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I use it for a couple of communities specifically for foreigners living in Japan as it's a great source of info from people who've been here longer than I have or have dealt with situations I have not. It's also useful for info on dealing with the obscenity that being an American citizen trying to invest for retirement while overseas brings (I can't use the ISA here or other tax-advantaged things because the US government considers them all PFICs which removes any tax advantage and causes even more pain after that).

I deleted my account, but still use it for information on occasion. I use a front end for it when I do.

I want Lemmy to be a viable alternative and do use it. But, the lack of niche communities makes it harder. I do go back to Reddit from time to time for that fix and to keep up with a few things.

When searching for info, yes. But just daily use and scrolling no

I end up there sometimes but I don't seek it out anymore. I don't have the app on my phone.

Only when a contact sends me a Reddit link, which I open through Geddit as to not give them any ad revenue, and I do not comment or vote at all.

I don't actively search for stuff fhere either.

Fuck Reddit

There are a few communities on there which I still check, but I spend a significantly less amount of time on Reddit than I used to. I also refuse to post anything or interact on that site anymore.

Not really. I've stopped by a few times because I was looking for specific information and that's where it was to be found, but other than that, I went from checking in dozens of times a day to quitting could turkey.

Like many others on here, only to search for some specific information. And never logged in to an account anymore.

I miss sports game threads. The Lemmy communities are just not taking off enough for me. I am tempted to open up a reddit account for talking shit in game threads only.

No. They ban VPNs, so if I happen to follow a link that leads there, I get the "login to see this" page, shrug, and go somewhere else.

It's easy to circumvent, but rarely worth the effort. The content was getting mostly shit-worthless even before I left. It's only gotten worse.

There's not useful, factual information on 4chan, these days.

Subscribed to the RSS for the one very local niche sub that i haven't found a substitute for. Other than just incidental search results that take me there.

Not really. I left in support of the mod strike/blackout and I stayed away because of Spez’ total bullshit WRT the API.

Sometimes Reddit is still the best place to get or find an answer. As long as old.reddit.com remains functional, I will go and participate while engaging with a question I post.

I was a pretty big contributor before, too. Not like recognizable username big, but big enough to get an IPO invite ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don't. I recently logged in just to see what i was missing. More than half my front page was ads, the next 30% was repost bots posting the generic questions for engagement. There were maybe 2-3 posts that were actual posts. I left.

Yup. My town has a pretty active subreddit, and the Cyberpunk RED subreddit has great material.

Nope, Spez or one of his admin goonies fixed that for me.

Perma-banned, for stating facts about Elon Musk and his Boring Company's 'Not A Flamethrower'

Obligatory FUCK SPEZ

I never left, I just started using both.

Probably the "final straw" would be shutting down old.Reddit. Unless they do something else unexpectedly awful that I haven't thought of.

Nope.

No

Occasionally I'll use Redreader to check in and see if there is anything worth looking at. But for most of my scrolling and all of my comments I end up back on here.

Not really. Sometimes I'm there from search results but never logged in. Rif was reddit for me.

Only when I'm googling a question and I see an answer in reddit.

Never interacting tho.

Not unless a random search takes me there for a non-answer to my obscure question.

Generally no. R/ sysadmin is very helpful; but I usually end up there from a search rather than browsing reddit

I spend most of my time on Lemmy but when I'm on a desktop I'll check reddit occasionally. I refuse to interact at all though

I've only registered to it when I feel I need to interact a little more than few on here. I'd last long enough until I'm shadowbanned or banned outright because of a report from an overly-sensitive redditard.

I keep registering just out of spite though because if Reddit cared about alts or shit, they'd re-tool their registration by now. But, Reddit never learns anything so why not keep abusing it.

It's only been getting longer between times though before I consider re-registering again. Just playing the whole ban evading whack-a-mole with them. But I do make my feelings known time to time about Spez because that shithead can still go fuck himself and that stupid grin of his.

I didn't visit Reddit for 8 months or so after the API fiasco, but gradually started going back for a handful of niche communities whose fediverse counterparts are dead or nonexistent.

i only use it when attempting to lure people to the 'verse from that terrible, bot-ridden cesspool