I’ve unfortunately found myself back on reddit here and there for some niche communities, and also to just not be so depressed by the news, politics, and Linux that permeates EVERY FUCKING COMMUNITY regardless of the focus of that community. We all seriously need to branch out here a bit.

I’d been grasping for literally any alternative to Reddit for months and heard about this place when they shut down third party apps. Haven’t thought about going back even once…

I joined up when Reddit decided to end third party apps. I mostly browsed the front page of Reddit for interesting or funny things, but I noticed once I switched to Lemmy that the Reddit front page was just sponsored content and what the algorithm wanted you to see. I was actually interested in stuff on Lemmy that made me want to participate rather than just scroll the front page.

I tried lemmy a little over a year before reddit APIgate and bounced off of it. I ended up coming back just before the big blackout and started settleing down. Now i visit reddit very rarely.

I was a long-time Reddit user but over time it felt more and more not right. June last year I decided to register here and remove my Reddit account. I do not miss anything and I actually started participating more instead of just silently reading comments and posts.

It just feels right using Lemmy instead of Reddit. Not only there’s no corporate bullshit and dumb algorithms I can’t avoid, it’s also a much nicer community overall.

Joined last year when Apollo was forced to shut down like many of us. I’d been a huge fan of federated social media and decided this was the time to finally kick my Reddit addiction. So far Lemmy has completely scratched the itch and I rarely check Reddit anymore. That in itself has been a huge win and every month it’s just more and more upside as the communities get stronger.

I ended up starting a dedicated Magic: the Gathering instance at https://mtgzone.com for anyone interested. We’re small but growing!

Came here about a month before reddit killed 3rd party apps and I’ve been here ever since. This is hardly a replacement but it sort of scratches the same itch and that’s fine by me. YouTube is where I spend most of my time anyway.

I kind of like the slower pace and tighter community here but the content is generally quite uninteresting for someone like me who rather discusses ideas than events or people.

Came here when the Reddit 3rd party app threat started looming, loved it and never went back.

Sure, Lemmy doesn’t have the same variety and amount of content that’s on Reddit but that’s because it’s a smaller and newer platform along with the fact that not all instances federate with each other (which is great).

I still get my scrolling urge fulfilled and presented with random memes and news that I’m interested in without the data harvesting factor which is perfect for me.

Generally because Sync for Reddit died (api bs and shit) and Sync for Lemmy was one of the first results that caught my eye looking for a working client. Haven’t looked back since.

Fuck Steve Huffman should be all I need to say. Came from Apollo.

I’m not fully settled though. I’ll probably end up making an account on another instance or two, and check out Mastodon. I was never a Twitter person but hey why not try new (similar but different) things? But I also don’t feel rushed to do any of that.

i joined mastodon in 2017. at the time i was also cutting off whatsapp and facebook and was just generally getting deeper into foss and fedi.

at the same time i was a heavy reddit user and was looking for fedi-based alternatives. i was following prismo development for a while, but that never took off.

i eventually joined lemmy in 2020 but never really found the community, that reddit had (and tbf still has for most topics).

last year during the API fiasco i finally made this account and have been pretty happily reading (and sometimes posting) here.

reddit went woke with woke moderators freely accusing and labeling anyone who who does not conform a phobe of something convenient for them.

fuck reddit and those power tripping woke ass mods.

I’d been on the microblog side of Fedi for a while, when Reddit shat the bed I went to check out the link aggregator/forum. But it’s a long way from ever being able to replace what I used Reddit for: communities for niche microinterests. And I’m not optimistic it’ll ever get to that level. We have a slow moving frontpage for memes and world news but that’s about it.

I still keep the tab open and poke my head into it from time to time, but I don’t do much more than lurk because there’s not much for me to see here. I’m still not going back to Reddit either, but that just means I’m a hermit living in a cave now.

I came over the same day that the Boost app for Reddit stopped working. I guess it’s been about a year or so now. I’ve loved using Lemmy so much more than Reddit and from what I keep reading Reddit is just getting worse every day so I don’t plan on ever going back! The only real worry I have with Lemmy now is this Threads crap. If Meta/Facebook sinks their greasy claws into the Fedeverse I may have to keep looking for another home. I really hope that doesn’t happen though. I’d like to think at least one area of the web is still safe from corporate bullshit

Came with the reddit exodus and have not look back. I used to waste sonmuxh time in reddit. Lemmy feels mmuch more lean.

I have only gone back when web search takes me there for an obscure answer.