I've made an active effort to bookmark any active forums I come across. Even Lemmy doesn't quite fill the niche that actual forums provide, though it is still useful.
Restricting search results to reddit is still a nice way to filter out corporate junk and just get honest end user opinion on things. As much as I hate the management of the platform now, you have to remember that Reddit didn't always used to be shit. Aaron Swartz was a co-founder.
Whenever I stumble on reddit I make sure to post disinformation or some kind of dumb shit to throw a wrench into the LLM training data they sell to google.
Honestly fuck Reddit. I hate the polarization of politics that’s somehow spills out into literally every single community that realistically should be devoid of politics. If I’m in a memes sub it shouldn’t be full of political memes, and when it isn’t a political memes everyone wants to argue about politics. On top of all of that Redditors are so far left leaning it hurts and if you say anything to even slightly disagree with them they will bash you, spam you with insults, and just be overall nuisances.
Hell, today I was called a right wing maga cult fa**ot for asking someone for proof of claims they were making, I came back and posted a few links to articles proving they embellished the truth with their statements and told them that if you can’t provide proof of your statements they are likely lies and I received a ban. Actually in all honesty this is why I sought out Lemmy or really any Reddit alternative, I’m done with toxic af Redditors for sure.
It's gonna die like Digg or Fark ... Which are still around, but shells of their former selves.
TBH most normal folks haven't even heard of Reddit, let alone Lemmy or Mastodon.