1y ago

Deleted Reddit today. I am healing internally lol❤️‍🩹

I got banned from my literal fav subreddit bc I got a high rated comment and the mods checked my profile and called me a “terrorist” (except I have never had any attempts at or approval of terrorism, terrorism is to create terror as Lenin said, it doesn’t stir up anything good among a terrified working class and I’m not a psychopath) so I just deleted Reddit. No more libs in my head. No more Yoocrane funds talked about every 2 seconds. No TieJuan talked about every 3 seconds. Peace ☮️ Finally.

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Deleting reddit is self-care.

I have pictures of me before deleting my reddit account and after 9 months of deleting it and I look like a completely different person, it's like I'm a malnourished plant that got watered.
The subreddit I used to enjoy going to got hijacked by zionist mods and you literally can't even say free Palestine there without being banned for anti semitism.
- I have pictures of me before deleting my reddit account and after 9 months of deleting it and I look like a completely different person, it’s like I’m a malnourished plant that got watered.
  Same, except also I started hormones around the same time so...
  
  I started hormones around the same time so…
  Congrats
  
  Awesome, becoming a better fuller person one step at a time🤗
- It does seem to take a toll on one's mental health, truly. I also made a significant improvement in my personal life more or less the same time I stopped using Reddit on a regular basis. That may be a coincidence, but one way or another I consider spending much time on that platform a bad habit that did not help. I'm glad you also feel better.

The propaganda campaign is really ramping up. This is the second time in as many days that I've heard leftists being called terrorists. I'm already a groomer and pedophile according to these people. I guess it stands to reason that terrorist is next up. It's really not going to be long before there's calls to lock us all up.

Yeah, there's definitely a shift towards more reactionaries now on Reddit. People saying the French Revolution was bad and monarchist comments in the soccer sub.

I stopped using reddit as part of the "blackout," but during that time I realized I didn't actually miss much of the site. I would like to find alternatives to certain hobby subreddits though (namely for Nuzlocke challenges and worldbuilding).
- Precisely the same situation for me. I felt like it was good to join in the protests and then I figured that I was happier without it.

called me a "terrorist"
We did it folks, we finally made it back to 2002
- After 9/11, the shittiest people in the world called me the T word for being brown and having a foreign-sounding name. In the subsequent years they hated me for my obvious neurodivergence, my lack of misogynistic tendencies, my refusal to accept the alt right, my insistence on wearing an N95, and now my identity as an nb trans person. This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. Every year they get more mad and I only have more middle fingers to give.
  
  All the best to our melanin-rich NB comrades, stay safe out there, the US is not a forgiving place, give a few middle fingers from me 🖕🖕🖕🖕 lol

I've already been suspended I need to stop using it but shitliberalssay keeps me coming back I need to delete it too

i'm so glad that i quit reddit

I'm not quitting Reddit yet but the number of subreddits I'm subscribed to is going down and now that RIF doesn't work anymore I've stopped using Reddit on my phone

I only go there for the informational and hobby subs like fermentation, fasting, woodworking, etc. Everything else that's not some kind of hobby related thing just gets taken over by power mods and turned into a spam box of the exact same shit as all the other mainstream subs mingled with fed posting.

I deleted reddit after I told an ancap dad that he shouldn't be allowed within 50 feet of ANY child and should probably do the world a favor and redacted himself.
He deserved it, for sure. But I realized that I did not desire to be the type of person telling others to harm themselves online, regardless of who they are. It just made me mad and was never worth it.

Welcome to a new sense of sanity. You'll never regret ditching that neoliberal echo chamber.
- I’m 2 days out and other than the urge to just type in Reddit when Im bored (which luckily I deleted and have no urge to redownload) I just read articles or go on lemmygrad, or read a book. I feel more productive now that I don’t just get myself pissed and ready to rant in comment form lol
  
  yeah that's how i felt when i quit Facebook about 12 years ago too.. that constant urge to go to Facebook every 5 minutes was brutal.. i finally ended up blocking it on my hosts file which did the trick
  Reddit wasn't nearly as hard since it was more or less like quitting Facebook again, and knowing how much better my life was after doing that the first time made it so much easier the next

I'm holding on to my Reddit account the same as I'm holding on to my Twitter account. I might come back to it later, if conditions change, but I'm sure as shit not contributing meaningful content on either of those platforms anymore.

I used the API to overwrite and delete all my messages and deleted my account today.
I'm slowly deleting all my social media accounts and stay only on fediverse stuff. I think the slower, less FOMO driven nature of Lemmy will make it a more healthy to find people to talk with.

I have to admit, it is gratifying not to have to field dozens of replies that include the word "tankie".

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