When the whole Reddit fiasco started happening, I saw a lot of people wiping and deleting their Reddit accounts and moving elsewhere, like here on Lemmy.
Now that it’s starting to die down a little bit, does anyone regret doing that? Or are you glad that you took that step?
14 years, 17 accounts, ~2000000 karma. Nuked everything: deleted comments and submissions, de-modded myself, unsubbed from everything, gilded various protest content using the coins I’d been given over the years, bought a cool Apollo app t-shirt, walked out and walked away. Nope, don’t miss it; I’m exploring kbin and tildes, and getting my meme content from imgur. Which is ironic in a way, because the sole reason imgur was created was because reddit refused to allow native images.
Are you having regrets? It’s okay to have regrets.
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I forgot about that…been a while old friend.
Edit: HOLY FUCKNUGGETS BATMAN! It’s still alive and well?!
What is kbin and tildes?
Always weird to read comments like this while on Kbin. Kbin is another “threadiverse” instance. Like Lemmy or whatever.
Yeah, it becomes so second nature that I’m on kbin that it’s a weird kind of dissonance, like someone asking what’s Reddit on Reddit.
Kbin is a different software than Lemmy, although similar.
It has only been around a few months (unlike lemmy that has years in development).It offers what seems to me a more centralized view of the fediverse, with federation to lemmy servers and mastodon servers as well.
It has access to the microblogging feature, that is like sending a toot from mastodon.
I’ve found it to be a more familiar experience to Reddit, and honestly, I prefer it over lemmy.
Due to it being so new, it has many missing features lemmy might have, like mobile apps (the API is still not public, and it’s being worked on).
HOWEVER, Kbin has a great community backing it up.
I’m currently posting this from the amazing Artemis beta app for Kbin, the first of its kind.
This is due to the incredible job @Hariette has done!!Kbin is a part of the Fediverse and is similar to Lemmy. I have a kbin.social account and am replying to you from kbin. (I subscribe to a lot of Lemmy communities via kbin).
Tildes is not a part of the Fediverse. It is a text-driven private forum basically created and run by one person. You need an invite from a Tildes account holder to join. It’s its own little island. am on Tildes a lot and really like it.
Nope, good riddance.
I haven’t nuked my account yet and will only do so once I am certain that all my comments are permanently deleted (some were missed due to a design limitation in the way Reddit finds them). But practically speaking, I am no longer using that account, so it is functionally equivalent to having deleted it.
I have no regret so far. Deleting my trail of crumbs has assuaged my fear of doxxing (which, in all honesty, is orthogonal to the API shutdown fiasco and was worth doing selectively anyway). It has also given me back time that I would spend mindlessly doomscrolling on Reddit. I am now more deliberate in my use of social media and the Fediverse, which is an improvement in my online habits. For that I am grateful.
No.
No ragrets at all! Not even one letter! My biggest problem is trying to figure out how to manage all of the similarly named magazines and communities.
Not even a second. I’m glad to first got rid of Facebook several years ago. Then Twitter. And recently also Reddit. No regrets.
Ps. I also don’t have Instagram, TikTok or any of those non-sense.
No regerts…not even one letter.
Seriously, I deleted my posts and comments by my cake day (June 26th), and deleted my account on June 29th. Good riddance.
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@be_excellent_to_each_other I follow you now :) +1 karma hhehe
Aw thanks!
I didn’t delete anything, because there’s quite a bit of programming & tech advice. I always knew reddit was profiting off my contribution, everybody should have known that from the beginning.
I’ll stop contributing, but I don’t like how much useful information has gone dark or otherwise suddenly just been lost. I wouldn’t burn a library down because they started charging exorbitant late fees, I would just stop going there.
I didn’t delete my account, but I did wipe out my post history.
I keep my account active because I’ve already found a couple of instances where reddit restored my posts in particular sub reddits ands I had to delete them again.
Tech/programming stuff is exactly why I did nuke mine. Going isn’t as meaningful if you leave a bunch of value behind when you do. While I’m here for entertainment now, I’m often spending my reddit time during work hours on vendor-hosted support forums, stackexchange, etc. now.
Gradually, that library will be relocated to other places. Instead of just not going, I think it’s better to take away others’ reasons for going too, give them reason to seek out better libraries.
Zero regrets. So far the content has been better and people have been nicer, the experience on Lemmy app I use is very similar to the 3rd party Reddit app I was using, and the official Reddit app is so much worse than both of them that I am not at all tempted to use it.
Ngl I miss all the niche communities from reddit that actually had content. Like there’s nothing for The West Wing or The Wire on the lemmybin. Last hype shit for Starfield on the largest Starfield Magazine was like 3 days ago.
Not that I really need or get that much out of that content but it’s shit I like to talk about. And sure I can create the communities or post the content, but it’s like yelling into an abyss right now.
That’ll change as more people join, of course, it’s just a part I miss.
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Kinda comes with being on /m/redditmigration, no?
