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this feed feels more like reddit front page used to be, the feed there sucks, I still use my custom feed ocasionally, blender and comic discussion is non existant here, I have been using blenders forum and league of comic geeks more.

@n7gifmdn I would add Friendica Groups (f/k/a Friendica Forums) to that list. But I digress, I still do for sports. Particularly /r/wildhockey & /r/cricket. The later I actually subscribe to the RSS via old.reddit.com/r/Cricket/.rss on Friendica so the posts show in my regular feed, but If I want to comment or post new I still have to actually open the cesspool that is Reddit in 2025. Like others said if there was more content of these on the 'verse I wouldn't.

I still pop my head in to see what the people who fall for ragebait daily are talking about. Sometimes one will have touched grass recently enough that I get a brief peek into something worth looking at, but the number of subs I'm seeing anything meaningful on is shrinking.

More often though I go to r/conservative to observe the mental gymnastics of bots and klandmas. Feels important to have a finger on their pulse as the situation continues to devolve.

Any sort of in-depth discussion about games (War Thunder, Dota, CS, and a few others), talk about TV and books (although my tastes are admittedly more niche there), occationally subreddits for niche subjects where I can ask for support, some more general lifestyle communities, and local communities. Basically, everything but news and politics.

On every single Reddit post I accidentally end up on these days, I just get annoyed because there's someone making an incorrect statement about something and I can't make a remark or correction because I deleted my account. So I just try to avoid the site altogether. That's just one of many reasons though. Others include the obvious ideological problems with Reddit, and the way it looks nowadays.

I return for both the LEGO deals and leaks subreddits. I've been using lurkit.vercel.app as my viewer since I closed my reddit account.

I no longer use my reddit accounts. But still do some tech searches with "reddit" at the end.

Work stuff, I work in a niche industry and subreddit is decent for questions.

I don't.

98% off Reddit, I browser Reddit without an account on private tab just for 2-3 subs.

I'm very happy with what Lemmy and in general fediverse gives, I wouldn't change it.

Edit: if you really want to see more action here, make a community or overtake a community and promote it! We have communities that can help you with that.

I have a new Reddit account, running on Brave on a VM at work. I use it as a news and pop culture aggregate. I used to post in the big UK sites for well over a decade, but recently got a site wide permanent ban for ban evasion (I hadn't realised that throwaway accounts were no longer allowed).

My new account has insufficient karma to post (another petty rule), but having been on Lemmy for a few months Reddit now seems cold, hostile and impersonal in comparison.

I stopped ages ago. But my buddies that won't switch say they are married to the large communities around their interests.

Nothing as of a few months after they killed third party apps. It took me a couple more months to stop using it as a source.

Some technical topics

I need a steady drip feed of bonehurtingjuice that Lemmy has not been able to sufficiently provide

Video game info. Otherwise nothing. Can't post I'm very perma banned. They really hate it when you agitate for the left.

For example discussions about specific games or series because Lemmy just doesn’t have any of that. It seems to be only interested in Linux, politics and general news.

I created a lurker account for Reddit after I deleted my main, so I can visit all subreddits. But I don’t subscribe to anything and don’t really hang out there a lot.

There is one community JimCornette and I visit one time a week just to check a couple rantings about different ratings for different shows

It's almost the same posts/comments every time, and it's been that way for 5+ years

But I still go because it's not a giant circle jerk for basement sweatys and there is the occasional informative or enriching post

I cleared out my account several times since the api thing. Since the api thing I have not used it except to run the delete thing again.

I like the "maybemaybemaybe" sub and also just seeing more diverse takes on current topics. Plus the formula1 subreddit has way more discussion.

I don't

It's still a solid site in search results for answers to video game puzzles or tech questions.