Well, looks like Feddit (I hope there’s a German one called Deddit) is now my home. I’ve been here a while and am enjoying the more intimate atmos.
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve downloaded all my reddit posts and comments, deleted all my reddit posts and comments and now, today, deleted my account.
Goodbye /u/TheWrongFusebox, you were a blast.
I doubt Reddit will care that I’ve gone, and I doubt any of this user action will change their intent since their plans are all about generating revenue and - of course - we were the product not the customer.
I think the tone of the other site will change, more than it already has.
And the audience changing will be part of that.
A lot of the old-time members joined when there was a strong “internet freedom” ethos, and may well have migrated away.
There will still be plenty of people there, and quite possibly those people are more profitable (less chance of running adblockers, more likely to click sponsored posts)
I’m going to start referring to it as “the other site” too now. Don’t mention it by name any more—kind of like ‘the Scottish play’.
I don’t understand how people use the internet without an ad blocker, especially on mobile, every site is just pure cancer
Of course. I’m not trying to change Reddit, I just don’t really like Reddit anymore. Same reason I stopped using Google and Microsoft and planning on getting a Tesla. I’m onto duckduckgo, Linux and aptera. Once any company gets too greedy or overbearing are simply stops offering the services I’m looking for, I leave.
Yeah. Read this to see why Reddit’s trajectory was pretty much inevitable: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
The Fediverse may be different, given it’s never going to go hunting that gazillion dollar IPO.
Brilliant article - we can now see behind the wizards curtain and it’s not a pretty sight. Confirms my decision to get out - the Fediverse is what the web should always have been but it was co-opted by Big Tech who offered us free and easy Internet access as long as we did it in their walled garden.
Web 4.0 has been a bit vague but I do wonder if one of the keys is the Fediverse.
Rad, I will read that now, thanks.
I have been checking it out. As vision issues will be my reason for leaving whe 3rd party apps disappear tonight.
Comments deff seem to have become way more right wing and/or aggressive post blackout.