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?
Roughly a month on Lemmy now and the habitually visit of Reddit completely faded out. Lemmy replaced Reddit without any compromises for me.
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.
Unfortunately I’ve being 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.
Ahhh, I’m not sure if I should let that addiction back in!
I can’t even find RIF on the app store anymore, did they take it down?
It’s available if you can find the direct link to the playstore. I have a link to the golden platinum version.
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.
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.
- willya ( @willya@lemmyf.uk ) English13•1 year ago
Only in google search results.
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.
If a search directs me there or if there is some news that I really need to check. I have abandoned the account.
Reddit is dead to me. Only time I go there is if a Google search leads me there, which is not that often.
I return for some very specific subreddits, but each day less and less.
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.
I started doing this again in last few days. Except for all problems not just tech.
only for specific thinks, whrn i was searching for something
Nope
Nope
There’s a couple of subreddits that haven’t made it to the Fediverse yet, and some that still benefit from the years of personal experience that doesn’t exist here, so after I overwrote and deleted my account I created a reader account. I know it’s hypocritical, but at least they’re (hopefully) not profiting off my contributions. Or they probably are, I’ve heard they’ve been quietly restoring overwritten and deleted posts.
They restored one of my posts within a week now a monthish later there’s 4 posts back it’s odd.
Only for porn, really.
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.
I went from several hours a day to zero after the blackout, morally I just don’t want to support them anymore. I still add ‘reddit’ to google searches sometimes and look at those, but no more mindless scrolling of the front page.
When the Bacon(reader) was done, I was done.