Are you replacing Reddit with Lenny?

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 is my alternative. Still getting used to it. Hi everyone!

Not used Reddit for a while now ^^ Just a couple subs I miss but most things are here on Lemmy now

I still dip in to Reddit, but about 75% less than before. As more Lemmy content becomes available, I expect that to further diminish.

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

On Lemmy you can edit your post titles.

Not Lenny!

I don't trust anyone named Lenny. Lemmy is cool though

Already did. Now I only visit Reddit to check out some niche communities that are not on Lemmy yet.

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.

No, I'm replacing it with Lemmy.

I love Lenny!

Yep. When RIF died, Reddit was dead to me. I refuse to give the owners of Reddit the satisfaction of me switching to their app.

I'm also slowly pushing myself from Twitter to Mastodon. Hoping more of the accounts I follow on Twitter make the switch too.

The only time I'd use Reddit now is if I had a specific question about a specific topic that's only covered there.

As far as browsing for fun goes it's Lemmy all the way, it's so much nicer than Reddit.

Who is this Lenny?

Yep, Lemmy is filling a Reddit-shaped hole. It's a bit different but nice.

Trying to. This is a FANTASTIC tool to find new "subreddits" on Lemmy: https://sub.rehab/

I quit Reddit cold turkey on the day the APIs died. Sync was synonymous to Reddit for me. When one died, so did the other.

Who's Lenny? Depends on if they're cool or not

Lemmy is pretty much my new Reddit much in the same way Reddit was my new Fark.com 12 years ago.

Now that I'm on Lemmy, I'm also exploring Fark again. I'm wondering why I ever left as it still is super relevant.

Lemmy/mastodon for mindless browsing has replaced reddit/Twitter for me. For specific research/googling on a niche topic, I still find reddit threads popping up all the time so I'll still click those to learn more, but they web browser only.

I'm about 90% Lemmy, 9% Reddit, 1% Tribel right now.

As soon as Lemmy has enough people and communities to keep me always reading something new that interests me, I'll be 100%. I've already abandoned subreddits that I modded. There's little to keep me going back.

Yup, and not just because of Reddit's CEO.

The culture here is better - people read and reply rather than just upvoting. It's a good place to help folks out, and be helped out.

Here's the thing. Reddit had me hooked on it like no other until the API fuck up. Pretty much dropped it on it the spot.

After the first week it dawned on me how much time I was spending there.

So while I setup here, much less time is being spent online overall. But the interaction has jumped up immensely.

My garden is looking better and I'm hitting the gym much more often.

100%

Using Reddit on web is no good for me since I can't look at it during work and at home I'd rather watch YouTube.

Baconreader was the only 3rd party app I liked and now Connect for Lemmy is a good replacement for it to check occasionally.

I also like that there's less new posts compared with Reddit so I now spend more time reading than I did before.

Also the community here feels much more welcoming.

Up Lemmy!

I left during the Blackout and I've never looked back.

Yes. I plan on using lemmy over reddit from now on. There are enough similar communities here. I'll have to keep using reddit if i'm searching for something and it comes up, but i don't plan on actively using reddit anymore. They showed their true colours: a company's whole business model built around collecting and displaying user content and then has the nerve to pull that they did on 3rd party developers?

They didn't want app competition because they needed to serve ads in their app.

Yes (Lemmy), replaced it about two weeks ago. I only visit Reddit for super niche stuff while logged out and using an as locker with the old subdomain. I will never upvote or reply to a topic on there ever again.

Nah.

I'm replacing it with Lemmy. Carl can keep Lenny to himself.

I replaced Reddit with the satisfaction of knowing I won’t be a pawn in Reddit’s plans to monetize the community’s free labor. 😉

I'm an reddit addict so it takes some time, but I'm working on it. It helps that reddit quality dropped and I'v been banned in one of four subs I was interested in.

No, but i spend a lot less time in Reddit since using Lemmy

Yes, and I will always mourn RIF

Yes ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

The only app i bought on android is not working anymore because of reddit. I guess, answer is obvious

Yep, they killed boost, I quit.

On the bright side I like it here and don't feel ashamed of myself for supporting assholes every time I log in

I'm replacing Reddit with Lenin!! Long live the Working Class!

I have moved from 100% Reddit before this month to around 75% Lemmy (via Wefwef) and 25% Reddit. And I see this continually moving towards more Lemmy, less Reddit over time

ah, Lenny. I really love Lenny.

I use wefwef.app (to be rename Voyager next week it). It’s the closest thing I’ve found to Apollo and their seems to be a lot of contributors because it gets updated with new features and bug fixes almost daily.

Still hoping for more content though, and I’ve been guilty of not adding any myself, but I’m going to try and post more.

I already have.

I replaced Reddit with Lemmy

Yup, only going to reddit for some niche communities that aren't here. This is my main platform now.

Ditched Reddit, never looked back. It's waaaaay better here. Even running my own instance because why not? :)

I'm adjusting. Work in progress. We don't really have any choice in the matter. Reddit is just too far past the pale. Migrating myself and others. I now have an official reddit app with revanced and the app is still God awful trash. If I'm on pc, I try to avoid reddit links that come in search and only use old.reddit.com with an adblocker and tracking blocking. I'm even trying to do this setup on mobile if I have to use reddit. Reddit is ultimately dead to me with their current CEO and corporate structure, etc.

I browsed reddit primarily with RIF for over 13 years, I made GDPR request for my data, and once I received it I edited all my comments to the copy pasta statement about reddit ruining itself, I then got summarily banned the day before RIF went 429. Made an account on lemmy.world. Feels like reddit during the Digg migration, I remember that exodus just as fondly.

Completely dumping reddit. I wasn't sure if there would be enough content over here to replace it, but has picked up significantly in the past couple weeks.

Yep. I was on Reddit for more than 10 years and provided content regularly. Paying $5 or so a month to access the site using Sync would have been OK, but there's no way I'm going to use their crappy app and be inundated by ads while they suck up data from my phone.

IMO Reddit has lost a big stream of easy income from people like me who would have been long-term subscribers. Instead the BS they've pulled in the last couple of months have pushed me to delete all my posts and comments and leave the site completely.

I only go there to steal content that I then enhance manually. I always had a kneejerk reaction against the hackernews reposts on Reddit. So, I try to make my content cloning less conspicuous and I make sure to enhance the content with more depth when I bring it here.

Yes. After 15 years of reddit I was done with it. Deleted my account. I'm tired of being a product. I miss my subs but oh well.

I do worry about bots and stuff with Lemmy though.

Reddit killed Apollo so I now am using wef wef for Lemmy.

I wish I didn't have to, but I have to because without Relay there's no Reddit for me.

Y'all lemmy people seem nice, so I plan on staying! :)

No, I've replaced Reddit with Lemmy.

I am trying to. Unfortunately, a lot of communities I am part of dont have a big enough presence here.