It feels better to me because I can post this, walk away, come back, and not find myself downvoted into obscurity - just for joining a conversation. This could change, but I’m going to enjoy it while it lasts.
That's the love I'm talking about. I went on reddit after being here, and my comments were autobanned, shadow blocked, or downvoted even though I put thought into them. On reddit I dread karma points because so many subreddits used it as a means to measure my value. Here - I wrote comments across the fediverse, closed my eyes and waited to get beat with sticks - and when that didn't happen, I realized - the emotional trauma of reddit is real. I don't even talk much on reddit because I'm afraid of speaking - but here it feels different. I just can't go back to that.
Yep same, that is why I left , I've been looking for something to scratch the old Reddit itch, as fed up of "waiting to see why I am wrong" this to me is not about API (although the worry of poor moderation I support) it is mainly been looking to leave and this is the excuse.
Honestly I didn't post at all to reddit, so I had no idea it was that bad! Doesn't sound like fun at all, and after all these are supposed to be fun, social communities.
I've realized how much I just mind numbingly would open reddit for no reason at all.
It was rough the first days but I'm amazed how much more time I have now since I kicked that habit.
Mind numbing is so right, I'd just scroll and see the same posts, same cookie cutter replies. It was all very predictable and I don't think it was bringing all that much to my life. I do miss the more niche subreddits as they were still invaluable but hopefully the same can be developed here.
I'm not going back. This has permanently scarred me. I see the light now, being here now is like a battered child learning what love is for the first time.
The question is less about whether or not you'll ever go back, imho, and more about how much time you'll be spending going forward looking at their ads, and whether or not people will continue to submit new content; just browsing their existing content isn't nearly as useful to them for their new beloved, those large language model suitors. To wit: If you want to ensure that the message is heard as loudly as possible, don't give them any content that the LLMs would find useful enough to pay Reddit's exorbitant API fees. (That includes up-votes/down-votes, not just commentary.)
If you also still need to refer back to things there occasionally, I suggest installing an ad blocker and just not using their mobile app at all. If Reddit goes through with their notion of blocking mobile browsers... so be it; that just means you should spend your on-the-go browsing time all on kbin/lemmy sites, and only refer back to Reddit when you have a chance to sit down at a desktop computer.
Just my random thoughts, though... take them for what they're worth.
reddit.com, redd.it, redditmedia.com, and redditinc.com were added to the Pi-Hole blacklist last night, so I can't open it on any device on my network.
At this point I am going into Reddit to figure out which of my subscriptions I want to find a different way to access. So either I am finding a similar magazine in kbin or I'm moving the source to my RSS aggregator (Feedly).
Interestingly, as I bounce in to do a look/see, I'm seeing a whole lot less interesting content. So the moderator "revolt" is having a big effect for me.
I have no intention to ever go back to reddit, I'm quite happy with both lemmy and kbin. Just like I have no intention to ever go back to twitter, mastodon and akkoma (I'm yet to try calckey) having replaced it for me completely.
I left almost all centralised social media behind, except tumblr (which has a similar culture to the fediverse) and youtube.
Over just the last couple of days, kbin has gotten so much better, I honestly haven't even thought about checking that other site what's it called? r-something? Can't remember
I don't have any intention of going back to reddit, or any other corporate platform for community building.
It looks like ActivityPub based platforms gained enough momentum between them to push it into self sustaining.
Lemmy, kbin, beehaw, mastodon, pixelfed, calckey all seem to have enough activity to keep most users engaged, except maybe the super dopamine addicted.
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