That’s me deleted my Reddit account along with all data as I do not agree with recent events that have been taking place. I’m going to concentrate on Mastodon , Lemmy and take a look at Kbin .
That’s me deleted my Reddit account along with all data as I do not agree with recent events that have been taking place. I’m going to concentrate on Mastodon , Lemmy and take a look at Kbin .
Still can’t fathom deleting my Reddit account, even though I was always much more of a lurker. I was quicker with Twitter --> Mastodon. Deleted everything as soon as the shit started hitting the fan and didn’t look back. I’m sold on Lemmy, though. I’m getting a whole lot of what I was getting there around these parts, and it seems to be a wee bit more friendly for the kind of people me likey.
I feel you. I am signing up for Lemmy, even though I still hope that Reddit’s shitshow will be resolved by June 30th. I joined Reddit around 16 years ago and while I nuked many alt accounts in this timeframe, nuking the final one, knowing it will be my departure from the site feels… weird.
Lemmy has a long way to go before it can be an actual replacement, but seeing the steady stream of new users over the past few days, I can see the potential. It feels very much like when I first joined Reddit.
I don’t think I’ve taken a shit without opening reddit in 10 years. I never viewed it as social media. More like someone watching TV or reading a book. 10 years is the same age as my son. That is a quarter of my life Reddit is Fun has been 90% of my phone usage (I take a lot of shits apparently). That is a hard thing to scrub from existence. But, if they are forcing me to get rid of Reddit is Fun and I have to learn a new UI I might as well leave to greener pastures anyway.
I feel like I’m getting more. Quality over quantity and really I didn’t realize how I missed the community aspect that I used to participate in back in the early 2000 when I first started meeting people online and using forums and making my own web pages and using chat services. I wasn’t interacting with anyone on reddit as I had experienced plenty of hostile interactions as well as pointless harassment. I used to be very friendly and helpful but this kind of stuff made me cynical and negative. I would comment on something, provided my insight or info or link or whatever to something and moved on. Didn’t look for replies because I knew there were going to be people butthurt I didn’t agree with such bigoted or racist or sexist or whatever comment or belief so there was no point in arguing with these people. I turned off notifications. I don’t feel defensive here. I don’t feel desensitized nor do I have my defenses up. I check my notifications knowing it’s either a useful reply or a silly joke, so far lol. I’m definitely sticking around. Reddit is off the table.
I thought it was just my social anxiety flaring up when I had new notifications. I never really thought about the fact that I was also avoiding negative replies. It’ll be interesting to see how this goes here.
I can get too involved in an argument when someone gets hostile with me and it’s not only a waste of time but it puts me in a bad mood. I need to save my patience and mood for work lol. I think my negative association with notifications is gone, and so far I’ve had genuinely good interactions so crossing fingers we don’t attract negative attention hahaha!
Why do you care about your account? I swap to a new Reddit account every 6-12 months. It literally means nothing. You can resub to everything you had before and it’s like you never left. I feel no love towards my account at all, it’s a tool for enabling me to engage, nothing more.
I grow attached to things. I still keep a 10 year-old laptop with a 10-year old (rolling) Linux installation on it. I put over 500K miles on a car. I was once married for 10 years. That kinda thing. To each their own, I guess ;)
I’m the same. My account is 11 years old. I created it when I was 14 - I’m 25 now. I like the ability to read through comments that my teenage self wrote :-)