I don’t know man, but I feel like I’m supporting a maniac CEO with every second I spend on reddit.
Reddit is for redditors, and we do not belong there anymore.
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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.
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.
Honestly, just get the info you need (with ads blocked, of course). Not commenting or posting content there is enough.
Data analytics show usage though, which is a plus for them to diminish in the eyes of others the effect of the boycott.
I visit reddit to repost to Lemmy. This is the one time that reposting is the right thing to do.
Do you have a workflow so we can do the same?
Yup. That feeling is the slow eroding of your principals. Stick to it, Lemmy gets better by the day.
Yeah I am deleting my 9 year old account on the 30th.
Despite reddit’s flaws it’s a great resource for a lot of entertainment,education and the communities can be great. But reddit got too big, too greedy and it’s just a matter of time before it hopefully collapses. Those of us moving into fed-space are the early birds.
Same here. But I’ve noticed that I’m starting to spend more time here than on Reddit, not bad.
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That’s pretty much the defining argument from The Good Place. The world is so complicated now that it’s nearly impossible to be fully moral. The only thing you can really do is to do what good you can and try to be better today than you were yesterday.
The other thing you can do is reduce consumption. However you can, to whatever extent you can
Problem is that people who make the argument that the person you replied to make are usually the type to use that philosophy as an all inclusive excuse to not even try, but just continue doing what they’re doing and feel ethically justified doing it.
You’re right that the world is shades of gray, and not black and white
But in this case Reddit is a separated entity that you can just avoid to not support.
Your excuse makes sense when it’s vital services that are intertwined with other vital services that you have to use.
There are alternatives to Reddit.
I feel like a traitor when I do. It has sucked all the enjoyment out of the website.
It’s joined the ranks of FB, IG and Twit as a site I don’t feel good about using. To be fair, while reddit has discredited themselves a ton lately, the past 4-5 years of ‘new reddit’ has been awful and they continue to get worse, it’s still not nearly as bad as MetaZuck or Elron.
yeah especially a lot of major politics often feels like an astroturf, I haven’t been able to feel like I’m debating or seeing legitimately popular things in years over there. I have to be super skeptical because of the powers that be who have an interest in swaying opinion
Reddit is over for me. I’ve blocked every one of their domains in my PiHole server, so it is impossible to use Reddit in my house. You can’t fight every war, but this war is worth fighting.
You save the World one battle at a time.
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Yes. The recent exodus of decent people is noticeable.
It definitely felt like land of the shills before I stopped going. Just hundreds of random new accounts posting in every community that went dark.
I don’t feel dirty. Just sad for the people still over there. At this point I just log in once a day to vote for protest supporter and see what the status is. Then come back to here and Mastadon.
Some of my favorite subs over have gone full toxic and have completely removed my desire to go there. Just total hatred toward being inconvenienced, which is sad on its own that people are so desperate to be submissive. Not understanding that the only reason the protests failed was because they already decided (and then therefore invested in) the protest failing.
Other subs are still voting overwhelmingly to protest in any way possible. But the amount of gaslighting by shills (possible astroturfing) is wild. Every sub has tons of people saying “nobody cares” despite people voting otherwise.
Absolutely. Trying to make the switch but I think it’s going to take a bit for me to fully “cut the cord.” Trying to find matching lemmy communities for most of my interests and then planning on deleting everything from reddit.
Once RIF stops working I won’t be able to, so really that’ll be the big moment.
Same. I’m not using the app ever. I do comment/post here much more often though
Same here, I heard there is a plug in called shreddit you can use before the api changes to nuke your comments. I plan on doing the same right before th shift.
Same! I’m hoping after the API changes take place a bigger influx of new users will hit and start gaining traction at that point.
Yeah, but as my excuse, I limit my visits to NSFW subs.
Ah, so you can feel dirty while you’re feeling dirty. I like the way you think
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From what I’ve seen, it’s sparse.
If you replace the reddit.com part of any reddit link with https://reddit.adminforge.de/, you can browse without giving them any traffic / interaction (for example reddit.com/r/tihi –> https://reddit.adminforge.de/r/tihi)
What a great website!
Yes! And I accidentally upvoted something earlier before I realized where I was. Felt bad.
