how many of you have genuinely ditched reddit?

I'm done. Steve Huffman's comments have cinched it for me. The guy is a prick and doesn't give a shit about users in the slightest. I'm also welcoming the chance to disconnect from the mindless meme scrolling.

I've replaced the Boost icon on my phone with Jerboa. Have been deliberately not going to the site on my PC. If I have to, I've been doing it incognito.

Will not be renewing my reddit premium, and will not be using official shit-show of an app. I'm not going so far as to delete my account, but totally understand why people are doing so.

I'm done, thought I might stay until the third party apps lost functionality, but I like it here, and happy to ditch Reddit

I’m done. Still trying to decide between kbin and lemmy for a real replacement

I left this week. Am still trying to get the reddit experience via lemmy though. Need to have highly specialized communities, engaged user bases, and easy UI experience. Not quite there yet, but we'll get there.

I'm out. 12 year account, which I've currently left open but with all comments deleted. It's mostly just open to get my data take out so I can make sure all my comments and topics are removed.

Currently on Tildes and Kbin/Lemmy. I figure this still likely be the account I stay active on due to the local focus.

I mod a tiny sub with 12k members that I'm trying to decide what to do with. Thinking I'll just make every member a mod and let it dissolve in to chaos.

Can't believe the way Reddit as a company has decided to treat it's users. All that free content and labour given just to be spat on. Crash and burn you fucks.

I've deliberately overwritten my comment history with a garbled message. Now, I'm waiting until the end of the month to delete the account. This is to boost the statistics following the upcoming API changes, so there's no mistake what prompted that decision.

I've kept my account 'just in case', but in reality I have no intention of going back, on principle now. Too much trust has been burnt away.

After the AMA I overwrote my comments and deleted accounts. Regardless of the API pricing, spez has to go.

I'll probably still occasionally visit reddit because there are some subs I am in that are just such mature communities, they are still a useful resource.

That being said, I LOVE the old school web vibes of Lemmy. I love the lack of ads. I didn't realize how much I really missed the pre MAANG internet. It wasn't until Lemmy began to fill the void that I realized it was there, and it is so fucking exciting having some of that wild west energy back.

I still check it often but when 3rd party apps are killed that’s a hard stop date for me. Can’t deal with the official app or site.

I’m totally done with Reddit, but that doesn’t mean I won’t miss it. I know Reddit can harbour a bunch of chronically online people, but nearly every interaction I had on there was wholesome. I miss the niche communities and the sense of belonging. I won’t ever go back though, primarily because of the constant ads, but also because the CEO has shown what kind of attitude he’s planning to drive Reddit forward with. I hope as time goes on, Lemmy will continue to grow, sparking intellectual and helpful posts and communities.

I keep accidentally opening it and then closing it in disgust

I'm not sure yet. Lemmy will end up being fine for lurking cool memes and seeing pictures of whales or whatever, but reddit's massive userbase was always the draw (and the curse). I asked a question about how to install a particular air intake vent in my home and reddit is big enough that somebody was able to answer that (and correctly). Lemmy is nowhere near that big yet. Not even close. Won't be close for a long time, if ever.

And that's just active users. Lemmy is missing the staggering volume of already-answered questions in the past, for every subject I could imagine. And it never will have those unless they're painstakingly ported over, and there frankly aren't enough users to do that even if we wanted to.

In short, day to day I think I'm good on Lemmy but it's a terrible shame that all those users and all those comment threads are wasted on that shitty company.

I haven't been back since the blackout "ended". I am gun shy about deleting my 15 year old account. I fucking hate spez. His face pisses me off. If punchable face wasn't banned he would be on it.

I was thoroughly addicted to reddit, the blackout made me realize that. I like the fediverse, so I'm going to stay here.

I'm deleting mine on the last day of the month. Until then there are many pictures of Jon Oliver to upvote. (/r/pics, /r/gifs, /r/aww, /r/art)

...And pictures of vacuum cleaners. (/r/wellthatsucks)

...Along with pictures of pressurized water vapor and its many scientific uses. (/r/steam)

These communities are bringing out their best malicious compliance for the final hoorah, and the least I can do is help them find their way to the front page.

I haven't opened RIF since the blackouts started, and it's been pretty nice actually. It really helped stop my endless doom scrolling.

I believe I'm going to stick with Lemmy for good!

Created an account here yesterday, and deleted my Reddit account a couple hours later.

Life is too short to deal with greedy asshole CEOs.

Yeah, I'm absolutely done with it. I deleted my phone app, and blocked it in my browsers and I haven't looked back.

It's all downhill from here for Reddit users.

I figure we may as well start now on building communities on Lemmy and other fediverse platforms which are inherently resistant to the 'enshittification' paradigm.

I'm finding Lemmy to be quite nice at the moment with the smaller userbase. I miss a few subreddits, sure, but anything worthwhile will end up with a Lemmy counterpart sooner or later.

I'm genuinely done with Reddit. If they got a new CEO, new higher ups and what not then maybe I'd go back but I wouldn't go back until I saw proof it had changed.

As of right now Reddit can burn in hell.

Before the protest, I completely scrubbed my post and comment history.

For the blackout itself, I closed the browser tab, uninstalled Infinity, and blackholed Reddit's domains on my Pi-holes.

After the first couple of days of the blackout, once the admins started seizing control of certain subs and booting out the mods, I went back and deleted my account.

Finally, I re-blackholed Reddit's domains, and also added them as an exclusion regex to my Whoogle searches, so they don't even turn up in my search results.

Fuck those cunts. Not one more bit of data from me again.

I'm out. I was waiting to see what happened after the blackout, but with the reports of submissions being restored after deletion, subreddits being forced to reopen, and the CEO doubling down and saying he looks at Musk and Twitter as some kind of success story, I'm done.

Logged in today and downloaded a list of the subreddits I was subscribed to, and then deleted all my submissions. I haven't deleted the account yet, mostly because I want to go through my saved list and make sure there's nothing I want to keep from there. And a little bit of morbid curiosity to see if anything I purged today will mysteriously reappear.

Yep ditched, and this is my first post on Lemmy.

I haven't used Reddit since I discovered Lemmy. I was a lurker on Reddit and just browsed /r/all. That was a pretty unhealthy habit, glad that the black out happened honestly.

Working on it... Getting the hang of Lemmy and Jerboa pretty quickly I think

There's enough Lemmy instances with enough users to satisfy my meme addiction, I have absolutely no reason to go back.,

I have zero want to go back to reddit. This is what I hoped and wished for in reddit. Something I didn't know I wanted till I found it. I don't need a corporation getting involved with my human interactions. I've found the people who have switched are generally more intelligent too as a bonus. The content is just icing on top of thought provoking comments for me. That's not really reddits forte. All the people who wrote nice comments are probably here now.

Reddit is a glorified search engine now. It's a closed system. If I need something specific, I may stumble upon it, but I will not interact. I haven't even had to do that all week. Maybe I never did need to do any of that.

I want to cut out the middle man and get to the point. I want to push the boundaries of thought. I don't know, but I'm enjoying it.

I'm on the fence about it. I was part of the Digg migration and made it into the Eternity Club. I've supported the black-out and will continue to do so, but I have a soft-spot for the site and even if I'm not active on there for the time-being, I won't be deleting my account. My 'on the shitter' site switched from Reddit to TikTok a couple of years ago, so I won't miss that, but there is a vast amount of pornography on the site that is neatly contained and easily filtered that will be hard to replace.

I've deleted all my posts and comments, and I'm not planning on going back. It's not only what they implemented, but also how they are treating app creators and moderators.

My account was 13 years old... back from the great Digg migration.

Over the past decade I've been very active on a range of subs, with a more recent focus on professional technology, politics and gaming.

Over the years I'd amassed in excess of 300k comment karma, and not an insignificant bit of post karma (mostly from back in the SCO tech war).

I'm walking away at this point... even if spez was kicked out the door by the Board the bad faith shown is just the straw that broke the dromedary's back.

Since I am within the scope of GDPR and I want this to be painful on them (plus there are useful bits i refer to from my old history from time to time)... I've issued the GDPR data request and intend to follow through with a "right to be forgotten" GDPR data deletion request once that's been fulfilled.

I'm trying to be done with it. I lasted through the blackout and a couple of extra days. I feel dirty going back, but there is still a lot of content there.

I'm still using it, but less. When my preferred app dies at the end of the month here, I'll probably stop altogether.

Still using it but spending more and more time on kbin and Lemmy. Reddit has become quite an unpleasant experience now. I don't know if it's always been that way and I'm just noticing it now or if something has changed with the blackouts.

I got permabanned because politics banned me for something stupid and then I forgot about the ban while logged in under a different name, posted some random shitpost, and then boom, all accounts permabanned. It was a few weeks ago and I'm still in shock tbh, I was a user for 15 years and now I'm persona non grata. I still browse a bit but fuck 'em.

Last time i visited was on 11th and I'm not going back unless they reverse their course. I like Lemmy and will continue using it regardless.

I'm about 50% there ditching Reddit for Federated servers. I miss the apps for reddit that have had years of development, but so far Lemmy scratches the itch enough. Once RES and Bacon Reader (yes I'm one of the dozens) die then I'll probably delete my account. The stock Reddit site is nearly unusable with all the ads and I've never used the official reddit app and probably never will.

I used to subscribe and pay them actual money. I cancelled my subscription and am done with it.

I'm still trying to figure out whether to use kbin vs. lemmy. Kbin is making alot more sense.

Haven't used my account for a few days now, and it has been surprisingly easy. I'll definitely stay on lemmy, it has huge potential.

I have been trialing Lemmy and kbin today. The real downside to Lemmy for me is the login! I can't even login sometimes. I thought it was only the account creation that was the problem.

yep, same approach. tbh, this feels like a step in the right direction, provided this doesn't end up another LNP shillfest like the Aus subreddits.

I used to have a Reddit tab open all the time on my phone and PC, and spent hours scrolling.

I've now drastically cut down on my time there, mostly just skimming through r/Perth and that's it. I also use it to help my kid with Minecraft stuff but I'm looking for alternatives. It's such a pity because it's a treasure trove of knowledge and I don't even use 3rd party apps, but the contempt and disrespect shown to users is just terrible.

I deleted all my accounts, posts, and comments. Been on the site since around 2009 in one way or another. I'm all in on Lemmy and doing my part by submitting content to subs so there's some activity.

haven't been back since the blackout, when temptation hits I come here instead. I've also picked up reading again. I think maybe I'll use reddit if I need advice on some product or something.

Yep, all contents and accounts gone. I can really hold a grudge. And quitting Facebook, then insta then twitter was followed by an increase in my happiness, so it’s a huge incentive. Nothing is going away, nothing is being lost. People, the real value of these platforms, still exist, and will repopulate other platforms with content really fast.

Yep... Probably. If bacon reader stops working, then definitely.

Either way I feel dirty looking, so I think we are done lol.

Yeah I'm done with Reddit unless they do a big 180. Which I doubt they will.

Feels icky to go there, now that I know how they conduct themselves.

No more Reddit for me. I deleted my account

Done with it forever! Glad to be here

I deleted my accounts, I pop over there from time to time to check out specific subs that don't have an equivalent here yet, but that's not very often.

I've been on Reddit a few times since the 'official blackout' ended but mostly been on Lemmy. I deleted one off my accounts. The other I've just used to browse a little. I'm not posting, commenting, or voting on anything. Probably once rif and old.reddit die, I'll be done. I've never had the misfortune to view new reddit or the official app and I don't plan to start now.

I have definitely been a lot more active around here. A lot of people talk about deleting their old accounts, but I have a hard time bringing myself to do that to mine, not because I want to be active on Reddit, but just because there is a lot of history that I'm anxious about losing I guess.

I’m there a little at the moment whilst my apps of choice (Apollo and ReddPlanet) are still operational. However it’s nothing g like it used to be (the blackout has worked from that regard) and I’m over here more often now.

I left last year. I doubt this place will be much better from a moderation perspective but see how it goes.

I left and am enjoying Lemmy. I might join some of the subreddit discords for good memes to cross-post in the future and to recruit more lemons once the servers are more stable.

I'm done with reddit entirely. I started over 16 years ago. It was getting steadily worse year over year ever since the Digg migration. It has long since been relentlessly toxic and negative. I've been wanting a viable alternative for a long while. I'm very grateful for what spez has done as it's created multiple viable alternatives and I'm fucking loving it. Between here and Tildes, it's very close to what super old school reddit was like, and I've missed that a lot. I have no reason to go back. And with the changes both to the apps and now the user population, it'll only be worse still. Regardless, I couldn't be happier about this. This is far better. And the internet is better for it.

Not that reddit will notice (adblock etc.) but haven't visited all week. Kind of enjoying avoiding it TBH.

I miss reddit, but it's been one week since I logged in. Removed Boost (my reddit client app on my phone) and forced myself to not go there. Since then I discovered Lemmy, and since I use mastodon as well, it's interesting to see both interconnectable. I'll see in the long run, but I don't think I'll use my reddit account again. (unless there is big changes, but even then, I'm not sure)

I'm still on there for a few subreddits that haven't bothered with the blackouts, and there is no Lemmy alternative at the moment.

I use Sync so I imagine once 1/7 rolls round I won't be on there any more. I swapped the Sync and Lemmy icons on my phone though, so by habit I now open Lemmy 😆

I deleted my account on Wednesday. I loved Reddit, but without RIF it's useless to me. Also the more I read about the Fediverse the more I think it's the proper way for social media to work in the future of the Internet.

I have not visited reddit logging in since last Sunday. I've gone to a couple subreddits from a browser not logged in to see if they were still private. I uninstalled RIF after like 12 years of use.

I have the boost for reddit app. To me that's reddit. When that stops working I'll delete the app and that will be the end of it. Hopefully one day there will be a boost for lemmy.

I have. I hardly ever commented on Reddit but am trying to make more of an effort here. I'll go if there's some tech solution or game guide in a specific comment that Google leads me to, but no longer will I use it for idle browsing.

Not fully yet. Not all subreddits I browse have migrated or are planning to. I might slowly wean myself off it once the 3rd party apps stop working and I have enough of browsing old reddit on my phone.

Obligatory"not from /r/Brisbane".

I only used a couple of smaller, specific interest subs. One has essentially shutdown permanently while the other remains up and will likely continue unaffected. However 99% of my time spent on reddit over the years has been through third party apps. Since none of my problems with the official reddit app have been, or will be, addressed and I am uninterested in desktop or mobile browsing, the changes ultimately mean that I will no longer have any way of accessing reddit. So yes, I am done with the platform.

I personally don't think it's a big deal. Before reddit I was a regular in several smaller forum communities and I greatly preferred it. Everyone there was genuinely interested in the shared interest or the community built around it. You didn't get these random normies chiming in with their braindead opinions and then disappearing never to be heard from again.

I’ve been here for about seven days and occasionally open my Apollo app out of habit. When that happens I come visit Lemmy. I don’t really miss Reddit.

Deleted my reddit account. Trying this new federated stuff is more fun anyways.
Onboarding should be easier, so less tech savvy people can join too. Right now it is like choosing an linux distro.

I miss certain subreddits, mostly the TalesFrom ones (especially TalesFromTechsupport and TalesFromTheFrontdesk), but I've edited all my comments and posts that aren't rebuttals to misinformation. Just saying why I'm leaving Reddit (mostly the lies and greed of the company) and inviting people to kbin. I haven't deleted my account in case Reddit tries to undo my edits.

Other than that, I've managed to go cold turkey ever since the blackout began.

Edit: Oh, this was a Brisbane-specific community. Didn't realise, sorry.

Effectively I have. My account still exists but is only subbed to Tildes (Trying to snag an invite) and Redditalternatives. Once RIF goes offline, I won't be accessing on mobile at all.

I've edited all my comments from the last year and working on automating that so I can redo it if they keep up with trying to roll them back.

But I don't browse reddit anymore. Still not 100% certain where I'll land and call home but I have three or four platforms I'm spending time with to see what feels right. I don't really care what reddit does now, it's irrelevant to me. Whether they succeed, fail, or alter their API plans, I'm indifferent. The trust is broken.

This website is really promising!! I already like you can see # of upvotes and downvotes on a comment and can add pictures and stuff to your comment. I've been here for a solid 10 minutes though

Yeah, I'm not going back.

Honestly, really depends on

A. How well Lemmy/Fediverse will do. B. How bad the user experience on Reddit will be on July 1st

I'm liking Lemmy at the moment, not having the tons of spam bots really feels like a breath of fresh air.

In the end, it's all about the experience for me. I'm ready to ditch Reddit if the alternative is good

Account 100% deleted.
All comments, posts, and votes wiped.

I never had good experiences there, was often too anxious to participate and quickly reminded doing so was a bad idea.

Good riddance.

I'm done. I tried to switch to mastodon but I didn't like the format. Lemmy/kbin are much more like a forum and that works for me.

I've actually found myself browsing reddit without realizing it. It took a couple of days but I'm getting used to Lemmy.

I had 2 accounts, one 14 years old and one 12. Both are now deleted.

I've yet to find a good alternative to /r/Games, though their official Discord is pretty good.

Most of the gaming communities I've seen on Kbin/Lemmy are either a lot more specialized, or are overrun with non-news and discussion topics like memes, resulting in spaces more akin to /r/gaming

I don't have a problem with memes, but /r/Games was created specifically because spaces that allow lower effort content and a huge userbase tend to be flooded with it.

Me, I'm here to stay.

I used Reddit exclusively through third party apps, without them I have no want to use the site anymore.

And with spez proving how much of a massive bellend he is, it only reinforces my decision.

I found a home in Reddit when Digg v4 happened. After many years, I wound up deleting my Reddit account and using it 100% anonymously as a pure consumption content aggregator. I'm here on kbin now and restarting my engagement with the content. It feels fun again! I just wish we had a catchy name like Digg v4 to call this Reddit exodus.

As an aside I didn't consume Reddit at all during the blackouts in solidarity even as an anonymous consumer, but when I returned it was full of trash and Reddit quadrupled down on their shitty position so I deleted the apps and have added all the Reddit owned domains to my pinhole alongside Facebook/Meta, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc.

If there is archived content I need to access for support or finding advice, I'll be using the fediverse and archive.org from now on.

I haven’t touched it since about 2 days before the blackout. Hoping there’s a decent app for iOS soon for kbin.

I was already on Mastadon after Twitter's meltdown but still used Reddit until all this stuff happened. Deleted my Reddit account and haven't looked back!

Ditched completely, I was a lurker on reddit, I had nothing to add to discussions. The #threadiverse feels like home, it's easy to engage and you get to talk to a lot of nice people.

I have. I have a lot of respect for Christian and his Apollo App. It was the only way I browsed Reddit. Also going forward, it will never be the same over there. I'm enjoying kbin so far though!

I was already on the fediverse, though I still use reddit for some stuff, I probably will only post here and use reddit read-only from now on though. I did the same with twitter awhile back and now I just don't read twitter.

On a slight tangent I also found on the fediverse I get more engagement than on twitter or whatever, so I really never found it hard to move. While on twitter you might blow up and end up in the news (if you think thats a good thing lol), the fediverse your more likely to get actual engagement but your less likely to end up on the news. Though sometimes now you do! Which is weird lol.

I haven’t looked at Reddit since the eve of the Reddit Blackout. I switched to kbin and moved Apollo to a second iPhone Home Screen I call “The Memorial to Great iOS Apps Killed by Assholes” (it also contains Twitterrific).

I’ve added the web app icon for kbin to where Apollo used to be, and good old muscle memory has taken care of any absent-minded Reddit visits that might otherwise happen.

I have mostly ditched it, but I got back occasionally to see if I can't get people to move over and to see what's up

Starting today, I'll try to not open reddit once, and start to learn more about the federative "system" or whatever youw want to call it. I think it definitely will be hard, but i do see a lot of possibility here in lemmy and in the federative in general! I've also moved away from twitter and on to mastodon.

I genuinely loaded it up perhaps 3 times in the last 5 days or so and those were on accident, with me leaving immediately again. I‘m committed to this in a similar way I am committed to quit smoking, ~280 days without a cigarette.

Honestly, though my reddit usage is way down there are some conversations on reddit that can't be replicated. I read manga / watch anime from years ago that no one is talking about now. Reddit has a comment history that goes back a decade; really hard to compete with that.

Deleted everything 2 days before the blackout.

Also didn’t want to wait till the end of the month incase there was an influx of people at the end when the API becomes paid.

No regrets.

I've almost ditched it. The only traffic they get from me is when I search for something and add site:reddit.com out of instinct to filter out the SEO crap.

Ironically, the only interaction I have with reddit now are links posted to kbin/lemmy.

Occasionally a Google result. But I'm done with it, whatever I was getting from reddit I'm getting from Kbin now.

i only use it when i have to, I mainly come on here as well as kbin.

I haven't been back since the protest began and it's been generally fine. I miss a few communities, but I'm seeing some that I've liked at least beginning to have a presence here.

I'm using both. Hedging my bets I guess. I'll be using Reddit much less next month when bacon reader stops working.

I'm still checking it daily, but only to fire up PowerDeleteSuite. It seems some old comments of mine sporadically appear either from subreddits going back to public, or because of rate limits with the API.

I haven't been back to even delete my accounts yet. I don't wanna give them any traffic

I occasionally open a Reddit link from search results because I am not paying enough attention, but even if I need something that I think can only be found on Reddit I am not touching it and I immediately close it if I accidentally open it. If any friends send me a Reddit link to a meme image, I don't open it. Instead I share links to memes on Lemmy. 😂

I haven't gone and overwrote all of my content (because I figure they are looking for it right now and I might end up fighting an automated restoration system right now), but if I ever open it intentionally again, that's what it will be for.

I'm fully done with it, no peeks. It's actually significantly easier to write off Reddit than most sites for me. Had this happened a little while later it might have changed though.

A subreddit for something I work on had gotten automatically shut down for lack of moderation (it was dead so 🤷) and I was in the middle of contemplating contacting Reddit to unban the subreddit and take control of it, but with Reddit's decisions I don't want to use the site anymore, even if they reverse course.

I am instead contemplating opening a dedicated Lemmy instance specifically for the thing I work on, and if I do end up following through on that the only reason I would go on Reddit again is to make sure that subreddit stays closed, permanently. Me and the other person in charge have zero interest in using Reddit at all (we are both third-party app users), and we work to make sure that nobody masquerades as "official" (it only causes us headaches) and fracturing our informational/reference material further than it already is.

Replaced Reddit app with Mlem and memmy app. I alternate between those two and the webpage. Haven’t opened Reddit in days. Reddit will be yahoo answers for me now, at best.

I was surprised how nice it is here, so I don't really feel an urge to go back. Scrolled Reddit for a bit an hour ago, and the content is on par or worse than it is here. With the mlem app as well I have no problems staying on lemmy

Quite keen to get out from under American "Community Standards", US defaultism and the extreme censorship that became prevalent on Reddit. I think the Fediverse taking off would be a paradigm shift in the way communities can be run, surviving any pushes to moderate to a particular agenda or set of tastes, and reduce the effectiveness of consensus manufacturing.

Worked examples could be that, fast forward 5 years, some Brisbane communities might allow casual use of swearwords like cunt and shit, or even slurs when used demonstratively (to the satisfaction of the community), whereas others wouldn't. And both would be valid choices and users could manage it by subbing and unsubbing as they see fit.

Another cultural standard around casual or non-sexual nudity - e.g. would you need to tag a streaker on a footy pitch as NSFW or require their nipples to be blurred - could be permitted to develop away from the American prudishness, again some communities allowing it and some not.

Not yet. But I do have some letting go issues. Reddit still has historical data. But I'll guess that's also stored in different places now, only to become available in the future. The way it's heading now is down the drain. If this guy stays on, it'll also be hard to repair the damage and have faith/trust again. That being said, I'm really starting to like Lemmy. I hope that all content and communities transfer to this lovely Fediverse. I has it's quirks to work out. But my time on reddit is getting an all time low, whilst my time on Lemmy is starting to grow. It'll be very cool if Lemmy, replaces Reddit.

Come June 1st, I will no longer use Reddit on my phone. As soon as they scrap old.reddit.com, I’ll no longer use Reddit.

I've deleted my posts and comments using a userscript to overwrite them prior to deletion. I haven't deleted the account yet however as I don't think private subs let you delete your comments. If you want recommendations for this Power Delete Suite is the easiest to use but may stop working with the API changes from what I've heard. Better Reddit Delete is one of many userscripts to delete your history. You will need a user script manager such as Greasemonkey for Firefox

Long term I plan to move some of my subs to RSS feeds from Teddit. I will likely also have Libreddit as a PWA on my phone with all of my existing communities added.

For the small amount of communities I interact with that I don't see moving to the Fediverse I'll access them through Old Reddit only. I'll likely make multiple accounts to separate interests and delete them / make new ones after a certain amount of time.

Like others have said, I'm off it too, although I have occasionally checked in with the niche subreddits I used to follow to see where they're moving to, if at all.

I only ever lurked there using Apollo, but I’m not intending to go back apart from to clear my subscriptions/delete the account.

I miss some of the smaller subs but there’s already enough here to keep me going I think.

The amount of times I’ve automatically picked up my phone during ad breaks and stuff to try and open up Apollo has been a bit of an eye opener.

I have. Not missing it. I wish they wouldn't show up in Google searches tho.

Right now I am back and forth. The protests seem to have had an effect on my feed as the content seems less interesting to me. Maybe that's all in my head though. Lemmy is what I've been looking for though. The discussion is decent. Waiting for a good mobile app and I'd likely never go back to Reddit. Just sort of flipping back and forth right now, as I said.

I’m certainly done contributing in any way. I’ve edited my past posts and comments so they all say fuck /u/spez and will now only use Reddit as a read only resource if I can’t find the answer to a question elsewhere.

Yep pretty much done. Definitely stoping my endless scroll over there.( Probably for the best anyway) May pop over to the occasional boutique community until they exist in force over here (suggestmeabook etc)

Reddit has been too big for the last five years or so. What’s the point of commenting on a post with 10k+ comments.

Lemmy is still too far on the other end but hopefully takes off in the next year. Hopefully spez continues his Musk performance and Lemmy gets the growth curve Mastodon has had.

yeah i think i'm about to ditch all social media. and probably irl too if i'm totally honest

@GloomyBagel

I still have my account there. I stopped my subscription and have deleted the third party app i used to access it. I'll delete the acvount tjere at some point, but im sticking with the fediverse.

The biggest issue for me right now is troubleshooting and searching. Reddit search is awful, but google + Reddit is almost irreplaceable imo. You don’t have to read through ai generated article that’s just repeating keywords, just find a post that contains the answer.

Ai chat seems to be a pretty good replacement, but it’s still up in the air for now.

Part of me is tempted to go back for the remaining 12 days before Apollo shuts down, but I feel like that’d be a betrayal after all the bullshit from spez. I’m done with reddit

I’m not completely off Reddit yet, but 90% of my use of that site for now is either trying to convince people to support the blackout/move to other platforms, or it’s a result turning up in Google. So I have cut back pretty dramatically.

I'm so happy to see people here. The fediverse is alive!

I'm here because I'm ditching Reddit. I've been on it for so long. If I can't use RIF, then I don't want to use Reddit.

I'll look back for specific content, but my creative energy has moved here.

I wasn't as much active on reddit, only the time I was speaking is in crappy design or a bit somewhere else. I was mostly watching content.
I'll be perhaps checking reddit far far less (if not, completely stop) for anything new.
But yeah might just never use reddit, they're literally threatening subreddits to stop the blackout. I honestly find it funny the way the community loopholes it by posting completely random/irrelevant things (like in r/steam)
Also the concept of Fediverse got me interested. I'll see how it feels when time passes.

I deleted my account, same I did with Twitter. It just doesn’t feel right to support those companies. Boycotting them is easy and doesn’t cost me anything, so I do it.

New to lemmy. Will see how it goes before ditching reddit. I might start culling the defunct subreddits I have subscribed to over the years. Not cancelling my reddit account just yet. I have started seeing ads on reddit since the blackout. Not sure where they come from. I just downvote them rather than reading in case that helps.

I look at small subs that have no replacement to look for good content to post on Lemmy. For example if someone posts a nice fan art with a link to the original artist on Reddit, I take that link to the original post and post it on Lemmy. This is necessary to kick start small communities.

On top pf being the spcial media I interacted the most, Reddit also used to be my default idle scrolling app, whenever I had time to kill and a phone with Internet on my hand or when I felt like multitasking watching TV. I stopped using it for the blackout and I never really went back.

I snooped a bit through r/modcoord and r/save3rpartyapps to see how thing were going when someone mentioned them a couple of days ago and from there I went on the linked subs to see their alternative protests and vote on the subs I subscribe to, but that's it.

I still miss some subs, but I haven't felt the need to visit them yet, so even if I cave in, I'm no longer a daily user, just a once-twice a month one with a ton of ad blocks.

Moved off the day before they went dark, only go back to re-run Power Delete Suite, since old posts of mine keep coming back.

It's hard, you know? I've still got sync installed, but after it's API key is removed I'm out. Might see if I can find a way to browse the archived version from my phone for looking up stuff.

In that state of one foot in and one foot out sort of thing right now. I think as kbin and the other instances get more and more users (which I see happening for the most part), I'll probably start using reddit less and less. As a mostly lurker on reddit, I've been trying to participate more in the conversation here.

I’m not going to use their terrible web site, nor the abomination that AlienBlue got mangled into as the official app, so…

I’ve not used it this past week, and will wait until the official cutoff date to see if my aging 3rd party app of choice stops working. If it does, that’s it, I guess… they made the decision for me.

I am giving it the same treatment that the other social media sites get. No contributions, no direct access if I can avoid it, browser redirects to go through a libredit instance if I land on it.

The current mess made me realize that:

1. WTF, reddit has like a billion users now? When did that happen? That's a good reason in itself to leave.
2. I had an unhealthy relationship with the site. Feels liberating to leave behind my biggest online addiction.

I am hopeful that spez backs down. Reddit is a household name. If we fragment into the fediverse it will be a tough road to getting the same critical mass and name recognition.

I've kind of gone on a soft break - I go on there and scroll a little, but don't participate/post and limit my time greatly.

I’ve left! I’ve found a good balance by having an account for both Kbin and Mastodon. It might be redundant once Kbin federates better with Mastodon content and has a good app, but for now it’s nice to have.

I've edited, deleted comments, deleted account. 7 years gone. A few times since I've jumped on reddit not logged in as anyone, and wow, what a horrible place it is when you don't see only what you're subscribed to!!

I've gone back a few times to scroll through the news subs, but I think I'm done with it, having found the news streams on Kbin.social.

Unfortunately I can't just ditch it because my target audience and traffic source is mostly on reddit(80%+ of my website traffic). But I don't use it for doom scrolling anymore

I'll still be using it going forward as a resource, but perhaps not as a community, if it ever really was one. It still exists as the foremost way to cull out blogspam (and now AIspam) from Google search results. So if I'm looking for discussions on a new carbon steel pan, Google will probably direct me to a Reddit thread and that's fine. Hopefully in a year we'll all be appending (lemmy|kbin|tildes) to search queries instead.

As far as a community, oof it's not looking good. Steve Huffman this week just kept finding new ways to keep digging, to keep insulting the community, and to keep straight-up lying. The fact that he apparently idolizes Musk and considers him more of a role model than a cautionary tale leads me to suspect that he's going to continue to antagonize the community and I'll probably end up editing/deleting my comments by the end of the month.

There are plenty of smaller communities there that truly don't care about what's going on in management, and will probably stay alive for a long time still.

It's those communities that keep me in Reddit.

Otherwise, I'm no longer idling and killing time through r/all or my frontpage.

I don't plan to ditch Reddit. But I'm extremely pessimistic about Reddit's future due to the horrible decisions the CEO has made.

I don't think Reddit will die immediately from this. There will be months, maybe years, of activity. But the crippling blow has been dealt. The community (even if it returns to Reddit) has lost trust and faith in the leadership and administrators. And I don't think that trust will be won back, ever.

I do feel for Huffman's predicament. His job is to turn this company profitable, when it has never been profitable before. I don't know if I would have performed "as well" as he has, and I likely would have been a worse leader in many respects.

Enjoying Kbin for my daily browsing since Monday.

I've only gone back to vote for pics of John Oliver and spread the good word about the verse.

I just deleted all of my comments before this month. I was looking at my old comments before deleting them, and I realized that Reddit was better 5 to 10 years ago. I saw better engagement from me with communities, and with individuals, than I even remember being possible on Reddit. I'm not going back to Reddit, but I'm starting to wonder if social media is healthy for me at all.

I'd like to move fully but the historical content on Reddit is necessary for me. I also tend to end a Google search query with Reddit these days as it returns better results than some shit article on a advertisement bait and switch website.

I'm also not keen on how whatever this platform is functions, it feels like moving from Windows to Linux, some nerds made something that could be great but it is just not easy to pick up and use.

Usability is what made Reddit great and especially the 3rd party apps.

Done and done. Even deleted Apollo. Not even missing it.

Eh, not enough content here yet to scratch the itch so I'm still lurking Reddit despite blackouts. That said, I'm not going to use the official app or browser, so once RIF stops working I'm done for real. My guess is that most of the remaining lurkers share that sentiment, and there will be a gradual preliminary migration for three next two weeks, followed by a huge wave after July 1st. Then there'll be content.

I've logged out of reddit, deleted the app and I've checked it a couple of times to see the state of the protest but I think I'm just going to drop it now. I've not deleted my accounts but I barely used them so I'm not sure if it would add much!

It'll be interesting to see what the long term effects of the migration event are, I'm guessing quite small as reddit still seems active. But then again, maybe the bulk of actual engaged users have now left?

Count me in.
However I find that, as users, we waste too much energy thinking of Reddit. I have ditched it and I have moved on. I don't have any need to see how many more people did it, or how many still use Reddit.
It doesn't do any favor to ourselves, and to some extent it is like our happiness in the fediverse still relies on whatever Reddit (or its users) do.