Does anybody else feel dirty when they visit reddit?

I feel like a traitor when I do. It has sucked all the enjoyment out of the website.

I visit reddit to repost to Lemmy. This is the one time that reposting is the right thing to do.

Reddit is over for me. I've blocked every one of their domains in my PiHole server, so it is impossible to use Reddit in my house. You can't fight every war, but this war is worth fighting.

Reddit is for redditors, and we do not belong there anymore.

Haven't visited their in like 2 weeks. I won't even click on links that direct there.

For me, it can rot. Haven't even missed it as much as I thought I would.

Money grabbers did me a huge favour.

Yes. The recent exodus of decent people is noticeable.

Yeah I am deleting my 9 year old account on the 30th.

Despite reddit's flaws it's a great resource for a lot of entertainment,education and the communities can be great. But reddit got too big, too greedy and it's just a matter of time before it hopefully collapses. Those of us moving into fed-space are the early birds.

ngl yeah I do. Specially on r/gonewildaudio.

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...what?

Yeah, but as my excuse, I limit my visits to NSFW subs.

Yes! And I accidentally upvoted something earlier before I realized where I was. Felt bad.

Yep! It feels like I'm in a place I shouldn't be in and that I'm betraying the community simply by being there

I still check out a few specialised subs that haven't' made it over here or that I can't find a Facebook equivalent I like yet. One is for our local town and one is for cancer support. I don't feel great about it, but as I used to spend hours a day on Reddit it's a vast improvement. Don't let perfect stand in the way of good is how I look at it. I may just end up starting the cancer patient support ones on my own over here, but I'm hoping someone that knows what they are doing will beat me to it.

I deleted both my active accounts when the API changes were first announced and have not logged in or made a new account since.

I do own one former reddit account with the same username as this one but it's been suspended for a couple months due to a "security issue". They wanted me to reset my password to a more secure one but I don't have an email linked to that account so I can't actually reset it. So I just deleted my entire comment/post history and will never be logging back into that account.

So for the past couple weeks 100% of my reddit viewing has been while logged out and via old.reddit.com with an adblocker active.

Mainly I was checking reddit just out of morbid curiousity to see how the blackout was progressing and see if spez/admins were gonna say any more laughably stupid shit.

I first started lurking on Lemmy around the same time that I deleted my 2 active reddit accounts and as it has become more active I decided to go ahead and make an account here and give it a proper try. So far I'm enjoying myself and I hope this place continues to grow more as more people abandon reddit.

I've felt gross for years, ever since they switched from old reddit to the new trash design. I used old.reddit.com for a bit, but stopped once I saw how much tracking garbage ublock was blocking, even on old reddit.

Before lemmy I was using teddit as a privacy focused frontend for reddit which worked great. But now the API changes will kill teddit so no more reddit for me!

echo "127.0.0.1 old.reddit.com" >> /etc/hosts

and never look back

Yeah, somewhat. It's addicting, though. And some communities haven't made the move to here, yet. So, I'll be going back and forth, for a bit. OTOH, I took the first step to leaving. Premium expired today. I cut the cord! It's not much but I want to support the community in some way. Also, after everything that has transpired, I can't support the actions they've taken. To me, sending them money is encouragement and support to continue what they're doing.

It's very pleasant and peaceful here. Better vibes.

Currently only using rif occasionally as some subreddits haven't transferred only, otherwise I'm browsing here, but I feel bad.

I don't feel guilty yet since I still have RIF - I make it a point to only lurk though. Once RIF is gone, I'm gonna try to use libreddit for question answers and never visit the actual site again. Fuck spez. Greedy little pig boy ass removed.

It’s joined the ranks of FB, IG and Twit as a site I don’t feel good about using. To be fair, while reddit has discredited themselves a ton lately, the past 4-5 years of ‘new reddit’ has been awful and they continue to get worse, it’s still not nearly as bad as MetaZuck or Elron.

I just don't visit Reddit. Problem solved.

If I really have to visit that page I do it either via cached version or via teddit. Fuck u/spez does not deserve my traffic.

Don't feel bad. Addiction takes time. It's also been traumatic haha.

Sure is nice here though.

Yes, but only because my porn reddit account is the last one I have. IMO its counterproductive to delete it since it's clear reddits monetization strategy is anti NSFW. The more of that site is unadvertisable the better.

I only go there to promote Lemmy and see how the reddit dumpster is burning.

I don't, since I only go there for Ukraine news now, and I don't really expect people on the ground in places like /r/Ukraine reporting on genocides and highlighting local fundraising efforts to be too motivated to make the transition right away, but hopefully they'll find a presence here too. Not gonna be browsing reddit for random shitposts anymore though.

I keep finding Reddit links to things when looking for solutions in my job. It's getting frustrating because a lot of the subs are still closed.

I've always permanently browsed with Ublock Origin on desktop or Apollo on mobile... So they get effectively no revenue from me aside from maybe selling my browsing habits. Either way Ad revenue is likely what's keeping them afloat right now so that helps it feel a little less dirty. Once my niche subreddits are moved over it's bye bye forever

I'm using Apollo until it shuts down. Then my only interaction with Reddit will be via old.reddit.com

Honestly, yes. I don't want to support what the owners of Reddit are doing. A lot of people are not going to leave there though until the place is completely radioactive though.

Why would I visit Reddit?

Well, yeah. That's why I'm mostly here instead.

My Redditing is down from hours daily to a few minutes, at a couple of specific subReddits with info and news I haven't yet been able to find elsewhere.

there are still a lot of subreddit that haven't ported to Lemmy [not porting the entire subreddit with all the post to lemmy]

Other than the normie subs I still follow like my local city's sub, yeah, it feels like the party's over.

Absolutely. Trying to make the switch but I think it's going to take a bit for me to fully "cut the cord." Trying to find matching lemmy communities for most of my interests and then planning on deleting everything from reddit.

Yup. That feeling is the slow eroding of your principals. Stick to it, Lemmy gets better by the day.

No client anymore, so cannot visit anymore

yes, I try really hard not to give them my eyeballs these days. I wish we crossposted with links less and just copied or screenshotted the info we are trying to share from there.

I have been slowly using it less and less over the years in general. It's still useful if I'm searching for something on DDG. I also still visit some of the small or local subs.

I haven’t been back since the blackout kicked off. I even feel dirty seeing posts about Reddit here and mostly avoid them because I can guess at the content. You can guess how disgustingly dirty I feel actually replying to a Reddit thread here!

Society is so complex today that anything you do can inadvertently be supporting evil. Most of the electronics devices we use are made in China, so if you are using one to access the internet, you've spent money "supporting" China and by extension, its authoritarian government. Buying food from the grocery store, well most likely you were buying from a large corporation that may have unethical practices. Just wanting to travel without walking? Well now you are polluting the planet. Pay taxes? Well you could be supporting a government that have human rights violations.

Just use an adblocker if you have to use reddit, its not a war crime, but just try to avoid it as much as you can if you want to support the protests.

meh. i block ads, they dont get much from me. im certainly using it less though

I feel the same and I’m still there. But I try to use the fediverse more and more. I just gotta get the hang of it.

Yes, i accidentaly open it and then feel very off, then get reminded of lemmy. For some technical info i have to sneak past the front page directly to the specific sub. But the sub is migrating and its coming together better than i had imagined before.

please dont feel bad, it takes time to wean yourself off reddit
Just slowly reduce the amount of time you spend on it and spend more time on other stuff

However for you all out there, esp if you are a mod working hard to migrate your community here, we can understand going on reddit as a necessary evil to do in order to move your communities

Totally agree!

If you replace the reddit.com part of any reddit link with https://reddit.adminforge.de/, you can browse without giving them any traffic / interaction (for example reddit.com/r/tihi -- https://reddit.adminforge.de/r/tihi)

I have gone back only to rob my content from a specific sub and post it here. I immediately feel like a scab for giving them 1 traffic. Then I close it.

I find myself returning to Reddit just to share links to Lemmy communities and answer questions about it.

I feel the same. I feel like the main place to find out if anything is going to happen is on reddit, though... I don't know what I expect to happen besides things to get worse.

I've not visited reddit since Sunday 11th and a week into things, deleted my account. My only issue is when I Google something and can see the answer is on reddit. Happened last night but refused to go there. Found the answer somewhere else in the end.

Yes, also because of all the nsfw content.