Does anybody else continue to frequent Reddit, albeit without an account?

Nope.

Engagement numbers help the IPO, this in turn would put more $$ in u/spez pocket and that I will not support.

You’re lucky if the communities you have followed survived intact or unaffected. The tenor of my feed was changing for the worse before the API protests. When I left, after? It was a shithole.

Sure, there are communities that I miss, that are absent, or have weak, or hard to find presences. But the solution isn’t to go lurk and buff those engagement metrics, in my somewhat Reddit hostile opinion.

Sometimes, but only in one narrow way: Reddit shows up in search results for me, and sometimes I specifically ask it to.

Like "is product X any good?" gives me garbage marketing and clickbait, so I try "is product X any good? site:reddit.com" and I find some helpful threads, often several years old.

But yeah, not logged in, not interacting.

yes, without an account just for local/niche subs that don't exist anywhere else

and that only because I have rif working via revanced.

if I am ever forced to see their shitty ads I'll stop doing even that

Only if I have a specific question, like is this tent better than that tent. But I don't log in and I haven't since Boost stopped working.

I do miss it sometimes, but time spent on my phone has gone way down and that can only be an improvement.

No. I don’t use Lemmy nearly as much but I took it as an opportunity to reduce my doom scrolling. I left in the first week after Apollo made the announcement. I have honestly noticed a big improvement in my life overall.

I don't think I could do that, I would be compelled to comment. But I do still see Reddit in search results for problems I'm researching and the answers are often useful. I will be happy the first time I see a Lemmy result.

There's a decent reader for Reddit via RSS feeds on fdroid called Geddit. I use it to browse some porn and also certain discussions, but of course you can't interact with RSS so it's just for observing.

Do you feel like youre cheating on then fediverse

I haven't really looked back after I left Reddit. I have stopped on a Reddit page because of a search result, that's about it.

I only used reddit for casual purposes, so breaking my habit was easy. I haven’t been back since I created an account here.

For the first few days, it was out of contempt for that site, but now it’s because I’ve realized that online communities don’t have to be toxic, confrontational battlegrounds. I don’t miss the reddit “culture” AT ALL.

Yea I still go on but, I use a browser with ad-block now instead of the app

Not really. My old account had a curated list of subreddits that was vast (hundreds) and content-wise, kept me miles away from the ugliness that is the actual front page content of reddit.

I went and browsed the front page once after deleting my account and felt kinda sick tbh.

I did go read the episode discussions for several Strange New Worlds episodes and Fionna and Cake though. I miss those big group moments where all the details are discussed and appreciated and nowhere else really has that in the same scale (I hate discord and it's not the same).

I haven't gone back to reddit since I was forced out of moderator role due to supporting the API changes protest. Except for once or twice clicking a search engine result that was the only one with the answer I needed.

I believe they turned off the API restrictions for moderators. So Boost (and I assume other third party apps) still works for me because I created a private subreddit and made myself a moderator.

I'll continue to lurk until Spez realizes and blocks my access but I deleted all my comments and posts and don't plan on adding any new free content to their site.

I'm sure it's just a caching issue but, infuriatingly, some of my old comments appear randomly and I have to go in and delete them all over again.

No, I'll only vist reddit if I'm searching for something and it comes up as a result.

Very rarely i will have to pull it up for some reason. But i may spend 3 minutes a week on average now to copy a post to lemmy (i asked the podcaster to put the weekly announcement on lemmy but no luck yet) where i used to be on it every day. Lemmy has replaced all that use.

No

I still have an account. Maybe once per week or less I go there for a couple of particular subreddits. Is it “frequent”?

Only if the only good search results are in reddit, and then only while holding my nose.

The only reason to visit reddit these days is through a Google search for "some simpsons reference here site:reddit.com/r/thesimpsons", tbh

I've cut out 99% of my Reddit activity. No comments, no votes, mostly stop by some sports subreddits, read headlines then leave.

In the past, I used to post some of my creative work in daily/weekly feedback threads. I could reliably get at least ONE REAL PERSON to leave a comment which was good enough for me. I tried doing this again last week and all I got was some rando douchebag using a chatbot to give fake feedback and try to drive traffic toward his Instagram.

Only when a search on the web bring me there and anyway I deleted my account so only without an account (wouldn't say anonymously, even if my browser block trackers this is not ever possible)

There's not enough engagement/subscribers on the Lemmy equivalent of the primary Reddit sub I visit.

I do but only because some of the communities I’m most passionate about haven’t quite hit critical mass on Lemmy yet.

Gotta get on their for automotive repair stuff and yo yo stuff and other things that benefit from a huge user base and niche categories. I lemmy to get random info/news and piss away time.

I've added a couple niche subs to my RSS reader, basically for news. But outside of that, no.

I will always be active as u/MozartWasARed on Reddit.

Just on my city's sub, which I check once or twice a week.

I only pop on over for the couple communities that haven't made a presence over here or have explicitly said they don't want to come over here

So like once every couple days at most because I can view them on my PC

I used to until Infinity implemented subscriptions.

Occasionally. There is no other place for these extremely specific android app forums and i check them every once in a while. Or if it comes up in searching, i access it with Redreader to get the info I want