I don’t know man, but I feel like I’m supporting a maniac CEO with every second I spend on reddit.

  • PetrusHyde@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 years ago

    Reddit is over for me. I’ve blocked every one of their domains in my PiHole server, so it is impossible to use Reddit in my house. You can’t fight every war, but this war is worth fighting.

    • C3ltic@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 years ago

      It definitely felt like land of the shills before I stopped going. Just hundreds of random new accounts posting in every community that went dark.

  • Oneobi@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 years ago

    Haven’t visited their in like 2 weeks. I won’t even click on links that direct there.

    For me, it can rot. Haven’t even missed it as much as I thought I would.

    Money grabbers did me a huge favour.

    • Evil_Opossum@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 years ago

      Same here although I find that doing my best to avoid links attached to Reddit is the hardest part of this. Searching for something online to only see Reddit discussions as the top result knowing full well the answer I want is probably there and yet…I keep searching for alternative links.

      • samus12345@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        Honestly, just get the info you need (with ads blocked, of course). Not commenting or posting content there is enough.

        • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 years ago

          Data analytics show usage though, which is a plus for them to diminish in the eyes of others the effect of the boycott.

  • User Deleted@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    61·
    2 years ago

    Society is so complex today that anything you do can inadvertently be supporting evil. Most of the electronics devices we use are made in China, so if you are using one to access the internet, you’ve spent money “supporting” China and by extension, its authoritarian government. Buying food from the grocery store, well most likely you were buying from a large corporation that may have unethical practices. Just wanting to travel without walking? Well now you are polluting the planet. Pay taxes? Well you could be supporting a government that have human rights violations.

    Just use an adblocker if you have to use reddit, its not a war crime, but just try to avoid it as much as you can if you want to support the protests.

    • SweetSitty@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      That’s pretty much the defining argument from The Good Place. The world is so complicated now that it’s nearly impossible to be fully moral. The only thing you can really do is to do what good you can and try to be better today than you were yesterday.

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      You’re right that the world is shades of gray, and not black and white

      But in this case Reddit is a separated entity that you can just avoid to not support.

      Your excuse makes sense when it’s vital services that are intertwined with other vital services that you have to use.

      There are alternatives to Reddit.

  • whatyousaidontwitter@lemm.ee
    4·
    2 years ago

    Not really, since I’m on 3rd party app and don’t see ads. I’m liking lemmy, but the dynamic feed bug is really killing the experience for me. I know it doesn’t happen on apps, but I prefer using a browser on my phone for now, until apps mature a bit more at least. This doesn’t happen on kbin, but I miss being able to collapse comments like on lemmy.

  • Televise@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 years ago

    Yep! It feels like I’m in a place I shouldn’t be in and that I’m betraying the community simply by being there

  • mildlydrifting@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 years ago

    Absolutely. Trying to make the switch but I think it’s going to take a bit for me to fully “cut the cord.” Trying to find matching lemmy communities for most of my interests and then planning on deleting everything from reddit.

    • Oracle@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      Same here, I heard there is a plug in called shreddit you can use before the api changes to nuke your comments. I plan on doing the same right before th shift.

  • KKSakura@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years ago

    please dont feel bad, it takes time to wean yourself off reddit
    Just slowly reduce the amount of time you spend on it and spend more time on other stuff

    However for you all out there, esp if you are a mod working hard to migrate your community here, we can understand going on reddit as a necessary evil to do in order to move your communities

    • maess@feddit.de
      1·
      2 years ago

      Been mainly using lemmy recently. On Reddit I only go to r/save3rdpartyapps to stay up to date with the bullshit