Or at least, if you visit reddit, don't click on any ads or contribute in a meaningful way. In addition, never directly link to reddit. In a way, all your actions that affect reddit in any way should be to the detriment of reddit. It's like trying to cut down a sequoia with a sharp pebble, but even small livestock shits.
Cool story. What are ads?
People are not moving to decentralized platforms yet, as they wish to empower those who are exploiting them more first whether they realize this or not.
Upside of a small community: more interaction between the users that do comment.
Downside of a small community: if someone's a dick, you can't really completely get away from them.
But the question is, can you handle one dick, or do you prefer dealing with hundreds?
Test
It didn't work
As a fediverse weird thing, aside from the log in process, using eternity is just wonderful. I left when infinity started requiring a subscription and this has been great, aside from the lack of content. I don't ever have to the think of anything after the @
I've noticed that Lemmy has been shedding a lot of the Reddit style toxicity that was brought here from the influx. Presumably that has something to do with the terminally on Reddit people leaving.
I think that a lot of people grew up on reddit and come here trying to do the same nonsense, only to not get traction, become bored, and leave.
So are actual numbers of users down?
I've been away awhile but I haven't been using reddit either which is probably the best outcome tbh
It's okay, you can swear on the internet.