This is my alternative. Still getting used to it. Hi everyone!

I still dip in to Reddit, but about 75% less than before. As more Lemmy content becomes available, I expect that to further diminish.

I’m not on “Lenny” terms yet, I still refer to him as “Leonard”.

As for Lemmy, it’s almost completely replaced Reddit for me. Except for the times I search for something and the best result is a Reddit thread from 3 years ago

Not Lenny!

I don’t trust anyone named Lenny. Lemmy is cool though

Already did. Now I only visit Reddit to check out some niche communities that are not on Lemmy yet.

Already did. Purged all my Reddit bookmarks and account.

Generally: You have to be the change you want to see in the world. If you want to change others, change yourself first. I don’t think the mindset “I need to reach that big number of people over there so I’ll just be over there as well to teach them” works, or leads to the goal you want. Even though it seems reasonable at first glance. This mindset just leads to you giving the other people AND yourself more reason to never leave from there. Which is contrary to what you want. If you want others to switch to better alternatives, move yourself first, help grow the alternatives, and they will sooner or later also become interested in joining. Things like the latest Reddit and Twitter fiascos also show that no huge proprietary social media platform rules forever. The time to change to better alternatives has never been better than now.

Lemmy/mastodon for mindless browsing has replaced reddit/Twitter for me. For specific research/googling on a niche topic, I still find reddit threads popping up all the time so I’ll still click those to learn more, but they web browser only.

Who’s Lenny? Depends on if they’re cool or not

Yep. When RIF died, Reddit was dead to me. I refuse to give the owners of Reddit the satisfaction of me switching to their app.

I’m also slowly pushing myself from Twitter to Mastodon. Hoping more of the accounts I follow on Twitter make the switch too.

Yup, and not just because of Reddit’s CEO.

The culture here is better - people read and reply rather than just upvoting. It’s a good place to help folks out, and be helped out.

Lemmy is pretty much my new Reddit much in the same way Reddit was my new Fark.com 12 years ago.

Now that I’m on Lemmy, I’m also exploring Fark again. I’m wondering why I ever left as it still is super relevant.

I quit Reddit cold turkey on the day the APIs died. Sync was synonymous to Reddit for me. When one died, so did the other.

Yes (Lemmy), replaced it about two weeks ago. I only visit Reddit for super niche stuff while logged out and using an as locker with the old subdomain. I will never upvote or reply to a topic on there ever again.

Who is this Lenny?