The fediverse just isn't there yet. I do fundraisers yearly and I'd never make goals on Lemmy / piefed. I am trying hard to be part of the solution, though, recommending it all over.

Same. Niche commuities for hobbies that just don't get enough active users on Lemmy

I browse one niche community weekly, though I don't comment or post. Lemmy isn't entirely there yet, though it's certainly caught up in the drama department.

Local city sub, it's the best place for news and events. I have dwindled down on posting or commenting, trying to find alternatives so I can fully drop it. Unfortunately, Facebook is still heavily used for events and I'll take Reddit over Facebook.

Unfortunately the music communities here aren’t active enough. By which I mean the ones dedicated to music production, songwriting, etc. The Reddit communities aren’t what they used to be but they’re still fairly active, so after about six months of Reddit detox I made an account that’s the same name as my music project, strictly for the purpose of feedback, promotion, and networking with the artists that are still there.

And even in those communities, once robust discussions among pros and semi-pros have given way to bickering about AI, worthless “listen for listen” posts that don’t get you actual followers, and amateurs who can’t understand why their video of them poorly singing their dogshit song on their Walmart guitar didn’t instantly get 1000 streams.

But still, it’s someplace to go for now. I’d love nothing more than to learn of the existence of other active communities where one can talk with competent musicians, get meaningful criticism, and obtain followers who actually appreciate you as an artist.

I don’t venture outside of the music communities. At. All. Aside from this, Reddit is dead to me.

None of Lemmy is active enough when compared to Reddit. It’s a shame really, but if you’re into anything moderately niche Reddit is the best place.

Niche communities, like everyone else.

In my case, I am very into Genshin Impact. Lemmy has a very small Genshin community as it is, whereas Reddit has specific and very active communities for leaks, lore, and particular characters. There'd have to be a mass migration to Lemmy for any chance of that quality of discussion and theorycrafting coming here, and I'm not holding my breath.

If I had the free time to moderate it, I'd make a leaks community here, but I don't. So it is what it is, and I will continue to visit Reddit until it becomes unusable for me.

I'd actually like to, even though it's awful. There were still some niche subs I enjoyed, but like many, I got randomly banned from a sub, and my naive assumption that I could just use another old throwaway account, like back in the day, apparently made things worse, and now I'm permabanned.

At first, I played cat-and-mouse with VPNs, private browsing, etc., but they're weirdly sophisticated once their bots and mods have marked your card, it seems, and each new account would always get banned for 'ban evasion'.

Company and community subreddits for products I use and contests/giveaways. Also there are people on there I can help that I used to do in a professional way, but because of my health, don't anymore, and it gives me a sense of... accomplishment? Constructive and creative fulfillment that people on Lemmy just don't need/seek out.

I don't post on Reddit, and haven't logged in since I left, but I do occasionally browse some niche subreddits that don't exist here and do do site:reddit.com searches for information on Web search engines.

For the same reason some people use FB, TikTok, Twitter, etc. There is content on the platform that they enjoy and can't get elsewhere.

It's not a hard concept to understand and there isn't any legitimate reason someone else might care that they use a particular platform.

I can't poison the AI if I don't post utter falsehoods to reddit.

Niche communities are the only reason I visit still.

I do occasionally comment, but it’s been severely limited since June 2023.

Sports

Once every few weeks I check my local city sub to see videos of methheads attacking people and keep up with what people are whining about.

I still occasionally check a handful of communities related to legal/visa/tax/business in Japan. We tried to get people to move over here, but they didn't and, without the institutional knowledge of long-timers, just starting a community doesn't accomplish much.

I use it for porn. Thats it. And if they lose even a single other porn subreddit that I'm into I'll quit it entirely.

The only reason I use reddit for porn is because fedinsfw.app honestly sucks. It was made to replace lemmynswf.com but it doesn't even hold a candle to it.

Can’t find a community on here for my state and county 🤷‍♀️

Completely anecdotal, but I think major subs here have some very active mods with some pretty crazy opinions and like to power trip. Those mods would usually get flushed out over time on reddit.

Very occasionally I look at reddit. Not so much for the local community (though it's very busy on reddit and dead here I was ok giving it up) but because occasionally people respond so late to posts I made. I was on there for about 16 years before leaving for here, mostly because the scale of reddit just got inhuman.

BBSer's gonna BBS, regardless of the platform.

I've been on Reddit for decades so there are dozens of niche subs I subscribe to. Reddit is so heavily populated that obscure games like openXcom and Guild 2 have a sizeable community. And the Hitman sub has more people than the official, Steam, and fan forums combined. I don't think there's even a Hitman instance on Lemmy.

I think though that Reddit will screw the pooch before too long and there will be a mass migration. Lemmy has a good chance of being where everyone goes.

Because they want to?

Because I stated a sub there that's become a great community over time and I don't want to leave it until I have to. Did I bring it here? Of course. But almost no one came with. So until I can't anymore, I'll keep it going for those people.

If Lemmy had the user base for it, I'd love to give up on Reddit entirely and not give them the satisfaction. Alas, if I want to see detailed write ups for strategies in a video game, I have to use it.

I block the communities that are about even reposting reddit.