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How does everyone from Reddit feel about the lemmy experience?
As of this moment, there are currently:
It'll take time, and most importantly content, to entice migration.
Content! That's the key.
As for the platform, i like the inline commenting, but I miss markdown. Also, it keeps the interface in Greek(??). I do have Greek installed as a secondary keyboard layout for all my physics/maths typing, but having a Greek interface (which I have to change everytime from "Browser's default" to English, is weird.
The number of communities are a lot smaller for sure. But the ones I need are here; i.e. Iinux gaming, popos, anime, hentai.
For me, Reddit died at exactly the same time as the Appolo app did. Fuck reddit’s leaders and their advisors.
Spent a decade on Reddit (using Alien Blue, then Apollo exclusively) but now spending 90% of that time on kbin/fediverse leaning heavily on kbin progressive web app on iPad/iPhone. Doing most what I need it to like Apollo did, and even though it’s an early prototype it’s already way better than the official Reddit iOS app!
Boost refugee reporting!!
I should probably just uninstall Boost from my phone :( I just opened it and seems to be working, but maybe it hasn't kicked in yet
There are still some subreddits that I used a lot that [seem like they] haven't migrated over yet :/ battlestations, intermittentfasting, lostark, oneplus, purdue, my local town, etc. It just sucks a lot since I'm trying to avoid using reddit entirely :(
9 year vet reporting in. I was thinking about this last night. - After reading spez's interviews over the last couple of days, I'm never going back. I was never an active poster, but a very active lurker. If Reddit starts to lose people like me, they might in a bit of trouble. Lemmy scratches an itch that Reddit used to. I'm starting to really like this collection of sites, and as I've posted before, the communites (for the most part) have been ... nice. With the explosive growth over the last week (I can't even imagine what the admins went through), there will be growing pains, but the mobile apps will come and the dust will settle. I'm all in on the Fediverse.
It's like a mass exodus. I read on one instance how their workload jumped twenty times almost overnight. They'll get it sorted out I'm sure. With more subscribers comes more opportunity for help. Just going to be some lag there.
Refugee here. Honestly, I can’t believe they didn’t think of making 3rd party apps pay a reasonable fee, while still getting revenue from the official app’s users. It’s like they are trying real hard to make people hate them. And the way they treated Apollo’s creator…yeah, spez can go get fucked.
Here from Infinty, now on Jerboa, hope this gets migrations of important subreddits and starts to thrive as the main thing.
Is this a headcount of everyone who were from Rəddıt and moved over here?
If so, count me in.
no more reddit for me, happy to see this community here.
Just made an account yesterday, excited to be here after an 11 year stint on Reddit.
Just found this site. Happy to be here and leave Reddit behind.
I'm here!
First post here. I've had enough of centralized corporate control of my internet life. I remember life on the internet before greed became the prime motivator of all things. I hope there is a future where we can move past it. I'm feeling positive!
Around 7 years on reddit. Transitioning out by month's end -- trying on different spaces/interfaces, checking Reddit only a little in the morning to see where my old subs are going/what they're doing. I was using the official app until this all went down, then I deleted it and switched to Apollo, so once that's done I'm fully out.
Only just got here, but liking the vibe so far
another here although i use neon not pop!
I'm long time Redditor. I don't like what Reddit admins are doing. I use RIF on mobile. While still not sure if I'm moving here, I'm close to. This place needs work. A bit slow and disorganized. Hope we can help it.
I’m here. Really hoping that Christian Selig makes an app though :)
I was mostly a lurke there, but Lemmy seems like the best alternative. Hope more people migrate soon!
Nuked everything from reddit. I still have the account though.
Hallo!
I don't use Pop!_OS, my wife does, but I'm here.
Here. Currently shredding my reddit post history.
Doing well! I even decided to mod a few local magazines, at least for a while; something I haven't done in a long time.
I also think we should build a community mascot for kbin! I'm trying to get that going on this post here:
https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/35975/I-m-no-artist-but-I-thought-Kbin-could-use-a#comments
14 years on Reddit. 4 days clean.
Long time reddit user... haven't been back since the protest started and don't feel the need to for now at least.
I'm already reasonably confident that in the near future kbin/lemmy may well be able to fulfil the 'idle browsing & keeping up with various interests' portion of my Reddit use. And that was probably 95% of my Reddit time, so that's good news.
I'm more concerned about the other 5% - the 'Reddit as a vast repository of knowledge on how to do/fix/buy/make/etc so many things'... it could take years for the federated alternatives to achieve anything like Reddit's position there, and there's a question over how easily searchable it will be. Still, hopefully it'll come with time.
Just checking in here.
Sup
Reddit refuge here! This is my 1st post on here. Or comment. Or reply. Or however this platform works
11 years on Reddit with the current account and maybe around 2 years before that on my first account. It makes me sad to see what's happening because I really love the community on the subs I participate in. I'm happy to be here though and to see Lemmy growing.
Oh yeah...and fuck Spez!