I haven't been on Reddit since the 11th... Anyone else?

tkohldesac, 10 months ago

Yup! Same here. Had someone recommend kbin on mastodon so I made my way here. Deleted 2 10+ year old Reddit accounts and cut all ties. I went in anonymously to check out what happened with that submarine but otherwise cut all ties. The amount of my life I've taken back by dropping that site is incredible. I didn't realize how much of my time was spent doomscrolling there. Now I'm playing guitar, playing games and building web dev projects with all the time I'm saving. I never got into Twitter but from my understanding a lot of people have had my same experience dropping that site too.

TechyShishy, 10 months ago

Ouch. We wish we could say we had the same experience. Apparently, doomscrolling was part of what was keeping us afloat. Once we dropped that, we sunk much deeper into our depression. We're glad that you had a better experience though.

ForestOrca, 10 months ago

DownloadedDeleted both my 12+ year old accts. Moved to Kbin / Lemmy / Mastodon - I'll settle into a rhythm with the new one. And yeah, Reddit had gotten addictive for me, so it's best I move on anyway. Yay Open Source!!

Frog-Brawler, 10 months ago

Well it’s good that you’re honest that Reddit was addictive, but I hope you realize that you’re just replacing your addiction with a similar addiction. It’s like detoxing off of whiskey by drinking home brewed beers.

ForestOrca, 10 months ago

What a coincidence, I'm also a homebrewer. LoL

dismalnow, 10 months ago

I think it might have been me. Are you rawb or gristle?

Regardless, I am fond of the fact that the fediverse is small enough to where that's not a ridiculous question to ask.

tkohldesac, 10 months ago

Gristle - Thanks for the recommendation!

dismalnow, 10 months ago

Amazing!

Jojo-Mcfrost572, 10 months ago

So you haven't cut ties if you were on Reddit reading stuff

tkohldesac, 10 months ago

I guess you're right, hahaha!

b00m, 10 months ago

I've noticed my browsing behavior really improved again after 13+ years on reddit.
I seek out more individual content, get my news from actual news sites and find more interesting stuff to read.

SonnyVabitch, 10 months ago

I noticed that in my insatiable craving of information I am now reading the newsletters in my email inbox that have gone unnoticed for years!

YeezyUmplebutter, 10 months ago

This is my exact situation. 10+ year old account. Once Apollo announced its shutdown I went ahead and downloaded redact and scrambled previous comments. Spent a few days searching through different socials and landed on kbin. I check it less frequently for sure. But I’ve gotten a lot of time back.

tkohldesac, 10 months ago

Same! Didn't even realize I had a bunch of replies to this comment til just now. Feels good to be free.

PascalSausage, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I’ve been dipping in and out, but frankly I can see myself leaving it behind entirely in the future. It’s really, REALLY apparent how toxic and miserable the majority of Reddit is when you’ve spent time using a platform where the main point isn’t to collect as many upvotes and awards as possible at the expense of empathy for your fellow humans.

Semmelstulle, 10 months ago

I've been boycotting Reddit for three weeks so far but I did come back today. I deleted my content and commented about a possible GDPR (DSGVO in German) lawsuit if they bring back my content. I recorded my user page pre deletion, while deletion and after deletion. I have the exact date and time in the global menu so there is no fracking around from Reddit. I'll happily contact the German agency responsible for GDPR complaints.

pro, 10 months ago

I stopped using reddit cold turkey when the blackouts were announced. It’s been 3 weeks now and I’m better off for it.

siderealyear, 10 months ago

Same here, I was surprised how fast the reflex to look at it during every quiet moment went away.

rm_dash_r_star, 10 months ago

Same here, not missing it.

cavemeat, 10 months ago

I did the same thing. It made me much happier overall to not have contact with the neaderthals over there.

iAmTheTot, 10 months ago

Same. Found kbin, signed up, haven't looked back.

Boiglenoight, 10 months ago

Same, but Lemmy.world. I like the look of Kbin, but concerned about interoperability.

PenguinJuice, 10 months ago

Same. This reminds me a lot of old reddit. Thank God for that

zedtronic, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I check in every once in a while, at least until Apollo stops working. I mostly just stick to giving people Reddit alternatives or explaining the federated internet so people aren't scared of such a simple thing.

Selfishly I just didn't want to use the Official App with ads. But once there's a viable alternative to Reddit, and it's actually better than Reddit, why would I go back? "hurr durr cause I can get a thousand updoots on my post". Who cares? It's about the quality of engagement. I was surprised how many people unironically care about their internet points and tie their identity up with a website.

Maestro, 10 months ago

I went back to Reddit today, to delete my 12 year old, 25K karma account and all my posts and comments. Otherwise I haven't been there. Occasionally some search result will take me there for something hyper-specific thing, but I haven't browsed reddit since I joined kbin.

Clovermite, 9 months ago

I’ve been pretty active on reddit. My initial attempts to migrate to lemmy didn’t work out so well (the server I first joined wasn’t pulling in the posts from other federated servers like it was supposed to), and just right now I don’t have a whole lot going on, so I’m not willing to just quit cold turkey.

I just got setup in SFFA though, so I’m hoping I we see more communities popping up. I’d love to support the boycott, but I’m not giving up my access to good posts if they don’t start migrating to an alternative enough.

4onTheFloor, 10 months ago

Still back and forth. Getting into using Lemmy more. I use Boost for Reddit. Not logged in anymore and deleted my stuff. Soon as the app crashes I'm completely gone. It's my last social media outlet. After that's dead, Lemmy all the way.

Connect for Lemmy is pretty good app too. Jerboa for Lemmy keeps crashing and not loading properly.

cannedtuna, 10 months ago

I’ll be honest, I logged on yesterday for the first time since the blackout… to delete my Reddit account. I don’t and won’t miss it.

Gruntyfish, 10 months ago

I haven't browsed reddit since then, but I have opened a few threads that I came across on Google when trying to find answers to some questions I had. I think it'll be a long time before most people can completely abandon reddit since there are so many old threads discussing niche questions.

Yasuke, 10 months ago

That was well said and couldn’t agree more!

Kaizo107, 10 months ago

I haven't been on Facebook in almost 10 years, I deleted both my Twitter accounts the day Elon officially bought the site, but I gotta confess, I've been back to Reddit a few times via Google, to get some niche questions answered. It's become such a backlog of discussion for so many topics that it's kind of not feasible to just wipe it off the map, we have to be able to migrate all that stuff somewhere Spez isn't able to fuck with it.

"Why is the audio crackling in Armored Core 4 on RPSC3?" Answered a year ago

"How can my new smoker's chip tray work without holes?" It can't, everyone with that smoker replaces the tray, answered seven years ago.

And of course, I don't know where else to find an easy compilation of over 14 different imgur albums and GDrive documents for Monster Hunter meta builds, so even if I bookmark them now, I still had to go back to get the links in the first place.

communistcapy, 10 months ago

Reddit was a good excuse for me to finally fully move to fediverse stuff. I use libredirect whenever I need to search for info from reddit, and otherwise am boycotting it completely.

brey1013, 10 months ago

Bye bye Reddit.

Uriel238, 10 months ago

I quit on the 10th and have only swung by to gawk at sexy John Oliver