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I used to check the front page at least once every day, and occassionally check specific subreddits. Now I don't look at reddit unless theres some drama, like mods getting purged, then I'd go there and enjoy the drama. Occasionally there will be questions that only reddit has the answer to so I have to reluctantly use it. I got my uBlock Origin ready to kill all the ads. That shitty website will not get a cent out of me.

What about you? Do you still use reddit?

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I unsubbed from all reddits that don't support the resistance except for a few small ones. And I go to lemmy for most things

[–] Morphior@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

No, I uninstalled Boost and Infinity about a month ago and haven't looked back.

[–] Lolors17@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Nope, nothing proprietary on my watch.

[–] HerrBoedefeld@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

So, personally i'm done wirh reddit. But i still go there every once in a while to target about ten very specific subs which aren't even remotely replicated in the fediverse for the foreseable future. See, there's this chatgroup i maintain with my not so ultra tech savvy parents and a handful of goofy dog/cat/bird videos a day brightens their work days with a minute of joy. They would never browse reddit or even the fediverse and this tradition came at basically no "extra cost" since i scrolled reddit any day anyways. Now i don't want to stop bettering their lives out of my idealism against reddit so i bite the bullet for now. I'm not engaging in reddit anymore, just go straight to some subs and that's about it. Since this is content often posted by casual users very much like my parents i doubt we will see a big influx of this kind of content in the fediverse any time soon, if ever. So yeah, i still go there.

[–] hansdampf@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

since baconreader no longer works i stopped using reddit. only time i visited was because of a duckduckgo search result

[–] TheConnected@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've just switch to lemmy after JoeyForReddit stopped working this afternoon. Lemmy doesn't have the same amount of content as Reddit but there is potential.

[–] ElmarsonTheThird@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Yes, that was the final drop for me too. Going to delete my account and 8 year history next time I'm at the PC.

[–] Schnitzeltier@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Only if a Google search points me to an answer to a specific problem.

[–] Version@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I usually check the subreddit redditmobile to see if they actually fixed the app.

Edit: But yea, honestly I probably won‘t go back to Reddit. Lemmy seems to be a great alternative.

[–] opux030@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I open the app out of muscle memory a few times a day, infinity still works somehow, but most of my subs have been closed/dead now anyway so not really.

[–] Littleborat@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

The official app has bad performance and that's why I only browse on my pc. Usually that's once a week.

[–] WidowersWife@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

For me, it's still convinient for asking specific questions. The niche communities were filled with people knowing their stuff so the archives are filled with very reflected opinions and knowledge. For example, if I'm about to, say, buy a cooking knife, I'd google "best cooking knife reddit" and there I have it. Without that I'd be stuck with "top 10 cooking knifes articles" which may be influenced by knife companies wanting to promote their product. Of course I could ask that question here too, but I'd have to wait for an answer and those I would get would only be a fragment of what I'm still be able to find in reddits archives. But for everything else I'm very happy here

[–] fing3r@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Not since the blackout, no.

[–] Wirrvogel@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I clicked by accident on a few links on Feddit that lead to Reddit (people should post archive links instead) and closed the site without reading immediately, otherwise I am clean since I made this account on June 12. I do still miss Reddit a bit, but I will not go back, no matter what the site does. I also reduced my online time drastically which is doing wonders for my mental health and how much I get done in my household.

[–] kthxbye_reddit@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still check some subs, like recent infos on the war in ukraine. And some others that have not catches up in terms of activity…

But it’s getting less and less. I also open Apollo less frequently, realising that it doesn’t work anymore

[–] dvdnet90@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apollo can be used after 1 July. But, with patch

[–] kthxbye_reddit@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Tell me more…

[–] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago
[–] gkpy@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

managed to shift my idle browsing here. though i was kind of weening off reddit slowly over the past years. with lemmy exploding it has brought back some of that feeling of exploring and looking for communities i was missing on reddit haha

sadly nebula.tv sends you to reddit for comments on their exclusives, that is one holdover that is also unlikely to go away...

[–] AbyssalChord@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Roughly a month on Lemmy now and the habitually visit of Reddit completely faded out. Lemmy replaced Reddit without any compromises for me. I'm also trying to establish a Bass-guitar related Community here, so there's a bigger investment for me to get things going here.

[–] Boromir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I return for some very specific subreddits, but each day less and less.

[–] 30isthenew29@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could make sublemmy’s…

[–] nx2@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

The problem is if there are only 10 people 7 of them only lurking, on Reddit, this is what happeneds if you do that on Lemmy:

Every beginning is hard.