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hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

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[–] Los 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] KerooSeta 7 points 1 year ago

Does that include your saved posts? That's what I'm worried about losing the most.

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[–] TechyDad 10 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Before the subreddits went dark, I used a tool to see which subreddits I've posted to and commented on the most. Then, I added in a few subreddits that I had newly joined and so weren't represented in the data.

I had a list of 17 subreddits. I actually subscribe to over 30, but clearly the others weren't that important to me. I've replaced at least 7 of those (including the top 2) with Lemmy. Most of the others really need no replacement as they were just time killers.

About the only subreddit that I really care about that I haven't found a good Lemmy replacement for is r/LEGO. Yes, there's a Lemmy alternative and I've subscribed to it, but there are few people there.

So if I do return to Reddit, it will likely be for 1 subreddit only. I'll unsubscribe to everything else and deal with Reddit trying to push me into other discussions while I help the Lemmy LEGO community grow.

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[–] BlackCoffee 10 points 1 year ago

Decoupling from Reddit has been easier than I thought.

Am actually rotating between Lemmy instances and Kbin to read the articles and thoughts in between my workday and it works like a charm.

It also really helps that I pavlovd myself to associate Reddit with garbage and instantly make the connection to how they see and treat their userbase.

It made me open reddit only once during the last days.

  • To run PDS after the blackout.
[–] ultraHQ 9 points 1 year ago

Big spike in comments/posts this AM :/

https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/

[–] can 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Is the community really big enough to necessitate a mega thread?

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