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.

  • dangblingus@lemmy.world
    4·
    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.

  • Oneobi@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    Haven’t visited their in like 2 weeks. I won’t even click on links that direct there.

    For me, it can rot. Haven’t even missed it as much as I thought I would.

    Money grabbers did me a huge favour.

    • Evil_Opossum@lemmy.world
      0·
      1 year ago

      Same here although I find that doing my best to avoid links attached to Reddit is the hardest part of this. Searching for something online to only see Reddit discussions as the top result knowing full well the answer I want is probably there and yet…I keep searching for alternative links.

      • samus12345@lemmy.world
        0·
        1 year ago

        Honestly, just get the info you need (with ads blocked, of course). Not commenting or posting content there is enough.

        • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          Data analytics show usage though, which is a plus for them to diminish in the eyes of others the effect of the boycott.

  • Televise@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    Yep! It feels like I’m in a place I shouldn’t be in and that I’m betraying the community simply by being there

  • scp_1404@lemmy.world
    3·
    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.

  • 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
    3·
    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.

  • gon@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    No LOL. I use Lemmy, I’ll keep using Lemmy. Reddit has some communities that I don’t have access to on here… So I use it too. I wish I didn’t, but I don’t feel dirty. I use adblock anyways so it’s not even like I’m giving Reddit any money directly.

  • Saprophyte@lemmy.world
    2·
    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
      2·
      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.