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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    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

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      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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      I don’t feel dirty. Just sad for the people still over there. At this point I just log in once a day to vote for protest supporter and see what the status is. Then come back to here and Mastadon.

      Some of my favorite subs over have gone full toxic and have completely removed my desire to go there. Just total hatred toward being inconvenienced, which is sad on its own that people are so desperate to be submissive. Not understanding that the only reason the protests failed was because they already decided (and then therefore invested in) the protest failing.

      Other subs are still voting overwhelmingly to protest in any way possible. But the amount of gaslighting by shills (possible astroturfing) is wild. Every sub has tons of people saying “nobody cares” despite people voting otherwise.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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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      Same here although I find that doing my best to avoid links attached to Reddit is the hardest part of this. Searching for something online to only see Reddit discussions as the top result knowing full well the answer I want is probably there and yet…I keep searching for alternative links.

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        Honestly, just get the info you need (with ads blocked, of course). Not commenting or posting content there is enough.

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          Data analytics show usage though, which is a plus for them to diminish in the eyes of others the effect of the boycott.

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    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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    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.

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    I haven’t been back since the blackout kicked off. I even feel dirty seeing posts about Reddit here and mostly avoid them because I can guess at the content. You can guess how disgustingly dirty I feel actually replying to a Reddit thread here!

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      Don’t feel bad about replying to reddit-related threads on lemmy. If it’s on lemmy and not reddit, it’s good.

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      TBH, I really wish people wouldn’t repost Reddit stuff here. And frankly, it feels like those folks are just addicted to Reddit and can’t give it up. I suspect most people are finding posts that were super popular on Reddit and just posting it here to appease their personal upvote obsession.

      Like fr, just skip the extra steps and go back to Reddit, theres no need for anyone to shovel Reddit’s dogshit over the fence into Lemmy’s front yard.

      The only Reddit “reposting” I really support is what they’re doing over at lemmit.online - and that’s because it all stays on their instance, and they use a single bot to do it, so you only have to block a single user to get it all out of your /all feed.