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I did it. I deleted all my Reddit accounts. (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This was a really hard decision for me but I purged all my posts, votes and comments via Shreddit. I then deleted all my accounts. I've been on Reddit since it was just a baby website. I love Reddit, the friends and the communities I was involved in changed my life for the better.

We'll see how it goes but the only way we are going to win this fight is to walk away from Reddit. We have to send a message to them and the only way to do that is to hit them where it really hurts, right in the wallet.

Change is a good thing and I am ready to embrace it. I'm all in on kbin now. Let's see where we go from here 🍻

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

I haven't deleted my accounts yet, but I blocked reddit in my router firewall. This past week I found myself repeatedly going there without thinking, like a genuine addiction.

https://i.imgur.com/5S1NzP1.jpg

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't realize until the blackout how bad Google search results are without Reddit. Everything from finding video game hints to recommendations on the best bicycle seats... All the best, trustworthy content was from users on Reddit.

I've compromised by using Google cached search results to avoid giving Reddit views.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now the arduous but necessary task of making the Fediverse the place for those results instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wonder how good instances will be able to appear on for example google. I do have my own calckey instance for example but dont yet understand how indexing stuff works

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm primarily on mobile, so I put lemmy shortcut in the place where reddit was. Haven't deleted it, but it's working!

[–] jballs 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I deleted Reddit from my phone homepage. It's crazy how often I find myself going to click it without even thinking about it. It really does feel like a drug addiction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I know, right? It's exit reddit, go back to it, exit reddit, go back to it.