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...how many of you will stay? Personally, I wiped my Reddit history and deleted my account, so I'm definitely here to stay. I can see, however, that a number of people see Lemmy more as a distraction until the blackout is over. I wonder what that number would be.

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[–] derek@lemmy.one 6 points 2 years ago

Idk if I'm gonna stay, but I won't return to reddit.

[–] Dee@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I'll be staying. Lemmy does what I used Reddit for fine enough, which is aggregate news links about various topics I'm interested in and provide a platform to discuss said topics with like minded people. The community is smaller, nicer, more personable too. Overall I'm enjoying it a lot. Some glitches and bugs to work out but nothing platform breaking. Can't wait to see how Lemmy progresses along! And Kbin, I made an account there today and have been checking it out too. I like Lemmy's UI a bit more, while Kbin has a lot of cool features Lemmy doesn't. We'll see how it shapes out but I'll be here for the ride.

[–] scrux@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Reddit has been the third party apps for me for years, so shutting those down means I’m gone for good.

[–] sigh@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Staying for sure.

Lemmy feels so much more exciting than Reddit, finding all these new communities and instances is a lot of fun.

[–] xkoe@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Staying for sure, I really like it here.

[–] jinarched@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'm not using reddit again unless to lurk some info here and there if it is needed to find information I couldn't find on lemmy. I won't participate in the Reddit community anymore even if reddit is backing down. The federated philosophy is just much more alligned with my values. If anything, this whole blackout situation accelerated my innevitable switch.

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[–] OverfedRaccoon 5 points 2 years ago

Lemmy is promising, and I'm here to stay. I haven't nuked my account on Reddit yet. But as others have said, I don't plan on posting much there anymore. Unfortunately, I'm going to be slightly tethered to wherever the smaller, more niche communities that I like end up.

[–] small44@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure the communities that I most care about are not very active.

[–] ZombieComputer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I think I'll stick around. I never posted or commented on reddit before so there's really nothing for me there aside from the small communities I follow. All of which have a decent discord presence now. So anything related to news in those circles I can keep up with there. I am hoping more will move away from reddit after the blackout so we will see.

[–] You_Are_Breathing@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Lemmy is one of the sites that I'm checking out to try and replace Reddit. Unfortunately, so far, I can't find a replacement for my porn needs, but I think that'll help resolve a bigger problem I have.

[–] Aninjanameddaryll@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

Other than transitioning the subs I moderate to other people, I'm done with active reddit use. I won't turn down search results from there, but I'll be fucked if I give them anything ever again.

[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

lemmy.world, beehaw.org, and kbin.social are now in my rotation of daily (okay, hourly) websites. There’s no reason to solely rely on Reddit if there’s a chance to grow these communities.

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

There are some things I miss about reddit, I just noticed spoiler tags don't seem to work (at least on Jerboa), and sometimes the image display is way too small. That being said, I'll be sticking around here more because I genuinely think it can be better than reddit in the long run if it picks up enough steam.

Definitely won't be deleting my reddit though, as I'd like to believe some of my comments/posts were actually helpful for niche questions. As an example, A few weeks ago my several-year-old post got a comment describing a solution for my 2012 HP server that wasn't detecting more than 1 core in Proxmox (a server OS). Regardless of how bad reddit is, it saved me in weird problems like that multiple times, so I'm personally against giving up all of that information just for the sake of protest.

[–] jessecool1234@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I'll definitely stay. I like the idea that it's run by individual people rather than a huge corporation, and I love that the smaller user count gives it a greater sense of community. It made me realize that I don't enjoy using mainstream social media due to how lonely it makes me feel.

[–] CheshireSnake@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago

Already deleted all my reddit accounts and uninstalled Joey (TPA). I'll be honest and say that I won't completely stop going to reddit, but it will be pretty rare and just as a spectator. I won't be participating anymore. There's just too much information there right now and there are some subs i follow that probably won't migrate here.

[–] Defaced@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Already cleared my comment history and deleted my reddit account. I'm here for good. It's pretty clear to me that federated content and social networks are the future of aggregated news sites like Reddit.

[–] snipe_at@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

wait, how can we wipe our post history?

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[–] beanssys@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago

right now, it's a little hard to say. it depends a lot on increased activity in my interests

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago

Definitely staying here. I haven't erased my post history yet, but I plan to within the week.

[–] SallyTAB@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Deleted four accounts of 3-11 years. Yup. Bye. I ain't waiting around to see reddit turn into "myspace after tom"

[–] weepingSpright@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I haven't deleted my reddit account and I'm not sure if I'm going to, but I do not plan on going back or logging back in. Many times I've googled some obscure thing and the only solution to my problem was a 10 year old reddit post. With everyone deleting their accounts all those posts will change to [deleted] and I think that's sad. I've never posted anything that I think would help anyone, but I'm torn between letting my account stay up in the spirit of that and deleting it because fuck reddit.

[–] azura@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Not going back. Here to stay for sure. No matter what.

[–] Shell@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Nah man what Reddit is doing is ridiculous. I'm staying with Lemmy. I just hope the user base can grow.

[–] SQL_InjectMe@partizle.com 4 points 2 years ago

The lemmyverse is getting better everyday! No reason to go back

[–] LilBagOfBunnies 3 points 2 years ago

Planning on sticking around! I'm losing RiF and Jerboa seems to work well enough; hopefully it continues to improve as the platform continues to get more popular. I'll likely still check on Reddit for certain communities as they develop here, but otherwise I'm digging Lemmy and would love to see it grow!

[–] happilybitchycowboy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There wasn't much to Reddit when it first started. Users built it over the years, including myself. I'd love to see Lemmy do the same, but it'll take work and commitment. Should it happen to become as large, I do wonder if it will eventually face the same woes as Reddit.

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[–] dox@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Just created an account to check out Lemmy. I'm not sure I fully understand the concept of this, but time will manage, I guess

[–] GolGolarion@pathfinder.social 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Now that I've managed to hook up Mastadon to here and pull tweets from twitter, I think i'm pretty firmly here rather than there. There's one community I'll be sad to not interact with on the regular, but I'll manage.

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[–] juicybootypatootie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I think there needs to be more communities so I can really leave reddit. Also not for sure about the messaging option on here.

[–] TDSP@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I am liking my experience so far. I did a decade on Reddit and feel like I got the full experience (including moderating a subreddit big enough to have front page problems). I was already a bit tired of it when I got called a Nazi like 30 times for posting on a specific subreddit a few times. This new enshittification kinda clenched that I want to move to a different place. Not sure if it’s Lemmy or not, but I’m trying it.

[–] Rockfury@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I dunno, man. I sorta like it here. I'm on here and Squabbles, but my one sub is still sitting there for approval. Reddit was like a default itch scratch. Maybe fuckem but idk. We'll see if this kicks off cuz I'll stick around.

[–] Anti_Weeb_Penguin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I have been permabanned from both reddit and twitter so i'll stay here

[–] JesusTheCarpenter@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I am not expecting the blackout to be over to be fair. Reddit is not backing down. While I will miss it, I am prepared to use only Lemmy for quite some time perhaps even indefinitely. And it's not difficult in fact.

I was one of those weird Redditors that liked to browse "all" as almost every subreddit offered some interesting posts for me. Because of it I am not too worried about staying only at Lemmy as most conversations or post peak my interest.

[–] PreciousDeclaration@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think that I will probably stay on Lemmy. However, I will probably still continue to use Reddit, mainly for just one particular subreddit, r/smartlauncher, it cannot be replaced here on Lemmy, because on Reddit, it is run by the developers of the app. I don't plan on using the official Reddit app though, I will probably use RedReader instead, since Reddit allowed them to keep running because of their accessibility features, and they are FOSS. It's definitely not as good as Sync for Reddit, but it's better than the official Reddit app.

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