Search results that used to lead me too answers on Stack Overflow now often lead me to Reddit posts.
Aside from this, I do still use Reddit, but mostly for smaller topics. I am on Lemmy daily, Reddit once or twice a week.
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i still use it but the app is a toilet and it's annoying but no I don't think im being unethical by using it because im not a goddamn moron
I just use it for the memes, so not really🤷♂️
Nah cuz the only thing I've been using it for since coming here, is advertising Lemmy.
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.
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.
I stopped using reddit quite a bit after the API exodus. I've more recently just felt the itch to check out reddit due to content. Regardless, I don't post, or vote on reddit to at least minimize the support I give there.
Not even remotely feel bad. I stick to old and run an adblocker. I only use it for sysadmin as it helps with my work.
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.
It was always kinda grey for me, but once I got my temp ban I said fuck it.
Fairly new to Lemmy here, and I’ll still search it if I can’t find the community I’m looking for here. If it’s something I tell myself I’ll be fairly active in I try to create it and help it grow.
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
Yeah after a while, I figured out we can sideload Apollo app and since then using Reddit again for some communities that are not really active here.
Do I feel bad? No, I don’t. My answer will be very selfish but, I will do what is ‘good for me’ and what suits me.
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.
Honestly if the mobile website and app weren't so bad I might still be using it regularly. As of now I just use it for the occasional niche tech support issue/tutorial.
No. If the info is there then that's where I'm going
Only for very specific things. I’m a harpist and there’s no community here on Lemmy for it… hopefully that will change soon!
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.
Bad, no, bored, yes. I generally just keep up with some web comics on there but as they at least move to BlueSky, that's less an issue. Plus the quality has dropped. I don't expect them to come to Lemmy, even if we do have a couple of good, very-Lemmy oriented comic artists.
Only for niche topics, and using a self-hosted private front end (redlib) I deleted my account at the API death, so it's only for researching things usually.
Is redlib working for you? for me, if I host for me, I get rate limited after 1st post, and have to use the public instances (slower, but they work).
Haven't had any rate limiting issues on my private instance. I really thought it'd stop working honestly.
Not sure why you'd be quickly rate limited as a single user, from the GH issues I read they expected we'd have no issues keeping under API limits
I lurk with an adblocker guilt free. Haven't logged in since I joined here.
I feel bad while doing so. They've made it so unpleasant, I just want to read my HFY subscriptions in peace.
i still browse reddit because pretty much everything i had an account for is not here
I use reddit exclusively for pron and feel no shame about that
@Yingwu I went full on ActivityPub, but I get a little cold turkey-ish. The only thing I am missing is some of the communities I started to really like. I wonder if there are as active trans communities.
No, cutting out the few minutes a day I still bother with it isn't exactly going to have spez standing outside my bedroom window with a boombox trying to get me back. I use Lemmy, but I've mostly gone back to message boards, so I'm content with where I am.