+1 here 🙋🏽‍♂️

I also finally received my data archive from Twitter. For weeks, the verification emails weren’t being delivered. When they were, the codes had expired. Repeat. I have no proof to indicate this was a way of locking me in, but it seems suspicious because it had never happened before.

For me, it’s not about being petty or spiteful against these platforms just for the hell of it. It’s just that I’m tired of their unethical business model. Hostile practices. Their lock-in. Lack of interoperability. The user hostility.

It’s not good for us, it’s only good for the platform, which then only serves to give that platform more power, which means more user abuse, enshittification, etc.

Feels good to not contribute to that and not continue digging that hole, as well as invest in a better web for all of us.

I haven’t participated on Reddit since leaving for Lemmy, and I’ve barely participated on blahaj since leaving for hexbear

I dropped Reddit but my Lemmy usage certainly isn’t what my Reddit usage was. I wish more of the websites I frequented had their own forums like the old days.

While I’m still in the process of closing down my Reddit account due to having a lot of useful saved posts. A big thing that has helped my switch is the my favorite Reddit client infinity got forked( or repurposed by the dev. I’m not sure which) into a Lemmy version called eternity, so the move in terms of app familiarity has been almost seamless. I do find quality posts and content in general is on a much smaller scale on here, but that has actually been a good thing for me as I now spend a lot less time on social media.

Reddit is such a shitshow now, I’m considering keeping my old account only to add fuel to the fire by insulting idiots. Let’s burn the whole thing to the ground.

Me

Does use include viewing it in search engine results? Or do you mean actively posting to it?

I do the former but not the latter.

I’m out of there for good, but I take a look every once in awhile. That place still looks like it’s thriving. It’s unfortunate.

I did at first but I’m using Reddit again alongside this because Lemmy is kind of depressing/exhausting, and also doesn’t have a lot of the content I want. Namely firearms and motorcycle stuff, along with lots of food related subs.

Stopped using Reddit when Infinity died

Fuck em.

Instead of using Reddit’s site, I opted to use Libdirect which redirects you to privacy respecting front-ends instead of Reddit’s website. It’s kinda handy once you figure out some instances, the downside is that some instances are down and you need to take the time pinging those instances if they are working.

Here’s the current use-case for me: I’ll type reddit.com/r/privacy on my browser but then the extension will find the working instance you set and will completely redirect you to https://l.opnxng.com/r/privacy.

The only problem for this one is that you can’t really comment to those questionable takes on r/unpopularopinion lol

i’ll occasionally go back and browse on desktop only but i don’t interact. all interaction is here along with most of my browsing

I switched and in the end that’s all that matters, you’re welcome everyone

Same here, for me it was when I saw how Spez was treating mods that I pulled out.

Also obligatory “Boost Gang 🙌”