No. I habitually opened RIF so I removed the icon and replaced it with Jerboa, and I've found, thanks to the smaller scale, that I move on to something else or read a book sooner.
Doesn't take long to move on really.
I'm hoping the fediverse will take off once it's easier to find communities to add to favourites. It'd be good to find things like ELI5 and AMA appear.
Someone has set up an ELI5 over on kbin but there's no actual content yet in spite of having a few subscribers. I guess it's a case of 'be the change you want to see' at least for now.
I'm not sure I agree. I've subscribed to a couple of communities and there is already some content. Of course not the same amount as Reddit but that's alright. Lemmy doesn't have to be the same size as reddit.
I like the small scale of Lemmy. People are very friendly. And yes, be the change you want to see, so keep on posting :)
Unlikely at this stage. I feel incredibly disappointed from how Reddit themselves have handled it by basically ignoring the blackout. I'm here and downloaded Jerboa. Time for a change after 12 years
I will still use Reddit when information I am looking for doesnt exist on Lemmy. I am setting up communities for things that dont yet seem to exist on Lemmy. This should satisfy my "things I like" meter if they grow.
I just went to the sub I'm the sole mod for, opened it up after the 2 day blackout.
Then flicked across to 'all' and saw the reddit CEO making 'this will pass' noises so went back to my sub and closed it up again.
I might open it up tomorrow again and ask if any of the 1500ish members want to mod it to keep it going. [I don't see why my boycott has to be anyone elses issue] or I might just let it die...see how I feel in the morning.
I think that's a good attitude. If someone else is really keen to mod it and keep it going let them have at it but you can create a community over here for those looking to make the move
It was a tiny [1278 member] niche investment sub. It has 2 years of tech questions and answers.
This morning I posted this and walked away.
"I'm out, I've meet greasy little fucks like spez in real life and you couldn't pay me to associate much less have me waste my time for free. Experimenting with https://lemmy.nz/
I'm not comfortable with the 'take my ball and go home' form of boycott . Seems selfish.
So I'll put the sub on 'restricted' after this post which will mean no new posts but you can use the search function within the sub to probably get answers on issues as a lots been covered over the couple of years.
That's my first layer of compromise.
The second is if someone want's to mod and bring it back fully then send me a message and you can take a seat on this rancid exploitative corporate vehicle.
I think it will still be valuable for a while as search results, but when my app stops working I doubt I'll continue the mindless content consumption. In the past I've tried to change to other reddit apps and they just aren't as familiar so I always go back. I'm not going to install the official reddit app so that takes away the addiction, I'm hoping.
Haven't deleted my account, but so far I've been happy browsing the various communities, honestly with the size of reddit, it was so anonymous that it had far surpassed critical mass, so the fediverse doesn't really have to be large to make it a viable alternative
Reddit has slowly descended into more and more niche groups for me, and I'm unsubbed from almost all defaults. I'll miss local or special interest groups like r/DIYnz, r/PersonalFinanceNZ, r/Chch. Maybe even r/newzealand. And some hobby groups like r/PrintSF, and r/cricket. I also mod a hobby subreddit with around 80k subs which looks to be voting to stay open, and I think I'll probably be stepping away from it.
It'll be interesting to see where these small subs end up heading - Lemmy seems like a good option.
I doubt I'll go back. The internet is vast, and with places like Reddit, Instagram, Twitter, etc, it's easy to get stuck in that looping cycle of "well there's nothing on Reddit, I'll check Insta. There's nothing on insta, i'll check Twitter. There's nothing on Twitter, I'll check Reddit"
It's a shame that StumbleUpon is no longer around, that was an amazing tool to open your eyes to new resources and sites.
I hope that most of the subs I used to frequent eventually pop up here (many already are here in some form) but if not I think I'd still rather be here with all that's been going on over there lately. BUT often there's good trouble shooting content or info about super specific niches which I might occasionally refer to. At the end of the day I'm just looking for a place to discuss / read about communities I'm interested in and I can see this providing that even IF it never reaches the critical mass of reddit.
I subscribed to quite a few NZ based subreddits, some of which contain a lot of local/NZ specific information and local expert users who answer questions.
I will miss that (I should go through my saved posts on RIF and back them up).
I'm staying off reddit for now as I'm having fun looking for communities on lemmy.
I'll see how it goes, but I'm liking this place now more and more.
I refuse to install the app on my phone, so when Sync stops working I'll stop browsing there. I'll probably still pop over on the web version (https://old.reddit.com) for the subs I like.
But I have enabled my ad blocker now. Only sites I like get the exemption.
I'm tempted to bail from it, I left Twitter for Mastodon & never went back and its kinda been really nice to be honest. Way less doom scrolling. Reddit is a bit different in that I was there for the specific communities I was interested in, so I'd be more sad if those folks didn't move as well.
I have already deleted my account, but I was mostly a lurker so I lost little of value. Planning to stay away or at least not make it an active part of my day.
I mostly used Reddit for Football (Soccer) highlights, so I'm really hoping that Lemmy will provide the highlights for the games I follow. I've subscribed to a few communities that have potential.
I also enjoyed other subreddits such as instant_regret, nextfuckinglevel, yesyesyesnoyes for the LOLs but I can live without that. I'll find my LOLs in other places.
Unfortunately there is a lot of valuable knowledge and information that's been built up over the life of Reddit that is useful so I'll still use it for the wealth of info on even the most niche of topics it has but I probably won't mindless browse r/all for hours on end like I used to. I'll try not to anyway lol.
Yeah only a lot of people aren't just deleting their accounts, they're nuking all their comments, which is going to be frustrating for people trying to troubleshoot obscure problems. Hopefully the number of people scrubbing everything stays small even if they delete their profile.