Reddit Migration

I stopped using reddit cold turkey when the blackouts were announced. It’s been 3 weeks now and I’m better off for it.

Yup! Same here. Had someone recommend kbin on mastodon so I made my way here. Deleted 2 10+ year old Reddit accounts and cut all ties. I went in anonymously to check out what happened with that submarine but otherwise cut all ties. The amount of my life I've taken back by dropping that site is incredible. I didn't realize how much of my time was spent doomscrolling there. Now I'm playing guitar, playing games and building web dev projects with all the time I'm saving. I never got into Twitter but from my understanding a lot of people have had my same experience dropping that site too.

I’ve been dipping in and out, but frankly I can see myself leaving it behind entirely in the future. It’s really, REALLY apparent how toxic and miserable the majority of Reddit is when you’ve spent time using a platform where the main point isn’t to collect as many upvotes and awards as possible at the expense of empathy for your fellow humans.

I've been boycotting Reddit for three weeks so far but I did come back today. I deleted my content and commented about a possible GDPR (DSGVO in German) lawsuit if they bring back my content. I recorded my user page pre deletion, while deletion and after deletion. I have the exact date and time in the global menu so there is no fracking around from Reddit. I'll happily contact the German agency responsible for GDPR complaints.

I check in every once in a while, at least until Apollo stops working. I mostly just stick to giving people Reddit alternatives or explaining the federated internet so people aren't scared of such a simple thing.

Selfishly I just didn't want to use the Official App with ads. But once there's a viable alternative to Reddit, and it's actually better than Reddit, why would I go back? "hurr durr cause I can get a thousand updoots on my post". Who cares? It's about the quality of engagement. I was surprised how many people unironically care about their internet points and tie their identity up with a website.

I haven't been back either. I don't like supporting terrible people.

Hope the fediverse becomes easier to search and add interest groups.

And we get a phone app.

I went back to Reddit today, to delete my 12 year old, 25K karma account and all my posts and comments. Otherwise I haven't been there. Occasionally some search result will take me there for something hyper-specific thing, but I haven't browsed reddit since I joined kbin.

what's Reddit?

I used to check there every day but it's been two weeks of not. It's great! I'm checking out here and Lemmy (I like kbin's layout and vibes a lot, but Lemmy has beta apps lol) I feel like I've had more time for life.

@Snapz 12yo account deleted. Will miss some of the content especially the ultra local stuff but I left Slashdot and Digg too. I understand the need to make money as a company, but there were better ways to achieve that than what reddit did.

Yup, not been on Reddit since the 11th either. I thought I'd miss it more after using it for 10+ years, but I really don't. Feels good to ditch it honestly, it wasn't great for my mental health. Seeing 1000 articles about how depressing life in America is becoming (I'm from EU) and all the bad shit going on in the world took a bit of a toll. It feels especially good to cut out toxic garbage corpos out of my life. I dropped twitter when Melon man took over like many others, and YouTube will probably be the next to go when I figure out how to engage with some of my favourite creators on there. I've been enjoying reading books and spending time in nature a lot more since I don't feel the compulsive need to consume content as much anymore.

I still casually browse because im a messy bitch addicted the drama but I foresee myself stopping using it when the 3rd party apps die.

Every once in a while I go back and quickly check through the reddit alternative threads/subs and plug Lemmy a few times.

Besides that, it's been an incredible feeling to suddenly be free from the toxicity over there. It's amazing how much different the mood is over here. Went from an atmosphere of apathetic cynicism to one of idealistic comraderie. Like night and day.

I've been there a few times doing research for building a new PC. Other than that I've kept away and don't really miss it. Unfortunately I'll probably need to go back there for other types of research because it's a huge repository of information now and is the fastest way to find such things. But the moment I have the info I needed I leave.

Nope. Once the announcement was made about the blackout I found Lemmy, removed Reddit from my favourites, abandoned Apollo and closed the chapter.

• Newsgroups
• Old forums
• Digg
• Reddit

I was just using Sync for Reddit when I noticed I can no longer load comments and then a pop up came up that said I was being rate limited by reddit. F this, I'll no longer visit that site. I'm even considering the nuclear option of mass deleting my comment on my 12 year opd account.

Making their move as early as 3 days before the deadline. Never in my entire usage of Sync have I encountered being rate limited, even on days where I was using reddit the whole day.

I've been checking into my user page just to see if they've sent me my user data backup I requested a while ago. Other than checking for that message, I've been 100% clean and it hasn't been terribly hard. Between Kbin and Tildes, I've been getting all the commentary and aggregation that I want or need.

When RIF said they were shutting down, I took the icon off my home screen. Haven't been back since. Reddit was something I did when I was bored. Kind of like reading a newspaper or magazine. I didn't need it abs still don't. And now we have communities forming elsewhere like here on Kbin and on Lemmy that I can join, and can have a better experience while doing it.

Yeah, so long Reddit and thanks for all the fish.

I was Googling something and hit a link without realizing it was an old Reddit thread. That's the only time, my social browsing otherwise has switched to posts and microblogs on kbin every day. We're not quite ready to say we've replaced Reddit at the scale, but look how far it's come in less than a month. Just have to ride another wave of new users surging in, lots of questions and confusion, and probably more crashes from demand.

I'm ashamed. With the recent development in Russia, I had some glimpes of /r/worldnews. Other than that, I was able to stay off and enjoy my time on the fed.

gotta say i'm quite surprised that some communities are thriving here. sure it's only a fraction of what's on reddit, but it's still quite active

Well, I did log in to overwrite posts and comments periodically and as subs went public again.

And I've been checking in with r/ModCoord every once in a blue moon, but only via teddit and anonymously (not using an account).

But if those don't count those then I haven't been back at all since.

I didn't quit. I still have an account with roughly, 19000 karma, where I posted and commented some interesting stuff, as well as shitposts. It became quite personal to me, as it wasn't Facebook and discussions were more genuine and clever.

I'm still under the shock of the entire thing. I still enter periodically. However, this whole thing feels so foreign. Foreign, yet so familiar. Since I had my account. And the discussions are kinda the same. The same I went in, the same discussions that I enjoyed. Yet I feel I no longer belong in that place. That is no longer representing me. And I kinda find it weird.

However, I love this place. I love Kbin. I love the fediverse. I love the fact that I no longer need x accounts and x apps for all my social needs. With one account, I can follow stuff from everywhere. And I do not get ads. I get the content. I am not the product of a social network. :D

Of course it's worse. It's lacking my stellar contributions!

More seriously, I think it's probably more of a perception issue, though I do think some small but real percentage of engaged redditors are gone. I still pop by to check a couple of niche communities that aren't doing much here, and to hunt for a daily link to share on /m/cfb as the specific sport mags/communities don't seem to be as active, especially for the ones in the offseason. I don't want to treat it as some sort of purity test, but for now at least I'm trying to put my energy into contributing to the discussions on the Fediverse and just sort of passively consuming from Reddit, without commenting, when I don't see what I want here.

My link aggregator history goes from Fark to Digg to Reddit to Kbin. TBH I think this one will be slower and less complete of a transition. I don't think Reddit will zombify like those two sites, but I do think that over time, enough people will leave for lemmy and kbin to make them vibrant spaces for a lot of communities, especially if Reddit starts chipping away at the ability to self-curate and thereby self-isolate from the biggest general interest communities that are more noise than conversation.

I’m still checking Reddit. I think once Apollo goes my usage will really drop, but unfortunately Reddit was the one social media I really enjoyed and as much as I’m liking Lemmy/Kbin the communities just aren’t here yet. I hope that changes

I still check in on my local subreddit, but I don’t participate.

I deleted my account about a week ago. I haven‘t been to reddit for a few days.

I finally removed my Reddit feeds from my rss reader yesterday but have not logged on in almost 2 weeks. Apollo will remain on my phone as a monument.

Been using it on and off while this takes off. It's quality has gone down noticeably. Seeing new subs arrive for some time was exciting but the comments have been looking more like the right wing bottom feeders from twitter comments more and more every day.

Been there to delete my stuff - and to set up an RSS feed for the couple of subreddits that don't have a valid alternative.

Fun thing is... about half of the RSS feeds i set up, i kicked out after 2 days, realizing how much pointless fluff it all was.

I went to the live thread on worldnews when the coup was happening. I know it’s not all accurate or confirmed. But it definitely broke some things before news sites did. And it’s pretty easy to tell the difference between speculation and an actual video of a town getting taken over.

I put in my data request and they are claiming it could take a month. As such I have been on it but only to follow up on that and i made someone a mod of a sub since I announce I was leaving but not "really" on it. Don't surf it. Can't wait to delete my comments after the data request and will repeat that for awhile. unfortunately I like will not delete the account for like a year given the way things are going with comments being reinstated.

I haven't been on Facebook in almost 10 years, I deleted both my Twitter accounts the day Elon officially bought the site, but I gotta confess, I've been back to Reddit a few times via Google, to get some niche questions answered. It's become such a backlog of discussion for so many topics that it's kind of not feasible to just wipe it off the map, we have to be able to migrate all that stuff somewhere Spez isn't able to fuck with it.

"Why is the audio crackling in Armored Core 4 on RPSC3?" Answered a year ago

"How can my new smoker's chip tray work without holes?" It can't, everyone with that smoker replaces the tray, answered seven years ago.

And of course, I don't know where else to find an easy compilation of over 14 different imgur albums and GDrive documents for Monster Hunter meta builds, so even if I bookmark them now, I still had to go back to get the links in the first place.

I quit on the 8th when Apollo formally announced its shutdown.

I will say that since KBin has a lot less content, I have been spending more time reading books in my backlog and generally being more productive, so quitting Reddit has been a net positive in my life.

However, there are still times I click on Reddit links from Google. Old habits.