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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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[–] thismessisaplace 2 points 1 year ago

I haven't seen reddit since sync stopped working.

[–] cultsuperstar@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

After everything went down and Sync stopped, my usage dropped considerably. I was still using Joey and Infinity for light browsing, but I haven't really browsed Reddit in about a week and have been on Lemmy and Kbin exclusively. I feel more engaged here too.

Browsing Reddit just seemed different, like the quality of posts and comments dropped considerably.

[–] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

I do, but I'm trying to quit

[–] BeakEm420@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago

Yes I do still use reddit, although only to check specific Subreddits. When it comes to mindlessly scrolling through content, however, the Fediverse has replaced Reddit 100% of the time.

[–] daruksrevenge@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

I’m currently in the process of replacing Reddit with Lemmy. I’m keeping Reddit for the sole purpose of being linked there from Google Results and until I get used to Lemmy, how it works, and find communities that are relevant to me.

I do find Lemmy interesting in how , despite being in an instance, you can still see posts from other instances and such. I am still getting used to it, so will keep Reddit around until I am completely accustomed to it.

[–] Knightfall@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I haven't been back on Reddit since shortly before July 1. I enjoy the vibe here right and the novelty of something new hasn't worn off yet.

Some subreddits I was more into like Destiny 2's and Diablo 4 don't seem as busy here so I have a feeling I may need to lurk over there still from time to time.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago

Only for one community and only occasionally (like once every 3 days or so, I check the news, learn new stuff and move on). Oh, and today I was there to request all my data.

[–] androidul@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

what is this β€œreddit” thou speak of?

Oh it's just some old myth people have been spreading. Probably doesn't exist.

[–] gkpy@feddit.de 2 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...

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use it for two things: checking out protest stuff and checking the only subreddit (it's a small one) that's actually keeping me on Reddit.

[–] Lotsen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Sometimes for fixes and stuff but not much anyomore

[–] Sir_Kevin@discuss.online 2 points 1 year ago

Only if a google search takes me there. I have no way or desire to view reddit otherwise.

[–] hansdampf@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] TerranExpat@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I haven't posted in years, but there is still so much content there. Now though without my favourite app (Joey) I probably will go there less. Even less when they disable old.reddit.com.

Yeah I check hydroponics subs occasionally.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

I had a web result that the result I was looking for was on Reddit. I guess that's technically using it, but I wasn't logged in and didn't touch anything. It still counts as a visitor though, and I'm disappointed in that.

[–] Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago
[–] R9442@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Only when searching about a particular topic or problem, whether I'm looking something up in a game or just troubleshooting.

Otherwise nothing, no account nor any browsing.

[–] Monkeyclock1234@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Now and again I jump on for niche information for my hobbies. But only on desktop, and only on old.reddit.com

[–] SparkyTemper@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago
[–] ulkesh 2 points 1 year ago

No, and I never will again. I was a 15 year veteran. I deleted my account on June 29, 2023. Fuck Huffman. He can rot in whatever hell he may believe in. Long live the Fediverse!

[–] biscuitsofdeath@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago
[–] TomaTomaToma@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Only if it is a google result. I still have sync app installed :(

[–] ronflex@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When subs started blacking out and the only posts I were seeing on my feed were from r/hamsters, I cut the chord without looking back. My friends have all tried to find workarounds to be able to use reddit without official means like using apps that get the pass for accessibility and I'm just thinking "imagine going out of your way just to access reddit" πŸ˜‚

The only subreddits I cared about were very few at that point with how shitty reddit had gotten as a whole, so it wasn't hard.

[–] krzysd@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Just check nsfw but images hosted by Reddit that are NSFW are slow to load and seem to have been slow for quite a while, so my rate at which I check it tapered from few times a day to now once or twice a month

No, and I blocked it on my DNS server so I don't accidentally go there either

[–] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but with RedReader. There's a few niche subs I like that aren't well-established here yet.

[–] MythicWolf@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I deleted all my posts and comments, most of my accounts and the official app. I’ve been maybe twice in the past few weeks because of search results. Before it was numerous times a day. Most of the subs I followed moved elsewhere and the Reddit stuff I get second hand via BORU’s discord

[–] pete@social.cyano.at 2 points 1 year ago

I'm trying to stay away and I do feel like there is a reasonable chance I might be able to.
I recently subscribed to a Lemmy "self-hosted" and "asklemmy" group and content is starting to trickle in real good.

Mostly I feel it's a matter of consolidating Lemmy groups with the same topics into super-groups. This should help with general useability as well as making things more friendly for people moving over from Reddit.
Federation support for other Fediverse products towards Lemmy also will need some work still.

[–] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

I made a private LibReddit instance so I can still get the news from specific communities that aren't elsewhere.

[–] DJDarren 1 points 1 year ago

I sometimes go to /r/Apple, because I'm a nerd for that shit.

But I went on there tonight, and most of the comments in one thread were really snipey and bitter - more than usual for that sub. And It made me wonder whether the people who left were the empathetic ones, leaving the bitter, cynical people behind. Much like the move from Twitter to Mastodon.

I'll probably still mooch on there on the odd occasion, but I'm not a regular user any more. Nowhere near it.

[–] Nothus@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago
[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 1 points 1 year ago

I occasionally check https://reddit.com/r/artifexian which is the official community for a youtube channel and podcast that I like.

Other than that, I'm out.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Same here. I'm not actively browsing or looking for information from Reddit, but if it's unavoidable, then so be it. I can't ignore the wealth of information still there.

theres a couple communities stuck on there I still check on, but no longer casually browse.

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe 2 or 3 times a week. There's some support communities on there that I'm a part of and check in with on there.

But learning about Reddit's behaviour the last month or so has been something of an eye opener and for now I'm enjoying exploring here (and actually reading ebooks again) as an alternative

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I don't use it any more. At most when people refer to something Reddit here, specially in c/snoocalypse, I check it then archive it then link the archive.

That said I don't blame people who still use it, even if I encourage people to not to.

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

Nope, nothing proprietary on my watch.

[–] privacyn@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t have Apollo anymore so I don’t go to Reddit anymore from mobile, but i use it from time to time on desktop

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I only check my profile occasionally to see if I need to run the super deleter on it again.

[–] CthulhuOnIce@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Boost was the only thing that made it tolerable, I couldn't use the official reddit app even if I wanted to

[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I slowed down when the announcement was made about third party apps. I quit entirely when RIF turned off. Now I participate here, started my own community, contribute to others as much as I can, and finally figured out how to host my own instance. It's been fun seeing it grow slowly.

[–] Rakn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. But instead of spending ever free minute on it I'll only check it once or maybe twice a day.

[–] SinJab0n@mujico.org 1 points 1 year ago

Nah, sometimes google tries to make me enter but I just scroll a lil more and use any other result.

[–] Im28xwa@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

Nope deleted my account 2 days ago

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