It didn’t seem to be working for me today, so I tried the web interface. I just couldn’t. It occurred to me that I didn’t love Reddit, I loved Apollo. Once it goes away for good I don’t think I can get used to any other way. I’ve always used Alien Blue or Apollo. Plus I don’t want to give them any more views at all until they change course to be more in line with what the community wants.
Anyway. Deleted it to remove the temptation to continue to browse until the end of the month.
Did exactly the same thing last week. The initial discomfort and disorientation lasted for about 48 hours. Spent some quality time understanding the whole fediverse concept, this week feel like I am “old hand” already.
While at it , explore the rest of decentralized services around: Matrix, Mastodon, PeerTube, Pixelfed, Revolt, etc.
Bottom line: you’ll be fine. Once you get a hang of it, fediverse is far, far better than any Reddit, Facebook, Twitter and the rest.
Pro tip, I used to open reddit unconsciously, even after installing lemmy.
After I noticed that I removed the reddit icon and replaced it with jerboa.
Now I barely ever go to reddit best
Same here. I knew I would accidentally open it during the initial two day protest, so I removed my RiF widget and deleted the official app. I replaced RiF with Jerboa and started using that. I have only been back to Reddit a handful of times; it's great.
Yup. As far as I'm concerned, rif is Reddit, and when it's gone, so is Reddit. I deleted the app when Andrew announced it would be shutting down on the 30th, and I haven't looked back.