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?

kucing,

I still do a site:reddit.com google search occasionally. It’s getting harder tho.

Obligatory fuck u/spez

DolphLundgren,

I’ve found you can just add “ reddit” to a query and get the same result. I believe - but I’m trying to not do that. Haven’t browser Reddit in 2 weeks. Lemmy is good enough at the moment.

eating3645,

The advantage of using site: is that you can specify which subreddit you want results from

30isthenew29,

Can you explain how?

baduhai,
@baduhai@sopuli.xyz avatar

site:reddit.com/r/subreddit

eating3645,

Yup!

BeakEm420,

TIL! Thanks for that.

eating3645,

It also works with Lemmy :)

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/26328b07-3ea7-47eb-9208-d8a596759a1b.jpeg

Shiggles,

Depends, if it’s anything monetizable like a review the first 3-5 results will be ads instead of reddit unless you do site:

30isthenew29,

Fuck u/spez

Blaze,
@Blaze@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

Mostly using libreddit, when I need to refer to a specific thread. Otherwise, most of my browsing is in Lemmy.

Also, feel free to have a look at the search function on the sidebar, this question has been asked quite a lot lately, such as lemmy.ml/post/1846338

Boromir,

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

actually_a_tomato,

I do the same for a few specific subreddits that just aren’t as active on Lemmy yet. Also less frequently as time goes on.

30isthenew29,

You could make sublemmy’s…

nx2,
@nx2@feddit.de avatar

The problem is if there are only 10 people 7 of them only lurking, on Reddit, this is what happeneds if you do that on Lemmy:

https://i-kym--cdn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/037/864/wallcover.jpg

Every beginning is hard.

WhatASave,

Yeah I’m the same. I figure reddit is never gonna die, just like how Facebook is still around. It will have it’s uses but I don’t plan to be on it very often.

AbyssalChord, (edited )
@AbyssalChord@feddit.de avatar

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,

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.

Predator, (edited )
@Predator@feddit.uk avatar

Unfortunately I’ve been reeled back to RIF because you can apply a patch now that allows you to login. It’s hard to resist the familiar look of that app.

hbar,

Ahhh, I’m not sure if I should let that addiction back in!

hbar,

I can’t even find RIF on the app store anymore, did they take it down?

Predator,
@Predator@feddit.uk avatar

It’s available if you can find the direct link to the playstore. I have a link to the golden platinum version.

MementoMori,

Would you be willing to share, please?

Predator,
@Predator@feddit.uk avatar

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrews…

4am,
@4am@lemmy.world avatar

I put Memmy where Apollo was and I didn’t even have to retrain myself

I do find that I use the fediverse less, as my “front page” gets stale much quicker. But this is not only something I can probably fix, but also don’t mind because it reminds me how much I duck out into social media which helps me say “ah fuck it” and do something else.

robmexx,
@robmexx@lemmy.world avatar

Exactly the same here. But I have a feeling the stream of content will come sooner then later too

jeena,
@jeena@jemmy.jeena.net avatar

Same here, although, like once or twice a week when I remember that I used to go on reddit I go there to see what’s going on, but the habituall check is now always lemmy.

imaqtpie,
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works avatar

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 😅

Matt_Shatt, (edited )

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…

BorgDrone,

Same.

I only check /r/ModCoord once every couple of days to check on the state of the dumpster fire.

InigoMontoyota,

Third week for me and haven’t visited for a few days now. Less and less as more content shows here.

sorghum, (edited )

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

Shout-out !rpgmemes

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.

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

galloog1,

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

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.

OptimisticPrime,
@OptimisticPrime@lemmy.fmhy.ml avatar

Block meme communities.

pturn1,

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!

Apytele, (edited )

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hbar,

I slowed down when the announcement was made about third party apps. I quit entirely when RIF turned off. Now I participate here, started my own community, contribute to others as much as I can, and finally figured out how to host my own instance. It’s been fun seeing it grow slowly.

ninjan,

I basically only use my phone these days and when third party apps died so did Reddit to me.

jhn,

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

Aviandelight,
@Aviandelight@mander.xyz avatar

Me personally no, I quit on June 11th and I haven’t looked back. My husband on the other hand looks at it periodically. He showed my something from r/PartyParrot yesterday thinking it was cool and I had to tell him it was a popular repost. Pretty much cemented the fact that I’m not missing anything.

Psiczar,

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.

001100010010,
@001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Internet Archive to the rescue!

Psiczar,

You know, that is a bloody good idea, I ended up fixing my problem though.

SuiXi3D,
@SuiXi3D@kbin.social avatar

I quit Reddit as soon as it came out how much they wanted to charge Christian for running Apollo. Joined up on /kbin and have been incredibly happy with it.

akatsukilevi,
@akatsukilevi@kbin.social avatar

I nuked all the content of my Reddit account, then forced it to be banned from Reddit. After that, blacklisted the domain from my computer so that it just returns a (ERR_NX_DOMAIN) and migrated to KBin instead
Been happy since

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