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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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[–] AbyssalChord@feddit.de 193 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Roughly a month on Lemmy now and the habitually visit of Reddit completely faded out. Lemmy replaced Reddit without any compromises for me. I'm also trying to establish a Bass-guitar related Community here, so there's a bigger investment for me to get things going here.

[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I feel the same way. It was weird breaking the habit of clicking the RiF app when I unlock my screen, but after a while the need just went away.

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[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago

I agree. I'm not getting nearly as much content over here, but I don't miss it at all. I didn't realize how much of my time on reddit was spent "hate-reading". It has totally transformed the way I use the internet, I almost never commented on reddit.

Lemmy has been an absolute revelation for me, I was so lucky to find it early on and I want to share this experience so others can have the same happiness. Just waiting for the developers to iron things out first before I try to recruit my normie friends πŸ˜…

[–] Matt_Shatt@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I put the Memmy icon right where Apollo used to be so now Memmy is where I go. The main feed isn’t as plentiful yet but it’s growing…

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[–] Pmmeyourtoaster@lemmy.world 119 points 1 year ago (10 children)

The Lemmy apps are fine, but I've been disappointed in the quality of Lemmy posts and discussion. It's too many memes, not enough good quality thoughts, discussion, content, community. It's unfortunate. Wanted this to be the place I die.

[–] Venutianxspring@lemmy.fmhy.ml 80 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just block the meme communities and it makes this place a much more engaging site. There's obviously not the same level as reddit yet, but with time it will get there.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The problem is I like memes...I just don't want to ONLY see memes. It's just that Lemmy's sorting algorithm is not as robust as Reddit. With Reddit my subscription feed would show me all of my communities, even if there was a large difference in size of them. My small communities still showed up in my subscriptions feed because Reddit had a more balanced algorithm. With Lemmy, the most popular communities flood out all the others. If the devs made the sorting work better we could have a more balanced experience.

[–] TeaHands@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've found that the trick is not to actually sub to meme communities, even if you want to see them. That way you can browse your subscribed feed for all the discussion on the topics you want, but then you can switch over to All > Top Day or whatever and still end up seeing most of the memes in there because they're so popular.

[–] tj111@lemmy.fmhy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah this is what I do. My subscribed feed is all news and discussion (and good discussion at that!), and then I go to All to see the memes. I first I subscribed to a meme community or two and it dominated my feed.

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[–] eric5949@lemmy.cloudaf.site 10 points 1 year ago

I don't care so much about the memes, but the moderation on the meme subs is severely lacking. I've seen enough shit and dicks in the last 3 days I just temporarily blocked the instance the accounts were coming from until they figure out their shit.

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[–] ljdawson@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Nope. If I can't use Sync I won't use Reddit.

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[–] Boromir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I return for some very specific subreddits, but each day less and less.

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[–] fische_stix@reddthat.com 34 points 1 year ago

Only when a search engine points me to a very obviously correct and well worded answer to a tech problem. I don't log in.

[–] pieplot@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Honestly yes, at first I really thought Lemmy could replace it but the content is just bad on Lemmy’s all. The platform is good, but when 60% of posts are shitty memes or shitpost it just kills it for me. I still browse Lemmy almost every day, but I really feel like we spoiled the momentum we had a few weeks ago.

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 13 points 1 year ago

Why are you using "All" use "Subscribed" for a much better experience.

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[–] OwenEverbinde@reddthat.com 20 points 1 year ago

Like a lot of people are saying, if reddit comes up in a search result, I'm clicking it. You know that's your best shot at finding the answer you're looking for.

But opening the app? Scrolling and socializing? I checked my comment history just now, and since joining Lemmy on July 1st, I have commented 5 reddit comments; 1 of them was a reply to someone replying to me. 4 of them were specifically about ActivityPub social networks.

In that same thirteen days, I left 33 comments on Lemmy.

[–] pturn1@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Nope. Gone all-in on Lemmy. Also used it as an opportunity to cull communities that I'd subscribed to ages ago and never got round to removing. Started from scratch and building my subscriptions again - quite therapeutic actually!

[–] factotumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 year ago

No app, no user.

[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My reddit usage is 99% on Boost for reddit and 1% on web. Since Boost doesn't work right anymore. I don't use it 99% anymore.

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[–] Hairyblue@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Nope. No interest.

[–] Kyle@lemmywinks.com 15 points 1 year ago
[–] onehellofausername@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I do a Google search and a Reddit thread comes up with relevant info or discussion, I’ll check it out but I have completely stopped browsing and interacting with it.

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[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 15 points 1 year ago

Only in google search results.

[–] pohui@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

Yes, because Lemmy is still at that early phase of its existence where half of the posts complain about reddit, Threads, Twitter, etc, and that's just not something I'm interested in. Waiting for it all to die down a little.

[–] akippnn@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I want to stop using Reddit, but every Google search I make that's tech-related has an answer on either StackOverflow or Reddit. Even if most people move to Lemmy, Reddit would probably come up once in a while when I'm looking for answers to a problem only a few people would care about.

Reddit is dead to me. Only time I go there is if a Google search leads me there, which is not that often.

[–] RinseDrizzle@midwest.social 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not really since RIF is RIP. I do miss some extra content from niche communities, but I'm hoping Lemmy will grow enough to fill those gaps. Reddit was also a big news source, but I'll be hitting other news outlets until Lemmy gets there too.

Here's hoping Lemmy will be able to scratch my various music and art itches enough. No interest in going back to reddit these days though. The site I knew and loved over the last decade+ is no more. It's sucked seeing it devolve over the years. Feels a lot like when everyone's mom got facebook.

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Have I visted reddit, yes. Do I use it? No. I have grown to love lemmy. Disconnecting from a hyper charged, conterversy seeking website has done me good!

[–] javidoom@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Nope. I uninstalled boost and no come back.

[–] Kes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When I need to find a specific answer on a topic and a Google search brings me to a Reddit thread, yes. Otherwise, Lemmy and Discord have replaced my Reddit addiction

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[–] HollowNotion@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I do. There's just more content there. More articles. More questions. More discussion. Not all of it is good, but a lot of what I use reddit for is taking the temperature on things... games, movies, books, general opinions on news articles, etc. I like Lemmy, but it doesn't have the userbase to make this my only "front page of the internet" for now.

[–] TheConnected@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've just switch to lemmy after JoeyForReddit stopped working this afternoon. Lemmy doesn't have the same amount of content as Reddit but there is potential.

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[–] s0phia@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Haven't logged in to Reddit since one day after I created this lemmy account on June 13th.

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

I only do when something spicy happens like all mods get demodded and see if they post a sticky to a new community like dndmemes did

[–] Michal@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago

No. Once my app stopped working, I quit cold turkey. I deleted all content from my reddit account and switched to Lemmy.

[–] lynny@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

No. They killed bacon reader so I no longer post.

If Reddit is in the search results I'll click, but that's it.

[–] Hexophile@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I’m using it when looking for specific information about specific topics (tutorials, product reviews) but I haven’t looked at the front page since the announcement

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sometimes I'm googling a tech issue and the only useful results are Reddit. I don't abstain on such an occasion, I need my answers and I've never seen a Lemmy post show up in the results.

The other main situation is here on lemmy I'll click a link based on the title without paying much attention only to discover it's taken to content on reddit which is a weird phenomena that I kinda hope fades with time.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This has a very "still obsessed with my ex" vibe, just saying.

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[–] PlasmaK@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

If a search directs me there or if there is some news that I really need to check. I have abandoned the account.

[–] Psiczar@aussie.zone 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, but I’ve deleted all of my posts & comments.

I needed a tech question answered, and a Reddit post had the exact question I was asking, I clicked on it and the answer had been deleted.

The irony made me laugh.

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[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago

Yes, but a lot less. I unsubscribed from everything except some niche communities that are inactive/nonexistent on Lemmy, plus a few related to the Fediverse.

But the loss of Rif means I'm using it a lot less anyway.

[–] ClaretNBlue@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I signed up to Reddit in 2014 and loved the platform to the point it was my goto when researching new purchases by looking for real world users of products, and would visit the platform multiple times each day. But sadly with all the stunts that have been pulled I have moved over to Lemmy like many others and in have to say i don't miss reddit at all.

Although Lemmy is now my goto I guess I'll still make occasional visits to Reddit.

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[–] Deelala0516@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] LiamMayfair@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope, I stopped browsing Reddit the moment they killed RIF. Now I only get on it if it has the answer to something I googled.

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[–] ronflex@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When subs started blacking out and the only posts I were seeing on my feed were from r/hamsters, I cut the chord without looking back. My friends have all tried to find workarounds to be able to use reddit without official means like using apps that get the pass for accessibility and I'm just thinking "imagine going out of your way just to access reddit" πŸ˜‚

The only subreddits I cared about were very few at that point with how shitty reddit had gotten as a whole, so it wasn't hard.

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