It took me probably less than a month to completely stop checking Digg altogether. Reddit’s decidedly less slick interface had me confused and the content wasn’t as easy to digest as with Digg, but it didn’t take long to completely abandon it. That was like ten years ago.
I guess a small point I’m trying to make is that you shouldn’t feel “shame” for checking reddit. You’ll adjust and learn to love whichever alternative you choose
Out of solidarity with the blackout I’m staying completely off reddit until the 15th. After that I’ll probably keep checking both. I really like lemmy and it’s smaller community feel, but it has some bugs (the eternal scrolling of the “all” page for one) and it’s very tech-oriented at the moment. There’s not yet that many arts & craft or hobby communities yet, and those that exist are very, very quiet. Not that I need it to get as big as reddit, but more than 2 people active would be nice.
And I actually like the different feel of both, the fact that there’s not that many bots (yet) floating around here, people actually discussing things instead of just downvoting you at the slightest disagreement, … The scientific info on Mander is extremely interesting too, lots of great articles being linked instead of reddits’ reposts every couple of days. So I think I’ll stay active on both lemmy and reddit. They offer different things, and that’s great.
I had to delete Apollo. I thought I could stay strong in solidarity but damn …
I had to remove it from my Home Screen just because of the muscle memory. I’ve opened and immediately closed it so many times today.
And convince people to come and create content here.
More freedom, no ads, not a profit seeking private company, privacy respecting.
Yeah, those ads. I was getting so tired of seeing that Jesus wants me to join the army and buy stuff from Amazon. Jeez.
Where were you seeing ads? Not on a browser (ublock origin) and not really on apps (ad blockers and 3rd party reddit apps).
I agree, I too was planning to not be too drastic, but today I found out one of my favorite communities is migrating here on lemmy.world, that’s exceptional for morale.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been here for almost a week now and I already feel at home, I’m not missing reddit as a platform anymore, just a few communities among the many I was subbed to.
Knowing that at least one is migrating (that is, officially migrating, reddit mods are organizing that) makes me so happy I can barely contain myself :D
That helps a lot IMO in not wanting to go back anymore.
I can understand!
The difference for me will be my Reddit usage. I will not use it via my phone anymore but use it (if necessary) with an search engine to find specific information.
I used Reddit (RIF) on my phone 99.9% of the time.
So Reddit can have 0.1% of my attention. Well done reddit, you played yourself.
To be honest I’ve settled into using mlem on my phone surprisingly well from Apollo. Obviously I’d rather not have to change at all but if Apollo goes, I’m gone.
Now that I’ve gotten home and have been able to mess around with apps, Jerboa is working just fine for me so far.
There are still some quirks in the app (for example while it lists comment replies, it doesn’t seem possible to reply to those directly, you have to go to the comment chain for that), but considering it’s version number it’s very impressive and totally usable!
Especially in comparison to what we would have to use in the future if we stayed on Reddit.
