…how many of you will stay? Personally, I wiped my Reddit history and deleted my account, so I’m definitely here to stay. I can see, however, that a number of people see Lemmy more as a distraction until the blackout is over. I wonder what that number would be.

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    I’ve been a Redditor for 12+ years, but I will definitely keep hanging out here and I’ll keep being active. The community here right now reminds me a lot of the good things of early Reddit, and I like that.

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      I think I will stay, I’m a 15 year redditor, I’m really pissed at the management. They’ve never been great. The community has been doing all the work for so long, posting, commenting, moderating, developping apps and tools. And these guy think they are better? They are even saying it will calm down.

      Remove this guy as CEO, cancel this API nonsense and we will see.

      But in the meantime. I’m here and the more time passes. The more comfy I get.

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        ya right

        like i have no social media loyalty. reddit was a habit. a time waster. the only thing that sucks about moving away from reddit is im not sure how to find old posts and shit here but im sure either i or someone much smarter will figure it out. in the end, i just want more places to go on the net

        maybe im old, but i wax nostalgic for the forum days. and this feels like it

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      Same, and I’m hyped for something new and better. This absolutely reminds me of early Reddit and I’m totally here for it.

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      It’s open source so anyone can contribute. With how much feedback everyone is giving, hopefully that means things will continue to get better.

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    It breaks my heart to dump 15 years of Reddit, but yes, I’m staying.

    I knew this would happen sooner or later, because every good company eventually put their bottom lines ahead of their users.

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    I’m definitely staying. I know there’s gonna be a dip in users, I just hope enough stay that we can build communities.

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    Staying here. Rediscovered what I liked about Reddit in the earlier days - actually engaging. I don’t think I’ve commented, posted, or even upvoted on reddit in like a year. It just seemed pointless and it was just a scroll and read machine. This is much more fun

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      This is exactly it. Beyond a couple very niche subs, I felt no desire to interact at all. It had turned into howling into the void of bots and memes. This feels like legitimate engagement with actual humans…or passable facsimiles.

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        I’ll take ‘passable fascimile’ as a compliment! The real niche subs are hard to reproduce. I started a Nebula one, but that subreddit was only ~5k ppl with comment threads maybe 100 long, so probably will be hard to reproduce here

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    Definitely here to stay. Even deleted app from my phone and put a bookmark to lemmy where the app used to be. Now I access lemmy as much as I used to Reddit purely because of muscle memory / force of habit and don’t miss Reddit one bit.

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      There are apps for Lemmy! I’m finding the app much nicer to use on my phone than accessing lemmy thru a browser, which is what I’m guessing you’re doing based on your description of using a “shortcut.”

      https://join-lemmy.org/apps

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        Thanks for this comment. Was considering programming my own app though (especially in the spirit of the latest news), so if I find any issues with the android version I might still go through with that

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          The apps are also open-source in case those issues can be added/fixed in the existing apps! App diversity is also great!

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          https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa

          Jerboa definitely has some issues, so i’m planning on seeing if I can figure some of them out. Also some stuff i’m not a fan of, but seem to be intentional deaigns so I might just make a personal fork. Never worked with jetpack or kotlin, so we’ll see how bad those are to pick up

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    I’m likely staying. I’ve gotten used to lemmy now.

    3 days is all it took.

    I didn’t come here because of the blackout though, I came here in protest; going back to Reddit while they haven’t changed their policy wouldn’t be helpful.

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    I will personally stay here. My engagment with Reddit consisted of lurking around with occasional upvoting of posts. I might still check Reddit from time to time via web browser, though I’m not gonna bother with the official app. On Lemmy I feel like actually engaging with other users and communities.

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    After the blackout, who knows, but once they paywall the third party apps I’m betting Spez and his “snoos” are going to feel it a lot more than a silly little 2-day blackout. For many, myself included, the official reddit app is not an option whatsoever.

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    I’m in the same boat as you, account deleted and all. Personally, I was never really that active on Reddit but I’ve enjoyed Lemmy and the positive community feel. So for me, I won’t be going back since I actually enjoy using this platform. My only fear is that others will jump back to Reddit eventually and these communities may go quiet. I guess we’ll see.

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      Yeah my biggest fear over the last two days has been that people will just hop back over to Reddit again. I’ve been secretly kind of hoping Reddit doesn’t reverse the API changes just so more people will stay here. I honestly do like Lemmy more than I’ve ever liked Reddit. Trying to keep engagement high is why over the last two days I’ve commented more on Lemmy than I have on my 10+ year old Reddit account.

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        I think I know exactly how you’re feeling, It’s pretty similar to my experience tbh. Again, I’m the same, I think I only ever made two posts on Reddit and a handful of comments in the five years I had an account. Whereas I’ve probably already matched that output here in the few days. Perhaps that’s why I’ve been enjoying Lemmy as much as I have?

        Honestly, I think I’d be content if enough people stayed here (or joined over time) to help this become recognised by the mainstream as a genuine Reddit alternative.

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    The enshittification of Reddit is inevitable and seems to be accelerating lately. Been looking for a reason to ditch reddit and dive into federated platforms and such so yeah, well timed for me.

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    Thanks to the blackout I got to know about lemmy. Otherwise may never have tried this. Now I know , it might be hard to go back. If my favourite subreddits end up here or have their own instances, it will be great. But even if they don’t , I am done with reddit. The quality of comments in reddit has been in the downward direction for a long time now. I remember when I stopped using digg. It was upgraded to mongo db and nothing was available for a while. That was when I went to reddit and forgot about digg completely. Reddit blackout is when I joined lemmy.world and forgot about reddit 😂

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    I tried lemmy a little, there’s not much content yet. It really depends on if the major power users migrate to lemmy, and on which instance they will migrate. The other problem being that I have yet to find a good mobile app to access the lemmy instances, and I’m too lazy to make my own (though it would be a good side hustle in my opinion).

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      Which OS are you on, android or IOS? On android I’m using Jerboa and it’s honestly quite a nice app for being in the alpha stage, didn’t check to see if it’s on IOS as well

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          Have you been able to get it to work? It crashes on me after about 60 seconds every time I open it. I definitely am feeling the loss of Apollo. Lemmy from the desktop isn’t bad, but the mobile experience is atrocious.

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            I’ve also been having that issue. I ended up adding Lemmy as a web app and it’s a pretty decent experience.

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              I have not found it’s all that usable as a web app. I did probably 90% of my redditing from my phone so this is a big one for me. If I had any tech skills at all I would consider trying to make an app, but dammit Jim I’m a geologist not a coder.

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        undefined> Which OS are you on, android or IOS? On android I’m using Jerboa and it’s honestly quite a nice app for being in the alpha stage, didn’t check to see if it’s on IOS as well

        Android, I tried getting Jerboa to work (it’s the only option after all), but I couldn’t, it keeps crashing on me

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          Oh, no! I’m having such a good experience on Jerboa. I get little “time out” messages popping up now and then, but they don’t affect anything unless I’m actively navigating. I can continue to scroll & read comments on the page I’m on without interruption.

          I also figure that the rapidly increasing user base is a challenge for developers, so I am more than willing to be patient while kinks get worked out, especially when the inconvenience factor is so unnoticeable (for me).

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      Use the mobile web and Desktop ui. get used to it so when the apps come you will be a pro at it. Give it a good day