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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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[–] Hiru@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No I don’t, why would I when there’s Lemmy with all this fine people?

[–] jjakc@lemthony.com 1 points 1 year ago

I created a libreddit instance for myself, so if I want to browse a specific subreddit that hasn't moved away, (e.g. /r/warthunder) I can without using the official site.

Rarely. Without RiF I legitimately hate reddit on mobile using old reddit. I'll lazily browse sometimes when I'm at a PC but it's super limited to topics I haven't found on here yet.

[–] neko@fishfry.cheese.beer 1 points 1 year ago

My small 3rd string city's community is only like one guy on here, but it's active on there

[–] nic@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

i still have a million things 'saved' on reddit i need to check out and there's that one niche sub i lurk that doesn't seem to want to migrate but other than that nah

[–] ButhJolokia@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Not really. Checked it a couple of times, but I'm sticking with Lemmy. Don't miss it, don't need it.

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

Only when googling stuff I sometime add site:reddit.com, but I am no longer browsing reddit on my phone. With the death of RIF and APIs I just can't stomach looking at the page.

And good bless old.reddit redirector plugin.

[–] Kronusdark@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Only if a search result organically takes me to something that happens to be on Reddit.

I do notice that a lot of the subs I find this way are now locked to 18+ (the SwiftUI sub) which means I have to login to view. Since I deleted my account that’s a no go.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

A little bit, but I have been favoring Lemmy. If they kill old.reddit I'm out though.

[–] samae@bidule.menf.in 1 points 1 year ago

@001100010010 Nope, all gone. I used to browse daily via an app on my phone.

Nowdays I've setup my own lemmy instance, and typing "reddit" on my phone will launch jerboa instead, so that takes care of covering for the bad habbit :D

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

there's a single community there that i read but don't engage with, because they haven't found a new home. also, while problem solving some tech issues, qwant and ddg both feed me reddit as threads to find solutions, but i digest the info and dont sign in, upvote, comment etc

[–] doppelgangmember@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Of course not!!

<.< >.>

[–] coros@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yes but as Lemmy grows I’ll probably stop. There’s still some local subreddits that haven’t made the move. Since I don’t use Facebook, it’s the only way to get the local happenings.

I purged my comments and deleted my main account on July 1st, which was surprisingly emotional for me. I use Alien Blue on mobile, which still works so far, but now that my main account is logged out, I'll never be able to log another account in because authentication has been broken in Alien Blue for a while.

I'm keeping Alien Blue installed for two reasons: one, for checking on a friend who only posts updates on reddit, and two, I read r/games a couple times a week for headlines and discussion. Lemmy just doesn't have the same level of engagement or discussion as r/games; even though there's a certain brand of insufferable commenters there, the majority of people post thoughtful comments that are more than one or two sentences long and those are the kinds of threads I like reading. Lemmy threads seem to be more shallow; lots of replies to the parent, but very few threads that go more than one or two comments deep.

[–] kplaceholder@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I admit I wasn't intending to leave Reddit. Sure, I absolutely wasn't going to install the damn official app, but I browse Reddit way more on desktop that on my phone. But it turns out my time spent on Reddit absolutely tanked without me doing much. Lemmy turned out to be a better replacement for me than I expected, I could find a lot of interesting activity here unlike, say, Mastodon where I had to dig further.

That does not mean I left Reddit entirely lol, but I sure enter way less now.

[–] kluevo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I still use reddit for an esports club sub and a couple games-specific subs. Most of the fan interaction of said esports club is via reddit, and the game subreddits are semi-official, so they didn't move over.

[–] LoraxEleven@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago
[–] styx@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I do. I have a personal libreddit instance on a vps tho, so no login, no update, no comments, no ads. Basically no touch, only watch 😆

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[–] fosiacat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

i modded a copy of apollo to use my private api. until they cut that off, i still do.

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

I use it for finding information on Google, but other than that nah

[–] Resistentialism@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I do. But only when I absolutely need to. I kind of miss the uk motorbike dub. But, eh, that's just life.

If I do need to use it. I go firefox with ghostery, and Ublock origin. But that's only because, if I search for a problem, reddit usually has it. If it asks me to use the mobile app, then, I can always just tell Firefox to use the desktop site, and I haven't had an issue with that yet.

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