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Ive been on reddit for more than a decade. Kinda bittersweet, but its not the first time I have moved on from an internet site. I just cant support reddit and sucking up all my posts for AI purposes. Feels terrible and spammy. Ive been a reddit premium holder for many many years.

Anyways, what communities do you recommend?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's pretty easy to curate to what you like, ban communities you definitely don't like and subscribe to communities you really like while switching between all and subscribed based whether or not you want to discover new communities. You may also want to play around with what instance you use based on who they're federated with or if you want multiple accounts but that's not usually necessary.

If you're a pirate I'd recommend a lot of communities from lemmy.dbzer0.com if you're into Linux there is a fuck ton of Linux communities I'm sure you'll come across. Lemmy is full of techy and political topics mostly but there's some great memes too. I recommend the [email protected] personally bc it matches my personal politics more closely. If you used r/196 you may feel more at him in lemmy.blahaj.zone

Mostly you'll find that Lemmy lacks the hyper niche and fandom communities you'd find on Reddit but everything else is generally here. You can always make a niche community your self but you'll likely end up being the one posting 90% of the time unless you find some people really interested beforehand. Good luck 👍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Did you remember to delete all you posts and comments before deleting your account? Because fuck Reddit!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why? Unless you’re in a few location in the world, they won’t actually delete your valuable data.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Deleting your account only deletes your username from posts and comments. Why leave behind useful content?

Fuck Reddit!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But they would keep that information behind the scenes and only display [deleted] or whatever it said.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

No you’re missing the point, unless you live in a location that has laws to force companies to actually delete your data, they won’t actually delete it and thus deleting your account will achieve nothing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No one gives a shit if Reddit stores your posts in the background, hidden from the front-end, it's about removing useful content from the public.

Thus... Deleting all your posts and comments before deleting your account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

No, it's about removing content from being sold to AI or other companies.

No one gives a shit about the front-end.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I use lemmy like twitter, like reddit 15 years ago : I view everything, then block communities I’m not interested in.

Lemmy is still small enough to that without too much garbage- especially if you like a broad range of content,

The only chore was blocking tons of anime

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I'd recommend filtering by all instances (servers) and see which ones show up, which is kind of like r/all. Just a word of warning that everyone and their dog seems to have a NSFW community with three niche images that make you wonder how that's even a thing.

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