Relay for reddit is still a thing. But it will soon go over to a subscription model.. I've used that app for god know how many years now. This sucks so much.

But I notice that I use Lemmy far more now. So whatever really.

For the most part, business as usual, but I did notice that on tech subs, the average comments were a lot meaner and ruder than usual.

I've been farming it for content for a few communities here. The last month worth of content is pretty bad. Where before 8 in 10 posts were on target now maybe two in 10 posts are on target.

Moderators are kind of over the b******* in many of the subreddits.

They updated the mobile site so it no longer hounds your to download their app!

I will go on to check the Ukraine subs as I have friends in Ukraine. I also check out some local ones, and also /PICS as it's now NSFW so Reddit can't get any money from that. In the Ukraine and Local ones, I do take a lot of posts and put them here to help out the communities here grow.

I have not been entirely off reddit yet, party to message mods in communities I like if they haven't moved yet, to ask them if they will.

Business as usual there but traffic is down. Dumpster fire mods, bad taste, shitty discussions, everything you expect is still there.

Business as usual for the subs I frequent. I wish they'd move over to Lemmy but the infertility/IVF group is a super tight knit community and likely won't move over. I've known most of the users for 5 years. If it weren't for them I'd have deleted my Reddit account but all I did was delete the official app (I had the Reddit app and RIF).

Feels like the type of content posted on Reddit these days are one of those low-effort meme-like posts that you'd often seen on Twitter.

Repost bots are way up, and covering the front page. I suspect in an attempt to make it look like business as usual.

For me, it has gone to normal. All the subreddits I frequented are open and populated with the exception of one which has been permanently privated, but not to protest.

I unsubbed from all my main 'normal' subs. The only stuff in my feed now is nfsw stuff (yes, porn) and that all seems to be mostly unaffected but I've noticed that the content isn't as active.

Boost for reddit is still working so I still go there. Many subs are fighting, including /r/noncredibledefense. There are a lot of subs going NSFW but reddit is forcing them to go back to being SFW. /r/NCD is genuinely NSFW at times so i'm not sure what will happen to them. Once Boost for Lemmy comes out, i'm hopping onto lemmy fulltime :)

Sports, games, tech support subs I frequent all seem to have the similar level of activity.

I only go back to check up on my Ukraine multireddit I made a year ago to keep up with the news of the ongoing conflict.

Once that conflict is over I won't have a reason to go back there anymore...

The smaller subs I regularly visit are back to normal.

I visit some technical subreddits and many of them, particularly open source centric ones, kept up the blackout long enough that people went elsewhere. It's difficult to discern between having a slow week or the active posters moving elsewhere, though. Popular subreddits are mostly back to normal, but the more niche ones, whose diversity and quantity were the draw of reddit for me, are far from business as usual.

Even with ad blocking on maximum and Privacy Possum to twist the knife, the few times I had to, it felt... dirty. I'll make the extra effort of loading a cached version of the old. subdomain, but even so.

I might check it out once a week to see the dumpster fire using the Stealth app on f-droid. It's read-only, doesn't support accounts, and has a web scrape mode in the settings which still works for porn.

It is very specific as to which subs died and which have continued without much change. My feed is mostly unchanged over at reddit minus maybe the startrek subs that made a hard move.

I still haven't found "ACTIVE" lemmy equivalents to a number of subs and search results still drive me back to reddit to read really good technical threads.

Also this community and other threads like it are somewhat annoying.. So much talk about Twitter and Reddit here instead of building other interesting content.