I am theoretically switching over from Reddit to Lemmy. Finding myself spending more time on Lemmy than on Reddit. Maybe it’s because I am limited to using the desktop and can’t aimlessly browse Reddit on my iPhone. Of late, the only subreddits I cared for were on sports and their matchday threads and r/watches. I found myself aimlessly browsing through r/AskReddit and asking and answering pointless questions.

  • Noreia@lemmy.world
    16·
    1 year ago

    I deleted my reddit apps and decided to not use it anymore, so yeah, I am only on Lemmy now using it on desktop and on phone I use jerboa for lemmy

    • malloc@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Same, “feel” happier as well. But will reassess in a few weeks lol.

      I usually go back to Reddit to check for updates and the people that are still posting and feeding the Reddit machine are kind of deadass. Almost feels like they are bots.

  • Steve@lemm.ee
    5·
    1 year ago

    I gave up Reddit 100% the day the blackout started, so by default… yes. Way more time on Lemmy. As someone that isn’t on these sites that much of the time, I like Lemmy way better since I can actually contribute and have conversations. On Reddit I’m only ever replying to a post once there are a thousand replies already and it’s always buried. Here it’s much easier to chat.

    I was thinking about setting up an instance to help me learn some more development stuff and practice my Terraform use, or maybe build an iOS app to learn Swift in my spare time… but I don’t really have spare time, so those things have a 99.9% chance of not happening haha.

  • BilboBargains@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    I stopped using Reddit entirely. It’s got too popular for its own good. The API thing was the last straw. Feels like whenever the money men take over something it goes to shit. These walled gardens are cancerous in a way that the average user doesn’t understand until it’s too late. The EU is the only big institution that is pushing back against this tendency and my countrymen decided they wanted to leave because they are too stupid to understand this kind of nuance.

    Down with proprietary, closed, throwaway culture. Long live open, transparent, modular, reusable technology.

  • the_kung_fu_emu@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Absolutely! The vibe is more chill. There’s not the content churn there was on Reddit, but when I examined my consumption habits on Reddit I realized most of the churn was just reposts anyway. Lemmey is all the meat, and none of the fat.

  • Tygr@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    I have bookmarks to Reddit I use on desktop, old version so I can get updated on niche stuff. I use Reddit about 1% and always with Adblock and logged out.

  • Bloved Madman@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    100% on Lemmy, I used a script to remove all my comments and posts from my account. The account is still there, but totally empty. Is Kbin accessable via Lemmy and vice-versa? Reddit is dead to me,

  • Arotrios@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    10% on Reddit, 10%-15% on Lemmy, 10000% on Kbin - beats the pants off of other platforms IMHO, which is surprising considering it’s early development. The combo of content from both Lemmy and Mastodon instances is pretty darn cool.

    • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      10% on Reddit, 10-15% on Lemmy, 10000% on Kbin

      >100% error!

      How are you manufacturing extra time‽ The greatest physicists of our day want to talk to you!

      (Unless you mean to say that you spend 100x time on Kbin what you used to spend on Reddit…that makes more sense…carry on.)

  • gamebuster@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    About 25% of time is spend here. I feel like Lemmy isn’t “there” yet but I want it to be. I’m thinking of creating my own instance with a custom GUI with a light-weight, less cluttered interface with some custom defaults.

  • Marduk73@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    Well I am now. Now that Slide quit working. I was looking at both. I still can see Reddit in my browser at home but this was a nice kick in the pants to make me really focus here at lemmy.

  • skrttskrtt911@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    I quit using Reddit entirely when the blackout started. I didn’t immediately jump all in to Lemmy, but I’ve found myself checking in more often and staying on the site for longer periods of time as it continues growing

  • upper@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    i am here to browse less, and engage more. I hope to spend about the same amount of time on Lemmy as I did on Reddit, as everyone’s time is finite. I am not going back after browsing through the communities, which I think will grow in time.

    Engagement is key