I don't care about protesting, it doesn't work. For me, stopping reddit means to stop opening it out of habit. I find myself automatically opening social media out of habit. So instead of having Reddit be that habit response, I'm training myself to replace it with Mastodon and Lemmy. It's a bit hard since I'm missing a lot content, but it's significantly easier then during the Twitter migration.
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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User revolts do work. When Digg pushed that horrible update people just bombarded Digg with Reddit links. It's one of the most effective community migrations of a platform I've ever seen.
Reddit killed the trust I had for it not even porn will bring me back and I've avoided reddit search answer like the plague on Google.
avoided reddit search answer like the plague on Google
i'm hoping that the "privacy redirect" browser add-on OP linked to will help make that easier! then, if it works properly, you should be able to click reddit links with peace of mind knowing that you'll be taken to a different unaffiliated domain instead, giving spez and his corpo hogs 0 traffic
Yup. Haven't been back since last Sunday. Which was surprisingly easy given I'd been a near-daily user for nine-ish years. I miss very little. I might log in one last time before the end of the month to trash my account.
I stopped posting on reddit before the blackout, but seeing all the creative ways people are finding to protest is honestly hilarious.
Good thing I got permanently suspended from Reddit for saying bullshit (I guess I never got a reason to why I was suspended)...
But I want to test Lemmy's tolerance of cuss words--- BULLSHIT Lets see what happens???
Honestly, we're a minority of users and if we just left the only thing Reddit would notice is that posts were lower quality, and it's possible they wouldn't notice that at all. Going out loudly draws publicity to Reddit alternatives, and I think that harms them more in the long term.
On July 1st my reddit usage will be zero. Until then I take a peek once a day or two to post http://join-lemmy.org where appropriate.
This is me , I logon once a day search api protest and add lemmy positive posts and maybe a lemmy post in one of my fav small subs. about 5% of my social media time. I expect to stop in july
I'm exclusively using Lemmy and it's taken the place of boost on my home screen. I also exclusively open reddit in Google web cache and archive.org when I need a ressource that's within the years of reddit content. Fuck reddit and fuck spez.
IDK, I'm having fun running around and throwing fuel on the fire in communities that have been forced open.