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.
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!
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.
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!
Ouch. We wish we could say we had the same experience. Apparently, doomscrolling was part of what was keeping us afloat. Once we dropped that, we sunk much deeper into our depression. We’re glad that you had a better experience though.
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 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 check in every once in a while, at least until Apollo stops working. I mostly just stick to giving people Reddit alternatives or explaining the federated internet so people aren’t scared of such a simple thing.
Selfishly I just didn’t want to use the Official App with ads. But once there’s a viable alternative to Reddit, and it’s actually better than Reddit, why would I go back? “hurr durr cause I can get a thousand updoots on my post”. Who cares? It’s about the quality of engagement. I was surprised how many people unironically care about their internet points and tie their identity up with a website.
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.
what’s Reddit?
It’s like Digg, but without the ability to learn from it’s predecessors.
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 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.
@Snapz 12yo account deleted. Will miss some of the content especially the ultra local stuff but I left Slashdot and Digg too. I understand the need to make money as a company, but there were better ways to achieve that than what reddit did.
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
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.
I was getting news from Mastodon and Lemmy during this last weekend. I still use Reddit (through Relay) for some Ukraine news. There are active enough communities/magazines covering world news. Mastodon is about as informative as Twitter is now (smaller, but most of the quality content is on there now).
The best thing is that I’ve already seen Mastodon get better ever since Musk started mucking around with Twitter, and now I’m seeing something similar but even faster with Lemmy/kbin. Just the improvement in quantity and quality of content, in addition to improvements to the actual software over the last few weeks is impressive.
I’m hopeful that come July 1st, and the casuals who try to log in with Apollo/Relay/RiF/whatever and get errors, that those who choose to try out Lemmy or kbin will have a great experience out of the gate.
Sure there is a bit more complexity, with the instances, but the slight and minimal awkwardness of dealing with foreign instances is quickly being smoothed over on the client side.
