no? it's just an app
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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
Lurking is ok if you wash your hands afterwards 😉
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.
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.
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.
I lurk with an adblocker guilt free. Haven't logged in since I joined here.
It was always kinda grey for me, but once I got my temp ban I said fuck 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.
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.
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.
No. If the info is there then that's where I'm going
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.
Only for very specific things. I’m a harpist and there’s no community here on Lemmy for it… hopefully that will change soon!
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).
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Wish ppl would post in both places if its niche, at least make some niche stuff seem less dead so ppl are less shy to post
I just use it for the memes, so not really🤷♂️
I use reddit occasionally, but I don't write posts or comments there. And I don't feel bad about it.
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.
I've already deleted my last account (I used to make a new one every other year or so) so I don't comment or post anymore, but I use it to find info just about anything - I still add "reddit" at the end of my search (I use Startpage, it's great). Old habbits die hard. I made my first reddit account in 2011. I don't feel too bad about it. It is what it is.
Nah cuz the only thing I've been using it for since coming here, is advertising Lemmy.
i still browse reddit because pretty much everything i had an account for is not here
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