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.

AstralJaeger,
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I'm still occasionally browsing it as I still enjoy using Apollo, its really just that good of an app. But I'll be cutting ties on the 30th once the API key expires.
As others meantioned, I'll make sure to delete my accout with GPDR and pursue action should they bring my content back.

TwilightVulpine,

I quit it around the end of the blackout, when a lot of redditors started to get nasty towards protesting mods and even got all smug at their own impotence. Too many people being like "what, you really think that's gonna do anything?". They have no self-respect, no passion, no appreciation for the efforts of others. What good can there be of being surrounded by people like that?

FergleFFergleson,

I was just thinking about this this morning. 14 year old account. The only reason I've been back in the last couple of weeks has been to work on purging my comments, posts, etc and to harvest information from saved posts (all with the intent to delete the account entirely on the 30th). I do find myself missing some subreddits occasionally, but for most of the content I've been able to find suitable alternatives.

What I have really noticed is how much browsing reddit had become an "idle activity" for me - don't have something immediately in front of me to do? Why not browse reddit? It's become really apparent just how much time every day I was wasting there.

FergleFFergleson,

I was just thinking about this this morning. 14 year old account. The only reason I've been back in the last couple of weeks has been to work on purging my comments, posts, etc and to harvest information from saved posts (all with the intent to delete the account entirely on the 30th). I do find myself missing some subreddits occasionally, but for most of the content I've been able to find suitable alternatives.

What I have really noticed is how much browsing reddit had become an "idle activity" for me - don't have something immediately in front of me to do? Why not browse reddit? It's become really apparent just how much time every day I was wasting there.

FaceDeer,
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I'm still somewhat present on Reddit, but I definitely feel a sort of "winding down" going on. I'm not commenting much any more and I rarely scroll past the first page. I'm sticking around because there's still some groups of interest over there that aren't present here yet but I foresee that changing over time.

r00ty,

I've pretty much only commented on threads related to protesting and what I think of the situation. Not much else.

muftiboy,

this. that way you don't even have to delete stuff when all your comments are bad for The Man 🍻

DarthYoshiBoy,
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I've been checking into my user page just to see if they've sent me my user data backup I requested a while ago. Other than checking for that message, I've been 100% clean and it hasn't been terribly hard. Between Kbin and Tildes, I've been getting all the commentary and aggregation that I want or need.

Moonburger,

I quit on the 8th when Apollo formally announced its shutdown.

I will say that since KBin has a lot less content, I have been spending more time reading books in my backlog and generally being more productive, so quitting Reddit has been a net positive in my life.

However, there are still times I click on Reddit links from Google. Old habits.

snailwizard,
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I used to check there every day but it's been two weeks of not. It's great! I'm checking out here and Lemmy (I like kbin's layout and vibes a lot, but Lemmy has beta apps lol) I feel like I've had more time for life.

Takeshidude,

I check r/fanedits on my desktop as that’s a pretty active and reasonably accessible segment of the community, but I haven’t been to any other sub since the API news dropped

eleitl,

I've been more active on Reddit than in years. Need to assist people with their exits and preparing mine. The mobile hammer drops in a few days, and I expect to be completely wiped before old.reddit.com is dead.

yunggwailo,
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I still casually browse because im a messy bitch addicted the drama but I foresee myself stopping using it when the 3rd party apps die.

nivenkos,

Check Reveddit - https://www.reveddit.com/

Ever since posting about Lemmy half of my comments are shadow-banned anyway.

HubertManne,
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I put in my data request and they are claiming it could take a month. As such I have been on it but only to follow up on that and i made someone a mod of a sub since I announce I was leaving but not "really" on it. Don't surf it. Can't wait to delete my comments after the data request and will repeat that for awhile. unfortunately I like will not delete the account for like a year given the way things are going with comments being reinstated.

FoodDude,

Same! I like it here, people are friendly and it's not so crowded 😄

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