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submitted 1 year ago by hardypart@feddit.de to c/reddit@lemmy.world

I don't know man, but I feel like I'm supporting a maniac CEO with every second I spend on reddit.

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[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Reddit is for redditors, and we do not belong there anymore.

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[-] AndreTelevise@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Yep! It feels like I'm in a place I shouldn't be in and that I'm betraying the community simply by being there

[-] PetrusHyde@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Reddit is over for me. I've blocked every one of their domains in my PiHole server, so it is impossible to use Reddit in my house. You can't fight every war, but this war is worth fighting.

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[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Yes, but only because my porn reddit account is the last one I have. IMO its counterproductive to delete it since it's clear reddits monetization strategy is anti NSFW. The more of that site is unadvertisable the better.

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

I visit reddit to repost to Lemmy. This is the one time that reposting is the right thing to do.

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[-] hurricane@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I feel like a traitor when I do. It has sucked all the enjoyment out of the website.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yes. The recent exodus of decent people is noticeable.

[-] C3ltic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It definitely felt like land of the shills before I stopped going. Just hundreds of random new accounts posting in every community that went dark.

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[-] redballooon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but as my excuse, I limit my visits to NSFW subs.

[-] slampisko@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Ah, so you can feel dirty while you're feeling dirty. I like the way you think

[-] jennwiththesea@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yes! And I accidentally upvoted something earlier before I realized where I was. Felt bad.

[-] rakara@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, somewhat. It's addicting, though. And some communities haven't made the move to here, yet. So, I'll be going back and forth, for a bit. OTOH, I took the first step to leaving. Premium expired today. I cut the cord! It's not much but I want to support the community in some way. Also, after everything that has transpired, I can't support the actions they've taken. To me, sending them money is encouragement and support to continue what they're doing.

It's very pleasant and peaceful here. Better vibes.

[-] LukeMedia@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Consider donating what would have been spent on reddit to Lemmy! I'm thinking I might set up a recurring charge like reddit premium was.

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[-] fm0d@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

echo "127.0.0.1 old.reddit.com" >> /etc/hosts

and never look back

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Society is so complex today that anything you do can inadvertently be supporting evil. Most of the electronics devices we use are made in China, so if you are using one to access the internet, you've spent money "supporting" China and by extension, its authoritarian government. Buying food from the grocery store, well most likely you were buying from a large corporation that may have unethical practices. Just wanting to travel without walking? Well now you are polluting the planet. Pay taxes? Well you could be supporting a government that have human rights violations.

Just use an adblocker if you have to use reddit, its not a war crime, but just try to avoid it as much as you can if you want to support the protests.

[-] SweetSitty@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That's pretty much the defining argument from The Good Place. The world is so complicated now that it's nearly impossible to be fully moral. The only thing you can really do is to do what good you can and try to be better today than you were yesterday.

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[-] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yup. That feeling is the slow eroding of your principals. Stick to it, Lemmy gets better by the day.

[-] DovahFiST@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I don't feel guilty yet since I still have RIF - I make it a point to only lurk though. Once RIF is gone, I'm gonna try to use libreddit for question answers and never visit the actual site again. Fuck spez. Greedy little pig boy ass bitch.

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[-] gon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

No LOL. I use Lemmy, I'll keep using Lemmy. Reddit has some communities that I don't have access to on here... So I use it too. I wish I didn't, but I don't feel dirty. I use adblock anyways so it's not even like I'm giving Reddit any money directly.

[-] pixelbounds@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah I am deleting my 9 year old account on the 30th.

Despite reddit's flaws it's a great resource for a lot of entertainment,education and the communities can be great. But reddit got too big, too greedy and it's just a matter of time before it hopefully collapses. Those of us moving into fed-space are the early birds.

[-] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

Why would I visit Reddit?

[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I only go there to promote Lemmy and see how the reddit dumpster is burning.

[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Just be aware that you're fueling their data analytics, that they can show that they still have people visiting their website.

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[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

If I really have to visit that page I do it either via cached version or via teddit. Fuck u/spez does not deserve my traffic.

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[-] Oneobi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Haven't visited their in like 2 weeks. I won't even click on links that direct there.

For me, it can rot. Haven't even missed it as much as I thought I would.

Money grabbers did me a huge favour.

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[-] 418teapot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I've felt gross for years, ever since they switched from old reddit to the new trash design. I used old.reddit.com for a bit, but stopped once I saw how much tracking garbage ublock was blocking, even on old reddit.

Before lemmy I was using teddit as a privacy focused frontend for reddit which worked great. But now the API changes will kill teddit so no more reddit for me!

[-] Commercial_Cam3l@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

I feel the same and I’m still there. But I try to use the fediverse more and more. I just gotta get the hang of it.

[-] Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I have gone back only to rob my content from a specific sub and post it here. I immediately feel like a scab for giving them 1 traffic. Then I close it.

[-] BuddhaBeettle@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

If you replace the reddit.com part of any reddit link with https://reddit.adminforge.de/, you can browse without giving them any traffic / interaction (for example reddit.com/r/tihi --> https://reddit.adminforge.de/r/tihi)

[-] whatyousaidontwitter@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Not really, since I'm on 3rd party app and don't see ads. I'm liking lemmy, but the dynamic feed bug is really killing the experience for me. I know it doesn't happen on apps, but I prefer using a browser on my phone for now, until apps mature a bit more at least. This doesn't happen on kbin, but I miss being able to collapse comments like on lemmy.

[-] hardypart@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

the dynamic feed bug is really killing the experience for me.

Good thing this will be fixed in the next update!

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3008

[-] mildlydrifting@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. Trying to make the switch but I think it's going to take a bit for me to fully "cut the cord." Trying to find matching lemmy communities for most of my interests and then planning on deleting everything from reddit.

[-] Necronomicommunist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Once RIF stops working I won't be able to, so really that'll be the big moment.

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[-] Cryst@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I hVent logged in since the blackout. So no.

[-] scp_1404@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Honestly, yes. I don't want to support what the owners of Reddit are doing. A lot of people are not going to leave there though until the place is completely radioactive though.

[-] Creegz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I keep finding Reddit links to things when looking for solutions in my job. It's getting frustrating because a lot of the subs are still closed.

[-] Blackilykat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

use Google's cache thing, I don't think it lets Reddit earn from you visiting it and content should(?) still be there, I never used it but I heard a few people talking about it so I believe it works

[-] ThatSandwichGuy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Currently only using rif occasionally as some subreddits haven't transferred only, otherwise I'm browsing here, but I feel bad.

[-] mintiefresh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Don't feel bad. Addiction takes time. It's also been traumatic haha.

Sure is nice here though.

I am enjoying the last 2 weeks of Apollo, Lemmy has exceeded my expectations and I am going to be deleting my Reddit account on the 30th. Quality of Reddit has nosedived in the last two weeks so I don’t feel like I am missing anything.

[-] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

please dont delete your account.

  1. you could talk about lemmy and maybe bring people here
  2. You could bring your old posts here
  3. you could exchange your messages with nonsense:
    https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/146lloj/protip_if_you_replace_the_content_of_your/
  4. you can sell it to a bot network

": if you replace the content of your posts/comments with nonsense, you'll make Reddit Inc. (including its CEO) lose money."

"There's a good chance that those API price changes were motivated by large businesses using Reddit to train their large language models (LLMs) with. Stuff like GPT-3, Google's BERT, Facebook's Galactica, stuff like this. In other words, your content will be used to train bots. (It is, already.)

Those models can be "poisoned" with random, machine generated nonsense. Poisoned data is worse than useless: it makes the model worse. So for each person replacing their Reddit content with nonsense, those businesses will be willing to pay Reddit Inc. less and less for API access."

"Here is a mini-tutorial on how to do this. It's for desktop users but you'll likely be able to do the same from a phone browser.

  • [Choose 1/3] Open Zompist's gen. Take off the line saying "ki|či", and click "Generate". You'll get some random babble like "Bepe topioi kabi brete i kropra", copy it somewhere.
  • [Choose 2/3] Open https://sebpearce.com/bullshit/ to get an entire bullshit article
  • [Choose 3/3] Open https://nonsense.x2d.org/ to get a bullshit sentence, i suggest getting a few ones.
  • Open your Reddit profile and drag the button of Power Delete Suite to it.
  • [Optional] Check the box saying "prepare local backup of items", if you want to save your content elsewhere.
  • Uncheck "remove comments". You want to replace them with babble, not remove them.
  • [Optional] uncheck "remove posts". It depends if you post mostly self posts or if you post links/pics. Use your reasoning.
  • Check "Edit comments / self posts". It should open an input box for text; place the babble from Zompist's gen there. Then click "process".
  • Just wait!
  • [Optional] Click to download the backup of the items.

If you don't like Zompist's gen and/or Power Delete Suite, you can use any generator and/or Reddit mass edition tool of your choice."

and yes, i am somewhat still on reddit but i think i do more against them when my app does not work anymore (to spread lemmy or information) i will follow this process

[-] Dettweiler42@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I made the decision to wipe my account a few days early and monitor it. I'm glad I did, because Reddit has been un-deleting and un-deleting my posts and comments. I've had to re-edit/delete about ~300 comments and ~30 posts since yesterday.

[-] Mozbozz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They're un-deleting content that users are choosing to delete, that's disgusting

[-] lanolinoil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah that goes too far for me. What if they change it to Nazi prop and ransomware you to your boss or family?

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[-] narmak@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[-] isdfoa@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, it's like me going into a nasty public restroom - gotta do my business asap and gtfo

[-] CliveRosfield@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I've always permanently browsed with Ublock Origin on desktop or Apollo on mobile... So they get effectively no revenue from me aside from maybe selling my browsing habits. Either way Ad revenue is likely what's keeping them afloat right now so that helps it feel a little less dirty. Once my niche subreddits are moved over it's bye bye forever

[-] infamousbelgian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Totally agree!

[-] Dettweiler42@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

We don't go to Ravenholm anymore.

[-] iRyu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I feel the same. I feel like the main place to find out if anything is going to happen is on reddit, though... I don't know what I expect to happen besides things to get worse.

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