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?

  • @Tope@sopuli.xyz
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    7 days ago

    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

  • @localbogwitch@lemmy.world
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    67 days ago

    I stopped using it when they banned third party apps and I couldn’t use Boost anymore. It didn’t seem like a huge loss considering how noticeable of a difference and loss of quality the front page had once all that went down. I still used it from time to time for insight on hobby related subjects, but I’m hoping that Lemmy grows enough for me to stop referring to reddit outright. I’m just happy I can support Boost again on here.

  • @TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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    36 days ago

    I’m logged in on my laptop but not my desktop. I’ll doomscroll occasionally and feel a bit bad about it.
    Anytime I try to upvote or comment there’s a 25-50% chance it’ll error out so I’m not in much of a hurry to go back.

  • @DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works
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    26 days ago

    I’ve stopped participating after the API shutdown but I still occasionally browse /r/cars and /r/justrolledintotheshop using old.reddit.com and no account. If old.reddit gets removed I’d probably stop. But until then there’s no real automotive related communities on Lemmy and I learn a ton from browsing the two.

  • @MotherForker@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    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.

  • Balon_Josaca
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    27 days ago

    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.

  • @Pregnenolone@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    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.

  • @Dil@is.hardlywork.ing
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    27 days ago

    Wish ppl would post in both places if its niche, at least make some niche stuff seem less dead so ppl are less shy to post

  • @SexDwarf@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    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.

  • @Dil@is.hardlywork.ing
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    17 days ago

    Communities that seem dead here arent even dead, no one posts but it you are the first post in months youll still prob get comments and views

  • @djmikeale@lemm.ee
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    07 days ago

    I’m using it for porn which Reddit doesn’t/can’t monetize, so basically I’m costing Reddit money while beating it. Win/win!

  • @AutoPastry@sopuli.xyz
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    498 days ago

    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.

    • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      17 days ago

      Even if you do login it your activity is tenous at best and reddit bans you for very little reason

    • CMLVI
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      138 days ago

      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

        • CMLVI
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          38 days ago

          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

      • @WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world
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        48 days ago

        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.