this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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Reddit Was Fun

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Memorial to "rif is fun for Reddit" Android app, aka "reddit is fun", shut down after June 30, 2023

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  1. Use distributed, federated services like Lemmy, mastodon etc.
  2. Support the hosts with our own funds.
  3. Moderate our own communities.

The second point is the most important. Reddit happened because they are a corporate entity seeking profit. Let's own our social media platforms by actively contributing funds to them.

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[–] FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well, I checked out Reddit yesterday without logging in and I was reminded why I don't miss it. I should have taken a screenshot of what I saw, which disgusted me. It was a thread with very vile comments on a post by a person who was in an unfamiliar country asking questions about the hospital his teenage son was admitted to. As I scrolled down I saw another one in which a French waiter was complaining about foreign customers, particularly Germans and British tourists (he called Germans "Germs") and what followed was a huge thread of people saying outrageous things based on stereotypes of nationality. That's what I got when I opened the page not logged in, it just gave me "hot posts" based on my location (Western Europe). Reddit may have more content, but is it worth my time viewing? I don't think I have time for that kind of stuff. Granted, I deleted my account, and the subs I was subscribed to didn't have content like that, but on the other hand, if what I wasn't looking at is actually more representative of Reddit in my region, perhaps it's best I deleted my account and started using the Fediverse.