Have you left reddit forever? Have you deleted your account and posts? Just curious
I’m moving here permanently and never looking back, but I’m leaving my accounts because that’s 11 years worth of comments that someone may find useful in the future. I hate the idea of losing all the good comments and discussions that have taken place over the years but I understand why people wish to delete their stuff regardless.
That’s the problem with reddit at the end of the day. It profits off of other’s knowledge and hard work. The only problem with Lemmy is its difficulty getting into it. I don’t think this will ever be as big as reddit but one can hope.
Depending on the community, big is not always better though. Especially for technical communities, a smaller and knowledgeable community is preferable.
I honestly do not say this in a ‘gate-keeping’ sort of way, but see the Linux-related communities on Reddit for instance – they have all devolved into “I successfully installed <distro_name> and I am never going back!”, “Look at my shiny new themed desktop”, “Update broke my installation. Help!” etc. This is in stark contrast to the Linux mailing-lists of yore, where users discussed actually interesting stuff.
Oh absolutely. I meant more in a way where Lemmy was the go to for hosting a community rather than reddit. I hate this being labeled as a “niche website” and I want the plethora of information reddit has to offer over here instead where it can’t be profited off of and manipulated. Sadly in order for that to happen I must show you my new PC with a small debian based distro you probably haven’t heard of, Linux Mint. I can’t and won’t ever go back to stinky windows. But for real I had to recreate my Lemmy account since I forgot my login its been so long since I found no actual personal use for this site.
I meant more in a way where Lemmy was the go to for hosting a community rather than reddit.
I would very much like that to happen too, and I hope we do manage to strike a nice balance between too niche and too, well, Reddit-like. I am old school, and almost exclusively use a browser for web content, but I think a good app for Lemmy will help attract and retain more users. After that, if the crowd who doesn’t even want to climb the small hill of getting used to decentralized way of doing things is still not pleased and doesn’t want to come here, or wants to go back to Reddit or wherever, that’s fine by me.
Cheers :)
I’ll deffo be staying on Lemmy, ain’t going back to reddit
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I’m leaving my account intact for two reasons. First to keep a log of past comments. Second to make comments encouraging mod teams to move to lemmy.
I’m definitely planning on using Lemmy exclusively for a while, at the least. Not planning on deleting anything (yet), though I am going to request a copy of my data.
I’m not ok with anything Reddit’s done lately, but not interested in taking drastic action quite yet.
I had a 13 yo account. Used Redact to delete my entire history, and then deleted the entire account. So I can’t go back! Lemmy/kbin/mastodon is where I’ll stay.
I like to think I won’t go back to reddit but force of habit is hard to break even with an excellent alternative!
Yup yup, breaking habit is the hard part but ultimately for the better
Yeah I’m in the same boat. I keep finding myself opening reddit just out of habit. I don’t think I’m going to delete my account but I am trying to do a better job of checking out the alternatives (and actually posting instead of just lurking…)
Deleted my accounts.
Lemmy will have to earn my attention on its own merit, but I’m not going back to Reddit regardless.
I deleted my reddit account. If I need to find something specific it’s okay to wonder there from time to time. My main interests at reddit were technology based so I’m sure these topics move partly to here. I also created Solidworks community here that was my main interest. Lets see if it starts growing.
I don’t see myself leaving Lemmy anytime soon. It’s like being in an exclusive club. You don’t want to back to the that filthy club where the bouncers are pricks.
Lemmy needs a useable search - either integrated or indexed via search engines. Major use of reddit for me is treating it as a giant forum, seeking answers to questions.
Doom scrolling comes second. I need a way to swipe away posts I have no interest in to hide them forever.
I will probably never be entirely done with reddit unless the knowledgebase portion dries up.
Im guessing that’ll be a long time coming. For most of the 14+ years I was on there the running joke was how horrible the search was. Idk if they ever really solved search internally, the difference was when results started showing up prominently in google search.
I deleted my old accts, and this reminded me to finally delete FB messenger too, which somehow continued to live on like a root I didn’t eradicate from an awful plant I chopped down. Frankly, I didn’t really use Reddit much beyond lurking for answers to Q’s I asked on Google and encouraging others on sobriety pages, so they won’t miss me. But at least here I can lurk without feeding a man’s ego so much.
I deleted all my comments along with my account. I’m not contributing to any platform that is corporate owned walled garden. Lemmy is much more in line with my ethos and I’ll happily contribute to it.
I’ve deleted my 10 year-old account and I’m considering deleting the others I don’t use just to drive a point. I only have a particularly naughty account on the Snoosite and the Birdsite each where I get source material for the Fediverse, though. Tee-hee.
No app on my phone. Might google something specific or go there for very specific reasons for time to time. Not browsing Reddit anymore.
