Since the blackout, I only use reddit when it pops up in search results regarding a special problem. No "open reddit and scrolling" anymore. It would be stupid to 100% boycott it and make my life harder just because, but they don't get more traffic from me than necessary.
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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Same with me. I've removed all the apps from my phone and I've moved to Lemmy for all my doom scrolling.
And no up/downvoting anything while there. I minimize my engagement as much as possible.
more niche / specific communities are just starting here but on reddit they're already thriving. I'll visit reddit from time to time to keep up with the latest thing in those, though my time there has been cut significantly.
in other hand, I really wish we could stop with reddit-related questions in this community... ask those in /c/reddit instead
me too. But, since the API policy begins. Double posting, ad spamming, irrelevant contents, bots within several subs appears on my reddit home feeds and it is still in acceptable level though. if this reach more than that. I might leave reddit permanently.
I've switched to Lemmy for random browsing of memes, pop culture, and tech news.
I'm hoping Lemmy will soon be large enough that major world news events will pop up there, too.
I still go to Reddit for just a couple of niche communities. Lemmy isn't large enough for there to be active communities about every TV show and every hobby, yet. Looking forward to when we hit that size.
Also: no rush. We're early adopters. Lemmy has gotten a LOT better in the last month, so I'm glad that everyone didn't rush to join it right away. I'd rather that when small communities consider migrating, they can do so and have a great experience.
Shitposting subs that actually shitpost instead of posting regular memes. For that to happen on Lemmy we'll need a good way of sending videos/gifs to the platform, which is gonna take a while to be implemented but eventually will
There are probably specific communities that I'd miss, but the real answer is VOLUME. There's still more content there.
Nothing. Haven't logged on since subs went dark.
I'm immediately struck by the contradiction of asking this on Lemmy.
Historical questions and answers to common problems, it’ll take about a decade for Lemmy to catch up. I work in IT and it’s saved my ass quite a few times
And that's assuming Lemmy acquires anywhere near the user base reddit had. Reddit just has so much useful information that doesn't exist elsewhere yet and will for sure take years to come close to.
I still go on my city's subreddit to get the latest news about my city.
Nothing. I keep the BaconReader app so that when I click on it and nothing loads, I know there is nothing for me there.
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I mod an 11K sub that is apparently one of the preeminent spaces on the web to follow the latest news on it's topic. I personally haven't posted anything new there since the blackout--it's all been posted here in the Fediverse instead--but I still check in to make sure they're behaving themselves.
Not everyone and every community I like is here.
Jerboa is giving me network errors still
Haha, classic:
Amazing.
r/guitar, r/bass and r/trumpet mostly. The sheer amount of people in the communites just makes it better (shocking news I know)
The memes are better here tho
There's a few niche communities there that don't exist on Lemmy and likely won't for a while. Plus, I still dip into AskReddit because it's a hard habit to break!
Specific subs that don't exist on Lemmy, especially Q&A-type subs with no equivalent (or very few members). Things like AskPlumbers. It'll just take time to build those communities here.
My country and city subs mostly. I still visit covidlonghaulers a bit, because it's nice to hear from people in the same boat when everyone seems to be acting like it's all over. I also have a frankly unhealthy addiction to publicfreakout, which I'm working on.
r/padres r/baseball and r/fantasyfootball
If I could get even a fraction of the discussion those subs have here I would have no reason to go back
Fellow Compadre! 🤙🏽
Literally same along with /r/NBA
Basically, sports subreddits are keeping me on Reddit. I did try to get something going over on /c/padres but as you said, discussion isn't quite there 😮💨
Hopefully more of us make our way over to Lemmy!
Infinity for Reddit still works. Once it stops, Reddit will become a site I may only visit on my desktop, which is not a common event.
Nothing. I miss being more informed on what’s going on in the world but I don’t miss mindless Reddit discussion about it. I miss a lot of subs though. If AskHistorians goes back to normal, I might pop in for that occasionally.
This is getting better and better though, I’d rather ride out our awkward phase than get sucked back in to the Reddit cesspool and drift away. Although we really need to stop talking about Reddit so much.
What is going on with ask historians? Last I heard they seemed to just be shutting down entirely rather than relocating, very odd move for a forum many people really appreciate and would probably follow.
They haven’t shut down entirely. They’re in this weird restricted state where flairs can respond to old unanswered comments and they have these daily themed discussion threads. But you can’t ask new questions right now.
The mods seem pretty committed to Reddit and not moving. Their goals aren’t quite in line with the third party app devs and they’ll probably get enough of what they want eventually to come back. They want better mod tools and Reddit will give them a few minor improvements which they’ll call a win and turn back on. They’re not holding out for third party apps to come back or anything like that.
I find this really disappointing, they should find more meaningful ways to at least spread out from Reddit. They could mirror questions and answers in the fediverse at least which would give them a foothold outside of Reddit when it does eventually implode. But the mods are somewhat hostile towards these kind of ideas. But I don’t have any insight in to their private conversations so I could be off base. They just get kinda snippy with people who suggest anything besides hope Reddit improves.
It's a classic fallacy where people refuse to prepare a second best fallback option because they can't accept the possibility of plan A not working. Very very foolish behavior since often the best way to improve your negotiating position to get what you really want is to have another alternative. Reddit would be more likely to give them what they want if every day they were getting more established at a new location rather than slowly deflating back on reddit.
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The well-curated libraries of gentlemen's special-interest literature
Tell us the sacred numbers!
My saved content
My saved posts
I have a stickied post on the hobbyist subreddit I frequented, highlighting fediverse and Discord alternatives. I'm not even a moderator there, but they deemed it worthy enough to sticky.
Just hanging around in case anyone comes forward with questions.
The fact that Boost still works. One day soon I will open the app and it will have ceased to work and that will be the end of my time as a Redditor.
Huh, boost hasn't been working for me for ~12 hours
Lemmy for me isn't even close to what reddit was. Careful selection of several dozen subs over past many years meant that I felt at home browsing the feed. On lemmy, I've tried to join similar instances as my subscribed subreddits, but so far it's empty. The situation is improving and I hope to one day see better content here than in reddit
I got permabanned so nothing
Honestly the lack of video content.
i left reddit at least 5 years ago
I’ll go there when I want to read episode discussions after watching an episode of a show. Unfortunately all that content still lives there and there’s no substitute on Lemmy.
Niche communities like Quake Champions and city-specific subs
Mainly for niche communities that haven't gained traction here yet, and for my city's subreddit, which does have a community here but it's completely inactive so far.
I created like 3 communities and I've got around 20 subscribers on each, but no one is posting so I've been using reddit here and there to cross post content from the original subs to kinda just have something there as an example.
I promised a couple subs I mod to stay on until they find replacement mods. After browsing lemmy, the interface is downright aggravating, though.
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Not much other than r/personalfinance, r/NFL, r/goodmythicalmorning, r/thatlookedexpensive, r/photoshopbattles, r/animalsbeingbros and my city's subreddit. We have similar ones here, but they're mostly inactive
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