Brisbane

I'm done. Steve Huffman's comments have cinched it for me. The guy is a prick and doesn't give a shit about users in the slightest. I'm also welcoming the chance to disconnect from the mindless meme scrolling.

My account was 13 years old... back from the great Digg migration.

Over the past decade I've been very active on a range of subs, with a more recent focus on professional technology, politics and gaming.

Over the years I'd amassed in excess of 300k comment karma, and not an insignificant bit of post karma (mostly from back in the SCO tech war).

I'm walking away at this point... even if spez was kicked out the door by the Board the bad faith shown is just the straw that broke the dromedary's back.

Since I am within the scope of GDPR and I want this to be painful on them (plus there are useful bits i refer to from my old history from time to time)... I've issued the GDPR data request and intend to follow through with a "right to be forgotten" GDPR data deletion request once that's been fulfilled.

I haven't opened RIF since the blackouts started, and it's been pretty nice actually. It really helped stop my endless doom scrolling.

I believe I'm going to stick with Lemmy for good!

I've replaced the Boost icon on my phone with Jerboa. Have been deliberately not going to the site on my PC. If I have to, I've been doing it incognito.

Will not be renewing my reddit premium, and will not be using official shit-show of an app. I'm not going so far as to delete my account, but totally understand why people are doing so.

I'm out. 12 year account, which I've currently left open but with all comments deleted. It's mostly just open to get my data take out so I can make sure all my comments and topics are removed.

Currently on Tildes and Kbin/Lemmy. I figure this still likely be the account I stay active on due to the local focus.

I mod a tiny sub with 12k members that I'm trying to decide what to do with. Thinking I'll just make every member a mod and let it dissolve in to chaos.

Can't believe the way Reddit as a company has decided to treat it's users. All that free content and labour given just to be spat on. Crash and burn you fucks.

I'm deleting mine on the last day of the month. Until then there are many pictures of Jon Oliver to upvote. (/r/pics, /r/gifs, /r/aww, /r/art)

...And pictures of vacuum cleaners. (/r/wellthatsucks)

...Along with pictures of pressurized water vapor and its many scientific uses. (/r/steam)

These communities are bringing out their best malicious compliance for the final hoorah, and the least I can do is help them find their way to the front page.

I'm trying to be done with it. I lasted through the blackout and a couple of extra days. I feel dirty going back, but there is still a lot of content there.

After the AMA I overwrote my comments and deleted accounts. Regardless of the API pricing, spez has to go.

Before the protest, I completely scrubbed my post and comment history.

For the blackout itself, I closed the browser tab, uninstalled Infinity, and blackholed Reddit's domains on my Pi-holes.

After the first couple of days of the blackout, once the admins started seizing control of certain subs and booting out the mods, I went back and deleted my account.

Finally, I re-blackholed Reddit's domains, and also added them as an exclusion regex to my Whoogle searches, so they don't even turn up in my search results.

Fuck those cunts. Not one more bit of data from me again.

I'm not sure yet. Lemmy will end up being fine for lurking cool memes and seeing pictures of whales or whatever, but reddit's massive userbase was always the draw (and the curse). I asked a question about how to install a particular air intake vent in my home and reddit is big enough that somebody was able to answer that (and correctly). Lemmy is nowhere near that big yet. Not even close. Won't be close for a long time, if ever.

And that's just active users. Lemmy is missing the staggering volume of already-answered questions in the past, for every subject I could imagine. And it never will have those unless they're painstakingly ported over, and there frankly aren't enough users to do that even if we wanted to.

In short, day to day I think I'm good on Lemmy but it's a terrible shame that all those users and all those comment threads are wasted on that shitty company.

I keep accidentally opening it and then closing it in disgust

I'll probably still occasionally visit reddit because there are some subs I am in that are just such mature communities, they are still a useful resource.

That being said, I LOVE the old school web vibes of Lemmy. I love the lack of ads. I didn't realize how much I really missed the pre MAANG internet. It wasn't until Lemmy began to fill the void that I realized it was there, and it is so fucking exciting having some of that wild west energy back.

I still check it often but when 3rd party apps are killed that’s a hard stop date for me. Can’t deal with the official app or site.

Yeah, I'm absolutely done with it. I deleted my phone app, and blocked it in my browsers and I haven't looked back.

It's all downhill from here for Reddit users.

I figure we may as well start now on building communities on Lemmy and other fediverse platforms which are inherently resistant to the 'enshittification' paradigm.

I'm finding Lemmy to be quite nice at the moment with the smaller userbase. I miss a few subreddits, sure, but anything worthwhile will end up with a Lemmy counterpart sooner or later.

I've deliberately overwritten my comment history with a garbled message. Now, I'm waiting until the end of the month to delete the account. This is to boost the statistics following the upcoming API changes, so there's no mistake what prompted that decision.

I miss reddit, but it's been one week since I logged in. Removed Boost (my reddit client app on my phone) and forced myself to not go there. Since then I discovered Lemmy, and since I use mastodon as well, it's interesting to see both interconnectable. I'll see in the long run, but I don't think I'll use my reddit account again. (unless there is big changes, but even then, I'm not sure)

I used to have a Reddit tab open all the time on my phone and PC, and spent hours scrolling.

I've now drastically cut down on my time there, mostly just skimming through r/Perth and that's it. I also use it to help my kid with Minecraft stuff but I'm looking for alternatives. It's such a pity because it's a treasure trove of knowledge and I don't even use 3rd party apps, but the contempt and disrespect shown to users is just terrible.

Still using it but spending more and more time on kbin and Lemmy. Reddit has become quite an unpleasant experience now. I don't know if it's always been that way and I'm just noticing it now or if something has changed with the blackouts.

I haven't used Reddit since I discovered Lemmy. I was a lurker on Reddit and just browsed /r/all. That was a pretty unhealthy habit, glad that the black out happened honestly.

I'm on the fence about it. I was part of the Digg migration and made it into the Eternity Club. I've supported the black-out and will continue to do so, but I have a soft-spot for the site and even if I'm not active on there for the time-being, I won't be deleting my account. My 'on the shitter' site switched from Reddit to TikTok a couple of years ago, so I won't miss that, but there is a vast amount of pornography on the site that is neatly contained and easily filtered that will be hard to replace.

Yep... Probably. If bacon reader stops working, then definitely.

Either way I feel dirty looking, so I think we are done lol.

yep, same approach. tbh, this feels like a step in the right direction, provided this doesn't end up another LNP shillfest like the Aus subreddits.

I have the boost for reddit app. To me that's reddit. When that stops working I'll delete the app and that will be the end of it. Hopefully one day there will be a boost for lemmy.

I haven't been back since the blackout "ended". I am gun shy about deleting my 15 year old account. I fucking hate spez. His face pisses me off. If punchable face wasn't banned he would be on it.

I was thoroughly addicted to reddit, the blackout made me realize that. I like the fediverse, so I'm going to stay here.

Obligatory"not from /r/Brisbane".

I only used a couple of smaller, specific interest subs. One has essentially shutdown permanently while the other remains up and will likely continue unaffected. However 99% of my time spent on reddit over the years has been through third party apps. Since none of my problems with the official reddit app have been, or will be, addressed and I am uninterested in desktop or mobile browsing, the changes ultimately mean that I will no longer have any way of accessing reddit. So yes, I am done with the platform.

I personally don't think it's a big deal. Before reddit I was a regular in several smaller forum communities and I greatly preferred it. Everyone there was genuinely interested in the shared interest or the community built around it. You didn't get these random normies chiming in with their braindead opinions and then disappearing never to be heard from again.

I'm out. I was waiting to see what happened after the blackout, but with the reports of submissions being restored after deletion, subreddits being forced to reopen, and the CEO doubling down and saying he looks at Musk and Twitter as some kind of success story, I'm done.

Logged in today and downloaded a list of the subreddits I was subscribed to, and then deleted all my submissions. I haven't deleted the account yet, mostly because I want to go through my saved list and make sure there's nothing I want to keep from there. And a little bit of morbid curiosity to see if anything I purged today will mysteriously reappear.

I am giving it the same treatment that the other social media sites get. No contributions, no direct access if I can avoid it, browser redirects to go through a libredit instance if I land on it.

The current mess made me realize that:

1. WTF, reddit has like a billion users now? When did that happen? That's a good reason in itself to leave.
2. I had an unhealthy relationship with the site. Feels liberating to leave behind my biggest online addiction.

I've yet to find a good alternative to /r/Games, though their official Discord is pretty good.

Most of the gaming communities I've seen on Kbin/Lemmy are either a lot more specialized, or are overrun with non-news and discussion topics like memes, resulting in spaces more akin to /r/gaming

I don't have a problem with memes, but /r/Games was created specifically because spaces that allow lower effort content and a huge userbase tend to be flooded with it.

There's enough Lemmy instances with enough users to satisfy my meme addiction, I have absolutely no reason to go back.,

I have been trialing Lemmy and kbin today. The real downside to Lemmy for me is the login! I can't even login sometimes. I thought it was only the account creation that was the problem.

I was already on the fediverse, though I still use reddit for some stuff, I probably will only post here and use reddit read-only from now on though. I did the same with twitter awhile back and now I just don't read twitter.

On a slight tangent I also found on the fediverse I get more engagement than on twitter or whatever, so I really never found it hard to move. While on twitter you might blow up and end up in the news (if you think thats a good thing lol), the fediverse your more likely to get actual engagement but your less likely to end up on the news. Though sometimes now you do! Which is weird lol.

Yep pretty much done. Definitely stoping my endless scroll over there.( Probably for the best anyway) May pop over to the occasional boutique community until they exist in force over here (suggestmeabook etc)

Reddit has been too big for the last five years or so. What’s the point of commenting on a post with 10k+ comments.

Lemmy is still too far on the other end but hopefully takes off in the next year. Hopefully spez continues his Musk performance and Lemmy gets the growth curve Mastodon has had.

I used to subscribe and pay them actual money. I cancelled my subscription and am done with it.

I haven't been back since the protest began and it's been generally fine. I miss a few communities, but I'm seeing some that I've liked at least beginning to have a presence here.

I have. I hardly ever commented on Reddit but am trying to make more of an effort here. I'll go if there's some tech solution or game guide in a specific comment that Google leads me to, but no longer will I use it for idle browsing.

I deleted my accounts, I pop over there from time to time to check out specific subs that don't have an equivalent here yet, but that's not very often.

Deleted my reddit account. Trying this new federated stuff is more fun anyways.
Onboarding should be easier, so less tech savvy people can join too. Right now it is like choosing an linux distro.

I'm still trying to figure out whether to use kbin vs. lemmy. Kbin is making alot more sense.

On top pf being the spcial media I interacted the most, Reddit also used to be my default idle scrolling app, whenever I had time to kill and a phone with Internet on my hand or when I felt like multitasking watching TV. I stopped using it for the blackout and I never really went back.

I snooped a bit through r/modcoord and r/save3rpartyapps to see how thing were going when someone mentioned them a couple of days ago and from there I went on the linked subs to see their alternative protests and vote on the subs I subscribe to, but that's it.

I still miss some subs, but I haven't felt the need to visit them yet, so even if I cave in, I'm no longer a daily user, just a once-twice a month one with a ton of ad blocks.

I have. I have a lot of respect for Christian and his Apollo App. It was the only way I browsed Reddit. Also going forward, it will never be the same over there. I'm enjoying kbin so far though!