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Users do anything but stop using reddit
Many of us here stopped a while back. For me, it was the API thing a couple of years ago. But it's still useful to check reddit website for info - there's just so many answers to so many questions on there. But fuck using their app.
Then there's some of us who simply got kicked out of the Reddit realm altogether
I would have switched sooner if I had known about lemmy, but been here over a year now.
The API thing was the final straw for me as well.
That's my situation. I nuked my comment history with a script when it was obvious they wanted to profit off of ai scraping. I still look at old reddit.com in my desktop, but I don't touch it on mobile.
Yeah I have looked at old a few times, reddit is shit but internet searches are often even shitter these days with so fucking many AI generated websites.
If I know a better source I will search for that. Started growing some of my own food recently so anything plant related I try and check RHS first.
👋 I stopped using reddit last week.
The way they are banning people for barely nothing, people will be stopping using it quickly
I used reddit for years. Made lots of comments, had original posts hit #1 many times. I was contributing to their site.
Then I said something bad about Musk and got banned. I think it was about Musk, they deleted a bunch of what I posted so I'm not entirely sure.
I still browse reddit from time to time. I use the old reddit site with adblock. Now I'm just a leech to them. I take but don't contribute back.
I'm fine with that relationship.
Once again I am reminded of an old coworker. He'd talk a good game about caring about things, but when it came to the slightest inconvenience he'd dither and usually just do the basic thing. Still an avid reddit user, last I heard.
I stayed with them and bitched about them for quite some time. About the time they started cracking down on the API i went ahead and left because whatever inconvenience I was weathering would be 10x worse if I waited till the last minute to start over somewhere else.
there are too many hyper local subs on there to stop reading it entirely... I'd love to even get state level channels on lemmy, but there are only a few.
Yeah, there is one for my town and what I miss is that there were some really good local meteorologists in there. They'd call out storms or bad weather days before it came up on any weather feed and most of the time they were super accurate.
I kind of miss it, but after being banned for nonsense, I don't think I can go back. It was fun while it lasted but everyone knew once they went public, it was going to change and it did.
Something else will replace it. Might be Lemmy, might be something else. I don't really care of it's a for-profit model, just don't run it like assholes. There's no reason it has to be so binary.
We need to stop letting these corpos steal all the local forums.
The last thing that should be left to a sucking void like Reddit is community things.
The only online local communities I am aware of for where I live are on facebook, so I just don't get involved. Reddit does have a county wide one but that is pretty quiet. Oddly the city subs are more popular than the county one but I don't live in either city. Might be because both have a fairly big uni.