Just realized that the other day.
I had initially intended to feel it out and honor the blackout from 12-14, then figured, “I’m here now, might as well ride out the month if Reddit isn’t responding in any meaningful way to the community’s requests” and now I think I’ll just be in the fedi apps for the foreseeable future.
It’s different here, but it hasn’t been a struggle and it gets better and better with time. Feels nice to not support inhumane and user-hostile endless corporate greed.
I’ve been dipping in and out, but frankly I can see myself leaving it behind entirely in the future. It’s really, REALLY apparent how toxic and miserable the majority of Reddit is when you’ve spent time using a platform where the main point isn’t to collect as many upvotes and awards as possible at the expense of empathy for your fellow humans.
Yup! Same here. Had someone recommend kbin on mastodon so I made my way here. Deleted 2 10+ year old Reddit accounts and cut all ties. I went in anonymously to check out what happened with that submarine but otherwise cut all ties. The amount of my life I’ve taken back by dropping that site is incredible. I didn’t realize how much of my time was spent doomscrolling there. Now I’m playing guitar, playing games and building web dev projects with all the time I’m saving. I never got into Twitter but from my understanding a lot of people have had my same experience dropping that site too.
I think it might have been me. Are you rawb or gristle?
Regardless, I am fond of the fact that the fediverse is small enough to where that’s not a ridiculous question to ask.
I’ve noticed my browsing behavior really improved again after 13+ years on reddit.
I seek out more individual content, get my news from actual news sites and find more interesting stuff to read.
DownloadedDeleted both my 12+ year old accts. Moved to Kbin / Lemmy / Mastodon - I’ll settle into a rhythm with the new one. And yeah, Reddit had gotten addictive for me, so it’s best I move on anyway. Yay Open Source!!
Well it’s good that you’re honest that Reddit was addictive, but I hope you realize that you’re just replacing your addiction with a similar addiction. It’s like detoxing off of whiskey by drinking home brewed beers.
This is my exact situation. 10+ year old account. Once Apollo announced its shutdown I went ahead and downloaded redact and scrambled previous comments. Spent a few days searching through different socials and landed on kbin. I check it less frequently for sure. But I’ve gotten a lot of time back.
I haven’t been back either. I don’t like supporting terrible people.
Hope the fediverse becomes easier to search and add interest groups.
And we get a phone app.
I finally removed my Reddit feeds from my rss reader yesterday but have not logged on in almost 2 weeks. Apollo will remain on my phone as a monument.
I’m still checking Reddit. I think once Apollo goes my usage will really drop, but unfortunately Reddit was the one social media I really enjoyed and as much as I’m liking Lemmy/Kbin the communities just aren’t here yet. I hope that changes