Just realized that the other day.
I had initially intended to feel it out and honor the blackout from 12-14, then figured, “I’m here now, might as well ride out the month if Reddit isn’t responding in any meaningful way to the community’s requests” and now I think I’ll just be in the fedi apps for the foreseeable future.
It’s different here, but it hasn’t been a struggle and it gets better and better with time. Feels nice to not support inhumane and user-hostile endless corporate greed.
I stopped using reddit cold turkey when the blackouts were announced. It’s been 3 weeks now and I’m better off for it.
Same. Found kbin, signed up, haven’t looked back.
Same here, not missing it.
Same. This reminds me a lot of old reddit. Thank God for that
With all my new free time, I discovered these things called RSS feeds. I think they might catch on! Wait, is it not 2004 anymore…?
Some of my Google searches have resulted in reddit links. I question real hard how much I need whatever info is stored in that link before deciding to click.
It’s unfortunate, but Reddit has SO MUCH valuable content that we have given to it. I’m hoping the fediverse will gradually start acquiring that same content along with more content.
Deleted my account during the AMA. Reddit is dead to me.
Same! I like it here, people are friendly and it’s not so crowded 😄
I still casually browse because im a messy bitch addicted the drama but I foresee myself stopping using it when the 3rd party apps die.
I quit on the 8th when Apollo formally announced its shutdown.
I will say that since KBin has a lot less content, I have been spending more time reading books in my backlog and generally being more productive, so quitting Reddit has been a net positive in my life.
However, there are still times I click on Reddit links from Google. Old habits.
I’ve been checking into my user page just to see if they’ve sent me my user data backup I requested a while ago. Other than checking for that message, I’ve been 100% clean and it hasn’t been terribly hard. Between Kbin and Tildes, I’ve been getting all the commentary and aggregation that I want or need.
I put in my data request and they are claiming it could take a month. As such I have been on it but only to follow up on that and i made someone a mod of a sub since I announce I was leaving but not “really” on it. Don’t surf it. Can’t wait to delete my comments after the data request and will repeat that for awhile. unfortunately I like will not delete the account for like a year given the way things are going with comments being reinstated.
I used to check there every day but it’s been two weeks of not. It’s great! I’m checking out here and Lemmy (I like kbin’s layout and vibes a lot, but Lemmy has beta apps lol) I feel like I’ve had more time for life.
Nope. Once the announcement was made about the blackout I found Lemmy, removed Reddit from my favourites, abandoned Apollo and closed the chapter.
- Newsgroups
- Old forums
- Digg
I’m still somewhat present on Reddit, but I definitely feel a sort of “winding down” going on. I’m not commenting much any more and I rarely scroll past the first page. I’m sticking around because there’s still some groups of interest over there that aren’t present here yet but I foresee that changing over time.
I’ve pretty much only commented on threads related to protesting and what I think of the situation. Not much else.
this. that way you don’t even have to delete stuff when all your comments are bad for The Man 🍻
Same. Used to go there daily like it’s my home but It doesn’t feels like home anymore.
I keep going back. Not the level of user before all this spez is a twat shit, but enough that I still cannot deny I have an addiction.
What I have noticed is that the quality of content and users has plummeted. Tons of the people who always complained about reddit being an echo chamber and the worst place in the world for free speech are now louder than ever posting some pretty racist shit and and it just gets worse from there.
Even google users have been reported as upset with the content that is coming up in searches.
