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Lurking is ok if you wash your hands afterwards 😉

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 lurk with an adblocker guilt free. Haven't logged in since I joined here.

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.

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.

It was always kinda grey for me, but once I got my temp ban I said fuck it.

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 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.

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!

No. If the info is there then that's where I'm going

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.

@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.

I use reddit exclusively for pron and feel no shame about that

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 still browse reddit because pretty much everything i had an account for is not here

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.

I use reddit occasionally, but I don't write posts or comments there. And I don't feel bad about it.

I feel bad while doing so. They've made it so unpleasant, I just want to read my HFY subscriptions in peace.