I sometimes have to use Reddit via web browser for search results on niche subjects. Feeling quite neutral about it.

I wish Lemmy could also be shown on search results too

I stopped using it when they banned third party apps and I couldn’t use Boost anymore. It didn’t seem like a huge loss considering how noticeable of a difference and loss of quality the front page had once all that went down. I still used it from time to time for insight on hobby related subjects, but I’m hoping that Lemmy grows enough for me to stop referring to reddit outright. I’m just happy I can support Boost again on here.

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 logged in on my laptop but not my desktop. I’ll doomscroll occasionally and feel a bit bad about it.
Anytime I try to upvote or comment there’s a 25-50% chance it’ll error out so I’m not in much of a hurry to go back.

For nice subjects, if you engage in any political and news , it will be problematic

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 just use it for the memes, so not really🤷‍♂️

I’ve stopped participating after the API shutdown but I still occasionally browse /r/cars and /r/justrolledintotheshop using old.reddit.com and no account. If old.reddit gets removed I’d probably stop. But until then there’s no real automotive related communities on Lemmy and I learn a ton from browsing the two.

Nah cuz the only thing I’ve been using it for since coming here, is advertising Lemmy.

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 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.

I use it with throwaway e-mail, without any personal information on my account and only for some niche subjects that I can ony find there.

Yes. But, I’ve come to expect it. Though, if there is one thing I’m going to not do is provide content for Reddit.

I need it for gacha (or other mobile) games, some music bands, some leftover communities (linux related that haven’t moved for some reason) and other niche communities.

You might ask why I don’t make it myself… Eh, as long as I have no content to provide, I have no need for it, and I also don’t have time and freedom to do so.

I have ad blocker. I don’t comment. I don’t post. I only downvote. I only view my home feed. I only do all this on PC, and URL-blocked Reddit off my phone, significantly reducing the time I have to search.

But sometimes I just need to have the content there. I think I’ve done about the best I can considering.