Lemmy, no Reddit anymore

There is plenty to engage with here. I don’t miss Reddit, other than a couple of local groups that have no fedi equivalents, yet. But not enough to go back.

I only use Lemmy for browsing but I still search “(product name) Reddit” for reviews of appliances in addition to free consumer reports access through my library. It still seems like the best way to get real user feedback despite reddits best efforts to sell out.

I use Lemmy primarily. I try not to use Reddit, Meta, TikTok or anything else as much as I can if there is a Fediverse option.

Unfortunately, there are a few things you have to use that stuff for:

• Facebook Marketplace has completely replaced Craigslist in my area.

• Neighborhood apps like NextDoor, even if there are other options, doesn’t matter if your neighbors don’t use it.

• Reddit for specific niche forums. If the community is active on Lemmy, I post questions here first but in some case I need an answer for something that doesn’t exist in the Fediverse yet.

I still have Facebook because of real life friends but otherwise I am on the fediverse and Bluesky only. I even use Maven. I have never gotten into Snapchat or Tiktok at all, and I dumped Instagram and Twitter a while back.

I would love to not be on Facebook but sometimes if someone commits a really trashy crime in the news and I look them up and their page is full of crazy it’s pretty delicious. Like a Southern Gothic novel.

I’m trying to leave #Meta apps for the #Fediverse. However, It is not easy because Most of my contacts are there and there is not so much local discussion here

Yes? But I don’t think I’m hardcore, I started using Lemmy when I stopped using reddit.

I use Lemmy and Discord

Just lemmy for some years now. I do miss the Reddit of the olden days though. You know, when there was still some Aaron Schwartz in it.

Back in the day I could go online and ask every goddamn question and a real person would give me an answer. There was this treasure trove of knowledge and opinions. Lemmy is sadly not quite there yet, but the memes are spicy and I like those nice socks you computer people wear.

I dream of the day, when somebody shuts down the internet. Because I know, all you sock wearing and Linux wielding Weirdos will get your shit running again the fastest.

I switched to lemmy about two years ago and went almost cold turkey. There was one community on reddit that I returned to a couple of times in the first few weeks, but even that stopped as it just wasn’t worth it. I have been to reddit a few times since, but only when trying to solve a problem and reddit comes up as a search result, and only after trying other sources first.

Reddit killed third party apps, and so they killed my engagement with them. Why go back?

I stopped using Reddit when I got permabanned for speaking against fascism.

I only use Reddit when it comes up in a search result. Otherwise it is Lemmy all the way

I’m working on a Lemmy client and I occasionally browse main stream social media to check the robustness of my app vs theirs. But I find myself enjoying mainstream less and less as I settle more into Lemmy.