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[-] swiffswaffplop@lemmy.world 340 points 1 year ago

Was on Reddit for 11+ years. Apollo for the last few years. Quit cold turkey in June and honestly my life is better for it.

[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 111 points 1 year ago

Now we shitpost on the funny mouse website!

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago
[-] WillFord27@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Wow it's the Margot Robbie. Lemmy sure has come far

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

We did like a whole Barbie marketing campaign here and everything.

Also, that's the esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie to you!

Do you happen to know anyone who, back in the 90s, was on a very famous tv show?

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Isn't that the horse from Horsin' Around?

[-] WillFord27@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Alright but imagine how fucking funny it'd be for an A-list actor to just unabashedly join lemmy as themselves and just act like a normal person but be entirely open with who they are

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It would be absurdly funny because of how out of place she would look here, which is analogous to something like, what if a sentient plastic doll from a parallel universe somehow ended up in the real world, right?

Sounds like it could be a good movie.

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago

Just don't piss off the other mouse.

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pretty sure that the other Mouse has their hands full with the high heeled man currently ruling Florida

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Woah there. Did you say a man in Florida wearing high heels? Kinda sounds like drag to me. Better stop that man before he starts grooming children to be Satan's minions!!!

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

I heard he goes by an alias too instead of his given name. Someone should make a law against that...

now get out there and make me some goddamn money! hu huh!

[-] Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same. 11 years, nearly 2 million karma, frontpage almost every week. Mine was Reddit Is Fun app but I swore not to go back.

Edit: same username on reddit

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Ddddodoooorrrrttthhhyyyyy GAAAAALLLEEEEEEEEE!!!

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

/u/serinus

Also 11 years, very active until they killed RiF.

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee 66 points 1 year ago

Obligatory, FUCK U/SPEZ

I was part of “Rexxit” or whatever you wanna call it; I agree, life is better here. Viva la Lemmings

[-] Leg@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Something about this place is comfier than reddit. I don't miss it.

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

All my homies hate spez

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 year ago

I lurk with a burner account it because lots of niche reddit communities (modded API 3rd party client of course) still don't have Lemmy groups and....it's all rage bait, horny bait, and whOleSomE bait.

No substance, only engagement is the goal.

[-] EnderMB@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Same for me, but with Sync.

I was on Reddit for about 15 years, pre-dating when Digg shit the bed, and to be honest there are some similarities between this place and old Reddit.

That's not to say that we'll see a flood of people from Reddit, but that this place has a nice, quaint charm that wasn't too dissimilar to before. With that being said, the Linux bros are as unbearable as they used to be on Reddit, and there are some extremely wild opinions on politics that don't align with reality - that's not much of an improvement.

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I started on Reddit in 2012, realized quickly that I was getting too invested in karma, so decided to never have an account for more than one calendar year.

That worked very well, but by the end I was still spending an inordinate amount of time dicking around. I spend maybe an hour a week on sync for Lemmy. perfect!

[-] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

Same but with Boost for reddit. Now on Boost for Lemmy!

I remember being on Reddit back when it was pretty new. Also got a Gmail account back when it was beta and invite only. Everything seemed possible back then. My world view sure has changed since then. Not quite doomer pilled but damned if I'm not on the edge.

[-] krimson@feddit.nl 11 points 1 year ago

Same. I don’t miss Reddit at all.

[-] Makeshift@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

I miss it, but I also get to feel like I’ll see it grow all over again, slightly different.

But this time I already know that it’ll become a great place to go find a community for any specific niche in the future.

And this time, an ass CEO idolizing another idiot cannot kill off third party apps with one toxic decision.

[-] CluckN@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I’m not sure Lemmy will be able to grow too big. As soon as an instance starts to get thousands of viewers moderation/hosting costs become too high for hobbyists.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think a paid instance is out of the question. Someone who knows the licensing better can correct me.

I paid Reddit $30/year for years. If this gets anywhere close, I'd be happy to do the same here.

I'll pay for things that are reasonably priced.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I still read /r/boxoffice when there's a major flop (so I've been back there a bit since Wish released) but I don't log in anymore.

[-] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I do the same with local events, I can find the same memes on here without having to scroll past a half dozen posts shilling Taco Bell or fucking Christianity

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Lol, they pushing Jesus ads on Reddit now?

[-] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Have been since before the API fuckery

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Interesting. Always used RIF, so never saw any. Now I only use reddit for like 2 subs, and I did think it was greasy how they made the ads look like posts. Just greasy.

[-] Zitronensaft@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I used RiF as well so I didn’t see the ads first hand, but I definitely came across multiple posts complaining about the Jesus ads. They were apparently pretty bizarre and it was a large ad campaign partly funded by the founder of Hobby Lobby. Even NPR (US National Public Radio) did a story on them: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/06/1154880673/jesus-commercial-super-bowl-billboard-he-gets-us-hobby-lobby-evangelical-billion

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

I'm very similar. I still go back and check in from time to time, but I see Reddit as a ghost of its former self. It seems that all the good content posters have moved on.

For me it was bacon reader, but mostly the same. I lurk there maybe once a month, but the only active communities seem to be centered around helping people. I would suspect that those who don't regularly use Reddit, may not have been completely in the know about the changes, or maybe they didn't care, and they just used Reddit when they wanted to know about a thing; so those users still return to Reddit when they need help. Everywhere else seems to be very inactive... At least compared to what Reddit was just a year ago.

[-] Aermis@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I joined back on the iPhone 4 using blue alien or whatever that app was called. Then been on reddit sync until the purge. I pretty much exclusively used reddit via a third party app. It hurt to delete all my content and delete my reddit account, but the sync author said he's moving to lemmy so I just went along. Now I'm on lemmy with sync. The community is obviously much smaller, and there's quite a specific kind of person here (looking at you Linux and star trek instances) but I can actually interact here. I never deleted my comments before, and still wouldn't, but I don't see myself instantly down voted into oblivion for not sharing a hive mind idea. I get to see more kinds of interaction here instead of having to sort by controversial. It's nice.

[-] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Same. Cold turkey and the only time I’m on there is when I get there from a DDG search. When that happens, I get my info, open Modmail to make sure my dark subs aren’t stolen away, and then fuck right off.

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