I see a lot of posts about how they uploaded anti-spez stuff onto reddit, or participated in the nsfw spams/john oliver spams. While I get wanting to let it all out, this ultimately keeps up engagement on reddit rather than bringing it down.
The best way to make sure things go your way? Vote with your wallet, or in this case your voice. Don’t speak on reddit. Devote more time helping out the alternatives grow and flourish. And as much as it is a meme, touching some grass can help your mental fortitude.
If you absolutely 100% need to interact with reddit, I suggest installing a redirector addon (such as privacy redirect or… redirector) that can link to a teddit or libreddit instance. Or archiving it with wayback/archive.is/ghostarchive.
I don’t care about protesting, it doesn’t work. For me, stopping reddit means to stop opening it out of habit. I find myself automatically opening social media out of habit. So instead of having Reddit be that habit response, I’m training myself to replace it with Mastodon and Lemmy. It’s a bit hard since I’m missing a lot content, but it’s significantly easier then during the Twitter migration.
User revolts do work. When Digg pushed that horrible update people just bombarded Digg with Reddit links. It’s one of the most effective community migrations of a platform I’ve ever seen.