Nope, enjoying kbin way more than reddit so far. Even if this doesn't work out I think I might have kicked my reddit habit!
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reddit.com, redd.it, redditmedia.com, and redditinc.com were added to the Pi-Hole blacklist last night, so I can't open it on any device on my network.
Over just the last couple of days, kbin has gotten so much better, I honestly haven't even thought about checking that other site what's it called? r-something? Can't remember
The question is less about whether or not you'll ever go back, imho, and more about how much time you'll be spending going forward looking at their ads, and whether or not people will continue to submit new content; just browsing their existing content isn't nearly as useful to them for their new beloved, those large language model suitors. To wit: If you want to ensure that the message is heard as loudly as possible, don't give them any content that the LLMs would find useful enough to pay Reddit's exorbitant API fees. (That includes up-votes/down-votes, not just commentary.)
If you also still need to refer back to things there occasionally, I suggest installing an ad blocker and just not using their mobile app at all. If Reddit goes through with their notion of blocking mobile browsers... so be it; that just means you should spend your on-the-go browsing time all on kbin/lemmy sites, and only refer back to Reddit when you have a chance to sit down at a desktop computer.
Just my random thoughts, though... take them for what they're worth.
I have no intention to ever go back to reddit, I'm quite happy with both lemmy and kbin. Just like I have no intention to ever go back to twitter, mastodon and akkoma (I'm yet to try calckey) having replaced it for me completely.
I left almost all centralised social media behind, except tumblr (which has a similar culture to the fediverse) and youtube.
I don't have any intention of going back to reddit, or any other corporate platform for community building.
It looks like ActivityPub based platforms gained enough momentum between them to push it into self sustaining.
Lemmy, kbin, beehaw, mastodon, pixelfed, calckey all seem to have enough activity to keep most users engaged, except maybe the super dopamine addicted.
At this point I am going into Reddit to figure out which of my subscriptions I want to find a different way to access. So either I am finding a similar magazine in kbin or I'm moving the source to my RSS aggregator (Feedly).
Interestingly, as I bounce in to do a look/see, I'm seeing a whole lot less interesting content. So the moderator "revolt" is having a big effect for me.
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