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. 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.

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

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.

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.

Who is this Lenny?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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. 😉

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.

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Nah.

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

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

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

Yes, and I will always mourn RIF

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.

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

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

ah, Lenny. I really love Lenny.

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

I already have.

I replaced Reddit with Lemmy

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.

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

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

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.

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'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 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.

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! :)

The moment that boost stopped working I moved to Lemmy.

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

Yeah, I'm coming from RIF. The official reddit app is the liverwurst and it seems like the reddit ceo is a jerk.

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.

Subjectively it's getting exponentially more active every single day. Thats very promissing. I hope Meta does not kill the fediverse.

For now I do not have any problems with redundant communites. Time will tell how things scale up.

Yes as soon as rif died reddit died for me.

I've always just enjoyed having drinks with Lenny regardless of the social media apps I used. He is a pretty good guy, doesn't judge much which is great for conversations.

Funny enough, while having a few duffs with Lenny, we got to discussing reddits recent changes to 3rd party APIs and we both agreed it was going to be a bad discision long term. So Lenny started talking about Lemmy, and said I should check it out. I did once my reddit 3rd party app didn't work. So it was actually Lenny that converted me to Lemmy. He's a swell guy.

Yes and I hope that the user engagement increases with time so that there is new content and info, because I used reddit for tech and other news, if lemmy does that I'm more than happy to stay here.

Haven’t been on Reddit at all since Apollo shut down. Lemmy is my new home!

Yes, I replaced Reddit with Lemmy.

who the fuck is lenny?

Yep, already deleted my 14yo Reddit acct and made the switch. Really glad I did :)

I’ve already replaced it with Lemmy. I simply have my Reddit account now to check on it to make sure my content remains deleted.

Yes and no. My daily scrolling habit has been moved to lemmy and I haven’t really felt any loss.

However, and this is a big caveat: Reddit remains a huge source of institutional knowledge. Half a dozen times weekly I’ll look something up and the most relevant answer/discussion will be from Reddit. As I understand it, lemmy will never fulfill this need, because it’s not scraped the same way Reddit is? Or perhaps I’ve misunderstood something about the way federation works. If that’s true, it’s a huge blow to the long-term use of lemmy v. Reddit.

It's not "replacing", I don't think you can "replace" just the shear amount of information/images/shitposts on the site.

It however is serving as a fine "supplant" of the site. It's the same general image/link aggregation with the community of commenters...

I love chilling with Uncle Lenny on Lemmy

I'd like to but the users and content are just not here yet. A lot of my interest don't have communities set up or are inactive so far...

YSK, you can edit titles here.

Yes... 13+ years on Reddit on my main account (different name than my Lemmy account), and it's gone. I've deleted all my posts and thousands of replies. I was active in several communities, including the Linux and open-source communities.

I used a script to edit my post history and replace my posts with random text, and then after a waiting period, delete the posts entirely. It took a couple of days to sift through it all. Then once I was down to zero posts... deleted my account.

I logged out of my Reddit account on June 15 and have only been back following direct links. Lemmy seems so much more alive than Reddit currently and hopefully decentralised platforms will continue to become more popular.

Yep, reddit killed reddit.

So far yes. Almost any time I attempt to use reddit everything is down because of the crackdown. Plus I'm not a huge fan of the api changes anyway and no one here tells anyone to "Google it" with any questions. People actually respond in kind from what I've seen

Yeah, literally un-installed RIF the moment I heard about reddit bs. RIF was reddit to me, so I'm done with that now. Pretty much the only time I open that site now is when I Google "whatever whatever reddit" to find actually useful answers.

*Lemmy

I am, and I've noticed one welcomed effect it has had in me.

I'll admit I had an unhealthy phone habit of mindlessly scrolling and Reddit nurtured this.

As much as I'm excited about Lemmy - the barriers I'm finding of finding content that appeases my desire to scroll has greatly reduced my phone usage. Smaller user base, inability (for me anyway) to find communities and content through the search etc.

Lemmy is just good enough for me not to go back to Reddit, but not matured enough to replace the addition.

Trying, but the userbase of a lot of the smaller communities I follow on reddit (especially the ones that aren't tech related) probably won't switch in the immediate future.

I’m an Apollo refugee, just don’t want to support what’s inevitably becoming another Facebook type place. Wasn’t sure how well I was gonna be able to switch over until I found the wefwef web app, it’s such a game changer and I’m slowly getting used to how this works

I replaced reddit sync with jerboa and the only time I bother with reddit now is if I'm googling "[question] reddit" or for /r/popheads

Only because I staunchly refuse to use their garbage app on android. As many have said, this was an entirely self-inflicted wound. I brows(ed) reddit maybe 70% on mobile before, so making the mobile experience absolutely unbearable and removing all NSFW content made it just not for me.

I came over from Reddit right after Apollo shut down on June 30, and TBH, I wasn’t sure I’d be able to stay after that first week. I was seeing the same posts each day no matter how I sorted, and barely any of the posts had any interaction. I’ve seen a huge jump in quality posts and conversation in the last 2-3 days for some reason, and I’ve been popping over to Reddit less just to have something to browse. I’m hopeful that it keeps getting better from here.

I have stopped using Reddit as a place to waste time and doom scroll, but I am not really looking for a full replacement. I'm have started using multiple platforms to fill my time now. For news and current events I have started using RSS again. I spend a decent amount of time on Mastodon. Lemmy has been a great link aggregator and the growing community is making it feel like a great Reddit replacement, im just not putting all my eggs in one basket.

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lenny face (no space)

Yup and this is my first post!

As a "homepage" for news and content, yeah.

Sadly my hobby and porn subreddits I still meed reddit for though.

I did, ever since the first day of the blackout. I have only gone on reddit like maybe two or three times since then, since I redirected it to lemmy in my main browser.

I'm trying. I've moved over here for the most part, but there are a handful of Reddit subs that I enjoy that don't really have similar communities on Lemmy. I'm subscribed to those subs in my RSS reader now, so I don't actually have to open Reddit unless I come across a post where I want to see the comments.

Lenny = white Karl = black

Yep, slowly gonna get rid of reddit.....No more Reddit Sync....no more reddit

Past tense for me: I have REPLACED Reddit with Lemmy. Yes there aren’t as many people here, but we seem to have left the assholes and jerks behind and I’m finding the same “fix” here as I did on Reddit.

I'll be honest - as much as I hate u/spez after everything that happened in June, I would probably still be using Reddit if not for them outright killing third party apps. Losing Reddit is Fun was one thing, but I will never downloading the official app.

So yeah! Lemmy here we come. Hopefully the community continues to get livelier as time goes on.

LENNNNNYYYYYYYYYY

I stopped using reddit on the 9th of June. There were 1.21k total users on .world. At the time there were around the same number on beehaw, and they were still federated. There were 1.6k total users on .ml and no other federated instances had more than a few hundred total users. There were maybe a dozen total communities with anything resembling daily posts. I was willing to try to drop reddit at this point and started posting a bunch hoping it would grow. I claim no credit, and and no impact whatsoever. I'm just thrilled you are all here, and to those that are just migrating, this place is better than reddit ever was. Posting about reddit is just a part of the breakup process, but you'll move on quickly.

You are still the core community here. Don't wait for someone else to start posting. This place will continue to grow with or without you. Your core interests and niche communities can grow even faster than they have so far, the only person holding you back is you. Post about stuff as much as possible. Ask questions, vote, and be positive. It really makes a difference. This place is all about you, us, and our community, so share and be a part of this thing!

99% so far. I rarely open Reddit at all aymore.

Yep.

I'm always skeptical when a huge mass of users needs to move, and I saw what happend when Ellen Pao did her rounds. There were small attempts to threat about moving, but there was nothing to really move to.

This time it's way different.

• Lemmys place seems to actually be mature enough to help refugees move with more confidence.
• Spez royaly screwing up so bad in an AMA and showing where their loyalty lies.
• The posts/discussions are at a level now that will attract users to stay and make better long term decisions if they wanna lurk/contribute.

I moved when Digg went down because we got shown that we are a product.

I moved now because Reddit/"Fuck /u/spez" showed us that we are a product

We are better than that and if I can see spez go down in flames, with an IPO that gets shown what happens when you disregard what makes your "product" valuable...

I am a lemming!!

I am trying to lower my use of Reddit and increase my use of Lemmy.

One thing I would really like to be accepted (since its already in the proposals on Github) is to have multiple communities that have same topic somehow be joined and their news aggregated together.

I dipped out when I heard about the protests last month. I've noticed reddit getting worse and worse and this is what I needed to stop using it.

Occasionally I still have to view reddit posts for troubleshooting/reviews as theres not a site quite like it. Even then, I usually keep the search results to last to make sure no where else has good input.

Yes. I left after the protests began and realized most of the posts were just a competition of who could make the wittiest or funniest comments regardless of the subject. I think the killing of Bacon Reader put the last nail in the coffin for me on mobile as well.

Absolutely. Fuck ads.

Until AskHistorians moves Ill still be using reddit. I make a point to use LibReddit instead of the actual site though.

My app for Reddit stopped working, so yeah, hahah. New reddit is useless and old reddit for me constantly gets redirected to new reddit, so I haven't even bothered trying to get back in. My subs here are already filling with content often and it feels like reddit before it swelled up with too many people. I liked reddit back when I could actually talk to subreddit regulars.

Just started Lemmy today. Any good recommendations for gaming sci-fi nerds to sub to?

I'm replacing reddit with my cousin Lenny

who's lenny ? homer's friend ?

So far I'm liking it. I wasn't fond of the general attitude people had on reddit though, and I'm seeing some of the pop up as a result of the migration.

I have concerns that the lemmy community will become as toxic as reddit is. Other than that, I am enjoying how small communities are here. I don't feel like my voice is being drowned out by other users or bots.

Mostly, but not entirely.

Yeah I refuse to use their trash app

Im trying. But, for the love of god, i cant seem to understand how all this works.

yep, feels like old reddit and i'm so so happy!

Yep! 100% since Sync shut down. There's enough content here already to keep me engaged though not for as long as I'd scroll on Reddit. But watching new communities pop up and grow is fun!

Yes, like many many others. For me, Baconreader was Reddit. Once that stopped working, I left Reddit.

I wonder how many people have 1st July as their Lemmy "cake day".

Reddit has become so bad lately that I am trying to. Still a few smaller communities I am missing though sadly.

I'm currently about 90% Lemmy, 10% Reddit for general topics, mostly still hanging on to Reddit for specific games that I haven't found out here yet.

Not really. I stopped using Reddit and even though I am using lemmy it so far hasn’t been a true replacement. Overall my engagement has gone down hill significantly. I might check lemmy once or twice a day. I used to be on Reddit all day. Ultimately this is better for me overall. Even if I wanted to there just isn’t enough content for lemmy to be a replacement for my Reddit usage.

Yes. Trying at least; (imo) Lemmy hasn't quite got the critical mass yet. The official Reddit app is so crappy that each time I find myself being drawn back in, I leave really quickly. I didn't expect me to find it that bad.

I'm mostly using Lemmy, but I still use reddit for some things where the lemmy communities are too small (like live sports discussion). If I'm googling for an answer to something I'll still include 'reddit' in the search because there is a huge wealth of info in past reddit threads.

I've fully stopped using Reddit. Lemmy seems great, apps are rapidly improving, and the userbase is growing. What more do we want?

From what I understand I can subscribe and engage with just about any compatible fediverse website thing in a sort of generic reddit/Twitter environment, right? I don't think I really have to make this choice, just kind of poke around and curate my home page while the app developers work on ease of use and the fediverse itself works on communication and tutorials for people like me (people who fall up stairs)

Edit: I am transitioning away from reddit the vibe sucks and the ads are a joke

Yes, the fediverse makes sense. Centralisation is a cancer

I've only accessed reddit once since RIF died, just to see what r/all looked like. Not interested in returning tbh. I'll join the smaller communities on Lemmy or make my own.

Simply yes. Not going back

I deleted my reddit account (and all my content beforehand) so yeah...still looking around for matching communities though.

I left Reddit when I lost Apollo. I miss my drama subs though…

I've pretty much completely left Reddit since Apollo shut down. I'm happy with Lemmy, so far, except I'm honestly getting tired of the somewhat elitist attitude and fear/anger towards anything that isn't in the fediverse. I noticed it when I left Twitter for Mastodon too, and it's kind of getting old.

I'm not saying some of what's being said isn't justified, it's just not what I feel like seeing every time I open the app/site.

I have. Always used Sync to browse Reddit, and since it's not working anymore, I'm not using it either.

Stopped reddit, now mostly lemmy and a bit of kbin.

Lenny is dead, replacing him with George.

(But yes, switching to Lemmy from Reddit 😀)

I’m here 99.9999% of the time

I refuse to install the official Reddit app, so only Lemmy on the phone. Which was probably 90% of my Reddit usage.

I'm enjoying it quite a bit, so I haven't logged on old.reddit.com in a while.

Still have my account, just in case, but I've pretty much migrated at this point.

Yeah I refuse to use their app and I want nothing to do with them. So while they had some nice subreddits, I will learn to live without them.

I mostly used reddit on desktop (old.reddit.com) so it shouldn't have made much difference to me, but boy, it did.

Ever since that API paywalling fiasco and mod rebellion, the overall quality of content has nosedived catastrophically. Just one look at r/all or r/popular would be enough to convince anyone.

I've completely left reddit and settled on Lemmy, just like most people here.

Already have. If nothing else, I'm already hit with the nostalgia of old reddit before it became so corporate focused.

now that you mention it, I realize I've not been there since ... may be a week or two.

I already have. I deleted all my Reddit posts and comments and deleted my account the other day. I'm all on the Lemmy train now.

not yet. because Lemmy is still quite small tbh. But, the thing is Since Reddit new API policy starts, my Reddit home feed filled with spam,bots and double posts from many subs. So, if this problem overwhelms my home feed. I might move to Lemmy permanently.

I didn't remove my Reddit account yet, but I stopped using it as soon as I tried Lemmy. As I expected, it's not perfect, it still needs some love on the technical side, but people and content are already here. I'm pretty happy with my feed so far. I can only see it grow and getting better, but I guess we'll find out how the fight with spam bots will be.

Absolutely. Deleted account.

I’m on lemmy a lot but not all the communities that I frequent on Reddit moved or have enough people over at lemmy.

Definitely. I don't plan on downloading the official Reddit app anytime soon and for years I have been more of a lurker on Reddit but I am trying to break that and participate more on Lemmy. Really enjoying it so far.

Yeah. I'm just waiting for the subs that I was active at to grow here (mostly space-related subs).

Pretty much