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I used to check the front page at least once every day, and occassionally check specific subreddits. Now I don't look at reddit unless theres some drama, like mods getting purged, then I'd go there and enjoy the drama. Occasionally there will be questions that only reddit has the answer to so I have to reluctantly use it. I got my uBlock Origin ready to kill all the ads. That shitty website will not get a cent out of me.

What about you? Do you still use reddit?

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[โ€“] leanleft@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

reddit is a source of information. (fact).
but i logged out and will not be going back.

[โ€“] styx@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I do. I have a personal libreddit instance on a vps tho, so no login, no update, no comments, no ads. Basically no touch, only watch ๐Ÿ˜†

I purged my comments and deleted my main account on July 1st, which was surprisingly emotional for me. I use Alien Blue on mobile, which still works so far, but now that my main account is logged out, I'll never be able to log another account in because authentication has been broken in Alien Blue for a while.

I'm keeping Alien Blue installed for two reasons: one, for checking on a friend who only posts updates on reddit, and two, I read r/games a couple times a week for headlines and discussion. Lemmy just doesn't have the same level of engagement or discussion as r/games; even though there's a certain brand of insufferable commenters there, the majority of people post thoughtful comments that are more than one or two sentences long and those are the kinds of threads I like reading. Lemmy threads seem to be more shallow; lots of replies to the parent, but very few threads that go more than one or two comments deep.

[โ€“] lemmyshmemmy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 year ago

Relay still works for me, same with Infinity. I'm maybe 50/50 right now. There's a lot of smaller communities that will be hard to grow here, but the big ones are just as good.

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