Yup. Haven't been back since last Sunday. Which was surprisingly easy given I'd been a near-daily user for nine-ish years. I miss very little. I might log in one last time before the end of the month to trash my account.
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I deleted Apollo off my phone which curbed my Reddit habit.
The thing that I’ve been struggling with is how often Reddit comes up in Google search results. I know, you can remove Reddit from search, I just always forget. It’s muscle memory to just click and read.
Specifically, when I google stuff about how kbin works, I see the only answers are on Reddit and then I'm in a real pickle.
Don't remove reddit from search results, there's still lots of useful stuff there, just use the cached version instead of giving them traffic.
I've decided to only interact with Reddit for work, and so it might happen once a day now. I've started to use the Libredirect Addon to only view Reddit in a limited and tracker free experience: LibreRedirect - Firefox Addon. Before the API announcements i visited like 20 times a day at a minimum.
On my phone i've not been to Reddit since the blackout. It pains me to say, but i've deleted Sync for Reddit from my phone since that day. Great app, terrible admins. No plans to return to my accounts.
Edit: @[email protected] also has a great suggestion btw. Use the cached version from Google or something like Archive.is. There probably are addons for this kind of use by now. Everything to give them as little revenue as possible, if i'm kind of forced to find an answer to some technical question.
Reddit killed the trust I had for it not even porn will bring me back and I've avoided reddit search answer like the plague on Google.
avoided reddit search answer like the plague on Google
i'm hoping that the "privacy redirect" browser add-on OP linked to will help make that easier! then, if it works properly, you should be able to click reddit links with peace of mind knowing that you'll be taken to a different unaffiliated domain instead, giving spez and his corpo hogs 0 traffic
I don't care about protesting, it doesn't work. For me, stopping reddit means to stop opening it out of habit. I find myself automatically opening social media out of habit. So instead of having Reddit be that habit response, I'm training myself to replace it with Mastodon and Lemmy. It's a bit hard since I'm missing a lot content, but it's significantly easier then during the Twitter migration.
User revolts do work. When Digg pushed that horrible update people just bombarded Digg with Reddit links. It's one of the most effective community migrations of a platform I've ever seen.
It took me a while to switch here, and in my time I rarely saw any Lemmy links. Just like Twitter, Reddit will still flourish, unfortunately
Do you think it's better to protest and don't go quietly, or just go quietly and hope it dumpster fire's itself to death in the face of whatever competition?
I don't think there is a point to commenting or submitting anything. Just overwrite and delete content and monitor your account to see if there's any restored material to wipe seems like the most an individual can do.
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IDK, I'm having fun running around and throwing fuel on the fire in communities that have been forced open.
I stopped posting on reddit before the blackout, but seeing all the creative ways people are finding to protest is honestly hilarious.
Honestly, we're a minority of users and if we just left the only thing Reddit would notice is that posts were lower quality, and it's possible they wouldn't notice that at all. Going out loudly draws publicity to Reddit alternatives, and I think that harms them more in the long term.
Good thing I got permanently suspended from Reddit for saying bullshit (I guess I never got a reason to why I was suspended)...
But I want to test Lemmy's tolerance of cuss words--- BULLSHIT Lets see what happens???
On July 1st my reddit usage will be zero. Until then I take a peek once a day or two to post http://join-lemmy.org where appropriate.
This is me , I logon once a day search api protest and add lemmy positive posts and maybe a lemmy post in one of my fav small subs. about 5% of my social media time. I expect to stop in july
Exactly. Been using this website for now as a replacement for Reddit, and not really using Mastodon much. On Mastodon you have to refollow a bunch of people, Twitter still works for me as a microblogging platform, despite being owned by someone I do not respect in any way.
I'm exclusively using Lemmy and it's taken the place of boost on my home screen. I also exclusively open reddit in Google web cache and archive.org when I need a ressource that's within the years of reddit content. Fuck reddit and fuck spez.