due to the rolling blackout… I think it’s had its effect.
I think I am done with reddit.
it’s a shame because as someone who doesn’t use Facebook it was nice to have a sense of local community I otherwise don’t get online.
I still think besides the few odd regulars who brought the vibe down every chance they could, it was a genuinely great subreddit.
anyway, I’m just curious how many of you are well and truly done with reddit? not even going back for a peak?
I’m done. Steve Huffman’s comments have cinched it for me. The guy is a prick and doesn’t give a shit about users in the slightest. I’m also welcoming the chance to disconnect from the mindless meme scrolling.
Calling striking moderators the equivalent of “Land Gentrys” while scoffing at the idea of paying them for their labor perfectly encapsulates how out of touch that shit stain is from reality.
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I’ve replaced the Boost icon on my phone with Jerboa. Have been deliberately not going to the site on my PC. If I have to, I’ve been doing it incognito.
Will not be renewing my reddit premium, and will not be using official shit-show of an app. I’m not going so far as to delete my account, but totally understand why people are doing so.
Side note… awesome to see so many comments from users that aren’t on aussie.zone 😀
yeah this has kind of gone out of control 😅 welcome to !Brisbane lol
Come for the Reddit discussion, stay for the HJs, ibis and “which school did you go to?”
I’m out. 12 year account, which I’ve currently left open but with all comments deleted. It’s mostly just open to get my data take out so I can make sure all my comments and topics are removed.
Currently on Tildes and Kbin/Lemmy. I figure this still likely be the account I stay active on due to the local focus.
I mod a tiny sub with 12k members that I’m trying to decide what to do with. Thinking I’ll just make every member a mod and let it dissolve in to chaos.
Can’t believe the way Reddit as a company has decided to treat it’s users. All that free content and labour given just to be spat on. Crash and burn you fucks.
I’ve kept my account ‘just in case’, but in reality I have no intention of going back, on principle now. Too much trust has been burnt away.
I’ve deliberately overwritten my comment history with a garbled message. Now, I’m waiting until the end of the month to delete the account. This is to boost the statistics following the upcoming API changes, so there’s no mistake what prompted that decision.
good idea. I’ll be doing the same.
After the AMA I overwrote my comments and deleted accounts. Regardless of the API pricing, spez has to go.
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I saw posts about that. But if they have, I’ve deleted the accounts now, so can’t do anything about it.
Reddit management isn’t trustworthy.
Just another reason to not got back.
I’ve been on Reddit from the beginning. I never posted much as I’ve always been more of a consumer of media, rather than a creator.
But here I am casting my opinion into the echo chamber of disgruntled ex-Redditors, for no other reason than to help generate content to help keep Lemmy growing and keep people engaged.
Perhaps that will articulate how over Reddit I am. And if Aaron were still with us I have no doubt he would be leading this charge to topple it.
For Aaron.
I poked into /r today after a week away to get a view of a couple niche subs that I wanted updates on. My old friends are oblivious and just doing their thing. Then I tried my default browsing habit (/all - top/hour) and I didn’t find a single thing I wanted to engage with - just a wasteland of shitposts and memes…mind you, this was using #ApolloApp which was already set up to filter most stupidity. I won’t be spending any time there from now on.
I keep accidentally opening it and then closing it in disgust
I still check it often but when 3rd party apps are killed that’s a hard stop date for me. Can’t deal with the official app or site.
I haven’t opened RIF since the blackouts started, and it’s been pretty nice actually. It really helped stop my endless doom scrolling.
I believe I’m going to stick with Lemmy for good!
I still browse local subs, and will look at some stuff over there.
But deleted my account and wiped all the comments (hopefully, I’ve heard reddit leaves some and just hides them from your profile).
They want to monetize the content, so a good midground for now is just don’t give them content.
I’m done, thought I might stay until the third party apps lost functionality, but I like it here, and happy to ditch Reddit
Same, I’ve discovered tiktok, Lemmy for chat, have a go at Imgur, and use my news app for what’s happening in the world. Surprised how easy it’s been to rear off the bandage.
Cause I’m a Dev and I’ve kinda done it before I’m going to create a link aggregator for my own purposes so I don’t have to go to these sites and have a mix of all sorts of stuff. So like Reddit but it will never have the community except for my friends if they even care, so it will just be the chatting / hivemind discussions I’ll need a source for
I’m not sure yet. Lemmy will end up being fine for lurking cool memes and seeing pictures of whales or whatever, but reddit’s massive userbase was always the draw (and the curse). I asked a question about how to install a particular air intake vent in my home and reddit is big enough that somebody was able to answer that (and correctly). Lemmy is nowhere near that big yet. Not even close. Won’t be close for a long time, if ever.
And that’s just active users. Lemmy is missing the staggering volume of already-answered questions in the past, for every subject I could imagine. And it never will have those unless they’re painstakingly ported over, and there frankly aren’t enough users to do that even if we wanted to.
In short, day to day I think I’m good on Lemmy but it’s a terrible shame that all those users and all those comment threads are wasted on that shitty company.
I agree that the depth and size of userbase is key. I don’t think its unrealistic to expect lemmy to have a better commenter to reader ratio, so we don’t necessarily need the scale of reddit… but I do agree more than is here now.
The coming weeks will determine the long-term course of Lemmy, I think. My encouragement to people is “read on reddit if you must, but only post to lemmy/kbin/federated”. That is easier to hold to than a “no reddit” diet, and it will starve reddit in the long-term. Its more realistic to get posters to stop posting to reddit than to get readers to stop reading. YMMV.
I’ll probably still occasionally visit reddit because there are some subs I am in that are just such mature communities, they are still a useful resource.
That being said, I LOVE the old school web vibes of Lemmy. I love the lack of ads. I didn’t realize how much I really missed the pre MAANG internet. It wasn’t until Lemmy began to fill the void that I realized it was there, and it is so fucking exciting having some of that wild west energy back.
I’m deleting mine on the last day of the month. Until then there are many pictures of Jon Oliver to upvote. (/r/pics, /r/gifs, /r/aww, /r/art)
…And pictures of vacuum cleaners. (/r/wellthatsucks)
…Along with pictures of pressurized water vapor and its many scientific uses. (/r/steam)
These communities are bringing out their best malicious compliance for the final hoorah, and the least I can do is help them find their way to the front page.
I’m out. I was waiting to see what happened after the blackout, but with the reports of submissions being restored after deletion, subreddits being forced to reopen, and the CEO doubling down and saying he looks at Musk and Twitter as some kind of success story, I’m done.
Logged in today and downloaded a list of the subreddits I was subscribed to, and then deleted all my submissions. I haven’t deleted the account yet, mostly because I want to go through my saved list and make sure there’s nothing I want to keep from there. And a little bit of morbid curiosity to see if anything I purged today will mysteriously reappear.
