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.

curt,

I converted to Reeder from Apollo to read my subscribed subreddits. I only converted about a quarter of them. Now that I go through every post, I'm dropping a few more subreddits for not being very interesting. At this rate, I may quit altogether.

lunarshot,

Haven’t been back since June 1st. I am enjoying Lemmy and the Fediverse greatly. I am trying to contribute and comment as much as I can.

Gorroth,
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I haven’t been on Reddit since two days before the blackout and it looks like I will only go back one time in the future to migrate some of my posts over. I then will change my posts and comments there and delete them afterwards (so they will hopefully remain useless if Reddit restores them). After all of that I will then ask them to fully delete all of my account, comments and posts (DSGVO), as I am from Europe and should be able to make use of that right (we will see if that works, as many people complain about Reddit not doing that).

abff08f4813c,
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Well, I did log in to overwrite posts and comments periodically and as subs went public again.

And I've been checking in with r/ModCoord every once in a blue moon, but only via teddit and anonymously (not using an account).

But if those don't count those then I haven't been back at all since.

Rhaedas,
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I was Googling something and hit a link without realizing it was an old Reddit thread. That's the only time, my social browsing otherwise has switched to posts and microblogs on kbin every day. We're not quite ready to say we've replaced Reddit at the scale, but look how far it's come in less than a month. Just have to ride another wave of new users surging in, lots of questions and confusion, and probably more crashes from demand.

Neato,
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ModCoord, stickies on the protests, saving my Saved, and SEO results have also been the only uses of reddit since the blackout started. Losing reddit's wealth of knowledge collected over 2 decades is really going to suck.

abff08f4813c,
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This almost happened to me today too.

But instead of going to the reddit link I saw a link to a forum dedicated to the topic I saw searching for (hammocks) and got my quality advice from there instead.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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,
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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?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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