When talking about switching to Lemmy, the idea that gets communicated often sounds very abrupt. Despite Lemmy growing a lot, for at least a long time it will never reach the amount of content Reddit has, so a majority may feel discouraged to keep using Lemmy. But that doesn’t have to happen. You can keep browsing Reddit to find those things you need and for those small communities that still haven’t migrated, and in the meanwhile be part of Lemmy by creating posts and commenting on them, as long as you do it. One day, there will be enough activity here to let all of us use Reddit only for archival purposes.
Felt like it was important to say to make the switch less intimidating
It’s both great and not so great at the same time. If the site were easier to navigate with less sluggishness I would have no problem.
I absolutely love the community so far and it has been a breath of fresh air to get away from the toxicity of Reddit.
However, the communities I’m interested in are just not active enough here yet.
This.
No one will judge you for switching back and forth. And if someone does, their voice is not worth the hassle.
Do whatever you want. Go wild. This is the internet, not some fucking prison.
I plan to use both until Apollo shuts down. From there I’ll probably still be on their old webapp for a bit (not the new one, and not the mobile app) until Lemmy starts to fill the remaining content gaps.
I plan on using both. Unfortunately, I use a smalls subreddit a lot, and I’m not sure if enough people will move over to lemmy. Based on the poll on the subreddit it looks like it’s going to permanently go dark also.
I switched to Mastodon almost all at once, but I still check it for, like, five people. I feel comfortable with that. Reddit is much less of a “check it” style thing (it’s more of a browsing / doing an activity kind of thing IMO), so I’m not actually quite sure that I’ll even end up wanting/needing to go to Reddit
… other than the huge number of [really helpful] Reddit posts that appear in search results.
Some of the subreddits I subscribed to haven’t migrated yet to the fediverse so I’ll keep on using Reddit for it, otherwise, I’m perfectly happy with Lemmy
