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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 don't have an account anymore and don't plan on setting one back up (I killed my account before shit got really bad over there), but I still browse without an account via Redlib from time to time.

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.

Some niche stuff that I can't find a sizeable community elsewhere, but that's about it.

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

It's just objectively true that a very specific type of person makes up most of Lemmy, which results in the only active communities being either very broad topics, or the handful of interests common to the kind of people who use Lemmy. I don't fit into any of these.

I don't.

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.

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 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.

I use lemmy, blusky, and tumblr

Some technical topics

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

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

Nothing unless it comes up in search. And then I have set rules which will redirect reddit to a different frontend (RDX) so that I can just read the info without visiting that awful place.

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

I don't.

It’s still a great source of information. I don’t mind visiting the site if it pops up in one my Google searches.

I'm mostly ok with it for topics that are sufficiently distanced from politics. Subs having an explicit "no politics" rule is a bonus.

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.

I don't

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