I'm still on Reddit because I have some specific interests that is not present here or the communities about them are not active. But when people with the same interests will go here, yeah I will not miss Reddit
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I deleted my last account a few days ago, and only go there whenever a relevant post is shared here, like the app devs' announcements.
Earlier today I clicked on r/all out of curiosity, and aside from the API and sub shutdown topic, everything was as I remembered: boring, regurgitated stuff that I can never tell if a bot / karma farmer reposted it, if the comments are genuine or more bots or trolls.
R/all and the default subs have been trash for years, but it was still possible to have a decent experience on Reddit after curating your subscriptions to your own interests, and using 3rd party apps. I'm slowly moving my browsing over to here especially given the recent news, but it is difficult to give up the niche subreddits I enjoy that don't yet have comparable communities here.
You just made me realize that I hadn't been following any niche subs by the end of it.
I think the only sub I will really, really miss is r/TipOfMyTongue. They were amazing. You could throw them a random memory of your childhood 30 years ago, and within minutes they tell you what it is, a link to the thing, and all that.
Most of the help subs were like that, too. The very essence of the internet, helping each other out, with no barriers.
3rd party filter options and Reddit enhancement is incredibly useful and what made it so preferable over all the social media options with the power it gave to curate instead of having to rely on an algorithm.
I hope lemmy gets those type of third party apps and tools to make it possible.
I'm mostly participating here but I am quite enjoying the absolute train wreck that's unfolding today over there.
Spez decided he's doing an AMA tomorrow. Oh boy I don't know if I have enough popcorn... how did his PR team let him do this???
Because he has admin rights and can literally control the narrative?
Spez decided he’s doing an AMA tomorrow.
Tomorrow? Who wants to bet that the questions and the answers are already written as we speak?
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I deleted my Reddit app and replaced it with Jerboa just recently and I think it's for the best.
Is Jerboa the app for this platform? (I'm new here and still figuring everything out).
Yeah, Jerboa is an android app for Lemmy instances.
Since you're new, also check out kbin which is similar to Lemmy but with some other features. You can still access the same content (I'm responding to you from kbin), and has some access to the microblogging sites as well. You might like it, you might not. But there are so many options in the fediverse you may as well explore for a while.
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I'm pretty new here myself. I've already started to migrate myself off of Reddit completely and start engaging here more. So far I have to say that I'm loving this community as well. Definitely seems to be more inviting here. At least I can post right away without having to have a certain amount of karma or whatever. This is kinda refreshing!
Reddit was the last corporate social media site I was active on. I'm not going to delete my account right away, but now that there are actually people here, I don't really need it anymore.
Now to figure out how to successfully host people here.
I definitely haven't been as interested in reading comments on Reddit - I still go for the pet pictures and the funny gifs while I can, but between all the drama and bots, I agree that it's nice to have another platform I'm more interested in.
I just registered here after reading the RIF announcement. I won't be using the official app, so I guess that's the end of an era for me!
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Made an account on here years ago when I first heard of lemmy, finally started using it after I heard they were killing API access. Haven’t been on Reddit since. :)
I've pretty much only been there to spread the word about Lemmy.
... And because muscle memory causes me to immediately type in "re" when I want to go to a link aggregator.
I'll miss Reddit, but I'm sure I'll get used to it now that fediverse exists