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.
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.
This is my exact situation. 10+ year old account. Once Apollo announced its shutdown I went ahead and downloaded redact and scrambled previous comments. Spent a few days searching through different socials and landed on kbin. I check it less frequently for sure. But I’ve gotten a lot of time back.
Same! Didn’t even realize I had a bunch of replies to this comment til just now. Feels good to be free.
I’ve noticed my browsing behavior really improved again after 13+ years on reddit.
I seek out more individual content, get my news from actual news sites and find more interesting stuff to read.I noticed that in my insatiable craving of information I am now reading the newsletters in my email inbox that have gone unnoticed for years!
I think it might have been me. Are you rawb or gristle?
Regardless, I am fond of the fact that the fediverse is small enough to where that’s not a ridiculous question to ask.
Gristle - Thanks for the recommendation!
Amazing!
DownloadedDeleted both my 12+ year old accts. Moved to Kbin / Lemmy / Mastodon - I’ll settle into a rhythm with the new one. And yeah, Reddit had gotten addictive for me, so it’s best I move on anyway. Yay Open Source!!
Well it’s good that you’re honest that Reddit was addictive, but I hope you realize that you’re just replacing your addiction with a similar addiction. It’s like detoxing off of whiskey by drinking home brewed beers.
What a coincidence, I’m also a homebrewer. LoL
So you haven’t cut ties if you were on Reddit reading stuff
I guess you’re right, hahaha!
I stopped using reddit cold turkey when the blackouts were announced. It’s been 3 weeks now and I’m better off for it.
Same. Found kbin, signed up, haven’t looked back.
Same. This reminds me a lot of old reddit. Thank God for that
Same here, not missing it.
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’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 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 still casually browse because im a messy bitch addicted the drama but I foresee myself stopping using it when the 3rd party apps die.
I deleted my account about a week ago. I haven‘t been to reddit for a few days.
I still check in on my local subreddit, but I don’t participate.
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.
gotta say i’m quite surprised that some communities are thriving here. sure it’s only a fraction of what’s on reddit, but it’s still quite active
My only interactions with Reddit since the blackout have been google search results. I admit that I do miss it, but the behavior of spez and his lackeys has been despicable, and totally killed any enthusiasm I had left for Reddit.
Reddit refugee here since the 12th. i’m glad i gave up my subs and left reddit. I haven’t looked back. the whole thought of the #fediverse and being able to talk to anyone from other instances is amazing!
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.
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 still checking Reddit. I think once Apollo goes my usage will really drop, but unfortunately Reddit was the one social media I really enjoyed and as much as I’m liking Lemmy/Kbin the communities just aren’t here yet. I hope that changes
