cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/53548211
Are you 100% lemmy/mbin/piefed for your forum/thread life or are you still using reddit for something?
I have been permanently suspended from Reddit, so nothing.
Close to nothing, at this point. Sometimes I search for answers to technical questions and find them on Reddit, but that’s about it.
There is occasionally a comment that turns up in the search engines that is absolutely project-saving. Lemmy is not at that point yet.
Only Corn
I read the local sub but no posting. There’s also one or two nsfw subs i still check for updates but also no posting
I don’t use it at all directly, but occasionally an answer generated on Reddit will pop up on a search I’m doing on a different site
I’m afraid I’m still on reddit quite a bit. Most communities have a lot more activity there. Rust, nixos, luthiery, local and state level subreddits. r/fiddle, and other instrument subreddits have more activity.
That said theres a lot of chaff that I wouldn’t miss. r/sysadmins is all removed about corporate work, r/machinists the same but blue collar. r/hiking is all shoe posts and gear. Political subreddits have lots of activity but its 90% rage farming.
Technical communities are strong on lemmy, despite their smaller size. And its refreshing to read the super far left diatribes, I don’t get that stuff elsewhere.
I actually managed to come off it completely. Even though Lemmy is 10000x smaller, it still scratches the same itch for me.
Reddit is just completely impossible to use these days. Even just trying to find answers to stuff in there you just get “you’ve been blocked by network security” 90% of the time. Shit’s dead to me.
Gotta love how the mascot accompanying that error message is the spitting image of a smug Redditor.
Mostly for reminding myself why I no longer use reddit.
Also occasional tech support issues via DuckDuckGo searches
Watching MMA is one of my only hobbies, so I frequent the subreddit and minimize my involvement. To my knowledge there’s no lemmy community for MMA, and right now I’m not interested in modding one.
Deleted my account, so nothing.
LOL, username checks out. My maan
If a search links to it, it will be years old and might have some information but I immediately see the reason I don’t use it anymore with ads/suggested subs. And sometimes porn.
OK last one’s a feature not a bug.
Not much. There are some tech communities that I still monitor there to keep up with the general public. and then i check my local city subreddit sometimes.
But mostly use rss, and then lurk lemmy.
I’m trying to quit, again
Same. I got out for a while and was doing pretty good. Never installed the app once Apollo got shuttered and that helped. But then I got into some niche hobbies and the Reddit communities are the best source of info for that anywhere online unfortunately. So I’ve gotten complacent and started relying too much on it again. Gotta try to ween myself off.
