Had to replace one addiction with another

I figure reddit is going to get real shitty with the mass exodus, and I wanted to familiarize myself with a new social media app rather than watch my time waster from the last 6 years go down the toilet

Also I struggle with an eating disorder and continually got ads about intermittent fasting that were extremely triggering. I kept reporting them and they kept appearing in one way or another. So it really wasn’t hard to convince me to delete that shit

I left Reddit after the hypocrisy coming from the leadership at Reddit and with their decisions. After the AMA from Spez, it was the final nail in the coffin for my decision to leave Reddit, instead of taking accountability and owning up to their mistakes, they had completely attempted to justify their actions and seeing the developers’ work go down the drain was heartbreaking, and I stand in solidarity with them. Even though I might be some minor spec to the entirety of Reddit, I still feel it’s important to stand up for the community, even if it doesn’t matter to them.

I’m witnessing a slow death of my beloved RIF. If they’re killing it, I’m going down with that ship. I think spez solidified my choice with the Q&A.

I went back to see who was participating in the blackout and who wasn’t. A lot of subreddits aren’t that I had followed. I have been slowly but surely unsubcribing from all subreddits that still have posts barring things like the Ukraine subreddit where it’s obviously really important for that one to still be active.

Once all that is done… I’m not going to have a reason to go back. I think this is the best way. I may salvage some of my old posts and repost them here where relevant. Then deactivate my account forever.

I don’t agree with the direction of the internet. I think I need to practice what I preach and this in my opinion is the right way to go about it.

They killed Apollo, the standard Reddit Client on iOS is unusable and also I have an issue supporting a lying piece of garbage.

It’s apparent that the Reddit CEO doesn’t appreciate that most of their content is produced by users and moderated by unpaid mods. I fully think Reddit deserves to be paid for API usage somehow, but stubbornly asking 24 cents per 1000 requests is ridiculous.

After 15 years of using Reddit, I was finally getting comfortable with Boost.

I knew this time would come, because corporations got to corporate… but it’s still annoying.

I hope enough people come over to give Lemmy critical mass.

Baconreader or bust

Boost was Reddit for me

Corporate greed has got a real bad stench , and I am not about that life. I will be on reddit until one day I am so use to opening Lemmy instead , until then I guess I will never truly leave reddit.

API changes will probably kill Relay. Even if they don’t, want to quit out of principal (principle?).

Anyway, nice to meet y’all. Hope this takes off.

I wanted to join Reddit this week, and found it was going into “interesting times”. So I joined Lemmy instead.

• 👎 Con reddit: Buggy web page on desktop. It always asks me to use the app on mobile. No thanks.
• 👍 Pro: Lemmy: fast loading web page, no banners. It works.

Haven’t fully left yet, just waiting for data request exports to come in then I’m out since I already got the communities I’m in setup and wiped my posts, but pretty much what you’d expect.

I used Infinity as opposed to Apollo but same idea applies, I only ever used that or old.reddit, never the new site, so those going away was already a deal breaker for me, but their recent actions beyond that just further motivated me to go full speed ahead on this.

I’m still lurking in case of any interesting communities that could go here, I spotted about 5 different cat sub’s I can list for that, and I’m still waiting on my data to get sent over, but after that then I’m gone for good.

I only want to use third party apps to browse reddit, infinity is awesome. Also I read that reddit is trying to force people to use their app by blocking them from accessing reddit on their mobile browser. Fuck 'em.