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
    34·
    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

      • Noreia@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Same, while I do feel Lemmy and Jerboa need some work, I feel like they are enough there already to make it work. In a lot of ways it feels better than reddit, idk why

  • Steve@lemm.ee
    15·
    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.

  • bric@lemm.ee
    13·
    1 year ago

    I’ve quit reddit 100%. I was a little bit addicted, so I used the blackout as a way to quit cold turkey. Lemmy kind of scratches the itch, enough that I don’t go back to Reddit, but I don’t spend as much time here as I did there. I’m counting that as a good thing

  • Cha0zz@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 year ago

    I am mainly a mobile user. Unfortunately the Lemmy apps are still pretty limited. Despite that I refuse to use Reddit from now on even though I find myself often opening Apollo (muscle memory I guess), I always close it immediately. Really hoping the lemmy apps improve as I see a lot of potential.

    • lasagna@programming.dev
      3·
      1 year ago

      Jerboa reminds me a lot of Rif. There are some bugs like the list reseting but it’s mostly a good experience.

    • rarkgrames@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      The apps currently in beta seem to be getting updated every day or so with improvements. I’m posting this using Memmy and it’s working fairly well. Both Memmy and Mlem need a bit more work before they’re ready to go to general release imho but the devs are doing great work.

      I don’t think it will be long before we have fully- functional apps in the App Store.

    • KuroJ@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Not sure if you’ve tried Memmy yet on iOS, but I’m loving it so far and even though it’s in beta I’m able to do everything I need to do through the app!

    • AskThinkingTim@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      I can’t test Jerboa on iPhone but it makes me realise that maybe I spend too much inefficient time on the phone. It might be different for you.

      • Cha0zz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I definitely spend too much inefficient time on Reddit, so a reduction in that is definitely a good thing for me.

    • McBinary@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      The mobile web app is far better than Jerboa right now, just FYI. I’ve been using the kbin and the PWA for their mobile website is pretty good for browsing lemmy communities too.

      • Cha0zz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Thanks, I’ll try using the web app for a while to see if that’s better. I guess I immediately tried mobile apps out of habit.

  • finn@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 year ago

    I’ve not touched Reddit since the blackout started, and I won’t be going back.

    Fuck u/spez

  • Strolleypoley@kbin.social
    8·
    1 year ago

    I made an account on both kbin.social and Lemmy and use jerboa to browse Lemmy on mobile.

    I haven’t been on reddit in a week, and have deleted my account so on the occasions that I do end up there I won’t be adding to their content or participating.

  • jasparagus@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

    I’ve basically made the switch 100%, and I’m finding myself a lot more active on here so far. Everything I’ve posted in any given community has resulted in a lot more friendly discussion here than it tended to on Reddit… honestly, so far this feels a lot better lol.

  • Sentiel@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    I deleted everything Reddit related and haven’t been there since. I even avoid Reddit related search results.

  • Manu@feddit.de
    6·
    1 year ago

    I moved here with the intention to stay. I just use reddit to promote Lemmy now.

  • Mohkia@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    I am proud of myself! Haven’t touch reddit since the 11th! I am free! Ahahahahaha! Ahem. For real though It feels good to break the habit. Course I replaced one addiction. With another by landing over here. Oh well. That is how it goes I suppose.

  • fucking_polite@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    I’m constantly making a conscious effort to avoid going back to reddit. It’s not been easy, as it was my most used app maybe after youtube, but I’ve succeed so far. Last december I deleted my twitter account I created back in 2009. It hurt a bit, but I survived and found a nice place on a Mastodon instance. My reddit account is 11 years old, and I’ll be deleting it too, soon. It’ll hurt too, I know, but I’ll survive too. Lemmy is my new home.

    • Beegzoidberg@lemmy.one
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m in the same boat and have similar time spent on rif, I don’t really have a choice since their app is my only ‘choice’ and I refuse to use it.