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I visited Reddit for the first time in two days and had a thought that has occurred to me constantly for years, "I hate this site." It's still the same alienating crap and it will never change. I glanced over my home page, made a comment about the fediverse being a better alternative in a blackout thread for one of my subs that came back, and popped back here.
I agree completely. I don’t care if people go back to reddit, I don’t care if they even reverse some of their decisions, the damage is done for me. I’ll look forward to a new future here and elsewhere on the internet.
My first day off Reddit, I had severe withdrawal. I kept trying to launch Boost (my third party Reddit app of choice) despite not really wanting to. Thankfully, a focus app I installed for just this reason stopped me. I eventually moved the app shortcut and put Jerboa in its place so that muscle memory took me to Lemmy instead.
By the second day, the withdrawal wasn't as bad. I did miss some things, but I was starting to realize how little I really cared about much of it.
By now, Lemmy has replaced about 40% of my Reddit usage. Another 50% I've deemed not important enough to replace. I now have only one subreddit that I really miss. I've found a Lemmy alternative, but of course Reddit has a bigger community.
That one remaining subreddit is still dark. (I tried to see how many subscribers it had and saw it was still dark. I wasn't going to read any posts if it had gone back online.) If it comes back, I might stick around there, but I'll also stay on Lemmy and will push this as a Reddit replacement. (I think Jerboa and Lemmy have some rough edges that need to be improved upon before they can truly be a replacement, but they are surprisingly close.)
I just uninstalled Apollo to stop any chance of accidentally going to reddit.
Speaking of Jerboa, I installed it, but it opens to lemmy.ml and I can't figure out how to change it to beehaw.
You probably have to log in. If you are in anonymous mode, the app defaults to showing lemmy.ml (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)
I went back yesterday night to check out the Starfield sub and was surprised at how little interest I felt in even skimming the comments in case there were interesting theories. I grabbed the Imgur albums for screenshots I wanted to look at and left. the fediverse is my place now. :)