If you're still on Reddit...

X, Facebook, threads, Instagram, Whatsapp, Amazon Prime, Reddit
- How can you convince anyone to get off these ? Everyone I've showed lemmy to is terrified it's a virus, and what chat platforms are there besides messenger that we can convince anyone to go to? Maybe I need smarter friends, lol.
  
  What you’re describing is intentional. Keeping people dumb about the tech they’re using while maintaining messaging like “Facebook works day and night to keep you safe” was the point all along so that people don’t understand what they’re doing. Granted that extends far beyond social media, but still
  
  It is a very big ask... For chat i moved to Signal and convinced my closest relatives and friends to humor me and get the app, but they didn't let go of Whatsapp. It's lonely but i enjoy the quietness, and do not miss the endless groups!
  
  One of my phone browsers has warned me that one Lemmee instance is a scam, that doesn’t help if it is happening to others.
  
  That was the goal of big corporations and more simplification over time and less customization, went from webdev not seeming viable since every mf could make their own website and would to everyone being incompetent to the point they cant use websites and can only use the few popular apps.
  
  I managed to make my mum use signal, which means literally anyone can use it.
  
  To be fair, Lemmy's UI does it no favors; I can't entirely blame your friends for thinking it looks sketch.
- Amazon Prime is the only one that's been hard for me to kick...
  
  No ethical consumption under capitalism.
  EDIT: I should specify I'm not saying that you shouldn't try to boycott where you can, just that sometimes doing business with these evil corporations is unavoidable unless you want to live off the grid.
  
  Could always pick up piracy. Hard to beat a 100% off coupon.
  Simply pick up uBlock Origin and browse some community-vetted streaming sites on FMHY. (Short for Free Media Heck Yeah, a site that showcases community-vetted sites.)
  That’s just streaming, no downloading. Simply find streams of whatever shows you’re invested in and binge as usual!
  I’ve even gone as far as taking old laptops of mine and having them full screen these sites on startup. Then, I simply hook the laptop up to my TV via HDMI, plug in a Bluetooth keyboard, and binge away!
  
  Really? I go out of my way to search on duckduckgo when looking for products and filtering out Amazon.
  Its been easy for me. My hatred of that man makes it worth the effort.
  
  That is the one that's killing me too. I just received an email that my subscription date is coming up. I want to cancel, at least my soul really wants me to cancel. But my broken body, limited $$, and limited mobility makes me feel like it would be cutting of my nose. It is really difficult to get to, never mind around, local stores.
- Out of those, the only one I use is Whatsapp... kinda hard to get away from it where I live, literally everyone I know in real life uses it
  
  WhatsApp is kinda nice for international communication

"your're"
Hmmm...

A lot of the niche content I like is still on reddit, however I like the people and experience over here on Lemmy more.
- yeah, the porn creators are still mostly there
  
  That lemmy front page thirsty af tho
  
  Exactly!
- This has been my experience. I still lurk certain communities there but I simply never log in or comment.
  
  I have to use libreddit and other front ends because they have started blocking my vpn last year.
- I just logged in to check /r/audiobooks.
  The sponsored thingies are intolerable. Fuck that.
- Start posting your niche interest on lemmy too. Hopefully someone else will join.
  
  Thought about it. Soon. Going to try and fetch others to help.

Reddit isn’t as bad as Twitter. Though it’s heading that way. But there is an alternative that is 90% as good.
- What’s annoying is how stubborn they are about moving over to Lemmy. I know it’s not super straightforward, but it’s also not nearly as complicated as they make it sound.
  
  I actually enjoy the smaller community here, it feels like old reddit. Like the good ole days.
  
  Most people use reddit on mobile. All you gotta do is tell them to use on of the many apps and sign up that way. It's stupid easy to do.
  
  Well, aren't we all stubborn when it comes to doing new things?
  My guess is that it will be younger people who will go to Lemmy (like Reddit before had been).
  
  The lemmy community is a very specific subset of reddit’s. Reddit has a somewhat more diverse set of opinions and interests. Despite lemmy not having a specific algorithm, it ends up being an echo chamber nonetheless, a bit more than reddit imo.
  That and of course the fact that if you remove political content and tech/linux, there is hardly anything left.
  
  Relating to this trying to convince any of my friends to try a new platform or program lol. Yeah, using Voyager on my iPhone and it’s pretty straightforward
- id argue its better.
- What's the alternative?
  
  Lemmy of course

If you're still on Lemmy... Welcome! The more the merrier!

I'm only on reddit to bring people here. Because we do have cookies.
- How are they gonna eat them through those helmets they never take off?

I use Twitter and reddit for porn, nothing else anymore. People/communities I follow are ghost towns elsewhere. Everytime I point this out, people get butthurt, yet none of them link to their porn profile.
Post the (adorable, lanky, femboy, who has glasses and a thick uncut cock) porn, and as the saying goes, 'they will cum'.
- Not judging but why those over dedicated sites?
  
  It's hard to find places dedicated to foreskin (the /c is just crickets), cbt, estim... tons more. Even harder to find ones that aren't just shells for their onlyfans. I've been checking every few months for the 🐦 I follow to hop to bluesky or mastodon, and only around a quarter have done so thus far. For reddit, where else can I find a vast array of kink content that is getting fresh stuff daily? Like actually, where? I've been searching the internet for a long time, and besides FurAffinity, e621, reddit and occasionally twitter, it's table scraps for any sort of quality kink content.
  E: I should also point out that I'm gay, a bit of interest in androgynous individuals, so most places don't float my boat
- uhhh, I'm 4/5, how important is being uncut? It's not like I had much choice in the matter lol.
  
  It's a plus, but definitely not a requirement~ 🥺
- thanks. i thought i was alone in this struggle. it is also why i keep on calling it titter.
- Hell, most porn boards are dead too outside of the main/most vanilla ones.

Or use Amazon (I'm guilty), or shop at Walmart (sometimes guilty, but not often), or shop at Target, use Tiktok, use Facebook (reunion coordination only - but still guilty, I guess), use PayPal (very guilty), use LinkdIn, use Google (guilty).
It's really difficult to live a modern life, without being guilty of using anything exploitative of something. Of course, all the things (and many more) mentioned above are made to make people reliant on them by design.
Amazon operated in the red for over 7 years, before turning any profit, often selling and shipping items for a lower cost than they purchased the items for. But after that 7 years, they'd driven much of their competition out of business. Now there are fewer choices with regard to finding some items, because Amazon drove everyone out of business. The cheaper prices on Amazon? Nothing like what they used to be - they don't have to compete.
How many small towns have Walmart as virtually the only place to shop and/or the only employer?
It's very important in our modern, separated society, for people to return to basics....get to know your neighbors, stick together, become friends, and help one another out. Reddit used to really drive me nuts, in the work-related subreddits, where everyone used to say, "Your co-workers are not your friends." I wondered if many people ever looked past that, to ask if that's how HR wants things. How do you ever achieve solidarity in the workplace, when you walk in with that attitude? I've certainly had my share of hated co-workers, but much more often, I have been friends with many of them. Co-workers are a great resource to vent, problem solve, find out what's going on behind the scenes, and if there are problems - a great co-worker can be honest and let me know if I might be the problem, or not.
But, separated and isolated within our own little tribes/families, too busy working too many hours, for too little money, trying to keep up with too many financial obligations, is exactly how they get us exactly where they want us.
- Well stated- to your first point, I'd urge folks to take small steps to start replacing those services at least partially with alternatives when they're available. For example, you may not be able to switch grocery stores entirely but many places have farmer's markets or services where you can buy from farms wholesale. No matter your food situation, most people can manage to switch operating systems or search engines. Most of us can stand to reduce social media time. Like in your Amazon example, there's value in aiming to change habits slowly over time instead of all at once.
- Reddit used to really drive me nuts, in the work-related subreddits, where everyone used to say, "Your co-workers are not your friends."
  Reddit is full of the asocial "leave me alone" types (or at least used to be) that make every excuse to not to socialize with others. Taking their advice to heart is an easy way to become a miserable person. There's lots of nuance between "set up barriers in front of everyone" and "share every detail" and they seem to lack that.

Twitter got abandoned 1 month after the fascist bought it. Account deleted 6 months ago.
Reddit is on transition right now. I'm still checking it, but the time i spend there is much less, since i made a Lemmy account.

I just occasionally go back to shill for Lemmy. Pretty sure that hurts them more than helps. :D
- I'm only here because I saw it posted on Reddit over the years. Keep doing it, it's working...

Look...I know we all hate reddit cause they kicked like half of us for no good reason but like....spez doesnt even compare to how evil Musk is
Then again....X is arguably still a better social media platform than reddit is...
Ok nevermind
- No. At this point Reddit is evil because it's censoring anti-fascist content and organizing. It's becoming a Nazi bar just like the rest of them.
  
  You know what? You are right
  Fuck Spez
- Spez is only less evil because he doesn't have enough money to be in the oligarch club. He's just one of their toadies. He'd absolutely be the same way if anyone actually gave him the power they have.
  
  Reddit has been about soft power for a while now. Ever since they scapegoated Ellen Pao, imo. They’ve been changing things relatively slowly compared to Twitter in terms of enshitification, and being more careful about who they piss off at any given time. They’ve become more emboldened ever since they banned 3rd party apps, as now they are allowing bot farms and bad actors that commented on behalf of the admins.
  Reddit could be seeing tons of users leaving the site daily, but they’re for sure replacing them with bots to paint a better picture and drive engagement. The same thing applies to Twitter as well. It’s why on BlueSky for instance, I don’t see ragebait dominating my feed due to the more robust moderation tools compared to Twitter and Reddit.
  Lemmy has avoided most bots due to the manual approval processes from what I can see. I think Lemmy should strongly consider implementing BlueSky’s moderation tools though.
- spez doesnt even compare to how evil Musk is
  Nah thats just wrong. Spez has been following Musks orders, so he is exactly as evil as Musk.
- It's just a shitpost. It's poking fun of people being on reddit, with a screenshot from reddit. There's no deeper commentary than that.

If you’re still online…
- If you're still breathing...

Things i have stopped using- X, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Lays, McDonalds, Burger King, Netflix, Walmart. Things where i have minimized consumption - Amazon, Best Buy, Steam, YouTube. Things where I am tied in and can't make a difference- Android, Windows, AWS, Gmail, Intel/AMD, MS Office (official productivity tools). Actually i don't mind going minimalistic to F over US companies.
- switch to linux
- I agree with all the Linux comments but another thing you could do is use FOSS self-hostable front-ends to those proprietary services like invidious and newpipe (android) for youtube, redlib for reddit, nitter for twitter etc. You don't have to host them yourself, there's already plenty of people hosting their own instances.
  Aside from removing ads which you can already do with an adblocker (which takes 1 revenue stream away from them) it lets you browse privately without any data collection which would be sold to advertisers (taking away their 2nd revenue stream) plus it frees you from the clutches of the algorithm, it helped stopping my ADHD from leaving me 2 binge yt vids for hours on end.
  
  About the Android, he can replace it with GrapheneOS if he got almost any Pixel device
- i use gmail but i use thunderbird to check it . working on a new address. if your using Windows consider running something like OOshutup10+ to stop M$ spying. we use LibreOffice at work except the one office lady can't use anything but excel . Linux on my home pc's , wish we could at work.. Good job on the stopping , i'm currently doing the same. F the US.
- I haven't gone that far, but I refuse to use Facebook, or Amazon.
  Facebook, because it's a shithole of ignorance, stupidity, and cruelty, and it brainwashes older people.
  Amazon, because they hurt local Mom and Pop businesses, and I don't like the way they treat the warehouse workers.
- Just build your own open source versions of all that and you'll be fine

I literally just got permabanned from Reddit after over 13 years and 200k karma! Lol
- Welcome to the club. Fuck that place.
- I got banned for being "anti-immigration" during a housing crisis in my country. Its ridiculous to pretend additional demand doesnt raise prices, its become like a 1984 Newspeak and gaslighting.
  
  The PE firms buying the entire downtown are raising prices, not muh immigrants
  
  It doesn't, and you are wrong, and if you got banned on Reddit for that, your stance is probably so atrocious I don't even want to hear it.

I didn't even use Twitter before the nazi bought it
- I posted three times in 2008. It was enough.

I actually said “bye Fash-licia” to Reddit last week. I thought about trying to get banned for something stupid, just for the story. But instead I just quietly deleted the account.
- I had five accounts between 15-18 years old and ranging from 10k - 3M karma (I shit posted a lot).
  One of my main accounts was banned from r/politics for adding "are tarred together" as a reply to "birds of a feather" during the J6 inserrection attempt. Then r/news banned it for some odd reason I don't recall.
  Then I started getting random "Just to let you know your comment may violate the rules/TOS but we're gonna give you a chance to change it" messages for comments that quoted GOP members.
  Then one of my last one was banned with zero warning when I said "not like he needs it" after a thread talked about how shitty Greg Abbot was being and how he'd pulled the ladder up on other people.
  And then out of the blue they site banned me for 7 days due to evading a mod ban (I hadn't but I just fired up an account I hadn't used in a while but stayed away from that sub).
  So I decided to delete all my accounts with the same message of "Fuck Spez. Reddit is the new Digg and Spez is the new Kevin Rose just somehow dumber".
  Fuck reddit. When you have to walk on eggshells to vote or comment then you've lost the plot.
- I spent about a week working a few hours a day deleting all of my posts and comments. Couldn't be bothered to spend the $20 for shreddit to do it for me so I did it myself.
  THEN I deleted my account. I "deleted" my Facebook account like 8 years ago but then ended up making a "new" one last year to use the marketplace. Didn't want to use my new email address so I used my old one because I treat it like a burner email nowadays. Old email address ended up being the same one I used when I originally created my Facebook account and lo and behold Facebook never deleted anything. So I don't trust companies when they say they will delete everything.
  I'm not even sure Reddit actually deleted all my posts and comments but I feel better about it.

I'm trying OK! 😭
- yeah....have you tried growing a community here? its fucking hard....
  
  You just need a green thumb, my dude!
  
  It takes time, bud.

Well, I still wouldn't consider using Reddit to be near as bad as using Shitter.
- Spez would be very disappointed to hear you say that. He would immediately shoot another DM to Elon telling him he's trying real hard to be just like him.

YRORURRE

Well, a few hours ago, I got permanently banned from Reddit, again, but this time with no explanation messages, or any recourse.
I suspect it was from my contant mocking of Musk and Trump, and the GOP in general.
Fuck them.

yup I got shadow banned from that hell hole after saying something mean about the orange in chief it's so pathetic, it wasn't even super bad I commented 'welcome to Trump's america' under a post about inflation skyrocketing I was on the site for 12 years no problem
it's crazy to me I didn't know they were so beholden to the right. it used to be the fascists got mad reddit was banning them. to.be banned over simply light jokes is so dystopian
not to mention.. their ban detection system is fucking 1984 shit
- After a decade there I also got permabanned. And then I got permabanned 3 more times with alt accounts for saying some pretty innocuous shit, but almost always political.
  I finally got the message. Fuck you Reddit.
- I got perma-banned for saying that the US Military won't give a shit about what is happening because they only care if it involves bombing muslims. The "reason" they gave was that I was promoting hate-speech somehow.
  
  The chronically online incels look for things to mass report. It's part of their ongoing campaign to shove the Overton Window far right.
  Reddits content moderation are cubicle farm employees that barely look at content; nevermind actual context or intent. They're clearing tickets to make quota. Right wingers exploit this to control discourse.
  You can try doing it yourself. Look for frivolous things to report as offensive. You can get quite a bit of things removed.
- I was only on for 6 but it still sucks.

What would be funny if this meme came from twitter. Which was posted on Reddit.

When Twitter-man did the salute, I deleted my old account (hadn't used it in years anyway) When Facebook-man said "no more fact checking," I deleted my old facebook (only kept it to keep in contact with, like, 2 people) When Tumblr-man banned the porn, I deleted my tumblr (you can guess why I had it) When Reddit-man said he wants to paywall the biggest subs, I deleted my reddit (also got banned but I prefer to say I did it for a better reason)
- I've seen news that tumblr has changed/is changing, and they're even implementing some form of activitypub (Fediverse) integration. I don't have stakes here, just curious: does that change your position any, as an ex-user now on fedi?
  
  I doubt it, unless I find specific content that only exists on that platform if those changes do occur. I have some very specific, LEGAL, interests that are fairly niche and hard to come by, and I have little interest in social media, so I often only create accounts on something if I actively like the content, either nsfw or sfw. Here, for example, I am here for sfw content.

Arguably there is now more censorship on Reddit than on twitter.

well now that twitter belongs to xAI, maybe it’ll get better management… and start banning nazis again….

What's Twitter?
- A rich kid's personal Attention Gathering App.

I bow down to your intelligence.

I can talk all I want. It's easy for me because I never had a Twitter Account.
Hope everyone who wants to leave has the strength to break the habit of using the app <3
- I only had an account explicitly to follow a small set of NSFW creators who only posted to Twitter and nowhere else, so yeah, pretty easy to let go of that.

I tried ot login last week, was able to with the same email and password but it acted like I was a new user. So it created an entirely new account.
On a session I was still logged in I changed my email and password and I ended getting banned on that account.
Really weird and I gues it's time to delete my main Reddit account
- They're banning or shadowbanning people almost arbitrarily, they don't want more human users than bots, they can control the narratives and conversations and public sentiment with a turn of a dial if they get enough bots who seem like convincing human users to all chime in about something.
  You can really see the disonnence on a major post criticizing Elon Musk or on the topic of vandalizing Teslas. The posts are all highly voted, but the top comments are all crying and whining that Musk "doesn't deserve the hate" or how "vandals should be put in jail, we obey the law in this country!" and a lot of other very obvious oligarch fellation machines.
  It works very well too. People always look to each other for cues, and if the people they look to aren't even alive, we have a generation being led by undead abominations, being influenced to discard their critical thought, their morals and ethics, their values.
  
  they can control the narratives and conversations and public sentiment
  That sounds almost conspiratorial. How many people know of Reddit, use it, then automatically follow the narrative? Like out of the total population?

If you still were on Reddit while people with a minimum of consciense got banned for the mildest criticism of genocide and complain since Trump you need to STFU.

Idk,.I'm finding it might actually be useful to spread local information if you stick to some local subreddits

Says the person on reddit

- That's the dumbest thing I've heard so far to get banned for.
- Well, your comment was medically inaccurate and lacking in empathy.

you are not supporting it. you ARE the problem. dont blame the tech or deranged illusionists like elon. it is the people. and while everyone is high horsing like mad at reddit/twitter etc. you still cant speak out that google, meta, apple and microsoft are exactly the same shit.
YOU are an insult on humanity if you use those. and everytime it takes ages for imbeciles to move. "nooo, eVeRyyBoo0dy uSes wHats App. i nEEd t0 be oN th3re." no, you are a POS for using whatsapp, twitter, meta, reddit or an iPhone. ...and the crying starts.

The same can also be said about Fiat currency and really supporting anything centralized as we need to balance power with some decentralization to keep it in check, but so few seem to care.