I’ve been seeing a lot of pro-reddit, anti-mod comments, despite tens of thousands of up votes on Reddit blackout posts. Pro-reddit comments also have a ton of gold for some reason.
Is reddit trying to change the narrative towards hating on mods for “ruining everything” before they try and remove them?
I don’t really care. I don’t visit Reddit anymore and don’t intend to return.
I enjoy this comment so much. :D
I have also deleted my apps, and unbookmarked the page. I sometimes still mistakenly auto pilot to the website but quickly get off.
I’m mainly keeping an alt account for /r/SQL because for it’s sort of a defacto professional repository (also the only place you can ask for and get a sciprt for a bespoke data cleaning on a large relational DB in about 60 minutes).
I do get deleting accounts (and I’m deleting my “main” just commenting account) but some of the accounts have literally irreplaceable info, not just in the tech space, but my god some of the guides for gaming in older games only exist on reddit (like getting a full 50 monuments in the original Guild Wars, or setting up a good build for Bioshock 2). So I’m keeping my “info” accounts for as long as I can, I know it adds value to reddit being assholes, but I feel it adds more value to a stressed out Admin over their head in a bad situation, or some frustrated retro gamer that doesn’t want to know the glitch mode that everyone uses right now.
Yeah, delete your account too.
Pro-tip: don’t make the same mistake that I did. Before deleting your account use one of those tools to mass-edit all of your comments (forgot what the tool were called tho), replace the text with either a dot or with something like “user has moved on to X social network”, the less content reddit has the better. Why? Because fuck em, that’s why.
I wish I thought about this before deleting my account
I’ll be keeping mine but using a bot to scrub my comments and changing them to an anti-reddit sentiment.
that’s a bold move ! Don’t you have any feeling of lost ? I am asking because I am also considering leaving reddit for good.
After June 30th Lemmy is still my new home. I won’t browse reddit without Relay Pro.
I used Apollo, and after the way they treated the creator, there’s no way I would use Reddit again.
Just a heads up, looks like Relay pro will still be a thing moving to a sub mode (dev states $2-$3/month)
My issue has been that I have too many niche hobbies that either don’t have communities on Lemmy/Kbin, or have very small, inactive communities.
I deleted my 3 Reddit accounts last night, one that had over 110k karma. I’m starting to get cosy with Lemmy now, hopefully some refinements and it will be great.
This is the way. Tons of people will stay on Reddit, Reddit will be fine. Just look at Facebook, how long it has lasted and what it has done, etc. Reddit is the new Facebook (platform, not company) and tons of people will be fine sticking with it. That’s okay.
The beauty is we have options, and we’re working to improve those options.
I feel the same. Cutting out Twitter a year and a half ago was rough, but Mastodon and Feedly took it’s place nicely. I guess that prepared me for Reddit’s shenanigans as Kbin has filled the gap without issue.
I may miss out on some things here and there, but I don’t feel the need to be “in the know” as much.
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I suspect there’s also sampling bias. The types who are still using reddit are not the same who were heavily in support of the blackouts.
I wonder how much will change with so many long time active users leaving Reddit. I’ve been very active for 15 years on Reddit, deleted thousands of posts and even more comments and won’t be returning. I know there are a lot of people like me who are finally done with the site. Is it just going to go more downhill than it already has?
I think it’ll be a slow decay. I’m in the same category of long time user that deleted their history and isn’t going back. Reddit has lost a lot of accounts like ours.
In the short run Reddit has already lost a lot of its ‘cultural history and identity’ (sounds dumb I know but I think the terms apply). There were a ton of ‘inside jokes’ and reddit history references that made it feel like a broad community and there’s probably not going to be a critical mass of users that perpetuate that feeling much longer.
In the longer term the loss of personal mod and active user investment in their subs will start to show. Subs will be poorly curated and become dominated by whoever is loudest and angriest. Reddit was fun because it had a huge amount of engagement on any topic, but that was tempered by the ability to find subs with active moderation on topics you cared about. Now they’re going to have to deal with all that desire for engagement but with nothing to keep it on the rails, which will mean the engagement will only remain desirable for those that don’t want rails. But once they get their way they’ll get bored too because they’ll only have their own anger to engage with.
The loss of users is already beginning to show, depending on the community. I had some LifeProTips and other useful threads saved and was trying to archive them for myself yesterday, and several had either the original post or the highest-upvoted parent comment outright deleted.
Those that stay probably weren’t aware of what they were missing out on.
Hoping that those that leave find themselves a cozy place here on Lemmy.
The people left on reddit are inherently anti-collective-bargaining. This protest inconveniences them, with no idea or care why it’s happening in the first place. So they stamp their feet and scream about it.
I have to say that the content on Reddit seems low effort and uninteresting as of late.
Let them feast on it if they want. I feel like there is more potential over here
