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

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

Google search clicks. Forwarded posts from Reddit.

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.

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just trying to get you to buy nonsense or scroll through a 10 page article for a one sentence solution that is probably outdated.

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.

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

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

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

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 read the comments, since lemmy doesn’t have many

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.

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

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.

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

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/

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

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

Niche subs

Nothing. I don't use it anymore.

Porn.

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

Homelabsales, non-existent here

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

Occasional Threadiverse advocations

Search results, r/iRacing and r/formula1

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.

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

News about my city. TTRPGs. Home repair.

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

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

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

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...

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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 technical topics

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

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

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.

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.

I don't.

@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 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.

nah I stay away from facebook

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

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

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

r/fpv r/diydrones

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 cleared out my account several times since the api thing. Since the api thing I have not used it except to run the delete thing again.

I don't

There is one community JimCornette and I visit one time a week just to check a couple rantings about different ratings for different shows

It's almost the same posts/comments every time, and it's been that way for 5+ years

But I still go because it's not a giant circle jerk for basement sweatys and there is the occasional informative or enriching post

I don't.

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

Most of my limited reddit usage is for work. I do IT work,and sometimes solutions can be found there, or at least hints. It's still pretty low, maybe 10% or less of stuff I search for find actionable hit on reddit. Only other thing is stuff like comments on Tom Carey videos, which I do like to see. I know stuff like YouTube, insta,tiktok, etc will have em too, but sometimes I'm in the mood to see from multiple sources, and I don't usually find those type of niche reactions on Lemmy. I do see fans of course, but not as often.