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There are simply some communities I can't find on Lemmy. For example, I use subreddits based on admissions to specific colleges that would never be able to function on Lemmy due to its size. I'd much prefer to abandon Reddit altogether but the information I need is usually only there.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope.

Engagement numbers help the IPO, this in turn would put more $$ in u/spez pocket and that I will not support.

You’re lucky if the communities you have followed survived intact or unaffected. The tenor of my feed was changing for the worse before the API protests. When I left, after? It was a shithole.

Sure, there are communities that I miss, that are absent, or have weak, or hard to find presences. But the solution isn’t to go lurk and buff those engagement metrics, in my somewhat Reddit hostile opinion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

All the information I want is usually old and the only way I get to the information is through Google.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Sometimes, but only in one narrow way: Reddit shows up in search results for me, and sometimes I specifically ask it to.

Like "is product X any good?" gives me garbage marketing and clickbait, so I try "is product X any good? site:reddit.com" and I find some helpful threads, often several years old.

But yeah, not logged in, not interacting.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yes, without an account just for local/niche subs that don't exist anywhere else

and that only because I have rif working via revanced.

if I am ever forced to see their shitty ads I'll stop doing even that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait, how does that work? Does it use a web scraping API?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

not sure how it works really, I had to create an app API key and input that into revanced and it just worked. I just followed the steps it was pretty easy.

can't log in, but participating there is pointless anyway

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not going to do this since I find it better to just avoid the site altogether, but I still have RIF Golden Platinum installed on my phone for sentimental reasons

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only if I have a specific question, like is this tent better than that tent. But I don't log in and I haven't since Boost stopped working.

I do miss it sometimes, but time spent on my phone has gone way down and that can only be an improvement.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No. I don’t use Lemmy nearly as much but I took it as an opportunity to reduce my doom scrolling. I left in the first week after Apollo made the announcement. I have honestly noticed a big improvement in my life overall.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think I could do that, I would be compelled to comment. But I do still see Reddit in search results for problems I'm researching and the answers are often useful. I will be happy the first time I see a Lemmy result.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There is a search engine for Lemmy https://www.search-lemmy.com/

Not ideal that it's outside of your preferred search engine, but it's something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It isn't quite there yet but https://trystract.com/ gives some Lemmy results. It's a beta, hopefully it develops further. I have no affiliation, I just saw it mentioned in Opensource.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

There's a decent reader for Reddit via RSS feeds on fdroid called Geddit. I use it to browse some porn and also certain discussions, but of course you can't interact with RSS so it's just for observing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I haven't really looked back after I left Reddit. I have stopped on a Reddit page because of a search result, that's about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yea I still go on but, I use a browser with ad-block now instead of the app

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not really. My old account had a curated list of subreddits that was vast (hundreds) and content-wise, kept me miles away from the ugliness that is the actual front page content of reddit.

I went and browsed the front page once after deleting my account and felt kinda sick tbh.

I did go read the episode discussions for several Strange New Worlds episodes and Fionna and Cake though. I miss those big group moments where all the details are discussed and appreciated and nowhere else really has that in the same scale (I hate discord and it's not the same).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Honestly the only things I miss from reddit is the Imaginary Network. :(

Wish they would make a home on Lemmy/kbin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's basically just a network of art communities for different things - like imaginary faeries, imaginary castles, etc.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryNetwork/wiki/networksublist/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I only used reddit for casual purposes, so breaking my habit was easy. I haven’t been back since I created an account here.

For the first few days, it was out of contempt for that site, but now it’s because I’ve realized that online communities don’t have to be toxic, confrontational battlegrounds. I don’t miss the reddit β€œculture” AT ALL.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Do you feel like youre cheating on then fediverse

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I haven't gone back to reddit since I was forced out of moderator role due to supporting the API changes protest. Except for once or twice clicking a search engine result that was the only one with the answer I needed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I believe they turned off the API restrictions for moderators. So Boost (and I assume other third party apps) still works for me because I created a private subreddit and made myself a moderator.

I'll continue to lurk until Spez realizes and blocks my access but I deleted all my comments and posts and don't plan on adding any new free content to their site.

I'm sure it's just a caching issue but, infuriatingly, some of my old comments appear randomly and I have to go in and delete them all over again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No, I'll only vist reddit if I'm searching for something and it comes up as a result.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've cut out 99% of my Reddit activity. No comments, no votes, mostly stop by some sports subreddits, read headlines then leave.

In the past, I used to post some of my creative work in daily/weekly feedback threads. I could reliably get at least ONE REAL PERSON to leave a comment which was good enough for me. I tried doing this again last week and all I got was some rando douchebag using a chatbot to give fake feedback and try to drive traffic toward his Instagram.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I still have an account. Maybe once per week or less I go there for a couple of particular subreddits. Is it β€œfrequent”?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Only if the only good search results are in reddit, and then only while holding my nose.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The only reason to visit reddit these days is through a Google search for "some simpsons reference here site:reddit.com/r/thesimpsons", tbh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There's not enough engagement/subscribers on the Lemmy equivalent of the primary Reddit sub I visit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Only when a search on the web bring me there and anyway I deleted my account so only without an account (wouldn't say anonymously, even if my browser block trackers this is not ever possible)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Very rarely i will have to pull it up for some reason. But i may spend 3 minutes a week on average now to copy a post to lemmy (i asked the podcaster to put the weekly announcement on lemmy but no luck yet) where i used to be on it every day. Lemmy has replaced all that use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I will always be active as u/MozartWasARed on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Gotta get on their for automotive repair stuff and yo yo stuff and other things that benefit from a huge user base and niche categories. I lemmy to get random info/news and piss away time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I only pop on over for the couple communities that haven't made a presence over here or have explicitly said they don't want to come over here

So like once every couple days at most because I can view them on my PC

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've added a couple niche subs to my RSS reader, basically for news. But outside of that, no.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just on my city's sub, which I check once or twice a week.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do but only because some of the communities I’m most passionate about haven’t quite hit critical mass on Lemmy yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Btw I always feel dirty as fuck after

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I used to until Infinity implemented subscriptions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Occasionally. There is no other place for these extremely specific android app forums and i check them every once in a while. Or if it comes up in searching, i access it with Redreader to get the info I want