more niche / specific communities are just starting here but on reddit they're already thriving. I'll visit reddit from time to time to keep up with the latest thing in those, though my time there has been cut significantly.

in other hand, I really wish we could stop with reddit-related questions in this community... ask those in /c/reddit instead

Since the blackout, I only use reddit when it pops up in search results regarding a special problem. No "open reddit and scrolling" anymore. It would be stupid to 100% boycott it and make my life harder just because, but they don't get more traffic from me than necessary.

I've switched to Lemmy for random browsing of memes, pop culture, and tech news.

I'm hoping Lemmy will soon be large enough that major world news events will pop up there, too.

I still go to Reddit for just a couple of niche communities. Lemmy isn't large enough for there to be active communities about every TV show and every hobby, yet. Looking forward to when we hit that size.

Also: no rush. We're early adopters. Lemmy has gotten a LOT better in the last month, so I'm glad that everyone didn't rush to join it right away. I'd rather that when small communities consider migrating, they can do so and have a great experience.

Shitposting subs that actually shitpost instead of posting regular memes. For that to happen on Lemmy we'll need a good way of sending videos/gifs to the platform, which is gonna take a while to be implemented but eventually will

I still go on my city's subreddit to get the latest news about my city.

There are probably specific communities that I'd miss, but the real answer is VOLUME. There's still more content there.

Nothing. Haven't logged on since subs went dark.

Only the NSFW-Content.

I mod an 11K sub that is apparently one of the preeminent spaces on the web to follow the latest news on it's topic. I personally haven't posted anything new there since the blackout--it's all been posted here in the Fediverse instead--but I still check in to make sure they're behaving themselves.

I'm immediately struck by the contradiction of asking this on Lemmy.

Historical questions and answers to common problems, it’ll take about a decade for Lemmy to catch up. I work in IT and it’s saved my ass quite a few times

Not everyone and every community I like is here.

r/guitar, r/bass and r/trumpet mostly. The sheer amount of people in the communites just makes it better (shocking news I know)

The memes are better here tho

Nothing. I keep the BaconReader app so that when I click on it and nothing loads, I know there is nothing for me there.

Jerboa is giving me network errors still

Jerboa is giving me network errors still

Specific subs that don't exist on Lemmy, especially Q&A-type subs with no equivalent (or very few members). Things like AskPlumbers. It'll just take time to build those communities here.

There's a few niche communities there that don't exist on Lemmy and likely won't for a while. Plus, I still dip into AskReddit because it's a hard habit to break!

The well-curated libraries of gentlemen's special-interest literature

Nothing. I miss being more informed on what’s going on in the world but I don’t miss mindless Reddit discussion about it. I miss a lot of subs though. If AskHistorians goes back to normal, I might pop in for that occasionally.

This is getting better and better though, I’d rather ride out our awkward phase than get sucked back in to the Reddit cesspool and drift away. Although we really need to stop talking about Reddit so much.

My saved content

r/padres r/baseball and r/fantasyfootball

If I could get even a fraction of the discussion those subs have here I would have no reason to go back

Infinity for Reddit still works. Once it stops, Reddit will become a site I may only visit on my desktop, which is not a common event.

My country and city subs mostly. I still visit covidlonghaulers a bit, because it's nice to hear from people in the same boat when everyone seems to be acting like it's all over. I also have a frankly unhealthy addiction to publicfreakout, which I'm working on.

Nothing, I don't use it

Jerboa is giving me network errors still

My saved posts

I have a stickied post on the hobbyist subreddit I frequented, highlighting fediverse and Discord alternatives. I'm not even a moderator there, but they deemed it worthy enough to sticky.

Just hanging around in case anyone comes forward with questions.

I am still following some notebook/fountainpen /journaling subs that I miss here. And some subs about Christianity.

Fan communities and general reddit. I've only ever used the web UI, so the API changes don't have as direct an effect on me, even if they suck. I doubt I'll ever abandon it completely. Adoring Lemmy so far, though! Looking forward to a nice, stable app to use in the future, since the web ui on lemm.ee is a little meh.

Lemmy for me isn't even close to what reddit was. Careful selection of several dozen subs over past many years meant that I felt at home browsing the feed. On lemmy, I've tried to join similar instances as my subscribed subreddits, but so far it's empty. The situation is improving and I hope to one day see better content here than in reddit

The fact that Boost still works. One day soon I will open the app and it will have ceased to work and that will be the end of my time as a Redditor.

i left reddit at least 5 years ago

Mainly for niche communities that haven't gained traction here yet, and for my city's subreddit, which does have a community here but it's completely inactive so far.

I created like 3 communities and I've got around 20 subscribers on each, but no one is posting so I've been using reddit here and there to cross post content from the original subs to kinda just have something there as an example.

Fiction.

Honestly the lack of video content.

Niche communities like Quake Champions and city-specific subs

I promised a couple subs I mod to stay on until they find replacement mods. After browsing lemmy, the interface is downright aggravating, though.

I'm in a couple of communities of people that I like.

Some of the more niche communities that Reddit has wouldn't be easily replicated here.

I didn't download the official app, though.