Ten years on Reddit and over a million karma and I stopped on July 1 and haven’t looked back. Kbin/the fediverse is so much better.
When I read stories about what they’re doing now it’s like watching my ex fuck up their life and it’s quite fun.
Ten years on Reddit and over a million karma and I stopped on July 1 and haven’t looked back. Kbin/the fediverse is so much better.
When I read stories about what they’re doing now it’s like watching my ex fuck up their life and it’s quite fun.
Actively, no, but I haven't dropped it 100%. I occasionally visit when I find links via Google, and check some discussions about a few current TV shows that are basically dead on Lemmy/kbin.
Just under an hour a week in total (according to ActivityWatch), down from hours per day.
Similar situation. If there is something I'm researching I still add "reddit" onto my search criteria since otherwise google queries return nothing but ads and garbage SEO enhanced blogspam sites. I used to look at the dragonball, chainsaw man and one punch man subreddits when new issues were released, but I'm moving over to discord for those now.
And it's not indexed or archived in any public way.
My hours of random browsing while having morning coffee or standing in a queue at a retail store have been fully replaced by Kbin. I check Reddit about once a week for r/nursing and r/Boston only because there's no way to really replace those highly developed, high volume communities yet
I mean there's !boston / !boston ( @boston ) and !healthcareworkers but neither of them seem rlly active
Yeah, I'm subbed to Boston community here, but no, it's nowhere near as busy as the Reddit community. And I needed updates from the ground about the Sumner Tunnel closure while I had family visiting a couple weeks ago.
Probably a true alternative will grow organically with enough time.
Sadly its the same with my country community( !Israel / @Israel ) , but its not even remotely as active as Subreddit(200k vs like 300ppl spread out over like 5 communities)
Probably a true alternative will grow organically with enough time.
Threadiverse can be the alternative if it will continue to grow imo, I see a lot of potential
I posted this elsewhere but I'll post it again.
I tried going back to Reddit the day before yesterday, and was immediately disappointed with how many useful comments for solutions for problems have been deleted due to the Great Reddit Migration of 2023.
I'm not upset at the people doing this, it's just proof that this method of protest truly works. If I have any questions or wanna chat about a specific topic I'll come ask here on Lemmy. That way, I can get answers to problems from you lovely people while building up the fediverse with useful tips and tricks.
Same here. I'm working on a couple household projects and a software side project. I've found useful-looking search results several times over the past few weeks and was pleasantly surprised to find I was repeatedly finding the useful content deleted.
Sure, it's annoying on some level...but it's also pretty neat that I've already noticed I default to clicking Stack Exchange links or asking ChatGPT stuff before searching reddit specifically, since my brain's already starting to associate reddit with the disappointed feeling of finding a deleted comment.
I dropped it June 12 and never went back.
I stopped sometime in mid-June when the blackouts first started. I only look at Reddit now if someone links a post to me, but I no longer mindlessly browse it for hours a day.
I lurked for a bit until RIF died but haven't been back since. Nearly 12 years of daily activity. Kbin has hasn't quite done it for me yet but definitely getting better every day.
I deleted all my post history and burned my decade-old account to the ground. I have been actively avoiding everything Reddit, including search results, which has made the internet a bit of a nightmare to try and navigate.
Sometimes I check out /r/technology and /r/worldnews through libdirect proxy, as well as the slightly more occasional tech-support hunt, but I don't feel the need to interact with it.
Saw a thread of people circlejerking "fuck spez" and giving a bunch of rewards to each other under a thread where /r/space was reannounced, and I was so surprised these people thought they were doing anything
I'm sure some people were paying for awards like idiots, but a lot of them are just burning the coins they already had since awards are going away soon. Not sure it's even possible to buy them anymore.
Speculation is that it's going to be replaced with a system that awards top contributors real money payouts. But I believe new coins/premium can't be bought, and old coins have until September something to be used, iirc.
Still lurk some, particularly on a couple of communities that haven't got as much traction here, but except for a single recommendation that folks try Lemmy/Kbin, I've denied them the glory of my contributions. They'll see just how badly they miss a self-important Xennial suburban cargo-shorts Dad! They'll see! They'll all see!
So anyway, I've been thinking that college football realignment is crazy and I might see if my little 5w laser engraver can cut through black 3mm acrylic...
Not using it. Dropped it when the API changes were announced. Charging excessively for user generated content. Plus all the open hostility from Reddit towards it's users/mods.
All the content generated by users remain a treasure trove though, and I still add reddit as a keyword to many google searches.
I never fully stopped using Reddit. I do use it a lot less though. Most of the subs I was there for either slowed down or stopped. One of them only has a single user who's allowed to post now
I sometimes browse a few more of my niche subs, but I swore off posting and commenting.
I’m pretty much completely off Reddit. I only go by from time to time when I’m linked directly to something over there, and I’ll be on long enough to read whatever was linked and a few comment threads, then I close the app. I’d only recently really started getting into Reddit when the Blackout happened, so it was easy to just switch over to the Fediverse.
I haven't been back since I deleted my 10 year old profile at the start of the 48 hour blackout.
Still have my account and use it for finding reviews and answer to questions (e.g. Question site:reddit.com). But I don't post, comment, or participate by upvoting/downvoting anymore. Without the third party app I used, I just don't really find a point in using Reddit as a social website anymore.
I deleted my account and no longer browse there. I've only looked at posts for niche technical problems as a last resort. I was using libreddit or teddit but both those seem to have died, if there is any other way to view individual posts without giving them traffic please share it!
Haven't used reddit since July 1st, basically when RIF (Reddit is Fun) App stopped working.
When this whole mess started, I dropped it by deleting my accounts. I've clicked on a link maybe two times going there and did check out a local sports team's sub once last week but actively avoid it most of the time.
Tried to dropped it cold turkey since the Apollo debacle, and have succeeded reasonably well. I wasn't and am still not a mobile user, but Reddit's behaviour was disturbing.
Accidentally found myself there a couple of times through links and things when I haven't looked at the link properly, expecting the source, not a comment thread, but I haven't stuck around. The fact I was an Old-Reddit user and the default is the awful new interface is a decent reminder that I'm in the wrong place.
Once or twice I've used a libreddit instance to actually read a comment thread when I spotted a link was going to go there, but a couple more times I've just not bothered.
I noticed someone else here say they took their Reddit link off their toolbar. I went one better and updated that particular entry to be a kbin link. That way, if I find myself mindlessly navigating to Reddit, yet another instant reminder. "Oh. Oh yeah, Spez went full Musk. Let us not go there, it is a silly place." etc.
I still have some Reddit Premium left, so I don't get ads, so I don't feel guilty about visiting the site occasionally. But I removed the link to Reddit from my task bar, so the times I visit the site is almost always just because I followed a link.
That said, I do miss Reddit a little bit. Kbin replaces it partially, but simply because if its size it's much more likely you find something interesting on Reddit than on here.
I have dropped it one hundred percent and have no regrets.
I haven't been back on that website, through and app or not, since June 12th. A couple times a day I get links are search results and I simply won't click on them. Fuck them.
I saw a thread the other week indicating a lot of you never left or returned to Reddit already.
It's worth considering the source of this information, as well as any possibly alternate explanation.
Did reddit say most protestors were back? Because this is the same company that vastly inflated monthly unique visitor numbers in order to pressure mods and claim a user vote doesn't represent the majority of a community.
Did another traffic analysis site claim this? While there may have been some rebound, it's worth remembering that reddit was constantly growing, and emigration might have been offset by new user signups, especially with how much they've been in tech news lately.
For my part, I've almost entirely stayed away since mid June. Probably a combined total 60-90 minutes of browsing since then.
Nope. None for me.
Soon as I heard RIF was being killed, I switched over to Lemmy and never looked back.
Same. Unless I need to find some obscure product reviews in a specialist community and google only returns ads
I only use it for finding information or how tos for stuff that just doesn't have the community or information backlog on Kbin. Lots of guides for how to install stuff on the Steam Deck on Reddit, for example. Most of my friends still use reddit so I'll read any links they post too, but my primary social media is Kbin
I was a Joey user, so I left for real
@eternity_html I’m done with Reddit. Haven’t closed my account yet because there is a friend I’m still in contact with there. I don’t scroll, comment or post.Reddit sucks and there isn’t a reason to go back
After the 2-day blackout, I went back to using it as normal. Now, I usually have two tabs open; one for kbin, one for Reddit. On my phone, I have the Reddit app, and while it's heavier than RedReader, it works well enough. I just make sure to tap every ad I see, to drive up the advertisers' costs and help to drop campaign conversion.
Haven't touched it
I didn't delete my account and still read https://www.reddit.com/r/drupal/, but I only comment when I think the user would have better luck posting to https://kbin.social/m/drupal or https://kbin.social/m/php. The Kbin version of the Drupal community only has 50 subscribers, but some articles get the same number of upvotes/favorites on Kbin as they do on Reddit now. Drupal users have their own Mastodon instance at https://drupal.community/ and the founder/lead of the project is active on https://indieweb.social/@dries, so it doesn't take much to convince that community to move the conversation to an open, ActivityPub based platform.
You might have to define active, I never posted often there, and while I do scroll through it daily, I don't find much that grabs my attention, I'm literally only visiting out of habit, same for Twitter as it happens, but at some point I'll likely drop it.
There's no time like the present.
got my gdpr data request download so was just on it over the weekend to delete my stuff. man it took hours. going to run another deletion just in case then maybe another gdpr to make sure nothing much is left and then maybe an api style delete.
What’s a reddit?
'Actively', no. But I still have an account there and lurk occasionally on specific subs. For example, I've been on r/FPL a lot recently as the fantasy football communities on kbin and Lemmy never really took off and the season starts soon, so I want to make sure I've got the latest information while I'm setting up my team. I'll probably continue lurking there on an ongoing basis as it's a useful resource.
For many of my regular subs though (e.g. things to do with Star Trek, UK politics, football more generally), I'm getting enough of what I need here and by default I'm opening the kbin app when I want to procrastinate. I haven't posted on Reddit in well over a month (and most of my last few posts were about kbin).
I'm still reading it just because there's still not the volume of posts for my topics on Kbin/etc. But have completely stopped posting or commenting whatsoever unless the topic is migrating off of reddit or discussing federated alternatives.
thanks for using Leebra!
go to feed...
I'm not. I was a moderator on one of the subs that got hassled by admin shenanigans and so I deleted my entire post history and closed my account and don't go there anymore.
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