Ask Lemmy

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.

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.

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.

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/

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.

Reddit who?

r/politicalcompassmemes

r/IsraelPalestine

r/livestreamfail

r/all

r/popular for select countries.

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

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.

Niche Porn

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

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

nah I stay away from facebook

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

News about my city. TTRPGs. Home repair.

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

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

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.

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

Search results, r/iRacing and r/formula1

Homelabsales, non-existent here

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

Occasional Threadiverse advocations

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.

@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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.