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100% Lemmy. If I end up on reddit, it’s because I googled something.

I still use reddit for a few niche communities and browsing comments. I post alot and love my time here but the activity isnt enough to replace it for me yet

TV, Movie, Anime, Video Game, Discussion Threads.

It's non-existent on Lemmy.

I don't really post anything, I just lurk and read the discussion, don't really have motivation to post since I'm kinda anti-corporate right now, but I just wanna absorb all the info they have to satisfy my brain's curiosity.

Google search clicks. Forwarded posts from Reddit.

As much as I hate to say it, I’d still much rather go to google and search reddit, than go on any other website google proposes. Everything is just trying to get you to buy nonsense or scroll through a 10 page article for a one sentence solution that is probably outdated.

On occasion I’ll check in on some niche hobby boards that don’t really have an active Lemmy variant, or large archive of content yet. Sometimes you want to see a flashlight beamshot comparison of a Nichia 519a 5000k led compared to a 5700k from a particular manufacturer, and it’s just not on Lemmy.

Once in a while a Reddit thread will come up in search, reading that thread is the extent of my Reddit usage.

I use reddit as a comparison when explaining lemmy and the fediverse to the uninitiated.

Whenever it comes up in a web search and I absolutely need it for whatever information I'm looking for, mainly troubleshooting stuff

Sometimes it's in the top few search results. Otherwise I don't .

Game subs.

Pretty much everything remotely niche. Subs devoted to individual video games, for instance. The only game I play that's on lemmy is https://lemmy.world/c/pixeldungeon.

I tried to use it a few days ago and the toxicity is insane, it feels like Reddit is filled with trash talking kids to draw attention to themselves or AIs.

You can't have a healthy discussion there anymore.

If the answer to my question is in a Reddit post, I'm going to look at it but I'm not logging in and posting.

I read the comments, since lemmy doesn’t have many

Sometimes I will have really obscure tech issues that only 10yr reddit threads can solve. That's about it though

Communities that don't exist or are inactive in the threadiverse: Jake and Amir; Northernlion; UFO 50; Eternal (card game)

When I switched to Lemmy I stayed on Reddit but unsubscribed from everything but a few like these.

Search results (usually for specific video games, though some politics and history stuff is also from there) and a small amount of pornography.

Haven't added content or even logged in to an account since moving to the Threadiverse, though.

EDIT: I think the most-recent content I looked at was earlier this week, when I got search results regarding discussion on Nazi Germany's war plans for fighting the US in World War II:

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/mg3rr6/what_even_was_the_german_plan_to_defeat_america/

Like a lot of others here, I still add "reddit" to my searches when doing research on products or troubleshooting.

Occasionally looking through my country's subreddit. But even then I don't have an account and access it through RedReader.

Only for communities which are not available/active enough on fediverse. Haven't scrolled reddit's algorithm since they killed all the good apps though.

nah I stay away from facebook

the day Apollo stopped working I deleted the account and quit cold turkey; now only if I find something there while researching a problem I read a thread anonymously and that’s it

Homelabsales, non-existent here

Harvesting of posts to help niche comms here, like !undervalehotel@lemmy.cafe

Occasional Threadiverse advocations

I got shadow banned for no reason, so only Lemmy for me. I appealed for so many times on Reddit, yet no freakin' answer.

Porn.

Though they got rid of my favorite category so I've been using it less.

To participate in smaller local/regional communities, because they don't exist or are basically dead on Lemmy. On reddit, almost every city has it's own community, while on Lemmy some countries don't even have communities or just a few people there looking more like a private group chat.

It could be party due to the decentralized nature, every community perhaps has it's own server, but unless I am able to find it...

Niche subs

Nothing. I don't use it anymore.

r/nba and my city’s sub. Both have equivalent communities here but aren’t as active, so I visit from time to time to see what’s going on. But that’s it, I don’t browse anywhere else on the site.

News about my city. TTRPGs. Home repair.

I've tried to kick up conversation in appropriate communities here, but I don't get comments.

Search results, r/iRacing and r/formula1

Niche Porn

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.

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.

Don't use an account. Use it for searching for answers via site:reddit.com etc.