It’s frustrating to see people talk about niche subreddits and not mentioning any or talk about leaving reddit and not mention what they replaced it with.
You don't need to replace reddit with anything. We functioned fine without it most of our lives. It's time better spent doing a hobby or reading a book or even watching soap operas
Not OP but hackernews has been kind of my alternative. Think I've been spending too much time here as of late..
Nothing, really:\ Unfortunately, the direct competitors (Voat et al.) failed to attract enough content or users to be real competitors outside of very narrow communities/interests; ex. /v/linux existed, but it was basically dead, so there was nothing to go there for. So, I use HN more, browse more news aggregators, and hope the fediverse or something can come to fill the void.
He uses Reddit. Just like everyone else who claims to have left Reddit.
I left Reddit and I don't use it anymore. Why do you think such thing to be impossible?
Because they can't do it themselves so they're projecting onto everyone else, as usual.
That you have such a perception says more about you than him.