With the reddit API debacle far in the review, I’m wondering if any of you went back to the platform.
Edit: Looks like Spez was right :(
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Not since the API debacle. It is sad to see that the user base could not organize enough to change Reddit. I bet the takeaway for Reddit was that they can do whatever and people will always come back.
I was thinking the same thing after reading the replies hence my edit: Spez was right.
Only to answer obscure questions I have. But I’m not there to participate
Nope. Not unless I need to Google something and the best result is a reddit thread
Not unless I need to get some info from a niche country sub that barely exists on lemmy
And even then no login, read only.
Much prefer messing around here. I only just got my first ban from NCD because I said the US would prevent Ukraine from joining NATO which kind of made me look like a Russian shill which I assume is the #1 spam NCD receives.
Otherwise I have really enjoyed being able to share my opinion without getting admin/mod banned, even on communities and instances with a lopsided set of users.
I have pissed off both ml and world users which is funny because they each claimed I was from the opposite instance. But no such thing as shadowban or user nuking. I can actually discuss things here in detail, as well as receive quality posts from all of you :)
Ahh yes, the old classic: being in the neutral position between the two extremes.
I have the same problem in real life, but with the left/right crowd. I’ll get called one or the other until people clock me for what I am and then make fun of me by calling me an “enlightened centerist.”
It’s always weird when you trigger a .ml user in particular though, because they become very aggressive or very “principaled” very quickly. A .world user is usually a little more metered, and just regular internet-brand angry, on average.
I don’t. Fuck Reddit and fuck spez
Don’t use my Reddit account anymore, and now I obsessively check and contribute to discussion on Lemmy instead of Reddit.
As a search result, sure I’d click on a Reddit link once in a while, but other than that I’ve stopped interacting with Reddit altogether.
Unfortunately yes. Unfortunately Lemmy is too small for many of the things I did on Reddit. I mainly enjoyed lurking around in discussions on Reddit, only posting comments when I really cared (just like I do now here on Lemmy). Whenever I played a game, watched a show, etc I’d go to Reddit to read about other people’s opinions and discussions. But Lemmy is too small to have any meaningful discussion about a specific game or some other content.
Often I see here the “if you miss it why not create it” sentiment, but that’s just not how I used Reddit. I often don’t want to have a meaningful discussion with s small group of people but rather read the opinions and memes of a large group of people.
So far, I’ve been able to limit it to browser usage though. The web experience of Reddit is abysmal, but at least I can block the ads etc. And I’m still here for all the content that is on Lemmy.
Not often. Mostly because the official app is so unbearably trash.
No. There’s just repost bots left. There’s no point in going back, I’ve already seen all the posts several times over the years.
I go there to steal content for Lemmy, but rarely post unless its to bring attention to an important cause.
Yes, because niche communities are much smaller here if not non-existant. Communities about Classical Chinese, poetry, various academic humanities subjects and the like isn’t exactly thriving on here. I try to use the fediverse when I’m able to though, and also try to support smaller communities, but yeah…
Without an account and on a web browser? Yes.
Do I regret it? Also yes. That site barely works half the time anymore. It’s kinda funny how my only real choices of browsing Reddit are either super bloated or super ugly (the latter refers to old.reddit.com). Want neither? As of 2023 you can’t.
The redlib client is very nice for browsing w/o an account
I’ll take that into consideration.
On a browser, yes, but only for one sub because the community there is 1M+ and over here is 10 and no one has posted in 9 months.
I’ll log in every once in a while to check my pins, and I’ll read threads from web searches, but I don’t at all scroll a feed or post. I never looked back after the blackout shutdown.
nop
