Reddit Migration

Yup! Same here. Had someone recommend kbin on mastodon so I made my way here. Deleted 2 10+ year old Reddit accounts and cut all ties. I went in anonymously to check out what happened with that submarine but otherwise cut all ties. The amount of my life I've taken back by dropping that site is incredible. I didn't realize how much of my time was spent doomscrolling there. Now I'm playing guitar, playing games and building web dev projects with all the time I'm saving. I never got into Twitter but from my understanding a lot of people have had my same experience dropping that site too.

I stopped using reddit cold turkey when the blackouts were announced. It’s been 3 weeks now and I’m better off for it.

I’ve been dipping in and out, but frankly I can see myself leaving it behind entirely in the future. It’s really, REALLY apparent how toxic and miserable the majority of Reddit is when you’ve spent time using a platform where the main point isn’t to collect as many upvotes and awards as possible at the expense of empathy for your fellow humans.

I've been boycotting Reddit for three weeks so far but I did come back today. I deleted my content and commented about a possible GDPR (DSGVO in German) lawsuit if they bring back my content. I recorded my user page pre deletion, while deletion and after deletion. I have the exact date and time in the global menu so there is no fracking around from Reddit. I'll happily contact the German agency responsible for GDPR complaints.

I check in every once in a while, at least until Apollo stops working. I mostly just stick to giving people Reddit alternatives or explaining the federated internet so people aren't scared of such a simple thing.

Selfishly I just didn't want to use the Official App with ads. But once there's a viable alternative to Reddit, and it's actually better than Reddit, why would I go back? "hurr durr cause I can get a thousand updoots on my post". Who cares? It's about the quality of engagement. I was surprised how many people unironically care about their internet points and tie their identity up with a website.

I haven't been back either. I don't like supporting terrible people.

Hope the fediverse becomes easier to search and add interest groups.

And we get a phone app.

I went back to Reddit today, to delete my 12 year old, 25K karma account and all my posts and comments. Otherwise I haven't been there. Occasionally some search result will take me there for something hyper-specific thing, but I haven't browsed reddit since I joined kbin.

what's Reddit?

I used to check there every day but it's been two weeks of not. It's great! I'm checking out here and Lemmy (I like kbin's layout and vibes a lot, but Lemmy has beta apps lol) I feel like I've had more time for life.

@Snapz 12yo account deleted. Will miss some of the content especially the ultra local stuff but I left Slashdot and Digg too. I understand the need to make money as a company, but there were better ways to achieve that than what reddit did.

I still casually browse because im a messy bitch addicted the drama but I foresee myself stopping using it when the 3rd party apps die.

I've been there a few times doing research for building a new PC. Other than that I've kept away and don't really miss it. Unfortunately I'll probably need to go back there for other types of research because it's a huge repository of information now and is the fastest way to find such things. But the moment I have the info I needed I leave.

I was just using Sync for Reddit when I noticed I can no longer load comments and then a pop up came up that said I was being rate limited by reddit. F this, I'll no longer visit that site. I'm even considering the nuclear option of mass deleting my comment on my 12 year opd account.

Making their move as early as 3 days before the deadline. Never in my entire usage of Sync have I encountered being rate limited, even on days where I was using reddit the whole day.

I'm ashamed. With the recent development in Russia, I had some glimpes of /r/worldnews. Other than that, I was able to stay off and enjoy my time on the fed.

I've been checking into my user page just to see if they've sent me my user data backup I requested a while ago. Other than checking for that message, I've been 100% clean and it hasn't been terribly hard. Between Kbin and Tildes, I've been getting all the commentary and aggregation that I want or need.

Nope. Once the announcement was made about the blackout I found Lemmy, removed Reddit from my favourites, abandoned Apollo and closed the chapter.

• Newsgroups
• Old forums
• Digg
• Reddit

Well, I did log in to overwrite posts and comments periodically and as subs went public again.

And I've been checking in with r/ModCoord every once in a blue moon, but only via teddit and anonymously (not using an account).

But if those don't count those then I haven't been back at all since.

When RIF said they were shutting down, I took the icon off my home screen. Haven't been back since. Reddit was something I did when I was bored. Kind of like reading a newspaper or magazine. I didn't need it abs still don't. And now we have communities forming elsewhere like here on Kbin and on Lemmy that I can join, and can have a better experience while doing it.

Yeah, so long Reddit and thanks for all the fish.

Been there to delete my stuff - and to set up an RSS feed for the couple of subreddits that don't have a valid alternative.

Fun thing is... about half of the RSS feeds i set up, i kicked out after 2 days, realizing how much pointless fluff it all was.

I was Googling something and hit a link without realizing it was an old Reddit thread. That's the only time, my social browsing otherwise has switched to posts and microblogs on kbin every day. We're not quite ready to say we've replaced Reddit at the scale, but look how far it's come in less than a month. Just have to ride another wave of new users surging in, lots of questions and confusion, and probably more crashes from demand.

I converted to Reeder from Apollo to read my subscribed subreddits. I only converted about a quarter of them. Now that I go through every post, I'm dropping a few more subreddits for not being very interesting. At this rate, I may quit altogether.

Of course it's worse. It's lacking my stellar contributions!

More seriously, I think it's probably more of a perception issue, though I do think some small but real percentage of engaged redditors are gone. I still pop by to check a couple of niche communities that aren't doing much here, and to hunt for a daily link to share on /m/cfb as the specific sport mags/communities don't seem to be as active, especially for the ones in the offseason. I don't want to treat it as some sort of purity test, but for now at least I'm trying to put my energy into contributing to the discussions on the Fediverse and just sort of passively consuming from Reddit, without commenting, when I don't see what I want here.

My link aggregator history goes from Fark to Digg to Reddit to Kbin. TBH I think this one will be slower and less complete of a transition. I don't think Reddit will zombify like those two sites, but I do think that over time, enough people will leave for lemmy and kbin to make them vibrant spaces for a lot of communities, especially if Reddit starts chipping away at the ability to self-curate and thereby self-isolate from the biggest general interest communities that are more noise than conversation.

Been using it on and off while this takes off. It's quality has gone down noticeably. Seeing new subs arrive for some time was exciting but the comments have been looking more like the right wing bottom feeders from twitter comments more and more every day.

I’m still checking Reddit. I think once Apollo goes my usage will really drop, but unfortunately Reddit was the one social media I really enjoyed and as much as I’m liking Lemmy/Kbin the communities just aren’t here yet. I hope that changes

I finally removed my Reddit feeds from my rss reader yesterday but have not logged on in almost 2 weeks. Apollo will remain on my phone as a monument.

I put in my data request and they are claiming it could take a month. As such I have been on it but only to follow up on that and i made someone a mod of a sub since I announce I was leaving but not "really" on it. Don't surf it. Can't wait to delete my comments after the data request and will repeat that for awhile. unfortunately I like will not delete the account for like a year given the way things are going with comments being reinstated.

I quit on the 8th when Apollo formally announced its shutdown.

I will say that since KBin has a lot less content, I have been spending more time reading books in my backlog and generally being more productive, so quitting Reddit has been a net positive in my life.

However, there are still times I click on Reddit links from Google. Old habits.

I keep going back. Not the level of user before all this spez is a twat shit, but enough that I still cannot deny I have an addiction.

What I have noticed is that the quality of content and users has plummeted. Tons of the people who always complained about reddit being an echo chamber and the worst place in the world for free speech are now louder than ever posting some pretty racist shit and and it just gets worse from there.

Even google users have been reported as upset with the content that is coming up in searches.

I deleted my account about a week ago. I haven‘t been to reddit for a few days.

I still check in on my local subreddit, but I don’t participate.

I'm still somewhat present on Reddit, but I definitely feel a sort of "winding down" going on. I'm not commenting much any more and I rarely scroll past the first page. I'm sticking around because there's still some groups of interest over there that aren't present here yet but I foresee that changing over time.

I quit it around the end of the blackout, when a lot of redditors started to get nasty towards protesting mods and even got all smug at their own impotence. Too many people being like "what, you really think that's gonna do anything?". They have no self-respect, no passion, no appreciation for the efforts of others. What good can there be of being surrounded by people like that?

I'm still occasionally browsing it as I still enjoy using Apollo, its really just that good of an app. But I'll be cutting ties on the 30th once the API key expires.
As others meantioned, I'll make sure to delete my accout with GPDR and pursue action should they bring my content back.