Be honest, do you still use reddit?

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?

f4te,

I do, from desktop, mainly as force of habit.

my chosen mobile app, Relay, actually still works, but I am trying to train myself to use Lemmy more.

I just wish the content changed over faster, and there were more comments.

Turbofish,

I still use it for a couple of hobby related things although I could probably use discord for some of it.

Whilst I am using lemmy it’s not quite hitting the spot so I use it less. I’m getting an awful lot more reading done.

Alperto,

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.

pieplot,

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,
@jeena@jemmy.jeena.net avatar

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

galloog1,

It’s just a typical internet fad/circlejerk. I recommend you block the meme communities.

Zeth0s,

All lacks a creative filtering to balance meme and proper content. Those are the infamous “algorithm” people are so afraid about. I don’t believe we’ll ever see them here, because the platform was built to “protest” against those smart sorting and filtering. As the algorithm doesn’t do it for you, you have to manually do the work selecting and subscribing relevant communities. And check home feed

dingus,

I don’t think the “algorithm”, has to have that nefarious vibe that people think. Lemmy already has sorting algorithms…they are just shit. If they balanced it so that quantity from large communities doesn’t flood out smaller communities, it would be a much better browsing experience. Devs don’t need to mess with the type of content being displayed to us, just tamper down the volume from the larger communities. Reddit was good at doing this.

Zeth0s,

I agree that algorithms are more often good for these task. But we are not many :D

xapr,

Someone replied to a similar complaint that you can block the meme and shitpost communities to filter those out from your feed. Seems like a good idea and I’m going to try it.

calebcharles,

Cold turkey. I trad an interesting crosspost back-and-forth about the new gold deprecation thing, but other than that, no. 

fosiacat,

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

Littleborat,

The official app has bad performance and that’s why I only browse on my pc. Usually that’s once a week.

phoenix591,

theres a couple communities stuck on there I still check on, but no longer casually browse.

inspxtr,

Yes, though to a much lesser extent than I used to. Sometimes it’s just through web searches that lead to Reddit, though I use Libreddit front-end for that.

And other times, it’s specific subreddits about TV shows. The level and frequency of discussion on Lemmy sadly is not there yet for popular shows, and nonexistent for niche shows.

07Chess,

I’ve done some Google searches and looked at Reddit results, and I view some choice subreddits on an RSS feed. But I have not logged in to Reddit since Apollo went down. Lemmy still seems to be getting better every day. While the content drought is still there I have taken to reading a book at night before bed instead. I’m hoping that just becomes a long lasting habit in lieu of scrolling.

Alivrah,

I used to spend hours everyday there. Now I only visit for a few minutes a week to check up on a game.

But I’ll never touch the official app and I’ll never come back, even if they backtracked the API decision, because f u/spez

delirium,
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Some of the specific communities are there but not here or barely alive here (like my phone’s brand) so I’m visiting them from PC. Spez gets no moni because I’m always using unblock there though

Zarxrax,

The RIF app was reddit to me. I would typically spend over an hour per day on it.

I do still check Reddit maybe once a day on my desktop, maybe for about 5 minutes. There are still a few communities on there which don’t have an active alternative here on Lemmy. However, I have deleted all my old posts and comments, and I do not make any new ones.

Pamasich,
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I still use Reddit, I didn't move here because I was pissed at apps going away (never used them anyway), just wanted to familiarize myself before I'll be forced to move when they inevitably remove old reddit in the future.

There's still communities important to me that either only exist on Reddit or have way too little engagement here. Until they remove old reddit or that changes, I'll stay on reddit. But I'm doing my part by having disabled ads on reddit (I had them enabled before the third party app stuff).

30isthenew29,

I don’t but if I have a question I’ll google and add site:reddit.com for sure…

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