That’s me deleted my Reddit account along with all data as I do not agree with recent events that have been taking place. I’m going to concentrate on Mastodon , Lemmy and take a look at Kbin .
Still can’t fathom deleting my Reddit account, even though I was always much more of a lurker. I was quicker with Twitter --> Mastodon. Deleted everything as soon as the shit started hitting the fan and didn’t look back. I’m sold on Lemmy, though. I’m getting a whole lot of what I was getting there around these parts, and it seems to be a wee bit more friendly for the kind of people me likey.
I feel you. I am signing up for Lemmy, even though I still hope that Reddit’s shitshow will be resolved by June 30th. I joined Reddit around 16 years ago and while I nuked many alt accounts in this timeframe, nuking the final one, knowing it will be my departure from the site feels… weird.
Lemmy has a long way to go before it can be an actual replacement, but seeing the steady stream of new users over the past few days, I can see the potential. It feels very much like when I first joined Reddit.
I don’t think I’ve taken a shit without opening reddit in 10 years. I never viewed it as social media. More like someone watching TV or reading a book. 10 years is the same age as my son. That is a quarter of my life Reddit is Fun has been 90% of my phone usage (I take a lot of shits apparently). That is a hard thing to scrub from existence. But, if they are forcing me to get rid of Reddit is Fun and I have to learn a new UI I might as well leave to greener pastures anyway.
June would be 9 years for me. I remember I joined because I had just gotten into Formula 1 and found a great place to read about it among a community that I, as someone with social anxiety, remain anonymous, but also, as someone with ADHD, geek out and hyperfocus on all the ins-and-outs and fit in.
It has been 9 long years. My subscribed list tells the story of those years. Once I subscribed to something I never unsubscribed, even if I never went back so I would have those memories of “Oh, I remember when that happen and I was super into ____.” It saw me get divorced, it saw me leave the military and travel across the country to fight wildfires. It saw me meet the person that I should have married to begin with and share Reddit with them. It has been the one constant over the last decade, that while I can move on and leave because I love it here, I just don’t think I can delete my account. It would be like deleting those memories and I just struggle with that.
Reddit won’t be resolved unfortunately. The site has been on a major slide for years now. The whole Ellen Pao thing was just the beginning of the fuckery that we’re only seeing accelerate. It’s why Spez acted like such a dickass in his AMA; because that is what reddit is now, and he’s laying it all out where he wants it to go.
The best time to leave was years ago, the second best time is now.
I feel like I’m getting more. Quality over quantity and really I didn’t realize how I missed the community aspect that I used to participate in back in the early 2000 when I first started meeting people online and using forums and making my own web pages and using chat services. I wasn’t interacting with anyone on reddit as I had experienced plenty of hostile interactions as well as pointless harassment. I used to be very friendly and helpful but this kind of stuff made me cynical and negative. I would comment on something, provided my insight or info or link or whatever to something and moved on. Didn’t look for replies because I knew there were going to be people butthurt I didn’t agree with such bigoted or racist or sexist or whatever comment or belief so there was no point in arguing with these people. I turned off notifications. I don’t feel defensive here. I don’t feel desensitized nor do I have my defenses up. I check my notifications knowing it’s either a useful reply or a silly joke, so far lol. I’m definitely sticking around. Reddit is off the table.
I thought it was just my social anxiety flaring up when I had new notifications. I never really thought about the fact that I was also avoiding negative replies. It’ll be interesting to see how this goes here.
I can get too involved in an argument when someone gets hostile with me and it’s not only a waste of time but it puts me in a bad mood. I need to save my patience and mood for work lol. I think my negative association with notifications is gone, and so far I’ve had genuinely good interactions so crossing fingers we don’t attract negative attention hahaha!
Agree it’s very weird to delete the account (I’m waiting until the blackout to go back and update all my posts to [removed in protest] before deleting my account). But losing connection with so many communities feels like cutting off a limb. I hope they will find their way to Lemmy and to the sub-Lemmies but even then it will be… different. There’s a mourning for the loss of friendships and connection that will just have to process each in our own way.
Why do you care about your account? I swap to a new Reddit account every 6-12 months. It literally means nothing. You can resub to everything you had before and it’s like you never left. I feel no love towards my account at all, it’s a tool for enabling me to engage, nothing more.
I grow attached to things. I still keep a 10 year-old laptop with a 10-year old (rolling) Linux installation on it. I put over 500K miles on a car. I was once married for 10 years. That kinda thing. To each their own, I guess ;)
I know what you mean. I’ve posted some comments that I know have been useful because I get replies years later, from people who’ve googled the topic. I don’t want to remove any of that, but I’ll just leave it dormant.
If this is my new home, I’ll be less attached to that Reddit account over time.
