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  • Kwakigra@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • jay@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • TechyDad@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      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.)

    • surrendertogravity@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      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. :)