[rglullis]

Just stop using reddit.

Use Lemmy which has a good number of FOSS clients already. If you miss the content from specific subreddits, there are instances that mirror the content. If you still really want to interact with people on Reddit, I am working on a bridge.

[huytersd]

Not nearly as good. Reddit is probably the only place I can find answers for a lot of obscure topics.

[rglullis]

Not yet, but once the bridges are set up, you will be able to find the content on the Fediverse (it's stored in the mirrors) and you'll be able to reach the people no matter where they are.

[johnnyanmac]

I've tried on several occasions, but I just haven't found those niches yet on Lemmy (I use it through kBin). It's kinda there but also still kinda empty one you go outside the more general feeds.

The sad reality is a lot of reddit operated off the minority of power users. And those power users are either still on Reddit, went somewhere else entirely (maybe Discord), or are "retired". The network effect will take a while to overcome, if it's overcome at all.

[huytersd]

That’s still like a 10 year lag time. If the process to find those answers involves anything beyond typing in the query followed by “fediverse” or whatever on google, it’s not going to happen.

[rglullis]

This is a separate issue. I'm not saying "don't ever visit Reddit again", I'm saying "You should be able to follow and interact with the subreddits through Lemmy".

[Loggias]

How do you find these instances? I quit Reddit after being a user for 13 years once they killed the API for 3rd parties.

There are some subreddits I’d like to browse still but I definitely won’t be joining back into that dumpster fire.

I’ve been using Lemmy but it’s honestly aggravating to use in many ways.

[maxverse]

I stayed away from Reddit for probably nine months after that scandal, and pop back in occasionally now. It has gotten significantly worse.

[phatskat]

Apollo was the only way I used Reddit - the browser experience is meh, and I’m almost always using Old Reddit when I go there on desktop or mobile because it’s just easier to get what I’m looking for. Once Old gets the axe I’m sure I’ll be there even less than I am now.

It’s a bummer too - I think my weekly screen time report had me using Apollo on average like 6 hours a day, I was very active in a couple small and fun communities, and the places with news relevant to me were all subbed and easily surfaced. Losing my primary tool was all it took to take me from a pretty engaged and active user to someone who stops by because a search result took me there.

[rglullis]

I'm working on a project that is meant to provide a migration path for people like you: https://github.com/mushroomlabs/fediverser.

The idea is that Lemmy instance admins can use this service alongside their Lemmy server to provide two things:

- "Login with Reddit", to make it easier for people to create an account on the Lemmy server. - A reddit-to-lemmy community map.

The idea is that when someone logs with Reddit OAuth, we can get their list of subreddits, and then auto-subscribe the user to the corresponding Lemmy communities, solving the onboarding issue and the content discovery in one go.

There is also a website, https://fediverser.network, where I'm crowdsourcing the data to make the mapping between subreddits to lemmy communities.