hosters when just viewing reddit (eg if I click on a link.) A slow transition, I hope Lemmy gets more popular.
Already did. Now I only visit Reddit to check out some niche communities that are not on Lemmy yet.
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.
exactly. the front page sucks ass. lemmy has a better all page.
Lots of new, unique communities and the occasional titty? I'm sold.