Curious, if you were/are a Reddit user, will you be leaving the platform for good or have you already? CEO has called unpaid moderators' concerns "noise", that will be "passing soon."

pezmaker, 1 year ago

I'm out, but I'm not committed enough to delete the account. Yet. But I sure won't be giving clicks and views.

Computerchairgeneral, 1 year ago

Pretty much done with Reddit. There are a few niche hobby and interest communities I might check in on, but it's going to be where I spend the majority of my time online. There's just nothing I get from Reddit that I can't find elsewhere. Besides there are probably better ways to use all the time I used to waste scrolling through my Reddit feed.

east, 1 year ago

Besides there are probably better ways to use all the time I used to waste scrolling through my Reddit feed.

Honestly it's kind of nice having a full fledged app in my pocket to burn time with. Though I'm not opposed to one for kbin (or the existing one for lemmy), it's been pretty refreshing just having my access mostly be limited to desktop. I do find myself more centered on what's happening in front of me when I'm out and about.

There are a few niche hobby and interest communities I might check in on

I hope we see even more niche communities see growth on different instances. I've noticed quite a few are popping up with subscribers, they just need participation from the community more than anything. I think they will get that as more people adopt the platform.

CoolBeance, 1 year ago

Been there for almost 12 years. I'm not going back unless something drastic changes, and even then I might drift between Lemmy and Reddit considering there's no guarantee Reddit will "be good" in the future.

east, 1 year ago

Yeah, totally understandable. That's quite a run. As you've said even if they were to backpedal and reverse everything- which they won't there's definitely no guarantee it won't just happen again in the future. It seems like they're using a heavy hand this time, and now they're even threatening to oust mods for protesting.

Tormented, 1 year ago

I'm in the same boat. My account is coming up on 12 in a month or two. I might pop in to communities here and there for info but my days off activity are 100% gone.

I already purged all my history. Even if they rolled everything back what's the point? I'd rather just hang out here with smaller groups of nicer people.

SpacemanSpiff, 1 year ago

I’m probably out. I haven’t checked on Reddit since coming here. There’s only one sub I’ll actually miss, but the bottom line is that I don’t do ads, especially on my tiny mobile real estate (which was the entirety of my Reddit use, via Apollo).

I do pay for services that I like in lieu of, for example, Kagi search and NextDNS. So I find it insulting (but not unexpected) that Reddit would like to have their cake and eat it too by charging for features and jamming ads in the feed constantly.

Kbin is my site now, and I feel even better about that decision when I see how Ernest cares about in terms of the work being put in and communication.

east, 1 year ago

Now that I think of it, I haven't checked Reddit either since coming here. I really do think once people set foot here or on any instance for that matter there's a good chance they won't want to go back. I also feel like, there's really nothing stopping people from striking up new communities to represent ones they (and others) may have lost, which is great. Also I have a similar approach on the ads, I run ad-guard DNS on my phone and it works with most things, but what it doesn't work with doesn't get a place on my phone.

TimesEcho, 1 year ago

I haven't been back since Saturday. I still have an account I hardly ever actually logged into, but I'm Fediverse all the way now.