Reddit is for redditors, and we do not belong there anymore.

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.

Yup. That feeling is the slow eroding of your principals. Stick to it, Lemmy gets better by the day.

I visit reddit to repost to Lemmy. This is the one time that reposting is the right thing to do.

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.

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.

Yes. The recent exodus of decent people is noticeable.

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.

Yeah, but as my excuse, I limit my visits to NSFW subs.

Other than the normie subs I still follow like my local city's sub, yeah, it feels like the party's over.

I've not visited reddit since Sunday 11th and a week into things, deleted my account. My only issue is when I Google something and can see the answer is on reddit. Happened last night but refused to go there. Found the answer somewhere else in the end.

Yes! And I accidentally upvoted something earlier before I realized where I was. Felt bad.

Don't feel bad. Addiction takes time. It's also been traumatic haha.

Sure is nice here though.

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)

Yep! It feels like I'm in a place I shouldn't be in and that I'm betraying the community simply by being there

I'm currently using Reddit Enhancement Suite to delete 8 years worth of comments and submissions. It's been a walk down memory lane as they all disappear, but it's a good way to experience catharsis on the way out the door as all of my stuff that would have been monetized through google search results go poof... First time I've been back since creating my lemmy acct though, and it was more sad than dirty.

ngl yeah I do. Specially on r/gonewildaudio.

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...what?

Yes, it's like me going into a nasty public restroom - gotta do my business asap and gtfo

Yeah, somewhat. It's addicting, though. And some communities haven't made the move to here, yet. So, I'll be going back and forth, for a bit. OTOH, I took the first step to leaving. Premium expired today. I cut the cord! It's not much but I want to support the community in some way. Also, after everything that has transpired, I can't support the actions they've taken. To me, sending them money is encouragement and support to continue what they're doing.

It's very pleasant and peaceful here. Better vibes.

I feel the same and I’m still there. But I try to use the fediverse more and more. I just gotta get the hang of it.

I don't, since I only go there for Ukraine news now, and I don't really expect people on the ground in places like /r/Ukraine reporting on genocides and highlighting local fundraising efforts to be too motivated to make the transition right away, but hopefully they'll find a presence here too. Not gonna be browsing reddit for random shitposts anymore though.

Honestly, yes. I don't want to support what the owners of Reddit are doing. A lot of people are not going to leave there though until the place is completely radioactive though.

I am enjoying the last 2 weeks of Apollo, Lemmy has exceeded my expectations and I am going to be deleting my Reddit account on the 30th. Quality of Reddit has nosedived in the last two weeks so I don’t feel like I am missing anything.

I wouldn't know, I haven't gone since the blackouts.

I don't feel guilty yet since I still have RIF - I make it a point to only lurk though. Once RIF is gone, I'm gonna try to use libreddit for question answers and never visit the actual site again. Fuck spez. Greedy little pig boy ass bitch.

Yes, but only because my porn reddit account is the last one I have. IMO its counterproductive to delete it since it's clear reddits monetization strategy is anti NSFW. The more of that site is unadvertisable the better.

I keep finding Reddit links to things when looking for solutions in my job. It's getting frustrating because a lot of the subs are still closed.

I find myself returning to Reddit just to share links to Lemmy communities and answer questions about it.

No LOL. I use Lemmy, I'll keep using Lemmy. Reddit has some communities that I don't have access to on here... So I use it too. I wish I didn't, but I don't feel dirty. I use adblock anyways so it's not even like I'm giving Reddit any money directly.

Not really, since I'm on 3rd party app and don't see ads. I'm liking lemmy, but the dynamic feed bug is really killing the experience for me. I know it doesn't happen on apps, but I prefer using a browser on my phone for now, until apps mature a bit more at least. This doesn't happen on kbin, but I miss being able to collapse comments like on lemmy.

If I really have to visit that page I do it either via cached version or via teddit. Fuck u/spez does not deserve my traffic.

Yes, i accidentaly open rif and then feel very off, then get reminded of lemmy. For some technical info i have to sneak past the front page directly to the specific sub. But the sub is migrating and its coming together better than i had imagined before.

I deleted my reddit account yesterday and also try to stay away from web searches that link to reddit. One time i accidentally clicked on a link to a reddit answer and it felt pretty bad. I do miss some of my smaller subreddits and find myself eagerly browsing new communities in the fediverse, hoping that someone started up a replacement. I don't want to become a mod, so i don't want to start up communities myself.

I am waiting for the backup of my data there to be ready so I can destroy my history and delete my account, so for a while I've been visiting daily, but after the CEO expressed his love of piece of shit extraordinaire Elon Musk, I have no interest in ever logging on there again.

yes, I try really hard not to give them my eyeballs these days. I wish we crossposted with links less and just copied or screenshotted the info we are trying to share from there.

Why would I visit Reddit?

there are still a lot of subreddit that haven't ported to Lemmy [not porting the entire subreddit with all the post to lemmy]

I have gone back only to rob my content from a specific sub and post it here. I immediately feel like a scab for giving them 1 traffic. Then I close it.

I treat the blackout and what came after (replaced mods, etc) as a strike. I don’t cross picket lines and I don’t support scabs.

I haven’t been back since the blackout kicked off. I even feel dirty seeing posts about Reddit here and mostly avoid them because I can guess at the content. You can guess how disgustingly dirty I feel actually replying to a Reddit thread here!

Well, yeah. That's why I'm mostly here instead.

My Redditing is down from hours daily to a few minutes, at a couple of specific subReddits with info and news I haven't yet been able to find elsewhere.

I've felt gross for years, ever since they switched from old reddit to the new trash design. I used old.reddit.com for a bit, but stopped once I saw how much tracking garbage ublock was blocking, even on old reddit.

Before lemmy I was using teddit as a privacy focused frontend for reddit which worked great. But now the API changes will kill teddit so no more reddit for me!

Not really, I'm going there to watch a slow motion train wrecking into a dumpster fire nowadays.

I've always permanently browsed with Ublock Origin on desktop or Apollo on mobile... So they get effectively no revenue from me aside from maybe selling my browsing habits. Either way Ad revenue is likely what's keeping them afloat right now so that helps it feel a little less dirty. Once my niche subreddits are moved over it's bye bye forever

We don't go to Ravenholm anymore.

I just don't visit Reddit. Problem solved.

I still check out a few specialised subs that haven't' made it over here or that I can't find a Facebook equivalent I like yet. One is for our local town and one is for cancer support. I don't feel great about it, but as I used to spend hours a day on Reddit it's a vast improvement. Don't let perfect stand in the way of good is how I look at it. I may just end up starting the cancer patient support ones on my own over here, but I'm hoping someone that knows what they are doing will beat me to it.

I haven’t been back yet (at least not intentionally; I’ve carelessly clicked some links that opened reddit but I closed them right away.) At some point I do want to go back and see if a couple of my weirder, smaller communities have made any announcements about moving off reddit. If they haven’t/won’t, then I guess I’ll have to learn to live without them. (Arguably the healthier option but what can I say? I’m weak! If I don’t have to give them up, I won’t.)

Don’t know if I’ll be able to bring myself to delete my account. Again I know I probably should, but I really don’t want to for reasons I can’t articulate.

No, but my last visit is likely on the horizon

I either use ad-block or the "unsanctioned" RiF app and am only there to watch it die rather than engage

Only delaying deleting my account to give them a fair chance to course-correct before the apps that make it usable shut down (or tweak their codebase to work with Lemmy)

I don't.

I haven't visited Reddit since the second day of the whole fiasco.

Currently only using rif occasionally as some subreddits haven't transferred only, otherwise I'm browsing here, but I feel bad.

I haven't taken baconreader off my phone yet because I'm not ready, but I also don't visit Reddit anymore either. I'm pretty happy on Lemmy right now, and I was thinking about giving Mastodon a go.

It's just become so toxic. I remember when I used to enjoy going to Reddit and it used to make me feel good. It used to make me laugh. Now it's just negativity.

I won't go back. I'm a full lemming now.

Totally agree!

Unfortunately I'm visiting on old.reddit every now and again to keep up with sport news. Once the transfer window is over it's goodbye Vienna.

I feel like going to the Chernobyl exclusion zone every time I had to specifically go in there, not to access content from there (I use libreddit, teddit or archive.org for that), but to check on my accounts (via old.reddit).

What I do is to just do what I need to do, see if any of my posts or comments have resurfaced, scrub them off, delete them (or just use Power Delete Suite for that), and then go back out without any delay. The less time I spend there, the better.

I feel the same. I feel like the main place to find out if anything is going to happen is on reddit, though... I don't know what I expect to happen besides things to get worse.

I go on Reddit when i google something.

please dont feel bad, it takes time to wean yourself off reddit
Just slowly reduce the amount of time you spend on it and spend more time on other stuff

However for you all out there, esp if you are a mod working hard to migrate your community here, we can understand going on reddit as a necessary evil to do in order to move your communities

I've been wanting to quit reddit for a long time. It hasn't been the same for years, and it's just gotten worse over time. I'm hoping that lemmy provides me something close to what reddit used to give me: great quality discussion and debate concerning real ideas. Maybe I'm just getting older and more bitter over time, but it seems like the entire website is inundated with children on mobile devices who can't think of any idea more complex than one which can be summed up in a single sentence and a Laughing Crying emoji. If not, I'll see if I can't get a tildes invite. But, yes, going back to reddit feels like cheating on a diet, or smoking a cigarette when you're trying to quit.

Considering the only time I visit reddit is to keep deleting my posts that pop up after I run my deletion script, no, I don't.

Yes, also because of all the nsfw content.

I'm using Apollo until it shuts down. Then my only interaction with Reddit will be via old.reddit.com

I only visit r/all and just to see if there's any big anti-reddit news floating near the top.

Personally I don't. Reddit won't go away anytime soon.

Instead, I have a reminder to delete my posted content and account when 2 days are remaining until API becomes paid. The I would only visit Reddit using desktop and never on mobile.

Yeah, I check out the existentialist french cinema shitpost images of women smoking on redscarepod and some buttcoin for the luls, via teddit. Found a decent bud of buttcoin on fediverse and I fully expect to be ready to unceremoniously stop anonymously lurking come July 1st and let reddit digg itself into a shithole.

I hVent logged in since the blackout. So no.

Rmemeber to use adblock + don't use the default app

everytime i open my thirdparty client i remind myself that its stupid to do.. since i need to get away from reddit slowly. it will stop working anyway in a few days so i should rather now distance myself on mobile from it.. but somehow i open it again and again.. so yes. feels bad. :/

I don't feel dirty, but I do get sickened by the comments being thrown around over there. I'm spending about 90% of my previous reddit time, here. So, I'm pretty close to weaning myself off that crack at this point.

Supporting whosit? Never heard of em.

Haven't visited it since June 11th and only plan on going back on June 30th to delete all my comments/posts/accounts. I already cut the cord and I'm moving on to multiple other sites. Do I miss reddit? Yes, but in my mind, the reddit I knew is already gone and it's not coming back. Even if they backed down on their stupid API policy at this point, they've done enough BS that there's not really any turning back on any of this.

Burn the ships with the rest of us. I shredded my account replacing every comment with "fuck u/spez" then deleted my account.

meh. i block ads, they dont get much from me. im certainly using it less though

I don't mind browsing the web version with my ad blocker. Before, it was just because I don't like ads. But the icing on the cake now is the knowledge that every byte I siphon off their server costs them something that they will never get back from me

There's a moment when I am googling and the most promising result that shows up is an answer on Reddit... Like ugh, how bad do I really want to know this answer. Gross.

I only visit now when I have an obscure game question that's only been asked and answered on Reddit 3 years ago. I don't feel too bad because I have an adblocker

Yep, unfortunately not enough people from some of my niche subs have moved over (if any) so i'm finding myself checking every now and then. Its either check reddit or twitter for the news I'm seeking so feel a little stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Been using discord options for a few of the sports related ones, but not all the niches exist here yet. I would create those subs here but I don't have the foggiest clue of how to make changes here nor do I have the time to be an actual mod and do those communities justice.

I removed Boost from my phone's home screen, and haven't been back to the site in at least a week.

Well that's not entirely true, I used my porn account a few times. That's one thing I will miss. So much porn.

I deleted both my active accounts when the API changes were first announced and have not logged in or made a new account since.

I do own one former reddit account with the same username as this one but it's been suspended for a couple months due to a "security issue". They wanted me to reset my password to a more secure one but I don't have an email linked to that account so I can't actually reset it. So I just deleted my entire comment/post history and will never be logging back into that account.

So for the past couple weeks 100% of my reddit viewing has been while logged out and via old.reddit.com with an adblocker active.

Mainly I was checking reddit just out of morbid curiousity to see how the blackout was progressing and see if spez/admins were gonna say any more laughably stupid shit.

I first started lurking on Lemmy around the same time that I deleted my 2 active reddit accounts and as it has become more active I decided to go ahead and make an account here and give it a proper try. So far I'm enjoying myself and I hope this place continues to grow more as more people abandon reddit.

I deleted Apollo off my phone because I kept mindlessly going there. I'm going to miss Apollo, great app. Really looking forward to Artemis for kbin.

I have been slowly using it less and less over the years in general. It's still useful if I'm searching for something on DDG. I also still visit some of the small or local subs.

YES.

Yeah, kinda. I'd been following a game pretty closely, Eternights. The developer was pretty active on Reddit, and I had been following him and the game since he first advertised on the Persona 5 sub. His demo just came out yesterday and the game comes out later this year. I had to log in to send him a congrats message and I even felt like I had to apologize to him for it.

I just go from time to time to see what a shitshow it has become.

I've downloaded all my saved off content, and plan on deleting all my comments/posts for whatever that's worth. We'll see if they restore any of it. I'll probably delete my accounts some time after the 1st.

When Boost stops working it'll be easier for me to avoid. Fuck their app. Just wish m/fantasy was more active so I didn't keep slipping back to the r/ equivalent.

I do now. I'm slowly purging the communities and people I follow there as I migrate over to here.

Nah not really but I also DNS blocked it last week. I don't know if I will unblock it to delete my accounts.

No client anymore, so cannot visit anymore

There are some things that just aren’t really here yet with regards to searchability and history, so so I’ve been back a little bit for some research.

That research was triggered by leaving Reddit though, like I’m using Reddit to leave Reddit and clean up my digital life.

In the last 10 years the internet has just been in a downward spiral and I didn’t really notice it happening. The enshittification everyone is talking about. For me it started with switching from a blackberry to an iPhone and Thunderbird entering non-development mode and Google Reader going away. I had systems, and they got disrupted, and every website became almost unusable with the ads and constant intrusion into my life and data. It all turned into a perpetual doom scroll.

So I’m going on a social media diet (only opening Instagram and Facebook to announce I’m available for work) and getting RSS back into my life to make things actually readable again. But this kind of stuff is where searching “(region) news rss feeds Reddit” is still the best way to find things.

Looking forward to kbin and/or lemmy taking over that niche.

I don't feel dirty because I don't go to reddit.

Nah, I just clone and entry or two from top month/year/all then come back into my favorite sublemmies

absolutely... waiting for MVP of sync for lemmy...

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I specifically have only been going on to find the Lemmy replacement links. After the 30th though, I’m going to put a firewall setting up so I can’t accidentally go on Reddit when I go to search questions about games and the likes.

Since I use an ad blocker, visiting reddit means I'm making them spend money for no revenue.

I deleted my 10yr account history but left the account so the username wouldn't be recycled. I haven't logged in since but have browsed old reddit front page without logging in.

I don't think reddit can monetize browsing old without logging in that much, and at least I'm making their servers work. Maybe I'm just rationalizing but I don't feel that dirty just browsing.

I do. But I can't bring myself to delete Sync from my phone. Its only purpose is to serve as a reminder that I'm waiting for Sync for Lemmy but sometimes I click on it by accident. Muscle memory.

The community from my city and country hasn't left in droves yet, so I'm still checking in on those subs. The city does have a Discord however so I'm on there now with the regulars.

I have reddit blocked at the router level (Eero mesh network). It's worked great, they've seen no traffic from my IP since the blackout. I habitually try to visit the site but that block has greatly helped...... until the software glitched and I started seeing reddit - turns out I had to reboot my router and that fixed the issue. But damn I felt dirty accidentally visiting the site again - but I didn't miss it, I could see it had changed.

I'm only using it on PC with extremely aggressive adblocking and not interacting at all so I figure I'm just draining their resources so no.

Yeah. Party's over. Spez will be king of a corpse

At this point I’m just enjoying Apollo while I still can.

Reddit basically doesn't exist anymore so I wouldn't know.

I quit visiting Reddit.

Thanks - this post made me think to check if there are browser plugins that automatically redirect Reddit links to teddit. There's teddit redirect for Firefox and teddit please for Chrome. Mobile is more difficult but it's a start.

Tbh yes, after the recent updates on the whole thematic im activily trying to be more active on other plattforms :D

no more than I usually do...

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