this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
531 points (95.5% liked)

Asklemmy

43978 readers
646 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy πŸ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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?

(page 12) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

About once or twice a week max. And only because infinity for reddit still works. Nothing much there really. Lemmy actually has been more fun. Just the apps are still a hit or miss

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

i just check it twice a week

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

Nope, and I even stop searching for episode discussions on TV shows because most of it is on reddit.

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

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

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

Only via libreddit.hu

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

Only if a search sends me there and other links aren't giving me what I need

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

Sometimes I open up the home page to see what's up, then I see what's up is less interesting than it used to be and less interesting than what's happening here. And I close it pretty quickly. I'm still using it as part of my Google searches when I need quick human answers. It's gonna continue to be a historical resource in that regard. No getting around that. But my account only exists so that I can access those resources without too much fuss. It's not something I use to post or contribute. I used the Sign In With Apple feature to just generate a throwaway anonymous account after I deleted my 11 year old account.

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

Yes, but I've realised that I go in less and less.

[–] [email protected] 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

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

Use reddit? I still have my work account for when Google sends me there.

Visit Reddit? No.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

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

Of course not!!

<.< >.>

[–] [email protected] 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.

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

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

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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

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

Why is this pinned? And which apps let you block instances wholesale?

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

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.

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

There's a few things that I follow that do have communities here, but little to no engagement in those communities. I'll occasionally get on to look at those subreddits for updates, but I don't have an account anymore so I don't log in and I don't engage with the communities. I also use RES so they don't get any of my advertising revenue. Someone had linked a read only Reddit client before but I can't remember what it was, If anyone does remember let me know so I can switch to that.

[–] [email protected] 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

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

Nope. I quit cold turkey on June 30 and haven't been back. Well, not on purpose, at least. Sometimes a Google result sends me to Reddit, but when it loads I just close it and move to the next result. Lemmy works fine for everything I used Reddit for.

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

Of course I do. It's reddit.

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

I left Reddit in early 2022 and never looked back.

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

No. I only really use my phone for everything. It's impossible to see the old website on mobile and the regular website is hot garbage, and somehow their app is even worse. There is no way for me to access Reddit and have a pleasant experience anymore.

Reddit basically forced me to go to Lemmy. I was mad at first, but now 3 weeks into it (1 week casual before the Baconreader died and then 2 weeks of redditesque addiction) I really don't mind. There are some subs I really miss, but hopefully someone makes communities for them soon. (Malicious compliance and HobbyDrama are what immediately pop into my head)

load more comments
view more: β€Ή prev next β€Ί