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

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.

Clovermite,

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,

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,

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,

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,

That was well said and couldn’t agree more!

Kaizo107,
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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,
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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,

Bye bye Reddit.

Uriel238,

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

Bruhmoment,

Honestly I'm relieved tbf. It's only after leaving reddit did I realize how toxic the userbase is and how negatively it affects my mental health. The people in the fediverse are more civil, friendly and kind and I couldn't be more thankful for it. It might sound selfish but I really don't want the reddit bigots to migrate here. I've edited my comments and deleted my accounts won't be going back on reddit again even if the API issue gets resolved.

thefloatingpoint,

I mostly lurk on Reddit. Which will end as soon as Apollo is gone. Only exception was Saturday when Russia went BOINK for a moment. Couldn’t control myself and went on a shitposting spree on r/worldpolitics.

iamsgod,

gotta say i'm quite surprised that some communities are thriving here. sure it's only a fraction of what's on reddit, but it's still quite active

ramin_hal9001,

I just logged-in for the first time in about 3 weeks to start deleting all of my posts.

First you have to edit the post and replace all the text with "(deleted)", then you have to wait for the change to be registered in the Reddit database. After a short time, you can delete the post, but it wont actually be deleted, it will just be impossible for you to change the text of the post anymore.

They ostensibly provide tools for you to request a copy of all of your data, and to request they delete your data. But many have demonstrated that these tools actually do absolutely nothing.

yonerboner,

Yeah I haven't used reddit since the blackouts other than a few google searches leading me there, and checking to make sure my comments stay deleted. Fuck steve huffman

s0phia,
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Yeah, the content I used to enjoy there just disappeared because of shitty John Oliver memes or lockdowns. There isn't much left for me to do there.

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