I don’t know man, but I feel like I’m supporting a maniac CEO with every second I spend on reddit.
Reddit is for redditors, and we do not belong there anymore.
Thank you Margot Robbie!
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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.
You save the World one battle at a time.
I feel like a traitor when I do. It has sucked all the enjoyment out of the website.
Yes. The recent exodus of decent people is noticeable.
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.
Don’t feel bad. Addiction takes time. It’s also been traumatic haha.
Sure is nice here though.
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.
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.
Honestly, just get the info you need (with ads blocked, of course). Not commenting or posting content there is enough.
Data analytics show usage though, which is a plus for them to diminish in the eyes of others the effect of the boycott.
Yes! And I accidentally upvoted something earlier before I realized where I was. Felt bad.
I visit reddit to repost to Lemmy. This is the one time that reposting is the right thing to do.
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.
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.
The other thing you can do is reduce consumption. However you can, to whatever extent you can
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.
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.
the dynamic feed bug is really killing the experience for me.
Good thing this will be fixed in the next update!
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
Yup. That feeling is the slow eroding of your principals. Stick to it, Lemmy gets better by the day.
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.
Once RIF stops working I won’t be able to, so really that’ll be the big moment.
Same. I’m not using the app ever. I do comment/post here much more often though
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.
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 stuffHowever 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
Been mainly using lemmy recently. On Reddit I only go to r/save3rdpartyapps to stay up to date with the bullshit
ngl yeah I do. Specially on r/gonewildaudio.
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