This really makes me want Reddit to sink fast. Disgusting behavior.
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joined 1 year ago
Right around when puberty started hitting, I suddenly no longer had any attraction to girls. Before that, I used to have crushes on girls. Then, I started looking at gay porn, telling myself it was gross but I kept coming back to it. Pretty quickly, that was the only porn I was watching, and I started having crushes on boys at school.
There were signs when I was younger. I think I had crushes on boys but didn’t know that’s what it was because I didn’t know it was a thing. I was more feminine, had mostly girls as friends, played with dolls, etc. Other people knew I was gay before I did.
I haven’t yet. I’ll probably keep using Reddit until June 30th besides maybe the protest days next week. I’m not sure if I’ll delete my accounts after June 30th or not though in case I need them for a one-off use case in the future.
I will say that it’d be easier to delete my accounts now than a couple years ago. A couple years ago, I was trying to make sure I never lost access to my original Reddit account by changing my password to be more secure, but my password manager failed to save the new password. I got locked out of my original nearly 10 year old Reddit account with a bit of a rare username. The only reason I have access to it now is it’s still logged in through Apollo, but I guess I’ll lose it forever on June 30th. I guess it doesn’t matter if I’m trying to move here anyways.
It’s hard to say. A change in management maybe? Reddit has already gotten worse in recent years, but with betrayal of developers and users with the API, the way Spez intentionally lied about Apollo’s developer to the public, and with the upcoming IPO, I don’t see how things will get any better. It sucks because a lot of the information and utility Reddit has, I don’t know where to find elsewhere.
That being said, I’ve grown extremely tired of how the internet has seemed to have gotten worse and worse over the past 7-10 years. To me, this decentralization/fediverse is exciting because it seems like it has the possibility of making the internet feel freeing, fun, and human again.
Games that require you to follow someone, and if you get too far behind, you have to restart.