I have been joking to a couple of friends today who were also redditors that I’ve been feeling withdrawals from reddit throughout the day. Like I knew I was addicted, I just never thought I was going to have to face the consequences of withdrawals!
But there’s also a major part of me that’s feeling a sense of loss. I had two reddit accounts that were 11+ years old. I used an app called Redact last night to totally expunge my comment and submission history, and I just was hit by so many emotions watching my old content turn to ashes.
Reddit is where I always spent my depression spirals, but it was also where I found hobbyist communities and group help support. I found sexual partners through reddit, and used to even moderate in my early days. It’s where I used to keep up with a TON of current events but also read from so many diverse perspectives with expertise on topics.
As much as I am tentatively excited for the culture and community we can build on kbin, I truly am feeling the inconsequential reality of all that karma and browsing. Reddit felt like it was going to be immortal, but even the mighty fall.
Anyone else bummed??
Nope. No offense but I’ve never liked reddit. I just used it for certain tech info!
I was a Redditor before Digg started to suck. Yeah, there’s a lot of grief. But the one I loved changed a long time ago. Our marriage is long dead. This is the end of the pain.
I feel sort of lost, because one of my sources of information is cut off. Besides being able to be a part of that highly-specific community you were looking for, reddit also was very good for finding answers to any random question and avoiding bad google-search articles that are quite often unhelpful.
Yes! For me, it was extremely effective at its primary goal of being a content aggregator. I kept up with sooooo much news that was thematicly linked (national news, world news, politics, specific country’s news/politics) that I could be the smartest person in most rooms I occupied in irl.
I think though that the corresponding magazines will be the first massly populated here on kbin.
This is the thing for me. I think I’m experiencing a bit of news FOMO. Reddit has been reliable for years at supplying news, cat antics, and pretty girls. I also agree that google+reddit has been really useful in solving very specific problems.
Put it this way, the first I heard of Berlusconi’s death was on the radio. The radio!!
Honestly, I’m not feeling grief so much as I just have this muscle memory where I keep checking RIF on my phone and now it’s just a bunch of random crap because there’s barely any content left for people to upvote. I imagine this will resolve itself once RIF stops working.
You’re not alone. It sucks but they’re heading towards locking off all that stuff unless you’re a paid subscriber.