I don’t know man, but I feel like I’m supporting a maniac CEO with every second I spend on reddit.

  • wwaxwork@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Saprophyte@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    I’m currently using Reddit Enhancement Suite to delete 8 years worth of comments and submitted comments. It’s been a walk down memory lane as they all disappear, but it’s a good way experience catharsis on the way out the door as all of my stuff that would have been monetized through google search results go poof… First time I’ve been back since creating my lemmy acct though, and it was more sad than dirty.

    • ToastyWaffle@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      If it makes you feel any better, your comments probably aren’t deleted and are still in reddits database. A lot of companies just set an ‘isDeleted’ flag to true/false. So even though the data doesn’t show up via the API, reddit still has all the data to sell to clients.

  • crucifix_peen@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Chocrates@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • iliketurtles@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • pixelbounds@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • scp_1404@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • dangblingus@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

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

  • paddirn@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    Haven’t visited it since June 11th and only plan on going back on June 30th to delete all my comments/posts/accounts. I already cut the cord and I’m moving on to multiple other sites. Do I miss reddit? Yes, but in my mind, the reddit I knew is already gone and it’s not coming back. Even if they backed down on their stupid API policy at this point, they’ve done enough BS that there’s not really any turning back on any of this.