Joan Westerberg has been doing great work on the Fediverse. I pasted this link in the one sub I miss r/idiocracy:

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/big-tech-wants-you-trapped-the-open-web-sets-you-free-2/

My post was really good — I used Idiocracy speech to get my scros to join me in LEMMY and not only was the post rejected but I earned a temporary ban at Reddit.

At this point there isn’t even a point in going back to leave a breadcrumb trail to be followed.

  • @SolidShake
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    1410 hours ago

    Just delete your account and uninstall reddit. Best decision I made. I left 7 years and around 300,000 karma. Now I just use reddit via Google searching for instructions or IT tips.

    • Calcifer
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      49 hours ago

      Agreed - Even before this, the only thing I really used reddit for was to search. It’s unfortunate that Reddit is really the only search option with a decent chance of surfacing the information I want to know - most search results if you don’t add “Reddit” at the end are AI slop, ads, or AI generated listicles.

  • @subunit317
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    7014 hours ago

    They’re asking their users to leave. Its about time we oblige them.

  • @dhork
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    3713 hours ago

    I found the perfect way to not get banned from Reddit: simply don’t go there.

    • @[email protected]
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      1111 hours ago

      the only way I end up there lately is through search results. even then half the time what im looking for got blanked out or deleted by someone leaving reddit.

      • @[email protected]
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        59 hours ago

        Genuinely such mixed feelings about all the deleted old posts. I swear it’s well over half of the time I search up some kind of tech issue and all the relevant posts are gone. But the replies saying “thanks this fixed it so fast!” are always still there lmao.

        Like I’m glad there’s less and less of a reason to go to Reddit. Fuck that site. But also… goddamn!

  • @[email protected]
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    3014 hours ago

    I think they’re going the Twitter-> X route. Make it so unusable for the people who would give any pushback, that all that’s left are the people who are going to cause real harm and the others that are too addicted and/or stupid to leave.

    • @EightBitBlood
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      Reddit brain drain has been happening for years, and it’s already embarrassing how much the quality of posts has dropped. Now it’s about to get so much worse.

  • GreatWhiteBuffalo41
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    613 hours ago

    It’s just like… You know? Don’t worry about it Scro…

    But in all seriousness I’m glad Lemmy exists.