due to the rolling blackout… I think it’s had its effect.
I think I am done with reddit.
it’s a shame because as someone who doesn’t use Facebook it was nice to have a sense of local community I otherwise don’t get online.
I still think besides the few odd regulars who brought the vibe down every chance they could, it was a genuinely great subreddit.
anyway, I’m just curious how many of you are well and truly done with reddit? not even going back for a peak?
I’m on the fence about it. I was part of the Digg migration and made it into the Eternity Club. I’ve supported the black-out and will continue to do so, but I have a soft-spot for the site and even if I’m not active on there for the time-being, I won’t be deleting my account. My ‘on the shitter’ site switched from Reddit to TikTok a couple of years ago, so I won’t miss that, but there is a vast amount of pornography on the site that is neatly contained and easily filtered that will be hard to replace.
I haven’t used Reddit since I discovered Lemmy. I was a lurker on Reddit and just browsed /r/all. That was a pretty unhealthy habit, glad that the black out happened honestly.
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I left this week. Am still trying to get the reddit experience via lemmy though. Need to have highly specialized communities, engaged user bases, and easy UI experience. Not quite there yet, but we’ll get there.
I’m genuinely done with Reddit. If they got a new CEO, new higher ups and what not then maybe I’d go back but I wouldn’t go back until I saw proof it had changed.
As of right now Reddit can burn in hell.
On top pf being the spcial media I interacted the most, Reddit also used to be my default idle scrolling app, whenever I had time to kill and a phone with Internet on my hand or when I felt like multitasking watching TV. I stopped using it for the blackout and I never really went back.
I snooped a bit through r/modcoord and r/save3rpartyapps to see how thing were going when someone mentioned them a couple of days ago and from there I went on the linked subs to see their alternative protests and vote on the subs I subscribe to, but that’s it.
I still miss some subs, but I haven’t felt the need to visit them yet, so even if I cave in, I’m no longer a daily user, just a once-twice a month one with a ton of ad blocks.
The biggest issue for me right now is troubleshooting and searching. Reddit search is awful, but google + Reddit is almost irreplaceable imo. You don’t have to read through ai generated article that’s just repeating keywords, just find a post that contains the answer.
Ai chat seems to be a pretty good replacement, but it’s still up in the air for now.
My account was 13 years old… back from the great Digg migration.
Over the past decade I’ve been very active on a range of subs, with a more recent focus on professional technology, politics and gaming.
Over the years I’d amassed in excess of 300k comment karma, and not an insignificant bit of post karma (mostly from back in the SCO tech war).
I’m walking away at this point… even if spez was kicked out the door by the Board the bad faith shown is just the straw that broke the dromedary’s back.
Since I am within the scope of GDPR and I want this to be painful on them (plus there are useful bits i refer to from my old history from time to time)… I’ve issued the GDPR data request and intend to follow through with a “right to be forgotten” GDPR data deletion request once that’s been fulfilled.
YOU WANT TO SELL ACCOUNT?
I’ll probably still occasionally visit reddit because there are some subs I am in that are just such mature communities, they are still a useful resource.
That being said, I LOVE the old school web vibes of Lemmy. I love the lack of ads. I didn’t realize how much I really missed the pre MAANG internet. It wasn’t until Lemmy began to fill the void that I realized it was there, and it is so fucking exciting having some of that wild west energy back.
I went ahead and scrubbed my post history over there. When Apollo closes out, I’ll be out. Hoping this setup continues to grow. It’s a shame, but no interest in supporting the current stupidity.
Yep… Probably. If bacon reader stops working, then definitely.
Either way I feel dirty looking, so I think we are done lol.
I’m not sure yet. Lemmy will end up being fine for lurking cool memes and seeing pictures of whales or whatever, but reddit’s massive userbase was always the draw (and the curse). I asked a question about how to install a particular air intake vent in my home and reddit is big enough that somebody was able to answer that (and correctly). Lemmy is nowhere near that big yet. Not even close. Won’t be close for a long time, if ever.
And that’s just active users. Lemmy is missing the staggering volume of already-answered questions in the past, for every subject I could imagine. And it never will have those unless they’re painstakingly ported over, and there frankly aren’t enough users to do that even if we wanted to.
In short, day to day I think I’m good on Lemmy but it’s a terrible shame that all those users and all those comment threads are wasted on that shitty company.
I agree that the depth and size of userbase is key. I don’t think its unrealistic to expect lemmy to have a better commenter to reader ratio, so we don’t necessarily need the scale of reddit… but I do agree more than is here now.
The coming weeks will determine the long-term course of Lemmy, I think. My encouragement to people is “read on reddit if you must, but only post to lemmy/kbin/federated”. That is easier to hold to than a “no reddit” diet, and it will starve reddit in the long-term. Its more realistic to get posters to stop posting to reddit than to get readers to stop reading. YMMV.
I haven’t opened RIF since the blackouts started, and it’s been pretty nice actually. It really helped stop my endless doom scrolling.
I believe I’m going to stick with Lemmy for good!
I still browse local subs, and will look at some stuff over there.
But deleted my account and wiped all the comments (hopefully, I’ve heard reddit leaves some and just hides them from your profile).
They want to monetize the content, so a good midground for now is just don’t give them content.
I’ve been on Reddit from the beginning. I never posted much as I’ve always been more of a consumer of media, rather than a creator.
But here I am casting my opinion into the echo chamber of disgruntled ex-Redditors, for no other reason than to help generate content to help keep Lemmy growing and keep people engaged.
Perhaps that will articulate how over Reddit I am. And if Aaron were still with us I have no doubt he would be leading this charge to topple it.
For Aaron.
I poked into /r today after a week away to get a view of a couple niche subs that I wanted updates on. My old friends are oblivious and just doing their thing. Then I tried my default browsing habit (/all - top/hour) and I didn’t find a single thing I wanted to engage with - just a wasteland of shitposts and memes…mind you, this was using #ApolloApp which was already set up to filter most stupidity. I won’t be spending any time there from now on.
I’m here now, trying to wean myself off relay. So far I’ve found the thunder app for Android to be the nicest.
Does anyone use any developmental kbin apps yet or is that not a thing?
