Does anybody else feel dirty when they visit reddit?
I don't know man, but I feel like I'm supporting a maniac CEO with every second I spend on reddit.
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I don't know man, but I feel like I'm supporting a maniac CEO with every second I spend on reddit.
Reddit is for redditors, and we do not belong there anymore.
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Haven't visited their in like 2 weeks. I won't even click on links that direct there.
For me, it can rot. Haven't even missed it as much as I thought I would.
Money grabbers did me a huge favour.
Same here although I find that doing my best to avoid links attached to Reddit is the hardest part of this. Searching for something online to only see Reddit discussions as the top result knowing full well the answer I want is probably there and yet...I keep searching for alternative links.
Honestly, just get the info you need (with ads blocked, of course). Not commenting or posting content there is enough.
Data analytics show usage though, which is a plus for them to diminish in the eyes of others the effect of the boycott.
Yup. That feeling is the slow eroding of your principals. Stick to it, Lemmy gets better by the day.
I visit reddit to repost to Lemmy. This is the one time that reposting is the right thing to do.
Do you have a workflow so we can do the same?
Yeah I am deleting my 9 year old account on the 30th.
Despite reddit's flaws it's a great resource for a lot of entertainment,education and the communities can be great. But reddit got too big, too greedy and it's just a matter of time before it hopefully collapses. Those of us moving into fed-space are the early birds.
Same here. But I've noticed that I'm starting to spend more time here than on Reddit, not bad.
I feel like a traitor when I do. It has sucked all the enjoyment out of the website.
That's pretty much the defining argument from The Good Place. The world is so complicated now that it's nearly impossible to be fully moral. The only thing you can really do is to do what good you can and try to be better today than you were yesterday.
The other thing you can do is reduce consumption. However you can, to whatever extent you can
Problem is that people who make the argument that the person you replied to make are usually the type to use that philosophy as an all inclusive excuse to not even try, but just continue doing what they're doing and feel ethically justified doing it.
You're right that the world is shades of gray, and not black and white
But in this case Reddit is a separated entity that you can just avoid to not support.
Your excuse makes sense when it's vital services that are intertwined with other vital services that you have to use.
There are alternatives to Reddit.
You save the World one battle at a time.
It’s joined the ranks of FB, IG and Twit as a site I don’t feel good about using. To be fair, while reddit has discredited themselves a ton lately, the past 4-5 years of ‘new reddit’ has been awful and they continue to get worse, it’s still not nearly as bad as MetaZuck or Elron.
yeah especially a lot of major politics often feels like an astroturf, I haven't been able to feel like I'm debating or seeing legitimately popular things in years over there. I have to be super skeptical because of the powers that be who have an interest in swaying opinion
Yes. The recent exodus of decent people is noticeable.
It definitely felt like land of the shills before I stopped going. Just hundreds of random new accounts posting in every community that went dark.
I don't feel dirty. Just sad for the people still over there. At this point I just log in once a day to vote for protest supporter and see what the status is. Then come back to here and Mastadon.
Some of my favorite subs over have gone full toxic and have completely removed my desire to go there. Just total hatred toward being inconvenienced, which is sad on its own that people are so desperate to be submissive. Not understanding that the only reason the protests failed was because they already decided (and then therefore invested in) the protest failing.
Other subs are still voting overwhelmingly to protest in any way possible. But the amount of gaslighting by shills (possible astroturfing) is wild. Every sub has tons of people saying "nobody cares" despite people voting otherwise.
Absolutely. Trying to make the switch but I think it's going to take a bit for me to fully "cut the cord." Trying to find matching lemmy communities for most of my interests and then planning on deleting everything from reddit.
Once RIF stops working I won't be able to, so really that'll be the big moment.
Same. I'm not using the app ever. I do comment/post here much more often though
Same here, I heard there is a plug in called shreddit you can use before the api changes to nuke your comments. I plan on doing the same right before th shift.
Same! I'm hoping after the API changes take place a bigger influx of new users will hit and start gaining traction at that point.
Yeah, but as my excuse, I limit my visits to NSFW subs.
Ah, so you can feel dirty while you're feeling dirty. I like the way you think
From what I've seen, it's sparse.
Other than the normie subs I still follow like my local city's sub, yeah, it feels like the party's over.
I've not visited reddit since Sunday 11th and a week into things, deleted my account. My only issue is when I Google something and can see the answer is on reddit. Happened last night but refused to go there. Found the answer somewhere else in the end.
This is what's killing me too. So many reddit links pop up on Google. I'm hoping there's some sort of extension that can route them through a cache website so I can avoid giving reddit traffic.
Yes! And I accidentally upvoted something earlier before I realized where I was. Felt bad.
Don't feel bad. Addiction takes time. It's also been traumatic haha.
Sure is nice here though.
If you replace the reddit.com part of any reddit link with https://reddit.adminforge.de/, you can browse without giving them any traffic / interaction (for example reddit.com/r/tihi --> https://reddit.adminforge.de/r/tihi)
What a great website!
Just be aware that you're fueling their data analytics, that they can show that they still have people visiting their website.
I just tried to post something elsewhere and it printed a language_not_allowed. I feel left out
Yep! It feels like I'm in a place I shouldn't be in and that I'm betraying the community simply by being there
I'm currently using Reddit Enhancement Suite to delete 8 years worth of comments and submissions. It's been a walk down memory lane as they all disappear, but it's a good way to experience catharsis on the way out the door as all of my stuff that would have been monetized through google search results go poof... First time I've been back since creating my lemmy acct though, and it was more sad than dirty.
If it makes you feel any better, your comments probably aren't deleted and are still in reddits database. A lot of companies just set an 'isDeleted' flag to true/false. So even though the data doesn't show up via the API, reddit still has all the data to sell to clients.
ye, I think you can just edit the comment to some gibberish and then delete it.
ngl yeah I do. Specially on r/gonewildaudio.
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...what?
Yes, it's like me going into a nasty public restroom - gotta do my business asap and gtfo
Yeah, somewhat. It's addicting, though. And some communities haven't made the move to here, yet. So, I'll be going back and forth, for a bit. OTOH, I took the first step to leaving. Premium expired today. I cut the cord! It's not much but I want to support the community in some way. Also, after everything that has transpired, I can't support the actions they've taken. To me, sending them money is encouragement and support to continue what they're doing.
It's very pleasant and peaceful here. Better vibes.
Consider donating what would have been spent on reddit to Lemmy! I'm thinking I might set up a recurring charge like reddit premium was.
If anyone else wanna move their monetary support over to Lemmy, here is the Patreon page for the lead developer: https://www.patreon.com/dessalines
Let's bleed Reddit dry by buying him a coffee :)
They do prefer librepay too instead - Patreon isn't free for creators
More to the point, Liberapay is a non-profit organization and an open source project. It's ethically superior to Patreon, not just cheaper.
Direct link to Lemmy's donation page on Liberapay
I feel the same and I’m still there. But I try to use the fediverse more and more. I just gotta get the hang of it.
I don't, since I only go there for Ukraine news now, and I don't really expect people on the ground in places like /r/Ukraine reporting on genocides and highlighting local fundraising efforts to be too motivated to make the transition right away, but hopefully they'll find a presence here too. Not gonna be browsing reddit for random shitposts anymore though.
Honestly, yes. I don't want to support what the owners of Reddit are doing. A lot of people are not going to leave there though until the place is completely radioactive though.
I am enjoying the last 2 weeks of Apollo, Lemmy has exceeded my expectations and I am going to be deleting my Reddit account on the 30th. Quality of Reddit has nosedived in the last two weeks so I don’t feel like I am missing anything.
please dont delete your account.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/146lloj/protip_if_you_replace_the_content_of_your/
": if you replace the content of your posts/comments with nonsense, you'll make Reddit Inc. (including its CEO) lose money."
"There's a good chance that those API price changes were motivated by large businesses using Reddit to train their large language models (LLMs) with. Stuff like GPT-3, Google's BERT, Facebook's Galactica, stuff like this. In other words, your content will be used to train bots. (It is, already.)
Those models can be "poisoned" with random, machine generated nonsense. Poisoned data is worse than useless: it makes the model worse. So for each person replacing their Reddit content with nonsense, those businesses will be willing to pay Reddit Inc. less and less for API access."
"Here is a mini-tutorial on how to do this. It's for desktop users but you'll likely be able to do the same from a phone browser.
If you don't like Zompist's gen and/or Power Delete Suite, you can use any generator and/or Reddit mass edition tool of your choice."
and yes, i am somewhat still on reddit but i think i do more against them when my app does not work anymore (to spread lemmy or information) i will follow this process
I made the decision to wipe my account a few days early and monitor it. I'm glad I did, because Reddit has been un-deleting and un-deleting my posts and comments. I've had to re-edit/delete about ~300 comments and ~30 posts since yesterday.
They're un-deleting content that users are choosing to delete, that's disgusting
Yeah that goes too far for me. What if they change it to Nazi prop and ransomware you to your boss or family?
Did that yesterday too.
I wonder if because I used a fork of PowerDeleteSuite with a 5 seconds delay added (to not trip Redddits' API rate limits) I'm not seeing my posts / comments dug up again by Reddit.
I used edit / overwrite + delete.
Part of it is there are still subreddits moving back to public from private, and you cannot delete comments/posts on closed subreddits.
I agree and If your interested, a plug-in called shreddit will do all that work for you easily. Just make use of it before the api changes.
I wouldn't know, I haven't gone since the blackouts.
same -I even removed the bookmark from firefox. used to be the first one on the right, now it's my email or something.
Still trying to figure out if I want to lemmy or kbin.
Lemmy seems more popular, but the dynamic feed is disruptive sometimes like I'll be reading a headline or looking at a thumbnail blown up by Imagus extension and then it shifts suddenly.
Kbin is more stable from that perspective, but I somehow have -2 rep points (that I care about for some stupid reason) despite having (so far) more ups than downs on my few comments. OH and the very frequent 503 errors on random pages, but I suspect that's growing pains from an enormous influx
-still haven't quite removed rif from the phone though. might check on it 7/1 and see if it works or not
Right now, kbin is using boosts for the positive and downvotes for negative reputation points. I think there's a proposal to change to upvotes for the positive points.
I see, good to know that there's at least a proposal out there to make this less confusing!
About the -2 rep issue. I've found that what looks like the upvote button is actually the favourite button. The "Boost" button at the bottom seems to be the one that actually gives rep points. I think the buttons need to be swapped as it feels kinda misleading as to what they actually do at times
Same here. Reddit was becoming a big negative drain on me.
I don't feel guilty yet since I still have RIF - I make it a point to only lurk though. Once RIF is gone, I'm gonna try to use libreddit for question answers and never visit the actual site again. Fuck spez. Greedy little pig boy ass bitch.
Libreddit is likely also going away (see #785) but they're doing some work to implement scraping (#818).
We can only hope though since it's my favorite client on the desktop
Yes, but only because my porn reddit account is the last one I have. IMO its counterproductive to delete it since it's clear reddits monetization strategy is anti NSFW. The more of that site is unadvertisable the better.
I keep finding Reddit links to things when looking for solutions in my job. It's getting frustrating because a lot of the subs are still closed.
use Google's cache thing, I don't think it lets Reddit earn from you visiting it and content should(?) still be there, I never used it but I heard a few people talking about it so I believe it works
I find myself returning to Reddit just to share links to Lemmy communities and answer questions about it.
echo "127.0.0.1 old.reddit.com" | sudo tee -a /etc/hostsIf you're not root
No LOL. I use Lemmy, I'll keep using Lemmy. Reddit has some communities that I don't have access to on here... So I use it too. I wish I didn't, but I don't feel dirty. I use adblock anyways so it's not even like I'm giving Reddit any money directly.
Not really, since I'm on 3rd party app and don't see ads. I'm liking lemmy, but the dynamic feed bug is really killing the experience for me. I know it doesn't happen on apps, but I prefer using a browser on my phone for now, until apps mature a bit more at least. This doesn't happen on kbin, but I miss being able to collapse comments like on lemmy.
Good thing this will be fixed in the next update!
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3008
Yes! Every time I open lemmy I check if they've updated it hahaha. I know that we can't ask too much of a free open-source development, but I wish they could push an update to fix just the dynamic big and the 'hot' sorting bug (I think some instances have this one fixed, but it would be nice to have it fixed for everyone).
At least the new version is already open for testing, so it really won't take that long anymore until it's here :)
Here hoping, I support Lemmy and think it's got good foundations. With a higher user base and improvements I think Lemmy is going to take off soon and grow like crazy.
Supposedly in the meantime you can just browse "page 0" (set it in the URL) which also fixes it. I haven't tested it because I've been using jerboa.
Edit: here's where I heard about it https://lemmy.world/post/390268
If I really have to visit that page I do it either via cached version or via teddit. Fuck u/spez does not deserve my traffic.
I am hoping for a unofficial api to pop up soon to get the neessary info for now without supporting reddit in a any official way possible. For the dealines, teddit and libreddit work great!
Yes, i accidentaly open rif and then feel very off, then get reminded of lemmy. For some technical info i have to sneak past the front page directly to the specific sub. But the sub is migrating and its coming together better than i had imagined before.
I deleted my reddit account yesterday and also try to stay away from web searches that link to reddit. One time i accidentally clicked on a link to a reddit answer and it felt pretty bad. I do miss some of my smaller subreddits and find myself eagerly browsing new communities in the fediverse, hoping that someone started up a replacement. I don't want to become a mod, so i don't want to start up communities myself.
I've already encountered Reddit posts from Google searches that have been wiped. I make sure to submit feedback to Google on those.
I am waiting for the backup of my data there to be ready so I can destroy my history and delete my account, so for a while I've been visiting daily, but after the CEO expressed his love of piece of shit extraordinaire Elon Musk, I have no interest in ever logging on there again.
Yep... that statement kicked me right over the fence I was on.
yes, I try really hard not to give them my eyeballs these days. I wish we crossposted with links less and just copied or screenshotted the info we are trying to share from there.
Why would I visit Reddit?
there are still a lot of subreddit that haven't ported to Lemmy [not porting the entire subreddit with all the post to lemmy]
You can move entire subreddits here all posts included?
You sure can. Details here: https://lemmy.world/comment/325260
I have gone back only to rob my content from a specific sub and post it here. I immediately feel like a scab for giving them 1 traffic. Then I close it.
I treat the blackout and what came after (replaced mods, etc) as a strike. I don’t cross picket lines and I don’t support scabs.
I haven’t been back since the blackout kicked off. I even feel dirty seeing posts about Reddit here and mostly avoid them because I can guess at the content. You can guess how disgustingly dirty I feel actually replying to a Reddit thread here!
Don't feel bad about replying to reddit-related threads on lemmy. If it's on lemmy and not reddit, it's good.
TBH, I really wish people wouldn't repost Reddit stuff here. And frankly, it feels like those folks are just addicted to Reddit and can't give it up. I suspect most people are finding posts that were super popular on Reddit and just posting it here to appease their personal upvote obsession.
Like fr, just skip the extra steps and go back to Reddit, theres no need for anyone to shovel Reddit's dogshit over the fence into Lemmy's front yard.
The only Reddit "reposting" I really support is what they're doing over at lemmit.online - and that's because it all stays on their instance, and they use a single bot to do it, so you only have to block a single user to get it all out of your /all feed.
Well, yeah. That's why I'm mostly here instead.
My Redditing is down from hours daily to a few minutes, at a couple of specific subReddits with info and news I haven't yet been able to find elsewhere.
I've felt gross for years, ever since they switched from old reddit to the new trash design. I used old.reddit.com for a bit, but stopped once I saw how much tracking garbage ublock was blocking, even on old reddit.
Before lemmy I was using teddit as a privacy focused frontend for reddit which worked great. But now the API changes will kill teddit so no more reddit for me!
Not really, I'm going there to watch a slow motion train wrecking into a dumpster fire nowadays.
I've always permanently browsed with Ublock Origin on desktop or Apollo on mobile... So they get effectively no revenue from me aside from maybe selling my browsing habits. Either way Ad revenue is likely what's keeping them afloat right now so that helps it feel a little less dirty. Once my niche subreddits are moved over it's bye bye forever
We don't go to Ravenholm anymore.
I just don't visit Reddit. Problem solved.
I could totally see a 70s detective parody movie titled "Dick Justice!". Either that or a porno. Either way, it's a winner.
Hah hah, I wish could take credit for it, but it's a Max Payne reference :)
I still check out a few specialised subs that haven't' made it over here or that I can't find a Facebook equivalent I like yet. One is for our local town and one is for cancer support. I don't feel great about it, but as I used to spend hours a day on Reddit it's a vast improvement. Don't let perfect stand in the way of good is how I look at it. I may just end up starting the cancer patient support ones on my own over here, but I'm hoping someone that knows what they are doing will beat me to it.
I haven’t been back yet (at least not intentionally; I’ve carelessly clicked some links that opened reddit but I closed them right away.) At some point I do want to go back and see if a couple of my weirder, smaller communities have made any announcements about moving off reddit. If they haven’t/won’t, then I guess I’ll have to learn to live without them. (Arguably the healthier option but what can I say? I’m weak! If I don’t have to give them up, I won’t.)
Don’t know if I’ll be able to bring myself to delete my account. Again I know I probably should, but I really don’t want to for reasons I can’t articulate.
@Suedeltica it's probably because we've used it for years and now it's a sentimental thing... sigh
@hardypart
No, but my last visit is likely on the horizon
I either use ad-block or the "unsanctioned" RiF app and am only there to watch it die rather than engage
Only delaying deleting my account to give them a fair chance to course-correct before the apps that make it usable shut down (or tweak their codebase to work with Lemmy)
I don't.
I haven't visited Reddit since the second day of the whole fiasco.
Currently only using rif occasionally as some subreddits haven't transferred only, otherwise I'm browsing here, but I feel bad.
I haven't taken baconreader off my phone yet because I'm not ready, but I also don't visit Reddit anymore either. I'm pretty happy on Lemmy right now, and I was thinking about giving Mastodon a go.
Tip for Mastodon.
Use an app called Tusky, and then subscribe to #hashtags, by selecting a hashtag and then clicking the plus '+' button.
That's a quick way of getting your feed populated with things you like to see/read.
omg THANK YOU
You're welcome!
Been on mastodon for a while but will try this, thank you :)
It's just become so toxic. I remember when I used to enjoy going to Reddit and it used to make me feel good. It used to make me laugh. Now it's just negativity.
Yea I had to purge a lot of subs because of the negativity taking over. Just moved over and the communities are great here and feels positive so far, just need a bigger user base now. Here's hoping we get more users after the API changes.
I won't go back. I'm a full lemming now.
Totally agree!
Unfortunately I'm visiting on old.reddit every now and again to keep up with sport news. Once the transfer window is over it's goodbye Vienna.
I feel like going to the Chernobyl exclusion zone every time I had to specifically go in there, not to access content from there (I use libreddit, teddit or archive.org for that), but to check on my accounts (via old.reddit).
What I do is to just do what I need to do, see if any of my posts or comments have resurfaced, scrub them off, delete them (or just use Power Delete Suite for that), and then go back out without any delay. The less time I spend there, the better.
I feel the same. I feel like the main place to find out if anything is going to happen is on reddit, though... I don't know what I expect to happen besides things to get worse.
I go on Reddit when i google something.
please dont feel bad, it takes time to wean yourself off reddit
Just slowly reduce the amount of time you spend on it and spend more time on other stuff
However for you all out there, esp if you are a mod working hard to migrate your community here, we can understand going on reddit as a necessary evil to do in order to move your communities
Been mainly using lemmy recently. On Reddit I only go to r/save3rdpartyapps to stay up to date with the bullshit
I've been wanting to quit reddit for a long time. It hasn't been the same for years, and it's just gotten worse over time. I'm hoping that lemmy provides me something close to what reddit used to give me: great quality discussion and debate concerning real ideas. Maybe I'm just getting older and more bitter over time, but it seems like the entire website is inundated with children on mobile devices who can't think of any idea more complex than one which can be summed up in a single sentence and a Laughing Crying emoji. If not, I'll see if I can't get a tildes invite. But, yes, going back to reddit feels like cheating on a diet, or smoking a cigarette when you're trying to quit.
Considering the only time I visit reddit is to keep deleting my posts that pop up after I run my deletion script, no, I don't.
Wish I knew about this deletion script before I deleted my account
Yes, also because of all the nsfw content.
I'm using Apollo until it shuts down. Then my only interaction with Reddit will be via old.reddit.com
There are browser extensions that will automatically do this for all Reddit links
What extensions do this? Are they on android browsers as well?
Search for old Reddit browser extension. There is a Chrome and Firefox version, not sure about android.
Reddit redirect does it. You can install in on Firefox for Android
I only visit r/all and just to see if there's any big anti-reddit news floating near the top.
Personally I don't. Reddit won't go away anytime soon.
Instead, I have a reminder to delete my posted content and account when 2 days are remaining until API becomes paid. The I would only visit Reddit using desktop and never on mobile.
Why wait? Sounds like an unconscious way to prolong the inevitable or accidently not do it since you won't be able to after that if something comes up.
There are still few days left for us to scroll through the shitposts until our loved apps stop working.. 😅
Yeah, I check out the existentialist french cinema shitpost images of women smoking on redscarepod and some buttcoin for the luls, via teddit. Found a decent bud of buttcoin on fediverse and I fully expect to be ready to unceremoniously stop anonymously lurking come July 1st and let reddit digg itself into a shithole.
I hVent logged in since the blackout. So no.
Rmemeber to use adblock + don't use the default app
Good luck not using the default app next month.
Ez pz. Already use adblockers on everything I own
everytime i open my thirdparty client i remind myself that its stupid to do.. since i need to get away from reddit slowly. it will stop working anyway in a few days so i should rather now distance myself on mobile from it.. but somehow i open it again and again.. so yes. feels bad. :/
I don't feel dirty, but I do get sickened by the comments being thrown around over there. I'm spending about 90% of my previous reddit time, here. So, I'm pretty close to weaning myself off that crack at this point.
Supporting whosit? Never heard of em.
Haven't visited it since June 11th and only plan on going back on June 30th to delete all my comments/posts/accounts. I already cut the cord and I'm moving on to multiple other sites. Do I miss reddit? Yes, but in my mind, the reddit I knew is already gone and it's not coming back. Even if they backed down on their stupid API policy at this point, they've done enough BS that there's not really any turning back on any of this.
Burn the ships with the rest of us. I shredded my account replacing every comment with "fuck u/spez" then deleted my account.
meh. i block ads, they dont get much from me. im certainly using it less though
I don't mind browsing the web version with my ad blocker. Before, it was just because I don't like ads. But the icing on the cake now is the knowledge that every byte I siphon off their server costs them something that they will never get back from me
There's a moment when I am googling and the most promising result that shows up is an answer on Reddit... Like ugh, how bad do I really want to know this answer. Gross.
I only visit now when I have an obscure game question that's only been asked and answered on Reddit 3 years ago. I don't feel too bad because I have an adblocker
Honestly that's the only thing I use reddit for and I really hope people don't nuke their comment history...
I had a game crash at initial loading after it had an update and would have never guessed it was related to the number of virtual buttons my flight stick had set if it was not for a random reddit thread about a different game.
Yep, unfortunately not enough people from some of my niche subs have moved over (if any) so i'm finding myself checking every now and then. Its either check reddit or twitter for the news I'm seeking so feel a little stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Been using discord options for a few of the sports related ones, but not all the niches exist here yet. I would create those subs here but I don't have the foggiest clue of how to make changes here nor do I have the time to be an actual mod and do those communities justice.
I think it'll just take a little time. I just finally made the move. Poked around the last few weeks but didn't make an account till now. There will probably be a big influx on the first if I had to guess.
I removed Boost from my phone's home screen, and haven't been back to the site in at least a week.
Well that's not entirely true, I used my porn account a few times. That's one thing I will miss. So much porn.
I really want a version of boost for the fediverse.
I deleted both my active accounts when the API changes were first announced and have not logged in or made a new account since.
I do own one former reddit account with the same username as this one but it's been suspended for a couple months due to a "security issue". They wanted me to reset my password to a more secure one but I don't have an email linked to that account so I can't actually reset it. So I just deleted my entire comment/post history and will never be logging back into that account.
So for the past couple weeks 100% of my reddit viewing has been while logged out and via old.reddit.com with an adblocker active.
Mainly I was checking reddit just out of morbid curiousity to see how the blackout was progressing and see if spez/admins were gonna say any more laughably stupid shit.
I first started lurking on Lemmy around the same time that I deleted my 2 active reddit accounts and as it has become more active I decided to go ahead and make an account here and give it a proper try. So far I'm enjoying myself and I hope this place continues to grow more as more people abandon reddit.
I deleted Apollo off my phone because I kept mindlessly going there. I'm going to miss Apollo, great app. Really looking forward to Artemis for kbin.
I have been slowly using it less and less over the years in general. It's still useful if I'm searching for something on DDG. I also still visit some of the small or local subs.
YES.
Yeah, kinda. I'd been following a game pretty closely, Eternights. The developer was pretty active on Reddit, and I had been following him and the game since he first advertised on the Persona 5 sub. His demo just came out yesterday and the game comes out later this year. I had to log in to send him a congrats message and I even felt like I had to apologize to him for it.
I just go from time to time to see what a shitshow it has become.
I've downloaded all my saved off content, and plan on deleting all my comments/posts for whatever that's worth. We'll see if they restore any of it. I'll probably delete my accounts some time after the 1st.
When Boost stops working it'll be easier for me to avoid. Fuck their app. Just wish m/fantasy was more active so I didn't keep slipping back to the r/ equivalent.
I do now. I'm slowly purging the communities and people I follow there as I migrate over to here.
They have to if they want to keep providing their service in the EU.
Nah not really but I also DNS blocked it last week. I don't know if I will unblock it to delete my accounts.
No client anymore, so cannot visit anymore
There are some things that just aren’t really here yet with regards to searchability and history, so so I’ve been back a little bit for some research.
That research was triggered by leaving Reddit though, like I’m using Reddit to leave Reddit and clean up my digital life.
In the last 10 years the internet has just been in a downward spiral and I didn’t really notice it happening. The enshittification everyone is talking about. For me it started with switching from a blackberry to an iPhone and Thunderbird entering non-development mode and Google Reader going away. I had systems, and they got disrupted, and every website became almost unusable with the ads and constant intrusion into my life and data. It all turned into a perpetual doom scroll.
So I’m going on a social media diet (only opening Instagram and Facebook to announce I’m available for work) and getting RSS back into my life to make things actually readable again. But this kind of stuff is where searching “(region) news rss feeds Reddit” is still the best way to find things.
Looking forward to kbin and/or lemmy taking over that niche.
Totally agree. A lot of the niche communities I've been in haven't moved to lemmy yet, and I have to go back to reddit to search for something. Does kinda feel dirty, but its necessary sometimes. I am soo, sooo looking forward to kbin making that a less often occurance, the community is already a ton less negative and it already feels like reddit used to before stuff started sliding.
I don't feel dirty because I don't go to reddit.
Nah, I just clone and entry or two from top month/year/all then come back into my favorite sublemmies
absolutely... waiting for MVP of sync for lemmy...
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I specifically have only been going on to find the Lemmy replacement links. After the 30th though, I’m going to put a firewall setting up so I can’t accidentally go on Reddit when I go to search questions about games and the likes.
Since I use an ad blocker, visiting reddit means I'm making them spend money for no revenue.
I deleted my 10yr account history but left the account so the username wouldn't be recycled. I haven't logged in since but have browsed old reddit front page without logging in.
I don't think reddit can monetize browsing old without logging in that much, and at least I'm making their servers work. Maybe I'm just rationalizing but I don't feel that dirty just browsing.
I do. But I can't bring myself to delete Sync from my phone. Its only purpose is to serve as a reminder that I'm waiting for Sync for Lemmy but sometimes I click on it by accident. Muscle memory.
The community from my city and country hasn't left in droves yet, so I'm still checking in on those subs. The city does have a Discord however so I'm on there now with the regulars.
I have reddit blocked at the router level (Eero mesh network). It's worked great, they've seen no traffic from my IP since the blackout. I habitually try to visit the site but that block has greatly helped...... until the software glitched and I started seeing reddit - turns out I had to reboot my router and that fixed the issue. But damn I felt dirty accidentally visiting the site again - but I didn't miss it, I could see it had changed.
I'm only using it on PC with extremely aggressive adblocking and not interacting at all so I figure I'm just draining their resources so no.
Yeah. Party's over. Spez will be king of a corpse
At this point I’m just enjoying Apollo while I still can.
Reddit basically doesn't exist anymore so I wouldn't know.
It's not about the ads. It's about the whole thing that's going down right now.
I quit visiting Reddit.
Thanks - this post made me think to check if there are browser plugins that automatically redirect Reddit links to teddit. There's teddit redirect for Firefox and teddit please for Chrome. Mobile is more difficult but it's a start.
Tbh yes, after the recent updates on the whole thematic im activily trying to be more active on other plattforms :D
no more than I usually do...
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