I still use reddit for some niche topics that have like zero activity on Lemmy. But still, I feel kinda bad over it… What about you people?
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I just use it for the memes, so not really🤷♂️
For nice subjects, if you engage in any political and news , it will be problematic
I use it with throwaway e-mail, without any personal information on my account and only for some niche subjects that I can ony find there.
Nah cuz the only thing I’ve been using it for since coming here, is advertising Lemmy.
I sometimes have to use Reddit via web browser for search results on niche subjects. Feeling quite neutral about it.
I wish Lemmy could also be shown on search results too
I’ve already deleted my last account (I used to make a new one every other year or so) so I don’t comment or post anymore, but I use it to find info just about anything - I still add “reddit” at the end of my search (I use Startpage, it’s great). Old habbits die hard. I made my first reddit account in 2011. I don’t feel too bad about it. It is what it is.
I was permanently banned in June of last year for saying that I hope the Libs of TikTok woman would get hit by a bus. I still have my account, but I am unable to vote create or comment on anything so now I just use it to save NSFW material…
To be fair that was a stupid ass comment.
Yes. But, I’ve come to expect it. Though, if there is one thing I’m going to not do is provide content for Reddit.
I need it for gacha (or other mobile) games, some music bands, some leftover communities (linux related that haven’t moved for some reason) and other niche communities.
You might ask why I don’t make it myself… Eh, as long as I have no content to provide, I have no need for it, and I also don’t have time and freedom to do so.
I have ad blocker. I don’t comment. I don’t post. I only downvote. I only view my home feed. I only do all this on PC, and URL-blocked Reddit off my phone, significantly reducing the time I have to search.
But sometimes I just need to have the content there. I think I’ve done about the best I can considering.
i still use it but the app is a toilet and it’s annoying but no I don’t think im being unethical by using it because im not a goddamn moron
Nah, tried to delete my account and they wouldn’t let me, so I just uninstalled the app. I was on 250 of 300 streak. Fuck Reddit.
I’m not allowed to use reddit anymore after I stated that I would defend myself with a knife if attacked. Apparently that’s considered threatening violence…
Nope. I’m using a hacked third party app which doesn’t load ads, and I shitpost as much as I can to poison their database for LLM use. They can ban me - I have a VPN and plenty of email addresses.
I’ll use them till they don’t serve my needs and then move on.
It’s a website, not a family.
I’ll use them till they don’t serve my needs and then move on.
This. Certain regional and hobby communities need a critical mass that doesn’t exist on Lemmy, and frankly it’s mostly the popular subreddits that are really bad over there anyway. I have reduced my engagement to posting about Mechanical Keyboards and otherwise lurking, I use an app that survived the APIpocalypse because the blind community (of which I am not a member) uses it, and I keep my adblocker and RES on. They’re probably still extracting some value from me, but so are several other companies that are probably even worse.
Lemmy is the community I choose to engage with most directly, and I will shed no tears over the end of Reddit when it comes, but for now I’ve found the middle ground that works for me.
How do you get back on? They banned me but I’d like to do some trolling.
Just register another account. They’ll probably bitch about rules or something but whatever. It’s just a website.
Nobody should feel bad for using Reddit to deshittify Google searches. That’s just what has happened.
I do look at r/opera sometimes because there’s no community here, but only once in a great while, and I do look at the monthly list that the ban pit bulls subreddit keeps of pitbull attacks/deaths, because it’s absolutely frightening every month how long if is.
I really hope this place grows and local communities like r/Maine and r/PortlandMe grow here. Talking about local things is my favorite part of reddit.
Also if we could make a post without a link that would be great.
Surprisingly my city has a community here. Not very active but it is here!
That’s cool to see.
Also if we could make a post without a link that would be great.
Hey, not sure what you mean? Posts can be made without links
Didn’t know. I’m new.
I don’t browse or even log in to reddit anymore. I don’t feel bad for searching out specific things. Since the audience is so much larger, there’s niches that just haven’t been replaced by Lemmy or other services. Sports, media discussion, and old tech advice threads are the ones I’ll still go over for.
Even if you do login it your activity is tenous at best and reddit bans you for very little reason
Sports is surprising to me that it hasn’t gotten bigger here. I get that the tech crowd isn’t classically overlapping the sports crowd, but I feel like tech has gotten so mainstream anymore that it’s more sports people into tech than tech people into sports. A lot of the subs and instances are really lacking too, not to comment on the people posting there and doing what they can. It’s a tough landscape right now
Some of us tech people that liked sports, realized during Covid when they went away, that we only actually watched/attended sports to have something in common with others. I realized I didn’t need them, and didn’t miss giving any additional money to billionaires. Also, don’t get me started on tax money and stadiums lol
Oh for sure. There is a definite downside to the leagues that’s becoming increasingly hard to ignore. I live in a large college town, so even outside of the team, it ends up being a community event and it’s nice to have all your friends get together, even if for a superficial reason. Probably 80% of my Reddit use was sports subs and discussions not really for the sport, but because I liked the community aspect of it. I’d like to see that again here, so I’ll keep posting away lol
That makes a big difference then! If i lived in cbus instead of near Cleveland, i might still feel the same 😂
Reddit’s sports subs were small for a long time. I think there would need to be either a sports sub exodus or a lot more lemmy users before there are enough active posters into sports discussion/gossip during the week to keep engagement up and lively between games.
I was part of the baseball sub for my local major market mlb team for years and it was really just the last three or four years it was consistently active between games and even when I left (api exodus) it was the same 30 or so people on game threads.
I am hopeful that Lemmy will eventually grow large enough to supply the numerical and geographical base for good sports stuff. It doesn’t take many active participants but the 100 - 10 - 1 rule I think is much more acutely felt in less populous spaces.
