Do you think it's better to protest and don't go quietly, or just go quietly and hope it dumpster fire's itself to death in the face of whatever competition?
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I don't think there is a point to commenting or submitting anything. Just overwrite and delete content and monitor your account to see if there's any restored material to wipe seems like the most an individual can do.
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I deleted Apollo off my phone which curbed my Reddit habit.
The thing that I’ve been struggling with is how often Reddit comes up in Google search results. I know, you can remove Reddit from search, I just always forget. It’s muscle memory to just click and read.
Specifically, when I google stuff about how kbin works, I see the only answers are on Reddit and then I'm in a real pickle.
I've decided to only interact with Reddit for work, and so it might happen once a day now. I've started to use the Libredirect Addon to only view Reddit in a limited and tracker free experience: LibreRedirect - Firefox Addon. Before the API announcements i visited like 20 times a day at a minimum.
On my phone i've not been to Reddit since the blackout. It pains me to say, but i've deleted Sync for Reddit from my phone since that day. Great app, terrible admins. No plans to return to my accounts.
Edit: @[email protected] also has a great suggestion btw. Use the cached version from Google or something like Archive.is. There probably are addons for this kind of use by now. Everything to give them as little revenue as possible, if i'm kind of forced to find an answer to some technical question.
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Yup. Haven't been back since last Sunday. Which was surprisingly easy given I'd been a near-daily user for nine-ish years. I miss very little. I might log in one last time before the end of the month to trash my account.
Reddit is dead for me once Rif stops working next month anyway, but I've stayed off since the 12th. I'll check in towards the end of the month to say my goodbyes to a small, private sub I'm in, explain why and where I'm going, and download/backup anything I'd like to save. Then that's it.
Screw spez. As long as he's in charge, I'm not going back.
Exactly my stance. Someone gave me reddit gold for changing all my comments, I sent them a message informing them about kbin. Everything I've been doing on Reddit has been cleaning house before I say my final goodbye once RIF closes its curtain.
Reddit killed the trust I had for it not even porn will bring me back and I've avoided reddit search answer like the plague on Google.
avoided reddit search answer like the plague on Google
i'm hoping that the "privacy redirect" browser add-on OP linked to will help make that easier! then, if it works properly, you should be able to click reddit links with peace of mind knowing that you'll be taken to a different unaffiliated domain instead, giving spez and his corpo hogs 0 traffic
I stopped posting on reddit before the blackout, but seeing all the creative ways people are finding to protest is honestly hilarious.
I see it as deprecated, in programming or interface terms. If I happen to need some info from Reddit, I'll get it; otherwise I'll leave it alone. This is similar to what I do for Facebook and Twitter.
Reddit was never great in the 12 years I've used it, but it was the least worst social media platform. It's easier to leave now because the communities are disintegrating quickly, and all signs are pointing to lower engagement with the community. The company doesn't seem to care about it too much because they have a renewed (ham-handed) focus on revenue. That's their business decision to make, despite what me or anyone else thinks. Time to vote with my eyeballs and check out the alternatives, see if they are any better.
I'm exclusively using Lemmy and it's taken the place of boost on my home screen. I also exclusively open reddit in Google web cache and archive.org when I need a ressource that's within the years of reddit content. Fuck reddit and fuck spez.
On July 1st my reddit usage will be zero. Until then I take a peek once a day or two to post http://join-lemmy.org where appropriate.
This is me , I logon once a day search api protest and add lemmy positive posts and maybe a lemmy post in one of my fav small subs. about 5% of my social media time. I expect to stop in july
Honestly, we're a minority of users and if we just left the only thing Reddit would notice is that posts were lower quality, and it's possible they wouldn't notice that at all. Going out loudly draws publicity to Reddit alternatives, and I think that harms them more in the long term.
Exactly. Been using this website for now as a replacement for Reddit, and not really using Mastodon much. On Mastodon you have to refollow a bunch of people, Twitter still works for me as a microblogging platform, despite being owned by someone I do not respect in any way.
IDK, I'm having fun running around and throwing fuel on the fire in communities that have been forced open.
Good thing I got permanently suspended from Reddit for saying bullshit (I guess I never got a reason to why I was suspended)...
But I want to test Lemmy's tolerance of cuss words--- BULLSHIT Lets see what happens???