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I haven’t looked at Reddit since the eve of the Reddit Blackout. I switched to kbin and moved Apollo to a second iPhone Home Screen I call “The Memorial to Great iOS Apps Killed by Assholes” (it also contains Twitterrific).

I’ve added the web app icon for kbin to where Apollo used to be, and good old muscle memory has taken care of any absent-minded Reddit visits that might otherwise happen.

I had 2 accounts, one 14 years old and one 12. Both are now deleted.

I have mostly ditched it, but I got back occasionally to see if I can't get people to move over and to see what's up

Ditched completely, I was a lurker on reddit, I had nothing to add to discussions. The #threadiverse feels like home, it's easy to engage and you get to talk to a lot of nice people.

Honestly, though my reddit usage is way down there are some conversations on reddit that can't be replicated. I read manga / watch anime from years ago that no one is talking about now. Reddit has a comment history that goes back a decade; really hard to compete with that.

Ironically, the only interaction I have with reddit now are links posted to kbin/lemmy.

Occasionally a Google result. But I'm done with it, whatever I was getting from reddit I'm getting from Kbin now.

I was already on Mastadon after Twitter's meltdown but still used Reddit until all this stuff happened. Deleted my Reddit account and haven't looked back!

This website is really promising!! I already like you can see # of upvotes and downvotes on a comment and can add pictures and stuff to your comment. I've been here for a solid 10 minutes though

Deleted everything 2 days before the blackout.

Also didn’t want to wait till the end of the month incase there was an influx of people at the end when the API becomes paid.

No regrets.

I haven’t touched it since about 2 days before the blackout. Hoping there’s a decent app for iOS soon for kbin.

I've almost ditched it. The only traffic they get from me is when I search for something and add site:reddit.com out of instinct to filter out the SEO crap.

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 found a home in Reddit when Digg v4 happened. After many years, I wound up deleting my Reddit account and using it 100% anonymously as a pure consumption content aggregator. I'm here on kbin now and restarting my engagement with the content. It feels fun again! I just wish we had a catchy name like Digg v4 to call this Reddit exodus.

As an aside I didn't consume Reddit at all during the blackouts in solidarity even as an anonymous consumer, but when I returned it was full of trash and Reddit quadrupled down on their shitty position so I deleted the apps and have added all the Reddit owned domains to my pinhole alongside Facebook/Meta, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc.

If there is archived content I need to access for support or finding advice, I'll be using the fediverse and archive.org from now on.

Not yet. But I do have some letting go issues. Reddit still has historical data. But I'll guess that's also stored in different places now, only to become available in the future. The way it's heading now is down the drain. If this guy stays on, it'll also be hard to repair the damage and have faith/trust again. That being said, I'm really starting to like Lemmy. I hope that all content and communities transfer to this lovely Fediverse. I has it's quirks to work out. But my time on reddit is getting an all time low, whilst my time on Lemmy is starting to grow. It'll be very cool if Lemmy, replaces Reddit.

I wasn't as much active on reddit, only the time I was speaking is in crappy design or a bit somewhere else. I was mostly watching content.
I'll be perhaps checking reddit far far less (if not, completely stop) for anything new.
But yeah might just never use reddit, they're literally threatening subreddits to stop the blackout. I honestly find it funny the way the community loopholes it by posting completely random/irrelevant things (like in r/steam)
Also the concept of Fediverse got me interested. I'll see how it feels when time passes.

I’m not completely off Reddit yet, but 90% of my use of that site for now is either trying to convince people to support the blackout/move to other platforms, or it’s a result turning up in Google. So I have cut back pretty dramatically.

I’m certainly done contributing in any way. I’ve edited my past posts and comments so they all say fuck /u/spez and will now only use Reddit as a read only resource if I can’t find the answer to a question elsewhere.

I have. Not missing it. I wish they wouldn't show up in Google searches tho.

I only ever lurked there using Apollo, but I’m not intending to go back apart from to clear my subscriptions/delete the account.

I miss some of the smaller subs but there’s already enough here to keep me going I think.

The amount of times I’ve automatically picked up my phone during ad breaks and stuff to try and open up Apollo has been a bit of an eye opener.

Come June 1st, I will no longer use Reddit on my phone. As soon as they scrap old.reddit.com, I’ll no longer use Reddit.

I look at small subs that have no replacement to look for good content to post on Lemmy. For example if someone posts a nice fan art with a link to the original artist on Reddit, I take that link to the original post and post it on Lemmy. This is necessary to kick start small communities.

I deleted my account, same I did with Twitter. It just doesn’t feel right to support those companies. Boycotting them is easy and doesn’t cost me anything, so I do it.

I'll look back for specific content, but my creative energy has moved here.

Part of me is tempted to go back for the remaining 12 days before Apollo shuts down, but I feel like that’d be a betrayal after all the bullshit from spez. I’m done with reddit

yeah i think i'm about to ditch all social media. and probably irl too if i'm totally honest

Quite keen to get out from under American "Community Standards", US defaultism and the extreme censorship that became prevalent on Reddit. I think the Fediverse taking off would be a paradigm shift in the way communities can be run, surviving any pushes to moderate to a particular agenda or set of tastes, and reduce the effectiveness of consensus manufacturing.

Worked examples could be that, fast forward 5 years, some Brisbane communities might allow casual use of swearwords like cunt and shit, or even slurs when used demonstratively (to the satisfaction of the community), whereas others wouldn't. And both would be valid choices and users could manage it by subbing and unsubbing as they see fit.

Another cultural standard around casual or non-sexual nudity - e.g. would you need to tag a streaker on a footy pitch as NSFW or require their nipples to be blurred - could be permitted to develop away from the American prudishness, again some communities allowing it and some not.

I'm still checking it daily, but only to fire up PowerDeleteSuite. It seems some old comments of mine sporadically appear either from subreddits going back to public, or because of rate limits with the API.

I am hopeful that spez backs down. Reddit is a household name. If we fragment into the fediverse it will be a tough road to getting the same critical mass and name recognition.

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.

In that state of one foot in and one foot out sort of thing right now. I think as kbin and the other instances get more and more users (which I see happening for the most part), I'll probably start using reddit less and less. As a mostly lurker on reddit, I've been trying to participate more in the conversation here.

Moved off the day before they went dark, only go back to re-run Power Delete Suite, since old posts of mine keep coming back.

I'm using both. Hedging my bets I guess. I'll be using Reddit much less next month when bacon reader stops working.

I was surprised how nice it is here, so I don't really feel an urge to go back. Scrolled Reddit for a bit an hour ago, and the content is on par or worse than it is here. With the mlem app as well I have no problems staying on lemmy

I'm so happy to see people here. The fediverse is alive!

New to lemmy. Will see how it goes before ditching reddit. I might start culling the defunct subreddits I have subscribed to over the years. Not cancelling my reddit account just yet. I have started seeing ads on reddit since the blackout. Not sure where they come from. I just downvote them rather than reading in case that helps.

I haven't been back to even delete my accounts yet. I don't wanna give them any traffic

I'm here because I'm ditching Reddit. I've been on it for so long. If I can't use RIF, then I don't want to use Reddit.

It's hard, you know? I've still got sync installed, but after it's API key is removed I'm out. Might see if I can find a way to browse the archived version from my phone for looking up stuff.

@GloomyBagel

I still have my account there. I stopped my subscription and have deleted the third party app i used to access it. I'll delete the acvount tjere at some point, but im sticking with the fediverse.

I've deleted my posts and comments using a userscript to overwrite them prior to deletion. I haven't deleted the account yet however as I don't think private subs let you delete your comments. If you want recommendations for this Power Delete Suite is the easiest to use but may stop working with the API changes from what I've heard. Better Reddit Delete is one of many userscripts to delete your history. You will need a user script manager such as Greasemonkey for Firefox

Long term I plan to move some of my subs to RSS feeds from Teddit. I will likely also have Libreddit as a PWA on my phone with all of my existing communities added.

For the small amount of communities I interact with that I don't see moving to the Fediverse I'll access them through Old Reddit only. I'll likely make multiple accounts to separate interests and delete them / make new ones after a certain amount of time.

Replaced Reddit app with Mlem and memmy app. I alternate between those two and the webpage. Haven’t opened Reddit in days. Reddit will be yahoo answers for me now, at best.