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

Just check nsfw but images hosted by Reddit that are NSFW are slow to load and seem to have been slow for quite a while, so my rate at which I check it tapered from few times a day to now once or twice a month

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don’t. I suspect we’re the minority of Reddit users though. It’s a hard addiction to give up even with an okay replacement like Lemmy or kbin.

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

Deleted the app, deleted my account. Haven't been back.

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

I only go to reddit now if I look something up and get a link to it. I don’t go there to browse anymore.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy still has some issues that need to be addressed for it to fully replace Reddit for my needs

Be honest, do you still use reddit?

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

No I gave reddit this Reson why I deleted my reddit "I'm done with all the oooo we want money for are investors and so we can go public so lest raise the api price and then foreseeable reopen subreddits that Locked themselves for a protest then say if you don't like it then we will find people who do"

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

No. I've checked my inbox and profile page several times, but that's it. Reddit is dead to me.

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

Nope deleted it completely

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

I have not used it since some time in early June.

I have technically logged into my account -- but only because I've opened Relay Pro. In spite of everything, it appears to still update everything, and the last app patch update message I saw said that they had implemented changes to reduce API usage (this after July 1).

But I haven't interacted with reddit beyond that, and I don't plan to. It's not about anger at reddit anymore either -- I actively like Lemmy better. It reminds me of old reddit.

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

I think its been almost a month, since I intentionally went to Reddit. More than 3 weeks anyway.

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

No, I have a couple small communities that I have pull into an RSS reader that still works somehow, but I stay logged out and never comment. 12 year account with 29k karma and I quit cold turkey and mostly went back to RSS feeds.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, the /r/Cricket sub hasn't moved from reddit yet. But nothing more.

However, I don't use the reddit app. I'm using Boost only. If it stops working, I might not use reddit at all.

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

I do. Lemmy is great for general purpose stuff, so far the best alternative I've found as far as the crossroads between layout and community involvement. However I follow a lot of fandoms and more specific communities, and those just aren't there yet. I'm trying to start contributing here to encourage it, but the communities for those are still for the most part on reddit.

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

Scrolled for maybe 3 minutes total in the past month... Was a heavy commenter before that.

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

I do when a Google search leads me to a thread, but I don’t have an account. I don’t keep browsing like I used to. I’m also both annoyed and happy to see replies to threads deleted or replaced with goodbye phrases.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don’t browse Reddit routinely anymore like i would before. But I’d still visit it once in a while to read about discussion on niche subjects.

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

I pretty much only use it to add at the end of a google search. I feel like lemmy might be lacking in hits if I tried that

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

I logged in once to look up something I had saved, but the mobile site is so irritating to use I gave up.

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

I don't browse it (I have a redirector rule that links me right out of Reddit), but if I need to access it for something, I just tack on old. as a bypass.

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

no. I mostly used Reddit from mobile, and since Apollo went down, I just used it once from my laptop to find a link. Other than that, 100% lemmy using Wefwef.

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

Yeah I check hydroponics subs occasionally.

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

Only when searching about a particular topic or problem, whether I'm looking something up in a game or just troubleshooting.

Otherwise nothing, no account nor any browsing.

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

Been 16 days since I last checked Reddit. Lemmy has been a refreshing experience.

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

I am surprised how little I miss Reddit after June. I realised I was really dependent on RIF. I downloaded an RSS app instead (Inoreader) and followed some subs that I used to frequent. I check it once every few days as opposed to many times a day before the collapse.

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

I deleted my account around the start of the original blackout, and from then only really checked r/ModCoord & r/Save3rdPartyApps. These days I only really briefly pop into r/ModCoord to check for any updates on the situation.

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

Yeah unfortunately. There are some subs that haven't migrated over yet and some subs that are active that have really useful info for me (school, language learning, etc.)

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

Nope! Not once since the blackout began.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have been using the official Reddit app from my cakeday (did not know about all the other apps until they were gone), and have opened the app like every other day but haven't made a comment since I switched to Lemmy.

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

Yes, but much less than I used to. When I don’t have a particular goal in mind and just want to doomscroll a bit, I find myself checking Lemmy first, and only if I run out of things to read, which I usually don’t, do I move on to Reddit.

There are still some niche communities that are active on Reddit and not here. So I do still go over there on purpose for those.

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

I take the occasional peek to see if it imploded yet. I do miss certain communities. Only last week I was looking for some info on a historical subject. Google turned up nothing so I wanted to r/askHistorians. I hate they decided to stay on reddit and don't switch to lemmy.

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

Nah, I created a Lemmy account at the start of June (at least the Jerboa installation date says that) and uninstalled boost a few days later. Only checked in on Reddit from time to time with libreddit, to have a look at the John Oliver party.

I deleted or mass-edited all my comments and sent an GDPR request. Only thing left after that is the account deletion.

Didn't want to give them any traffic anymore, so I avoided everything about it.

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

I occasionally check https://reddit.com/r/artifexian which is the official community for a youtube channel and podcast that I like.

Other than that, I'm out.

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

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

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

Sometimes I use Reddit to search up nonfiction book recommendations on r/books with searx.be (it automatically fetches you results on the old reddit website) because to be honest, it's pretty much one of the few places where I can find nonfiction recommendation for niche topics or just nonfiction readers in general (that isn't just about self-help books). Not only that, the users generally give a synopsis so it's easier to find what book you'd be interested in. But since Reddit made porn less accessible, my reddit usage dropped significantly.

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

I will occasionally browse because Relay still works, but I stopped contributing content.

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

Nah, deleted that shit as soon as they announced the API.

I saw the writing on the wall.

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

Nope, I haven't been there even once since switching over to Lemmy

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