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.

PascalSausage, (edited )

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.

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

dismalnow,
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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,
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Gristle - Thanks for the recommendation!

dismalnow,
dismalnow avatar

Amazing!

Jojo-Mcfrost572,
Jojo-Mcfrost572 avatar

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

tkohldesac,
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I guess you're right, hahaha!

b00m,
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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,

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,

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

Hairyblue,
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I haven't been back either. I don't like supporting terrible people.

Hope the fediverse becomes easier to search and add interest groups.

And we get a phone app.

Marks,

I finally removed my Reddit feeds from my rss reader yesterday but have not logged on in almost 2 weeks. Apollo will remain on my phone as a monument.

WonkoTheSane,

I’m still checking Reddit. I think once Apollo goes my usage will really drop, but unfortunately Reddit was the one social media I really enjoyed and as much as I’m liking Lemmy/Kbin the communities just aren’t here yet. I hope that changes

aRei,

I was just using Sync for Reddit when I noticed I can no longer load comments and then a pop up came up that said I was being rate limited by reddit. F this, I'll no longer visit that site. I'm even considering the nuclear option of mass deleting my comment on my 12 year opd account.

Making their move as early as 3 days before the deadline. Never in my entire usage of Sync have I encountered being rate limited, even on days where I was using reddit the whole day.

CaptainTrips,

@aRei I started to get the same thing. Looks like reddit started limiting early

@Snapz

sudo,

I’ve been actively purging my account since then but new comments and posts that weren’t appearing before continue to show up, as recently as a post appearing last night. Will be waiting for my GDPR request to be processed, ensuring everything is deleted, then submitting another just to waste their time to finally delete the account.

But yeah not using the platform. It’s run its course. It was definitely not the same since 2016 election/Cambridge analytica/Russian bot brigading. Took leaving to realize how polarized and rage filled it was, even after leaving all of the default subs and finding niche communities.

WordenPond,

@Snapz 12yo account deleted. Will miss some of the content especially the ultra local stuff but I left Slashdot and Digg too. I understand the need to make money as a company, but there were better ways to achieve that than what reddit did.

dvlsg,
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I'm about 50/50, but I'm sure that ratio will shift drastically once RIF gets turned off.

JonEFive,

When RIF said they were shutting down, I took the icon off my home screen. Haven't been back since. Reddit was something I did when I was bored. Kind of like reading a newspaper or magazine. I didn't need it abs still don't. And now we have communities forming elsewhere like here on Kbin and on Lemmy that I can join, and can have a better experience while doing it.

Yeah, so long Reddit and thanks for all the fish.

SlapnutsGT,

Same. Replaced Apollo with Merge Mansion lol on my bottom bar and havent opened it since

Smoothie_Criminal,
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Redditor of 10 years, gone for good. I might leave this website too, since I'm being branded a "trans-hater" here for asking what constitutes an "anti-trans law"

ConsciousLochNess,

You’re so persecuted! When will you be free of such horrendous oppression?

jerome,
jerome avatar

bye.

TimeSquirrel, (edited )
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You're not on Reddit anymore. You might've been able to fool people with dog whistles and bad-faith arguments there, but people here are smarter than that and can see right through you.

You're among people who left that shit behind, remember?

AnonTwo,

Someone pointed me to an extension that redirects to other sites, so for the two subreddits I still track (Hololive and Arknights) I redirect them instead.

Hololive has barely moved but will probably be able to drop Arknights soon as the community here is building up more.

Pretty much everything else is here now.

patchw3rk,
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I'm ashamed. With the recent development in Russia, I had some glimpes of /r/worldnews. Other than that, I was able to stay off and enjoy my time on the fed.

Grimpen,

I was getting news from Mastodon and Lemmy during this last weekend. I still use Reddit (through Relay) for some Ukraine news. There are active enough communities/magazines covering world news. Mastodon is about as informative as Twitter is now (smaller, but most of the quality content is on there now).

The best thing is that I’ve already seen Mastodon get better ever since Musk started mucking around with Twitter, and now I’m seeing something similar but even faster with Lemmy/kbin. Just the improvement in quantity and quality of content, in addition to improvements to the actual software over the last few weeks is impressive.

I’m hopeful that come July 1st, and the casuals who try to log in with Apollo/Relay/RiF/whatever and get errors, that those who choose to try out Lemmy or kbin will have a great experience out of the gate.

Sure there is a bit more complexity, with the instances, but the slight and minimal awkwardness of dealing with foreign instances is quickly being smoothed over on the client side.

Warped,
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My account was 15 years old, I think? Whilst I am at home here. I do find out of habit open Reddit up on Desktop or Mobile. That's only been four or five times since the start of June.

somniumx,

Been there to delete my stuff - and to set up an RSS feed for the couple of subreddits that don't have a valid alternative.

Fun thing is... about half of the RSS feeds i set up, i kicked out after 2 days, realizing how much pointless fluff it all was.

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