Maybe I just miss Reddit is Fun, not Reddit, but I still have RiF installed (I just can’t delete it) and it still “works”. I can’t sign in or participate, but fuck I miss browsing everything. I’ve definitely replaced it with Kbin, but opening the RiF app just gives me sadness. Fuck spez.
No. I am sick and tired of toxic-ass trolls with nothing better to do than make other people miserable, and those seem to be rare on the fediverse, so I’m staying here. The last half decade of Reddit got worse and worse and worse with this, especially during and after the 2016 US presidential election.
I’ve also noticed that the “caliber” of people that post here is quite different than your average Reddit user. On Reddit, I’ll often try to have a serious conversation only to find out the person I’m talking to is just a teenage troll just looking to get a rise out of people for kicks. That has not happened to me here yet. When I migrated over, it’s like all the children and toxic people vanished.
No
Nah. Fuck that place.
Nah
For me, Reddit died long before the whole ordeal of the API controversy. More and more traffic was due to bots, and lately I started to receive a lot of spam from porn bots there. There’s not a lot of incentive on part of Reddit to remove them, since bot activity is still activity they can present to investors.
Don’t get me wrong, not all bots are bad, but spambots are universally harmful.
I’ll admit I do. And I won’t like, I’ll still append “Reddit” to my searches as needed. I’m just not really actively contributing or anything there anymore, which is sad
There’s literally one or two niche communities I still poke in on for news, but I’ve stopped participating.
I miss the niche subreddits. When googling they still come up with good answers. I have reddit blocked in my pihole but sometimes I just disable it to view a solution to my problem. But then I feel dirty 😉
This is my biggest complaint too. Certain topics have all search results with good data on reddit, so I still have to give them traffic when I’m trying to figure something out
I wish some communities or magazines, or whatever, were more active like reddit. I don’t miss reddit.
i’ve unsubbed everything except those niche sub for news and technical help, rarely goes there anymore but might help with the r/place protest
I miss having information compiled in one site (Reddit). I just made an RSS to replace it.
Honestly, yes. I’m a tech guy who is cool with the growing experience of new projects and I’m here to stay… But, I also like specific sports teams, politics, and other non techy subjects that aren’t going to make the move until they have no other choice or the issue is the community doesn’t have critical mass to provide for engagement and back and forth in the comments. There are a few communities I still check in to weekly or so on Reddit because the information doesn’t exist here yet. I hope those communities and members move to the fediverse some day, but to pretend that the offerings andb engagement here are equal or even “good enough” at the moment is unrealistic. My use of Reddit though has gone from hours a day to minutes a week and I refuse to upvote or comment, so while I miss a lot of things, I do my best to not help their metrics too much
I was there 17 years. Can’t say I miss it, but I do lament it. The community there helped change my life in some very significant ways. But it became glaringly obvious that the administration have little to no appreciation or respect for their users. I’ve been enjoying watching them scramble to re-engage lost value in their IPO. I will only return to participate on r/place … whether that’s thru the void or a “Fuck u/spez” … they will get my traffic for that.
Yes I will stick it out with Kbin, lemmy and other fediverses! The internet is healing.
Nope
If by your question you mean in that abusive, self destructive, totally dysfunctional, immoral and unethical ex sort of way, then sure I guess.