I don’t know man, but I feel like I’m supporting a maniac CEO with every second I spend on reddit.

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    Yeah I am deleting my 9 year old account on the 30th.

    Despite reddit’s flaws it’s a great resource for a lot of entertainment,education and the communities can be great. But reddit got too big, too greedy and it’s just a matter of time before it hopefully collapses. Those of us moving into fed-space are the early birds.

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    Same here. But I’ve noticed that I’m starting to spend more time here than on Reddit, not bad.

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      It definitely felt like land of the shills before I stopped going. Just hundreds of random new accounts posting in every community that went dark.

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      I don’t feel dirty. Just sad for the people still over there. At this point I just log in once a day to vote for protest supporter and see what the status is. Then come back to here and Mastadon.

      Some of my favorite subs over have gone full toxic and have completely removed my desire to go there. Just total hatred toward being inconvenienced, which is sad on its own that people are so desperate to be submissive. Not understanding that the only reason the protests failed was because they already decided (and then therefore invested in) the protest failing.

      Other subs are still voting overwhelmingly to protest in any way possible. But the amount of gaslighting by shills (possible astroturfing) is wild. Every sub has tons of people saying “nobody cares” despite people voting otherwise.

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    Reddit is over for me. I’ve blocked every one of their domains in my PiHole server, so it is impossible to use Reddit in my house. You can’t fight every war, but this war is worth fighting.

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    Haven’t visited their in like 2 weeks. I won’t even click on links that direct there.

    For me, it can rot. Haven’t even missed it as much as I thought I would.

    Money grabbers did me a huge favour.

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      Same here although I find that doing my best to avoid links attached to Reddit is the hardest part of this. Searching for something online to only see Reddit discussions as the top result knowing full well the answer I want is probably there and yet…I keep searching for alternative links.

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        Honestly, just get the info you need (with ads blocked, of course). Not commenting or posting content there is enough.

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          Data analytics show usage though, which is a plus for them to diminish in the eyes of others the effect of the boycott.

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    Yes, it’s like me going into a nasty public restroom - gotta do my business asap and gtfo

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    If I really have to visit that page I do it either via cached version or via teddit. Fuck u/spez does not deserve my traffic.

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      I am hoping for a unofficial api to pop up soon to get the neessary info for now without supporting reddit in a any official way possible. For the dealines, teddit and libreddit work great!

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    It’s joined the ranks of FB, IG and Twit as a site I don’t feel good about using. To be fair, while reddit has discredited themselves a ton lately, the past 4-5 years of ‘new reddit’ has been awful and they continue to get worse, it’s still not nearly as bad as MetaZuck or Elron.

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      yeah especially a lot of major politics often feels like an astroturf, I haven’t been able to feel like I’m debating or seeing legitimately popular things in years over there. I have to be super skeptical because of the powers that be who have an interest in swaying opinion