nah I stay away from facebook
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2025
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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
News about my city. TTRPGs. Home repair.
I've tried to kick up conversation in appropriate communities here, but I don't get comments.
Same. There just aren't enough users.
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I got shadow banned for no reason, so only Lemmy for me. I appealed for so many times on Reddit, yet no freakin' answer.
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.
Search results, r/iRacing and r/formula1
I remember the F1 communities here being pretty good and active around the reddit API change exodus times.
Not sure if they still are as I stay away due to not being able to watch most races live.
Homelabsales, non-existent here
Harvesting of posts to help niche comms here, like !undervalehotel@lemmy.cafe
Occasional Threadiverse advocations
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.
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.
My new account has insufficient karma to post (another petty rule)
This drives me up the wall, especially when they don't even tell you how much you need. I get why they do it, but it just promotes shit-posting in other subreddits for the sole purpose of being able to post in another subreddit.
Work stuff, I work in a niche industry and subreddit is decent for questions.
Some niche stuff that I can't find a sizeable community elsewhere, but that's about it.
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.
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.
r/fpv r/diydrones
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.
I don't.
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.
Reddit who?
r/politicalcompassmemes
r/IsraelPalestine
r/livestreamfail
r/all
r/popular for select countries.
It's still a solid site in search results for answers to video game puzzles or tech questions.