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I haven't been on Reddit since the 11th... Anyone else?

Just realized that the other day.

I had initially intended to feel it out and honor the blackout from 12-14, then figured, "I'm here now, might as well ride out the month if Reddit isn't responding in any meaningful way to the community's requests" and now I think I'll just be in the fedi apps for the foreseeable future.

It's different here, but it hasn't been a struggle and it gets better and better with time. Feels nice to not support inhumane and user-hostile endless corporate greed.

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  • Yup! Same here. Had someone recommend kbin on mastodon so I made my way here. Deleted 2 10+ year old Reddit accounts and cut all ties. I went in anonymously to check out what happened with that submarine but otherwise cut all ties. The amount of my life I've taken back by dropping that site is incredible. I didn't realize how much of my time was spent doomscrolling there. Now I'm playing guitar, playing games and building web dev projects with all the time I'm saving. I never got into Twitter but from my understanding a lot of people have had my same experience dropping that site too.

  • I’ve been dipping in and out, but frankly I can see myself leaving it behind entirely in the future. It’s really, REALLY apparent how toxic and miserable the majority of Reddit is when you’ve spent time using a platform where the main point isn’t to collect as many upvotes and awards as possible at the expense of empathy for your fellow humans.

  • I've been boycotting Reddit for three weeks so far but I did come back today. I deleted my content and commented about a possible GDPR (DSGVO in German) lawsuit if they bring back my content. I recorded my user page pre deletion, while deletion and after deletion. I have the exact date and time in the global menu so there is no fracking around from Reddit. I'll happily contact the German agency responsible for GDPR complaints.

  • I went back to Reddit today, to delete my 12 year old, 25K karma account and all my posts and comments. Otherwise I haven't been there. Occasionally some search result will take me there for something hyper-specific thing, but I haven't browsed reddit since I joined kbin.

  • I haven't been back either. I don't like supporting terrible people.

    Hope the fediverse becomes easier to search and add interest groups.

    And we get a phone app.

  • I used to check there every day but it's been two weeks of not. It's great! I'm checking out here and Lemmy (I like kbin's layout and vibes a lot, but Lemmy has beta apps lol) I feel like I've had more time for life.

  • I still casually browse because im a messy removed addicted the drama but I foresee myself stopping using it when the 3rd party apps die.

  • I've been there a few times doing research for building a new PC. Other than that I've kept away and don't really miss it. Unfortunately I'll probably need to go back there for other types of research because it's a huge repository of information now and is the fastest way to find such things. But the moment I have the info I needed I leave.

  • I'm ashamed. With the recent development in Russia, I had some glimpes of /r/worldnews. Other than that, I was able to stay off and enjoy my time on the fed.

  • Nope. Once the announcement was made about the blackout I found Lemmy, removed Reddit from my favourites, abandoned Apollo and closed the chapter.

    • Newsgroups
    • Old forums
    • Digg
    • Reddit
  • I've been checking into my user page just to see if they've sent me my user data backup I requested a while ago. Other than checking for that message, I've been 100% clean and it hasn't been terribly hard. Between Kbin and Tildes, I've been getting all the commentary and aggregation that I want or need.

  • Of course it's worse. It's lacking my stellar contributions!

    More seriously, I think it's probably more of a perception issue, though I do think some small but real percentage of engaged redditors are gone. I still pop by to check a couple of niche communities that aren't doing much here, and to hunt for a daily link to share on /m/cfb as the specific sport mags/communities don't seem to be as active, especially for the ones in the offseason. I don't want to treat it as some sort of purity test, but for now at least I'm trying to put my energy into contributing to the discussions on the Fediverse and just sort of passively consuming from Reddit, without commenting, when I don't see what I want here.

    My link aggregator history goes from Fark to Digg to Reddit to Kbin. TBH I think this one will be slower and less complete of a transition. I don't think Reddit will zombify like those two sites, but I do think that over time, enough people will leave for lemmy and kbin to make them vibrant spaces for a lot of communities, especially if Reddit starts chipping away at the ability to self-curate and thereby self-isolate from the biggest general interest communities that are more noise than conversation.

  • I didn't quit. I still have an account with roughly, 19000 karma, where I posted and commented some interesting stuff, as well as shitposts. It became quite personal to me, as it wasn't Facebook and discussions were more genuine and clever.

    I'm still under the shock of the entire thing. I still enter periodically. However, this whole thing feels so foreign. Foreign, yet so familiar. Since I had my account. And the discussions are kinda the same. The same I went in, the same discussions that I enjoyed. Yet I feel I no longer belong in that place. That is no longer representing me. And I kinda find it weird.

    However, I love this place. I love Kbin. I love the fediverse. I love the fact that I no longer need x accounts and x apps for all my social needs. With one account, I can follow stuff from everywhere. And I do not get ads. I get the content. I am not the product of a social network. :D

  • I put in my data request and they are claiming it could take a month. As such I have been on it but only to follow up on that and i made someone a mod of a sub since I announce I was leaving but not "really" on it. Don't surf it. Can't wait to delete my comments after the data request and will repeat that for awhile. unfortunately I like will not delete the account for like a year given the way things are going with comments being reinstated.

  • I finally removed my Reddit feeds from my rss reader yesterday but have not logged on in almost 2 weeks. Apollo will remain on my phone as a monument.

  • I was Googling something and hit a link without realizing it was an old Reddit thread. That's the only time, my social browsing otherwise has switched to posts and microblogs on kbin every day. We're not quite ready to say we've replaced Reddit at the scale, but look how far it's come in less than a month. Just have to ride another wave of new users surging in, lots of questions and confusion, and probably more crashes from demand.

    • This almost happened to me today too.

      But instead of going to the reddit link I saw a link to a forum dedicated to the topic I saw searching for (hammocks) and got my quality advice from there instead.

    • ModCoord, stickies on the protests, saving my Saved, and SEO results have also been the only uses of reddit since the blackout started. Losing reddit's wealth of knowledge collected over 2 decades is really going to suck.

  • Well, I did log in to overwrite posts and comments periodically and as subs went public again.

    And I've been checking in with r/ModCoord every once in a blue moon, but only via teddit and anonymously (not using an account).

    But if those don't count those then I haven't been back at all since.

  • I haven't been on Facebook in almost 10 years, I deleted both my Twitter accounts the day Elon officially bought the site, but I gotta confess, I've been back to Reddit a few times via Google, to get some niche questions answered. It's become such a backlog of discussion for so many topics that it's kind of not feasible to just wipe it off the map, we have to be able to migrate all that stuff somewhere Spez isn't able to fuck with it.

    "Why is the audio crackling in Armored Core 4 on RPSC3?" Answered a year ago

    "How can my new smoker's chip tray work without holes?" It can't, everyone with that smoker replaces the tray, answered seven years ago.

    And of course, I don't know where else to find an easy compilation of over 14 different imgur albums and GDrive documents for Monster Hunter meta builds, so even if I bookmark them now, I still had to go back to get the links in the first place.

  • I'm about 50/50, but I'm sure that ratio will shift drastically once RIF gets turned off.

  • Redditor of 10 years, gone for good. I might leave this website too, since I'm being branded a "trans-hater" here for asking what constitutes an "anti-trans law"

    • You're not on Reddit anymore. You might've been able to fool people with dog whistles and bad-faith arguments there, but people here are smarter than that and can see right through you.

      You're among people who left that shit behind, remember?

    • bye.

  • My account was 15 years old, I think? Whilst I am at home here. I do find out of habit open Reddit up on Desktop or Mobile. That's only been four or five times since the start of June.

  • Haven’t been back since June 1st. I am enjoying Lemmy and the Fediverse greatly. I am trying to contribute and comment as much as I can.

  • I've been actively purging my account since then but new comments and posts that weren't appearing before continue to show up, as recently as a post appearing last night. Will be waiting for my GDPR request to be processed, ensuring everything is deleted, then submitting another just to waste their time to finally delete the account.

    But yeah not using the platform. It's run its course. It was definitely not the same since 2016 election/Cambridge analytica/Russian bot brigading. Took leaving to realize how polarized and rage filled it was, even after leaving all of the default subs and finding niche communities.

  • Yeah same for me. Ever since the problem with the API and stuff i just drifted away from Reddit.

  • I'm still somewhat present on Reddit, but I definitely feel a sort of "winding down" going on. I'm not commenting much any more and I rarely scroll past the first page. I'm sticking around because there's still some groups of interest over there that aren't present here yet but I foresee that changing over time.

  • I'm still occasionally browsing it as I still enjoy using Apollo, its really just that good of an app. But I'll be cutting ties on the 30th once the API key expires.
    As others meantioned, I'll make sure to delete my accout with GPDR and pursue action should they bring my content back.

  • Outside of looking up some very niche stuff (r/NoContract, etc) on desktop, haven't touched it. Granted, haven't been on bin.social much either.

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