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.
Yeah, I started on lemmy two weeks ago or whenever reddit confirmed they were killing third party apps, and I’ve been perfectly comfortable here, haven’t used Reddit since.
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.
i’ve found that there is plenty of content among all the threadiverse instances to satisfy my browsing habits. it might not all be on topics i care about, but i discover more things i didn’t know existed here, than on reddit. i have no reason to go back
Here’s hoping Lemmy lives up to expectations!
Just waiting for Sync for Lemmy to come out.
I went on Reddit long enough today to finish purging my content and replacing with spam - I haven’t deleted my accounts yet bc laziness. It was fun reading years old threads for a bit but I got bored and I probably won’t go back now. Haven’t missed it all month
I’ve missed reddit. it was such a large part of my life for so long. Joined in 2006, deleted in 2023. It was a great run, but enshittification always takes hold.
I changed all my reddit comments today to state that I’m leaving and how I feel about the “leadership” of reddit. I used no profanities and I’m rather proud of that. It took considerable self control. Lemmy, and more specifically feddit.uk, is my new virtual home. To quote one of my favourite bands, “where I lay my head is home”
Now I feel dumb because I deleted my comments instead of editing for something like this.
I used a magic script thing (which, ironically, relies on the API) to edit every comment to “Goodbye!” first before deleting them.
I don’t suppose you have a copy of that script still lying around? 🙂
I used https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
But I’d guess it probably doesn’t work anymore if it relied on the Reddit API to work.
Well, I successfully replaced a load of posts manually this morning via Infinity, so perhaps “1st July” hadn’t happened in the US yet?
Did the same, edited to something about the API changes then deleted, but could have left the comments up :(
Oh well
