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I'm using Liftoff until Boost is released

Boost + my NSFW account were my Fap App. I almost didn't know what to do with myself.

Liftoff seems like a good one. I honestly had so many issues with the way Reddit operates, and the experience was so horrible on many subredddits. I love the idea of a decentralized service where there can be entirely independent instance operators. It's been liberating to start over with these small forums here. Once more people join in it'll be so much better than Reddit ever could have been.

I moved over here a while ago. Doing great so far, loving the community, though I'm doing a lot of lurking at the moment cause I have to keep reinstalling my app for testing.

Currently using thunder, working on contributing to the project cause I liked the early alpha so much. New updates come frequently, looks nice, functions great, cross platform.

I had been using reddit daily for about 10 years for a multitude of reasons. It was a great place to waste time, an amazing tool to get help on niche subjects and a wonderful way to learn… but recently it suffered from it’s own success and generally felt more and more of a cesspool…

I am grateful of the events that transpired, because it has forced me to find an alternative, and evolve my knowledge on different options. I had no idea what Lemmy was yesterday, nor federation or anything… I was thrust into the option of stick with something that was getting bad, or figure out how to do something new that has the potential to be even better! I’m glad I went into uncharted territory.

It’s a little bittersweet that while lemmy does not have the scope that reddit had, resulting in less of a pool to get help from… the prospect of what might become with Lemmy is more than enough to keep me away from reddit.

This truthfully reminds me of the oldschool forums quite a bit right now. A smaller user base and being able to participate without being buried immediately by thousands of other posts and get some engagement is nice. Its also nice not to see the same thing on my main page in 12 different subs being reposted to karma whore.

The recent stuff was the extra little kick I needed to go somewhere else and stop scrolling infinitely.

I’m still on a browser. I tried to get into the Memmy beta today, but its full. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Christian moves Apollo to Lemmy’s API. I’d gladly pay for the one time thing again.

I've only tried one Lemmy app so far, Jerboa. It's fine...

I'm still struggling with the muscle memory of opening baconreader pretty much all the time. I spent some time on Reddit too, on my PC, and it's kinda bland.... Since everyone seems to be here. But this place is still ramping up, so I'm interested to see what happens in the coming weeks.

Honestly, my excitement for this Fediverse movement completely overshadows everything else, I can tell that once everything gets going proper it’s gonna be really cool. So, yeah I’m not gonna miss Reddit at all.

After a few days without Reddit, I don't miss it that much for daily browsing. But it'll probably still be useful to find people with the same PC issues as me and find a solution 😎

I'm using WefWef. It much slower than RiF but the growing pains must be absolutely massive.

I've been here since the blackout and I haven't touched Reddit for at least a week. It feels closer to what the web used to be when it was cool.

I'm using the web along with Jerboa.

Im still waiting for sync for lemmy. It's the main reason I'm making the switch. I can't use reddit without the sync app and I'm looking forward to using lemmy with it.

It's funny all the people posting about a shared withdrawal. Reddit was a habit. I feel it. But, I'm here to fill the void with a healthier substitute. Cheers everyone, we're going to make this awesome!

I don’t quite yet understand all the different instances but I like it

I'm using connect for lemmy and it's going good so far. I started reading more about a month ago to try to cut the addiction of reddit.

I've been reading Dracula and Frankenstein and both have been great. I'm reading dracula through Dracula daily, but doing my best to read most of it on soft cover. Frekensiten has been fantastic and I'm almost done. Couldn't recommended it more. There's no modern adaptation that does it justice.

Long story short, it sucks reddit is gone and my addiction to it is real, but lemmy and books specifically has been a good substitute

Lemmy has been great hasn't it? It's not as big but the content feels more meaningful.

Boost was my go-to and I'm waiting for the new one for Lemmy. But jerboa has been doing the job for me so far. Especially the newer versionsB