I check Lemmy everyday before going to bed, only time I use reddit is when it comes up in web search results for my queries. I’ll use reddit again if they announce fair pricing for 3rd party apps as I miss my small communities there.
Ex Apollo user here. Dropped Reddit as soon as Apollo shut down and haven’t looked back. Occasionally a Reddit post will return in my search but that’s about it for Reddit.
I left out of principle but there are a few communities I'll scan from time to time because they don't quite exist here and I don't have the energy to make it myself.
reddit culture sucks and I left it behind as a social media site a while ago.
still have to use site:reddit.com to get half decent search results tho
Me. Probably wouldn't have stayed this long if it wasn't for the Sync app. There's just no other good Reddit-like app.
I spent 99% of my time on Reddit through Sync. When they decided to restrict API use, which killed third-party apps, I decided I was done. If the Sync dev didn't switch over to making a Lemmy app, I probably never would have heard about it. I've only gone to Reddit a handful of times since, and that's only because I was searching for something and a Google search took me to a Reddit thread.
I did. When The site administration sided with racists nazis I was glad to leave. I got perma-banned for saying "Ork is a dehumanizing racial slur. Calling Russians 'Ork' is racist hate speech." Occasionally I open a recent link and I nearly always regret it.
I never came back after the protests. I don't understand the people who said "why should I care if I don't use 3rd party apps". After seeing reddit's true colors on full display, I didn't want anything more to do with that company.
I've cut my reddit consumption drastically but I haven't dropped it completely. There are two communities that I still check out a few times per week and I still Google "what is the best ______ reddit" or "how do I do ______ reddit" when I need to. But I'm never scrolling r/all anymore.
I have to stop by there every now and then because I'm looking for something and the answer is on a reddit post.
But for daily chilling/posting I'm all for Lemmy.
Ditched reddit the moment 3rd party apps stopped working. I'm rooting for Lemmy to grow. I especially n hope that nieche communities feel less dead in the future.
I gave up reddit. When Infinity announce a subscription I was done. I didn't want go through all the hassle getting an app key in whatever way when this is easy. Also Reddit CEO is a piece of crap, like pretty much all CEOs.
Look at the user figures for Lemmy instances and it becomes very clear that the number of people using Lemmy isn't even in the hundreds if thousands. So yes I'd say it is possible to estimate that less than 100k people made the switch.
I never use reddit unless someone sends me a link for something specific (that someone could be google) - I don't have their app installed and I never go to them naturally...I probably see 1 reddit post a week on average.
We could estimate this by randomly sampling some Lemmy users, with the following questions:
And then comparing it with the total amount of Lemmy users.
I dropped and deleted the account. Only time I go to Reddit now is if I am searching for something and a Reddit link is part of the search and happen to have the answer I need.
I left and haven't been back, I won't even click on a link from a search engine for them. That's how I roll.
I did. Once sync was out it was a pretty easy transition. I just wanted an app to scroll mindlessly for a couple minutes a day, and Lemmy does the job. The content stream is a lot slower, but for low usage users like myself, it's fine.
That said, from what I've gleaned from other threads, it still seems like most people still use Reddit in some capacity.
Count me as one. I haven't been back since sync went dark. I do get frustrated with not being able to find that niche information/answer to a question by adding site:Reddit to a search though - I know it's my choice though
Haven’t been back since I deleted my account after the blackout. No Apollo, no Reddit.
Deleted my account on Reddit and never went fuck. Fuck Reddit and fuck Spez.
I definitely left. I still occasionally lurk on Reddit but I never post or vote anymore. Real shame, because I really want to share my Factorio Bob's+Angels (much harder and more complicated mod of Factorio) victory on r/factorio, but I won't because of Spez's actions.
I was a sync user. Waited until the last day. Been quite until recently. I think I've had more conversations here then in my four years with Reddit. Something about the sizes of the communities made it hard to feel like a part of the conversation.
I didn't fully drop Reddit but I use it significantly less.
Dropped Reddit since the beginning of the protest waves. But most importantly, due to this, my screen time plummeted from 10h per day to 2 or 3 hours.
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Purged my main account by editing every post and reply. Then deleated all of them. Then deleated the account. . There are bots to do that automatically and make it easy.
I still have a NSFW account that Is exclusively used for NSFW stuff. I kept that one, but honestly that will probably be gone soon too. The vast majority of NSFW subreddits just feel like a bunch of only fans actors trying to self promote. Nothing against them or onlyfans, but I have no interest in it and would rather see stuff from people that are just having some fun. Not trying to make a living doing it.
Full time Lemmy conversion here. I will never go back
I have. Lemmy is especially good for content geared towards news, tech, FOSS, privacy, memes (if, unlike me, Reddit-style memes are your thing), et cetera. For me, that checks off all the boxes for what i used Reddit for, so when i started using Lemmy, there wasn't really anything i was missing from Reddit. So, while i'm willing to miss out on some content in order to drop Reddit, i haven't really needed to.
However, this definitely isn't the case for most people. If people are just using Reddit for certain things they just don't see on Lemmy, that's totally fine (though i hope they're using an ad blocker or something), especially if they stick around for when Lemmy does start having that kind of content.
Growth isn't a straight line and there will be points of fluctuation, stagnation, and decline.