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

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

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

Sure is nice here though.

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

Reddit is over for me. I've blocked every one of their domains in my PiHole server, so it is impossible to use Reddit in my house. You can't fight every war, but this war is worth fighting.

I feel like a traitor when I do. It has sucked all the enjoyment out of the website.

Yes. The recent exodus of decent people is noticeable.

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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

Society is so complex today that anything you do can inadvertently be supporting evil. Most of the electronics devices we use are made in China, so if you are using one to access the internet, you've spent money "supporting" China and by extension, its authoritarian government. Buying food from the grocery store, well most likely you were buying from a large corporation that may have unethical practices. Just wanting to travel without walking? Well now you are polluting the planet. Pay taxes? Well you could be supporting a government that have human rights violations.

Just use an adblocker if you have to use reddit, its not a war crime, but just try to avoid it as much as you can if you want to support the protests.

ngl yeah I do. Specially on r/gonewildaudio.

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...what?

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.

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.

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.

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

I hVent logged in since the blackout. So no.

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)

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.

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

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.

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, 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'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!

I'm currently using Reddit Enhancement Suite to delete 8 years worth of comments and submitted comments. It's been a walk down memory lane as they all disappear, but it's a good way 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.

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

I originally joined in 06 and kept the same account until ‘10. I came back a few years later but it was on and off after that. I didn’t purge my 1st account when I deactivated it but every account afterwards I deleted all posts and comments after 24 hours regardless.

To answer your question, no, because I deactivated an empty account the same day the go dark announcements started and have not been back. I had seen it before, and between mod behavior over the years, ownership changes and lack of G.A.F.F from admin I have no desire to return. Quite frankly the cycle repeats itself with reddit and it became more tedious every time.

I was an early Digg user as well but after the crap they started I quit there too. Frankly I had forgotten Digg existed until some of the Reddit coverage mentioned it. I’m pretty sure I will only be reminded Reddit is still a thing each time reddit pulls another user unfriendly stunt and the news cycle starts again.

When I came back this last time, I used old. with ublock origin and other filters because Advance Publications lost white list privileges long ago.

I’ve dipped into a few of these other lesser known/new sites to see what comes of it. So far my preferences are Lemmy and Mastodon, although I’ve been lurking Mastodon here and there even before the twitter crap.

I don't.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 go on Reddit when i google something.

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.