I don’t know man, but I feel like I’m supporting a maniac CEO with every second I spend on reddit.
Reddit is for redditors, and we do not belong there anymore.
Thank you Margot Robbie!
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Yep! It feels like I’m in a place I shouldn’t be in and that I’m betraying the community simply by being there
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.
I feel like a traitor when I do. It has sucked all the enjoyment out of the website.
Yes. The recent exodus of decent people is noticeable.
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.
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.
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.
Honestly, just get the info you need (with ads blocked, of course). Not commenting or posting content there is enough.
Yes, but only because my porn reddit account is the last one I have. IMO its counterproductive to delete it since it’s clear reddits monetization strategy is anti NSFW. The more of that site is unadvertisable the better.
I visit reddit to repost to Lemmy. This is the one time that reposting is the right thing to do.
Do you have a workflow so we can do the same?
Yeah, somewhat. It’s addicting, though. And some communities haven’t made the move to here, yet. So, I’ll be going back and forth, for a bit. OTOH, I took the first step to leaving. Premium expired today. I cut the cord! It’s not much but I want to support the community in some way. Also, after everything that has transpired, I can’t support the actions they’ve taken. To me, sending them money is encouragement and support to continue what they’re doing.
It’s very pleasant and peaceful here. Better vibes.
Consider donating what would have been spent on reddit to Lemmy! I’m thinking I might set up a recurring charge like reddit premium was.
If anyone else wanna move their monetary support over to Lemmy, here is the Patreon page for the lead developer: https://www.patreon.com/dessalines
Let’s bleed Reddit dry by buying him a coffee :)
They do prefer librepay too instead - Patreon isn’t free for creators
I have gone back only to rob my content from a specific sub and post it here. I immediately feel like a scab for giving them 1 traffic. Then I close it.
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.
echo "127.0.0.1 old.reddit.com" >> /etc/hostsand never look back
echo "127.0.0.1 old.reddit.com" | sudo tee /etc/hostsIf you’re not root
I’ve felt gross for years, ever since they switched from old reddit to the new trash design. I used old.reddit.com for a bit, but stopped once I saw how much tracking garbage ublock was blocking, even on old reddit.
Before lemmy I was using teddit as a privacy focused frontend for reddit which worked great. But now the API changes will kill teddit so no more reddit for me!
Not really, since I’m on 3rd party app and don’t see ads. I’m liking lemmy, but the dynamic feed bug is really killing the experience for me. I know it doesn’t happen on apps, but I prefer using a browser on my phone for now, until apps mature a bit more at least. This doesn’t happen on kbin, but I miss being able to collapse comments like on lemmy.
the dynamic feed bug is really killing the experience for me.
Good thing this will be fixed in the next update!
I am enjoying the last 2 weeks of Apollo, Lemmy has exceeded my expectations and I am going to be deleting my Reddit account on the 30th. Quality of Reddit has nosedived in the last two weeks so I don’t feel like I am missing anything.
please dont delete your account.
- you could talk about lemmy and maybe bring people here
- You could bring your old posts here
- you could exchange your messages with nonsense:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/146lloj/protip_if_you_replace_the_content_of_your/ - you can sell it to a bot network
“: if you replace the content of your posts/comments with nonsense, you’ll make Reddit Inc. (including its CEO) lose money.”
"There’s a good chance that those API price changes were motivated by large businesses using Reddit to train their large language models (LLMs) with. Stuff like GPT-3, Google’s BERT, Facebook’s Galactica, stuff like this. In other words, your content will be used to train bots. (It is, already.)
Those models can be “poisoned” with random, machine generated nonsense. Poisoned data is worse than useless: it makes the model worse. So for each person replacing their Reddit content with nonsense, those businesses will be willing to pay Reddit Inc. less and less for API access."
"Here is a mini-tutorial on how to do this. It’s for desktop users but you’ll likely be able to do the same from a phone browser.
- [Choose 1/3] Open Zompist’s gen. Take off the line saying “ki|či”, and click “Generate”. You’ll get some random babble like “Bepe topioi kabi brete i kropra”, copy it somewhere.
- [Choose 2/3] Open https://sebpearce.com/bullshit/ to get an entire bullshit article
- [Choose 3/3] Open https://nonsense.x2d.org/ to get a bullshit sentence, i suggest getting a few ones.
- Open your Reddit profile and drag the button of Power Delete Suite to it.
- [Optional] Check the box saying “prepare local backup of items”, if you want to save your content elsewhere.
- Uncheck “remove comments”. You want to replace them with babble, not remove them.
- [Optional] uncheck “remove posts”. It depends if you post mostly self posts or if you post links/pics. Use your reasoning.
- Check “Edit comments / self posts”. It should open an input box for text; place the babble from Zompist’s gen there. Then click “process”.
- Just wait!
- [Optional] Click to download the backup of the items.
If you don’t like Zompist’s gen and/or Power Delete Suite, you can use any generator and/or Reddit mass edition tool of your choice."
and yes, i am somewhat still on reddit but i think i do more against them when my app does not work anymore (to spread lemmy or information) i will follow this process
I made the decision to wipe my account a few days early and monitor it. I’m glad I did, because Reddit has been un-deleting and un-deleting my posts and comments. I’ve had to re-edit/delete about ~300 comments and ~30 posts since yesterday.
They’re un-deleting content that users are choosing to delete, that’s disgusting
Yeah that goes too far for me. What if they change it to Nazi prop and ransomware you to your boss or family?
Did that yesterday too.
I wonder if because I used a fork of PowerDeleteSuite with a 5 seconds delay added (to not trip Redddits’ API rate limits) I’m not seeing my posts / comments dug up again by Reddit.
I used edit / overwrite + delete.
Part of it is there are still subreddits moving back to public from private, and you cannot delete comments/posts on closed subreddits.
