I feel superior

Ever since I quit reddit I have become irrestable to the opposite sex. I've gotten so many bitches.

Besides the amount of content (and the occasional server issues) on Lemmy I haven't missed anything about Reddit after switching.
- that content keeps me coming back as an unregistered lurker and for much longer than all of the fediverse instances combined.
  
  Great username.
- Quality time.
- Yeah, the only thing this needs is more people and more content
- Reddit has been no stranger to server issues, remember. Honestly lemmy.ca has been more reliable than reddit...

For me, the only feeling better than dumping Reddit a month or so ago has been when I ditched Facebook years ago.
- leaving facebook was easier
- Well with Facebook for me it was more like a slow decline until I only used it for things I "have" to use it for. Whereas Reddit was a brutal, one day to the next cold turkey kind of thing.
  
  The only thing I miss about FB was the Birthday reminders.
  
  Same here. Just dropped it, no questions. Went back to clear out any comments and useful saves … realized I didn’t miss it all
- I ditched Facebook in 2017, the same time I got a Reddit account. Now I got Lemmy when I left Reddit.
  
  I dumped FB after George Floyd. The stupidity of some people was just too much. I had Reddit but there is something to anonymity. I think I pay more attention to the content of the comments. I dunno. Maybe it's me.

Ever since I stopped using Reddit, my wife has been spending more time with me than her boyfriend
- casual /r/polyamory talk.
  
  r/humblebragging

Are you on linux yet?
- Arch and vegan btw, get on my level.
  
  Let me wash your feet
- based comment
- ... and a communist ?
- Have you switched to Firefox for privacy? Sold your gas guzzler and started biking so you aren't climate changing? Canceled Netflix, Facebook, Google, and Xed Twitter so you aren't ripped off? Installed bidets so you aren't killing trees to wipe your shit?
  I'm unimpressed.
  
  Still love my car, but public transit for commute is the way. Die the rest, actually yeah, apart from the bidet. I saw that on Reddit all the time too, maybe it really is such a life changer. Did you know they are really cheap and can be bought as add-ons to your existing toilet?

reddit was the only thing keeping OP anchored in the fashion trends of this millennium
- OP has ascended
  
  Like Fry after eating that egg sandwich.

- Time to tar and feather reddit!

One real effect of leaving Reddit is I spend so much less time on my phone. I love that. Part of it is because my favorite communities haven't come over to Lemmy, which I don't love.
- Reading Lemmy is like a newspaper. After 20-30 min you are kind of finished with the days posts.
  
  That’s a nice thing for me so far. Instead of endless hours wasted, it’s a little peek here and there. See some news, enjoy some memes, and move on.

I am glad people are ditching reddit too but we don't need to jerk ourselves off about it
- Bro don't ruin the vibe, I'll go soft
  
  okay that is actually pretty funny
- Speak for yourself. If you don't want in on the circle jerk you can leave
- Stop ruining the vibe of our jerk
- Not need, want.
  
  yes therefore me saying it is not "need" is grammatically correct

I went back to comment on a few posts a week ago before remembering how hostile a lot of the community and moderators are
- May last 20 comments:
  FCK
  SPZ
- Welcome to the banned club
  
  Not even banned I'd just get my comments occasionally removed for linking a mobile link, the wrong wiki, or a video example of what I was talking about

Lol I still check it on PC sometimes but Lemmy has completely replaced it on mobile for me.
- Same. I still have pangs of grief over doomscrolling reddit (via Boost, RIP) and getting lost in nonsense like best of redditor updates.
  That said, I spend WAY less time on my phone now, which is definitely a healthy thing
- Same here. I just hope more people will eventually come to create and take part in communities

It feels good. The atmosphere is so much better here, even if the content is slower.
I wasn't a poster on reddit, but I'm motivated to contribute to the posts here, especially to niche communities I enjoy when I find them.

Pale?
- Yeah, but that's normal.
- Monitor tan.

I left Reddit, the second I learned what was happening. Haven't looked back

Landed gentry rejoice
- My pleasure.

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A scene from The Twilight Saga: New Moon showing three vampires, Caius, Aro, and Marcus, in gold-brown Rococo era garb looking judgmentally down their noses at the viewer. Above the image is the caption: What I look like, because I haven't been browsing Reddit for over a month.
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- What the hell, this pic is from twilight? Cant speak for the rest of the movies but this pic goes hard. Might singlehandedly convince me to watch the movies, just to see the context of this image, if not for anything else.
  
  The books have a few very interesting ideas, like the leader vampire society that feasts on whole tourist groups. Or a vampire during the civil war. Unfortunately, it's mostly fluff and never expanded upon.
  
  Those guys are like the leaders of the vampires. They live in Brazil and make the rules and and they punish any one who breaks them
- Good human.
  Btw, I was a member of r/transcribers. Is there a big enough community in here already?
  
  I'm not aware of an official community, but you're welcome to transcribe images you come across if they haven't already been done. It seems more common for people to transcribe their own images here on Lemmy, which is nice.

I feel happy to switch to lemmy over reddit.

Haven't logged in on Reddit for a while. It feels good not to doomscroll for hours a day. Lemmy is less addicting and less time-wasting and actually has valuable comments whereas Reddit's comment section is mostly pure garbage that I feel compelled to upvote (probably my compulsive tendencies though). But I still use Reddit to search up stuff, however on Old Reddit I think they added a feature where they put recommended posts IN THE COMMENT SECTION and you have to scroll for a while to access the other comments. Idk if that's new or it's something I just noticed but that's such an asshole design.

2 months, peasant

Does it count if I only dipped in because the answer to a question i needed was only on reddit? I was there for like 2 seconds.
- I hood my breath when I go back, If I don't breath in it doesn't count
  
  You could also use an adblocker so they don't make a cent off you.
- I don't post in Reddit, but if a Google search takes me there, I'm not gonna ignore it. I have contempt for Reddit and the spez/the people who run the site, but not for our fellow users.

Flamboyant glitter skinned vampire?

It's a fact, that's like a totally sober guy looking at a crack head.

I haven't either, but because I'm banned

What I look like, because gestures broadly.
- Let's get a shower, don't worry I am a nurse.

Yes. Quite.

So you became sick, got it.

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EH, nothing wrong with reddit, the entire exodus was stupid for the average shmuck to care about.
Reddit is going into the shitter for other reasons, like being dominated by upvote bots. Usually ran by some intern at some corporation that's posting an AD disguised as content. THIS is what the fucking spineless MODS should have been up against, but they weren't.

I caved. I went back and created a new account in place of the one I deleted. Lemmy is content light at the moment.
I feel ashamed.
- I know what you mean, but I've been trying to branch out into more direct media. Things like webcomics, or The Onion. I might even start reading actual gaming news sites that I like instead of getting it all second hand from Reddit.
  It's definitely left a gap, but sometimes it's good to move on.