I’m on the fence about it. I was part of the Digg migration and made it into the Eternity Club. I’ve supported the black-out and will continue to do so, but I have a soft-spot for the site and even if I’m not active on there for the time-being, I won’t be deleting my account. My ‘on the shitter’ site switched from Reddit to TikTok a couple of years ago, so I won’t miss that, but there is a vast amount of pornography on the site that is neatly contained and easily filtered that will be hard to replace.

I’m genuinely done with Reddit. If they got a new CEO, new higher ups and what not then maybe I’d go back but I wouldn’t go back until I saw proof it had changed.

As of right now Reddit can burn in hell.

I left this week. Am still trying to get the reddit experience via lemmy though. Need to have highly specialized communities, engaged user bases, and easy UI experience. Not quite there yet, but we’ll get there.

I’m totally done with Reddit, but that doesn’t mean I won’t miss it. I know Reddit can harbour a bunch of chronically online people, but nearly every interaction I had on there was wholesome. I miss the niche communities and the sense of belonging. I won’t ever go back though, primarily because of the constant ads, but also because the CEO has shown what kind of attitude he’s planning to drive Reddit forward with. I hope as time goes on, Lemmy will continue to grow, sparking intellectual and helpful posts and communities.

I haven’t used Reddit since I discovered Lemmy. I was a lurker on Reddit and just browsed /r/all. That was a pretty unhealthy habit, glad that the black out happened honestly.

My account was 13 years old… back from the great Digg migration.

Over the past decade I’ve been very active on a range of subs, with a more recent focus on professional technology, politics and gaming.

Over the years I’d amassed in excess of 300k comment karma, and not an insignificant bit of post karma (mostly from back in the SCO tech war).

I’m walking away at this point… even if spez was kicked out the door by the Board the bad faith shown is just the straw that broke the dromedary’s back.

Since I am within the scope of GDPR and I want this to be painful on them (plus there are useful bits i refer to from my old history from time to time)… I’ve issued the GDPR data request and intend to follow through with a “right to be forgotten” GDPR data deletion request once that’s been fulfilled.

On top pf being the spcial media I interacted the most, Reddit also used to be my default idle scrolling app, whenever I had time to kill and a phone with Internet on my hand or when I felt like multitasking watching TV. I stopped using it for the blackout and I never really went back.

I snooped a bit through r/modcoord and r/save3rpartyapps to see how thing were going when someone mentioned them a couple of days ago and from there I went on the linked subs to see their alternative protests and vote on the subs I subscribe to, but that’s it.

I still miss some subs, but I haven’t felt the need to visit them yet, so even if I cave in, I’m no longer a daily user, just a once-twice a month one with a ton of ad blocks.

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.

Yep… Probably. If bacon reader stops working, then definitely.

Either way I feel dirty looking, so I think we are done lol.

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 went ahead and scrubbed my post history over there. When Apollo closes out, I’ll be out. Hoping this setup continues to grow. It’s a shame, but no interest in supporting the current stupidity.

Obligatory"not from /r/Brisbane".

I only used a couple of smaller, specific interest subs. One has essentially shutdown permanently while the other remains up and will likely continue unaffected. However 99% of my time spent on reddit over the years has been through third party apps. Since none of my problems with the official reddit app have been, or will be, addressed and I am uninterested in desktop or mobile browsing, the changes ultimately mean that I will no longer have any way of accessing reddit. So yes, I am done with the platform.

I personally don’t think it’s a big deal. Before reddit I was a regular in several smaller forum communities and I greatly preferred it. Everyone there was genuinely interested in the shared interest or the community built around it. You didn’t get these random normies chiming in with their braindead opinions and then disappearing never to be heard from again.

Replaced Reddit app with Mlem and memmy app. I alternate between those two and the webpage. Haven’t opened Reddit in days. Reddit will be yahoo answers for me now, at best.

I was a Reddit user for 9 years. I ditched it on TikTok to prove to people that they don’t control you.

The biggest issue for me right now is troubleshooting and searching. Reddit search is awful, but google + Reddit is almost irreplaceable imo. You don’t have to read through ai generated article that’s just repeating keywords, just find a post that contains the answer.

Ai chat seems to be a pretty good replacement, but it’s still up in the air for now.