OC Any other former redditors feeling grief?

I have been joking to a couple of friends today who were also redditors that I've been feeling withdrawals from reddit throughout the day. Like I knew I was addicted, I just never thought I was going to have to face the consequences of withdrawals!

But there's also a major part of me that's feeling a sense of loss. I had two reddit accounts that were 11+ years old. I used an app called Redact last night to totally expunge my comment and submission history, and I just was hit by so many emotions watching my old content turn to ashes.

Reddit is where I always spent my depression spirals, but it was also where I found hobbyist communities and group help support. I found sexual partners through reddit, and used to even moderate in my early days. It's where I used to keep up with a TON of current events but also read from so many diverse perspectives with expertise on topics.

As much as I am tentatively excited for the culture and community we can build on kbin, I truly am feeling the inconsequential reality of all that karma and browsing. Reddit felt like it was going to be immortal, but even the mighty fall.

Anyone else bummed??

Col3814444,

I’m feeling kinda comfy here. More than happy to spend a few days at the very least, or even much more if Reddit doesn’t sort it’s shit out.

This place has potential I feel, much better than a lot of the other alternatives people were mentioning, half of them were alt-right crazytowns.

niktemadur,
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The whole kinda-Wild West feel is exciting, isn't it? Somewhat like the internet felt around the mid-00s, still under construction, the plumbing and electrical not fully installed, let alone operational, and mind your step, but not that primitive either.
Plus it's decentralized! That right there is a very important point that we didn't all think about too intently back in those naive days, along with other nebulous concepts like scalability and privacy.

sgtlighttree,

The fact that is decentralized makes me sort of reassured that if Instance A decides that advertising would be a thing to "cover operational costs", a lot of people would just jump ship to another one, which can actually drive costs down for Instance A. It's a win-win! Ideally I want to be able to migrate and copy my content from instance to instance, or even between different services like lemmy and kbin.

Either way, ads would be kinda inevitable for bigger instances if donations can't quite cut the costs of operating an instance.

sgtlighttree,

half of them were alt-right crazytowns.

Which makes their inclusion on "Reddit alternative" lists quite baffling IMO. Maybe the authors were trying to be "unbiased" or "balanced" but there's a reason why those crazytowns don't seem to have took off the way lemmy and kbin is doing right now.

HandsHurtLoL,

I found a short video on the Fediverse describing the organization style and what is meant by a federated universe. The concept floated was that if you don't like your little planet, you could create your own.

That sounds kind of lovely but I don't think it takes into consideration the role moderation plays for online communities. Right now, moderation seems non-existent on kbin and it's because until the reddit influx, most people here I guess have been self-policing. But what happens when the bad faith actors start brigading here? It's nice that we can tell them to go make their own little planet, but they never wanted just their own echo chambers alone. They want echo chambers and conquest of every other online space. Moderation is key to preventing hostile takeovers.

AlteredStateBlob,
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As others have said, my main issue is losing easily maintained sources of information on certian topics I am interested in and especially some niché communities.

I had a fairly high Karma account and had found a few groups of people over time that I felt home with, understanding the inside humor, the ideas and ideals. Did feel sort of bad, but I killed all my accounts by now. Change is inevitable and it'll be alright eventually. Just hope I can find another group of people again, where I feel included even if it's mainly as a lurker.

exohuman,
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Yeah, my account was about 11 years old and I had very high karma. I am finding kbin great right now though, as more people come in I see more communities appearing and I even started one (something I didn’t do on Reddit).

sgtlighttree,

Thankfully for my use case, the Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Davinci Resolve subreddits don't seem to be going away soon, but users deleting their content will hurt data preservation efforts no matter what.

Saerdna_Lessah,

It's like graduating from school. A strange sense of sadness that I won't see a bunch of people again, even if I didn't really like half of them. But it's just gone from my life.

But just like that this too shall pass :)

Bezbakri,
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I miss the r/piracy megathread.

I_Miss_Daniel,
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Time to recreate it here?

sgtlighttree,

(Replying to come back later) Please do! We need to replicate the veritable information dump that we'll miss from Reddit's disaster.

trex,
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I had to install a browser extension to avoid not impulse visiting Reddit...

EvilMonkeySlayer,

I think the bigger thing is waiting for communities to form that you followed and commented in on reddit that is the issue. Like I want to follow the russia-Ukraine war, but there isn't really anything on here for that yet.

niktemadur,
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Agreed. Then for a long time, Twitter was my other go-to place for news from Kyiv, but that site turned into a toilet overnight, I deleted the app months ago and have not gone back once. Then I liked how in the comments of r/UkrainianConflict there was often an alternative Nitter link.

Mastodon can keep me up-to-date now, but the level of activity there is much lower than the centralized sites with a fifteen-year head start.

stopthatgirl7,
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I’m less sad and more frustrated. I think it’s because I only just really got into using Reddit…And that’s because Twitter got muskified. I’d been trying to find something to fill that same spot for me that Twitter had - I was using Hive, tumblr, mastodon, and Reddit, and Reddit and Mastodon has turned into the ones I kept coming back to and using all the time. I was not quite to the place where I would have came myself a Redditor, but I was close. Another maybe month or two, and I probably would have been there. It feels like a place I was finally starting to get my feet under me at suddenly got pulled out from under me, and this soon after Twitter is just frustrating as all else.

Jamie-Hayes914,

I used Reddit in two ways, must like many others it seems, where I'd scroll through older a coffee just to get a quick update on the world, but also as a route to answers and discussions on topics I'd navigate to directly from a Google search.

The first part I won't miss at all particularly. Not because it wasn't enjoyable but this kind of churn and pivot into a new aggregator has happened before and I actually quite like being at the start of a community. I look back on being on Reddit right at the start when everyone transitioned from digg etc and it was quite a fascinating time. A barren landscape for a while. But fun to see it grow. Plus early users are generally a bit more interesting. My feed in Reddit had all the general subs removed so I was generally looking at smaller subs anyway.

The second part I will miss but I'm finding I've just started going back to actual forums etc and also directly going to interesting websites based on things I navigated to via Reddit previously. I think they likely appreciate the traffic.

Strolleypoley,
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No, since the Chinese got their paws on it it went to shit.

I'm glad they did this, it finally pushed me away from that cesspool.

dill,
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Nope. No offense but I've never liked reddit. I just used it for certain tech info!

experbia,
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I'm impressed you did the deletion. I really wanted to but I don't think I actually make myself do it. They're forgotten little whispers of my mind, going back 12 years.

pasci_lei,
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@HandsHurtLoL I already deleted all my Reddit account, so nah.

redsky,
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Yes, it's crazy that leadership violated user's wishes. old.reddit and Apollo were amazing. It was straight-up a feed of my interests. LaTeX, unixporn, neovim, sportsball, NotKenM... dozens of interests in one place.

But, they did it. They spezzed out. So off we went. I'll miss it. It was the best central location for news... my news. Sucks.

quantum_mechanic,

Yes, a little. Most of the niche subs I joined have gone dark, and it's hard to find information outside reddit. Though it's nice to see all these federated alternatives. This site seems the most promising so far, though I wish they'd move the comment box the to top of the threads, since it's annoying to scroll to the bottom to make a comment.

b00m,
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since it's annoying to scroll to the bottom to make a comment.

Specially as you can't collapse comments on a thread without a browser extension

HandsHurtLoL,

Could you share a link to the browser extension you're using to collapse children comments? I'm finding kbin to be more mentally taxing because I can't bail out of convos quickly - I feel compelled to read every child!

unfnknblvbl,

A little bit, but then I came to my senses when I went to visit it to show my team leader something on r/microdosing and first of all, the whole front page was utter trash, but then it refused to show me anything more than a preview on that sub unless I logged in. I have better sense than to log into reddit at work, ffs!

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