I don’t know man, but I feel like I’m supporting a maniac CEO with every second I spend on reddit.

  • pixelbounds@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • zeppo@lemmy.world
    10·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • teydam@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      yeah especially a lot of major politics often feels like an astroturf, I haven’t been able to feel like I’m debating or seeing legitimately popular things in years over there. I have to be super skeptical because of the powers that be who have an interest in swaying opinion

  • PetrusHyde@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • C3ltic@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      It definitely felt like land of the shills before I stopped going. Just hundreds of random new accounts posting in every community that went dark.

    • Omega@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t feel dirty. Just sad for the people still over there. At this point I just log in once a day to vote for protest supporter and see what the status is. Then come back to here and Mastadon.

      Some of my favorite subs over have gone full toxic and have completely removed my desire to go there. Just total hatred toward being inconvenienced, which is sad on its own that people are so desperate to be submissive. Not understanding that the only reason the protests failed was because they already decided (and then therefore invested in) the protest failing.

      Other subs are still voting overwhelmingly to protest in any way possible. But the amount of gaslighting by shills (possible astroturfing) is wild. Every sub has tons of people saying “nobody cares” despite people voting otherwise.

  • Josemas@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 year ago

    Same here. But I’ve noticed that I’m starting to spend more time here than on Reddit, not bad.

  • Saprophyte@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 year ago

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

    • ToastyWaffle@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      If it makes you feel any better, your comments probably aren’t deleted and are still in reddits database. A lot of companies just set an ‘isDeleted’ flag to true/false. So even though the data doesn’t show up via the API, reddit still has all the data to sell to clients.

  • Televise@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 year ago

    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

  • agitatedpotato@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

    Yes, but only because my porn reddit account is the last one I have. IMO its counterproductive to delete it since it’s clear reddits monetization strategy is anti NSFW. The more of that site is unadvertisable the better.