If you still use reddit, do you feel bad for doing so?
I still use reddit for some niche topics that have like zero activity on Lemmy. But still, I feel kinda bad over it... What about you people?
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 was permanently banned in June of last year for saying that I hope the Libs of TikTok woman would get hit by a bus. I still have my account, but I am unable to vote create or comment on anything so now I just use it to save NSFW material…
I'm not allowed to use reddit anymore after I stated that I would defend myself with a knife if attacked. Apparently that's considered threatening violence...
Nah, tried to delete my account and they wouldn’t let me, so I just uninstalled the app. I was on 250 of 300 streak. Fuck Reddit.
I never had a account - I had 2 uses for reddit - 1 was memes (and a few other communities (commandline and localllama)) - this I did with rss feeds. And searching for things with reddit added, to get opinions by humans.
commandline and localllama still stay as rss feeds, but for memes, I just use my local lemmy feedd. Can't replace searching, though I try to not use search engine's at all these days (can't eliminate them, but using them for the cases where I have not yet found a particular source to direct my searches) but for the reddit results, I use redlib frontend.
I don't feel bad - because there is definitely good stuff there that was posted by humans (alongside a ton of trash, which probably outnumbers the good stuff 1:10), but I hope that lemmy eventually has enough stuff.
Nobody should feel bad for using Reddit to deshittify Google searches. That's just what has happened.
I do look at r/opera sometimes because there's no community here, but only once in a great while, and I do look at the monthly list that the ban pit bulls subreddit keeps of pitbull attacks/deaths, because it's absolutely frightening every month how long if is.
I really hope this place grows and local communities like r/Maine and r/PortlandMe grow here. Talking about local things is my favorite part of reddit.
Also if we could make a post without a link that would be great.
Nope. I'm using a hacked third party app which doesn't load ads, and I shitpost as much as I can to poison their database for LLM use. They can ban me - I have a VPN and plenty of email addresses.
I'll use them till they don't serve my needs and then move on.
It's a website, not a family.
I’ll use them till they don’t serve my needs and then move on.
This. Certain regional and hobby communities need a critical mass that doesn't exist on Lemmy, and frankly it's mostly the popular subreddits that are really bad over there anyway. I have reduced my engagement to posting about Mechanical Keyboards and otherwise lurking, I use an app that survived the APIpocalypse because the blind community (of which I am not a member) uses it, and I keep my adblocker and RES on. They're probably still extracting some value from me, but so are several other companies that are probably even worse.
Lemmy is the community I choose to engage with most directly, and I will shed no tears over the end of Reddit when it comes, but for now I've found the middle ground that works for me.
How do you get back on? They banned me but I'd like to do some trolling.
Just register another account. They'll probably bitch about rules or something but whatever. It's just a website.
Not used it at all since the API shutdown. Been on lemmy since
Same. Fuck that place. I miss some of the subs, but I'm not going back.
If you keep using Lemmy and spread the world it will grow over time.
I got banned and any new account I try to make gets shadow-banned. As far as I can tell, my offense was calling Elon Musk a Nazi when he did his Nazi salute during the inauguration. A mod warned me to not call him a Nazi because the ADL said it wasn't a Nazi salute. Then a few days later he gave a speech for AfD in Germany and I commented "Still think he's not a Nazi?" Next thing I know, I was banned forever.
There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
Stop signing up with the same email address and you won't get shadow banned. Your email address is literally the only way they track you. Once I realized this, any new accounts I made with a fake email work just fine.
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.
I don’t feel bad, but having moved a few days ago I’ll share my experience.
I try and come here first, will check the one or two things I’ve posted engaged with, scroll a bit - but realise I haven’t quite joined enough communities for there to be novel information each time I check in.
I then default to Reddit, and quickly go into my default auto-scroll passive lurk mode. I see something new - like the most recent Anonymous hack on twitter, and then come back to see if I can find it on Lemmy!
One key difference is I rarely posted on Reddit, but have felt very comfortable posting here. Not sure why!
Just posting some lesser known but great communities for you to subscribe to in case you are interested!
It so far ( in my very limited experience ) feels like users on Lemmy are more likely to have an actual conversation than immediately slip into the cycle of memes, in-jokes, and other drivel that usually ends up as the top several threads on reddit posts of popular sub-reddits.
It's kinda nice.
I don't browse or even log in to reddit anymore. I don't feel bad for searching out specific things. Since the audience is so much larger, there's niches that just haven't been replaced by Lemmy or other services. Sports, media discussion, and old tech advice threads are the ones I'll still go over for.
Sports is surprising to me that it hasn't gotten bigger here. I get that the tech crowd isn't classically overlapping the sports crowd, but I feel like tech has gotten so mainstream anymore that it's more sports people into tech than tech people into sports. A lot of the subs and instances are really lacking too, not to comment on the people posting there and doing what they can. It's a tough landscape right now
Some of us tech people that liked sports, realized during Covid when they went away, that we only actually watched/attended sports to have something in common with others. I realized I didn’t need them, and didn’t miss giving any additional money to billionaires. Also, don’t get me started on tax money and stadiums lol
Reddit's sports subs were small for a long time. I think there would need to be either a sports sub exodus or a lot more lemmy users before there are enough active posters into sports discussion/gossip during the week to keep engagement up and lively between games.
I was part of the baseball sub for my local major market mlb team for years and it was really just the last three or four years it was consistently active between games and even when I left (api exodus) it was the same 30 or so people on game threads.
I am hopeful that Lemmy will eventually grow large enough to supply the numerical and geographical base for good sports stuff. It doesn't take many active participants but the 100 - 10 - 1 rule I think is much more acutely felt in less populous spaces.
The only reddit community I've yet to find a home for on Lemmy is /r/fountainpens. I don't post there though. As a lefty getting into underwriting and fountain pens was really good for my penmanship. This in turn was good for my journaling and mental health. I don't feel bad about it.
IRRC there was a Lemmy channel for it but it was really small.
Fountainpens is one of the view i occasionally lurk by, niche things are really hard to port over i fear
I feel dirty when I find the answer to my obscure question on a reddit post (using Kagi's forum search, btw). I get what I need and close the window quickly, not because it has any actual effect but because there is only so much time on that site until the rage consumes you.
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
There's really not much left to go back to. All the mods with integrity left when they effectively banned third party apps, top posts are almost entirely image or video posts recycled with time stamps/dates removed, and corporate owners are choking it by preventing organic changes via subreddits dying and being replaced over time because it doesn't get them more ad revenue in the short term like boosting controversial and rage bait topics.
Using reddit makes me feel bad. It's full of such inflammatory rage bate. Even in the niche communities I was part of, there were multiple posts every day just stirring the pot. Lemmy right now reminds me of reddit in its early days, back when people were trying to have actual, meaningful discussions.
After the api-gate, I had a moment where I asked myself "what things have I actually learned on reddit that I otherwise wouldn't have learned?" And the answer was nothing. Actual, helpful, insightful discussions just don't get attention over there anymore. I get way more mileage out of my RSS feed than reddit.
I've found the tone here on Lemmy to be more positive and more informative. Don't change, y'all.
It’s full of such inflammatory rage bate
But how is that not just a function of the size of the audience there? We see political trolls crawling out here, too, as the number of commenters increases.
I mean part of the thing is that the federation allows instances to be more strict. Right now, Reddit has a huge financial disincentive for clearing out bots. If these bots bring in attention, and bump up their numbers, then the company looks better. Here, instances can be more aggressive with banning them. I do agree it will be more difficult as there's not as much money coming in here to help deal with bots as instances get larger, but at least the incentive is there.
I think you're right, but I have hope. I believe in us lemmings, lol.
Lurking is ok if you wash your hands afterwards 😉
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 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.
No. I use a combination of Mastodon, Lemmy, Bluesky, and Piefed. I refuse to even go back to that Trump Nazi run place.
I do highly recommend upvoting everything you can and if you see a missing group on Lemmy you can always create it.
Sometimes you have to go where the people are.
I've found more people in my local area are on ig. Not on reddit, so it's easy in my local area. But it's one company for another.
very well put
no? it's just an app
Never used Reddit, but I felt bad enough about using that one site that's owned by a neo Nazi that I nuked my account.
People still use shitter. Because “all the people they know are there” and “they have porn”. I swear people will still browse Twitter on their bus to concentration camps.
I don't have so high moral stance to feel bad about using reddit.
I'd suggest that, if there's a topic over on reddit that has topics you're interested in, try starting a thread over here on that topic, even if the community here is "dead". Because "dead" communities can be resurrected, they just need activity. Asking a question on a topic is activity; posting an answer to the question (even if it's your own question and you had to go to reddit for the answer) is activity and provides a resource here for other people to use. And if it's something you found out on your own but it's not new, try posting a YSK or TIL in the appropriate local community. You may not get replies, but we're not going to become a fully viable alternative unless people contribute little bits where they can.
Trust me, I'm trying! But still, it doesn't cover everything.
I mod a few larger subs I don't wish to leave (one I've brought here). I also participate in a work related sub. I've been spending more and more time on Lemmy lately though.
But yeah, I don't really like Reddit I'm just there because not all of my stuff has made it here yet.
No. If the info is there then that's where I'm going
There's no mexican (or latinoamerican) content on Lemmy other than government propaganda, I am starting to feel bad about being on Lemmy more than being on Reddit.
Yeah the Anglocentrism is super unfortunate. Speaking as an European. Though I don't really like hanging out on the internet with people from my country though lol
I found that Mastodon has a lot more international content. Tho that could also be a function of who you choose to follow there.
Reddit remains one of the only reliable sources of safety advice, reporting, and guides on drugs. Lots of [deleted] nowadays. This is particularly concerning in aspects beyond this as well. Obscure software issues? Buying recommendations? Everyone always flocked to Reddit, and now it's gone.
A reminder to never put all your eggs in one basket.
It's a real pain in the ass for the best source of news about the games I play to either be reddit or Discord, so my options are shit or shit. Sometimes developers post clarifications on game mechanics on the subreddit, and that's the only source of that information. I wish more companies could understand the benefits of instance ownership, especially considering all of the ongoing issues with social media owners. It'd be great if that kinda news would migrate somewhere better so I could finally ditch reddit permanently, but I'm sure I'll just eat a ban eventually.
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.
I am permabanned so the decision was made for me.
i still browse reddit because pretty much everything i had an account for is not here
I deleted my Reddit account back when they fucked over the 3rd party apps, but I still do browse their site. Much as I think that Lemmy is the superior platform, Reddit still has a huge numbers advantage, and so the amount of content over there is much greater than here.
Any time I go into the comments section, though, I am reminded that Reddit is a shithole. So I try to stay out of those and just read the linked articles.
I would feel okay i think. I only use it when it ends up in my search engine answers, and i think it's okay, it has both a larger userbase and older history, so for niche subjects and specific questions it makes sense to use it.
But if you feel bad about it, maybe consider creating the communities you would like to see on Lemmy, as others said ! It may be not as hard and time consuming as you think, especially if you find some people to help you or even to entirely transfer the moderation part.
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 go there for the post-episode TV discussions (though I don't log in). It can interesting to read people's theories for something like Severance, although the whole experience can end up being depressing (because of mod shenanigans, the over-use of spoiler syntax, and the dissonance / over-reaction created when some show that the hive-mind has already determined is the best thing ever has a duff episode)
Yeah I never post on reddit but Severance is 90% of the reason I ever want to. Not sure if there is a community here and I would feel weird posting hyper specific theories/discussions on a more general community for TV shows or whatever
There's a Lemmy community at !severance@lemmy.world (although I've found that chatting about TV is harder than it looks).
I feel bad while doing so. They've made it so unpleasant, I just want to read my HFY subscriptions in peace.
I quit posting but still lurk on some topics of interest. Lemmy isn't the answer, sadly.
Defintely. But it's not so much I feel morally bad, I just hate reddit so I don't enjoy using it. I guess I was hidden from the worst of it by using boost, but now when I want to use reddit briefly (to ask some niche question that I won't get a lot of responses on lemmy) I use the website and the experience is so unpleasant. There's now all these awful gamification popups, "Keep your 1/300 streak going!" bullshit.
Use old.reddit and uBlock Origin and you see none of that. Alternatively, use Stealth: https://gitlab.com/cosmosapps/stealth on Android.
I do feel morally bad about using Reddit, so I try to wean myself off it, and fill my browsing time with Feddit/Lemmy and Mastodon.
It was always kinda grey for me, but once I got my temp ban I said fuck it.
I use reddit occasionally, but I don't write posts or comments there. And I don't feel bad about it.
I only browse my city's sub and /r/nba for highlights. That's it. I don't comment anymore ever since my account was suspended for logging in while on a vpn, so I guess the only thing they get from me is site hits. And even then, I use rdx on mobile and a container on FF desktop with content blockers.
I lurk with an adblocker guilt free. Haven't logged in since I joined here.
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.
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.
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.
No I don't feel bad about using it for the stuff I can't find here. Namely the Magic The Gathering community is pretty much nonexistant on here and very active on Reddit. Path of Exile as well and all the *mods communities for Bethesda games which I follow occasionally.
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.
Same as OP. Yarvinists must rot, but there I go using their stuff again anyway.