It does suck I'm presently suspended at the moment for abusing the report feature by reporting a Nazi supporting targeting Georgia grand jurors. Not only do they frequently not remove Nazis you can get suspended for reporting Nazis. I'm done with reddit for good. It's a cesspool like Twitter.

The "home feed" shows subs I never subscribed to.

Facebook started doing this awhile ago too and made the site completely unusable for its original purpose of keeping up with friends and family. There is zero reason to browse Facebook anymore.

Interesting to hear your experience. It took me 3.5 months to fully remove myself from Reddit. (March to July):

• I started just poking around Lemmy while using Reddit
• to occasional commenting and posting on Lemmy
• to using them about equal time
• then making a final few posts and comments in the protest weeks and helping people migrate
• then I was only upvoting
• then I made a final goodbye post on my Reddit page
• then I stopped voting but still looking around Reddit and the playplace.
• then when that was over, I uninstalled my favourite RedReader app and stopped using it altogether

I'm not one who likes to go cold turkey, but when once I commit to boycotting something I stick to it until my condition is met. In those final days I came across many Reddit users who were like "if you hate Reddit that much why are you still using iiiiiit?", that was annoying but that's behind me now and there is no condition for me to go back to it.

Long before the big fiasco I had already taken up the habit of nuking my own Reddit account after ~6 months or ~20K karma, whichever came first. I had noticed that an attachment to such accounts creates inner turmoil. Like when you get unfairly banned by some powertripping mod. I simply didn't like the fact that someone else had any kind of emotional power over me, no matter how slight, so I taught myself to kill my accounts without attachment.

So when the shit hit the fan before summer it was trivial to just delete my latest account and not make a new one. Been a happy Lemming ever since, not planning on going back. Sometimes the urge to lurk creeps in but so far I've been perfectly able to ignore it.

I honestly feel happier than before. I already don't use any news apps and limit my exposure to actuality, and Reddit was pretty much the last "toxic" thing to hammer into my mind 24/7.

I'd say I miss it, but I really don't. The hours of doomscrolling I spent on there were not only wasted, but 100% counterproductive to my happiness as a human being.

I spent over a full year /played in Wow loooong ago, and that time at least wasn't wasted because I enjoyed most of it. Can't say the same for Reddit.

Ads every few posts. Ads inside comments. Ads ads ads.

as a former sync for reddit user, we were living in a delusion in the end. We fixed it for ourselves but the tides of change were inevitable

Personally I still use Reddit for niche things (like arguing with people about whatever video game I’m playing at the time) But fediverse here for generic scrolling

Not to mention the official reddit app is janky as hell. So many smooth scrolling 3rd party apps for lemmy.

The “home feed” shows subs I never subscribed to

I made a new account and was immediately bombarded with posts from subs on the account I deleted months ago, suggesting them because Reddit knew I visited them in the past.

No, that’s not creepy at all. /s

I deleted my account as part of the Great Reddit Exodus of 2023 but have periodically visited the site since without an account.

Many of the posts I see now seem really sensationalist and almost like they were created by bots. Of course, maybe Reddit was always that way and it just some time being away for me to realize that.

You should delete your account at r/redditseppuku

Standard “wHy Do YoU cArE?” Post, ignoring this is the Reddit community.

But in all seriousness, not surprised. It’s likely only gonna get worse until it dies as a platform.

Thanks for taking the hit, soldier. I haven’t checked it since June 1, and was curious.

I'm not using Reddit since the whole API stuff got closed. However I posted something to get some tech help on a specific service online. Despite being nothing wrong with my post it was getting down voted. The mod perked up and said it's just Reddit and just get used to it. No thanks.

I miss the amount of content that would make me laugh but I don't miss the utter dickheads that reside there. I'm sticking with Lemmy.

One of the default subs in Canada seems entirely dedicated to xenophobia.

What happened to the first r/CanadianHousing🤔

All I know is there's several face rating subs now. The AskReddit and AITA type subs are trying to catch up.

Reddit is now only useful for finding answers, not for browsing

The app is also so slow and laggy af

It’s old.reddit.com or nothing for me.

A subreddit I used to mod which shut down in protest when the third party apps controversy happened has completely vanished from Google search.

A lot of subs I followed just seemed to be full of a lot more intolerance and a load of bots, I think moderators that remain just don't have the tools they used to have to root out these accounts

I noticed when signed out, there is a lot more fight videos, rate me, am I ugly, kinda clickbait stuff that's wasn't there before the API change. It's gross, like being on youtube while signed out.

I find that most of those issues are nonexistent the way I am on reddit - just use old.reddit everywhere. Yes, even on mobile. I'm special, and not in a good way, but it works.

I fear the day old.reddit gets shut down, considering the amount of communities that don't have an (alive) analog on Lemmy, so for now I use both...

It really feels worse now, even in terms of topics in the subreddits for which there is no equivalent here.

Still, until certain things are born here or well populated, I'll still check it out from time to time.

At least, so far I seem to check it less and less and am grateful for Lemmy and its growth. I hope it keeps growing!