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I'm done. Steve Huffman's comments have cinched it for me. The guy is a prick and doesn't give a shit about users in the slightest. I'm also welcoming the chance to disconnect from the mindless meme scrolling.

I've deliberately overwritten my comment history with a garbled message. Now, I'm waiting until the end of the month to delete the account. This is to boost the statistics following the upcoming API changes, so there's no mistake what prompted that decision.

I've kept my account 'just in case', but in reality I have no intention of going back, on principle now. Too much trust has been burnt away.

After the AMA I overwrote my comments and deleted accounts. Regardless of the API pricing, spez has to go.

I've been on Reddit from the beginning. I never posted much as I've always been more of a consumer of media, rather than a creator.

But here I am casting my opinion into the echo chamber of disgruntled ex-Redditors, for no other reason than to help generate content to help keep Lemmy growing and keep people engaged.

Perhaps that will articulate how over Reddit I am. And if Aaron were still with us I have no doubt he would be leading this charge to topple it.

For Aaron.

I haven't opened RIF since the blackouts started, and it's been pretty nice actually. It really helped stop my endless doom scrolling.

I believe I'm going to stick with Lemmy for good!

I'm not sure yet. Lemmy will end up being fine for lurking cool memes and seeing pictures of whales or whatever, but reddit's massive userbase was always the draw (and the curse). I asked a question about how to install a particular air intake vent in my home and reddit is big enough that somebody was able to answer that (and correctly). Lemmy is nowhere near that big yet. Not even close. Won't be close for a long time, if ever.

And that's just active users. Lemmy is missing the staggering volume of already-answered questions in the past, for every subject I could imagine. And it never will have those unless they're painstakingly ported over, and there frankly aren't enough users to do that even if we wanted to.

In short, day to day I think I'm good on Lemmy but it's a terrible shame that all those users and all those comment threads are wasted on that shitty company.

I'll probably still occasionally visit reddit because there are some subs I am in that are just such mature communities, they are still a useful resource.

That being said, I LOVE the old school web vibes of Lemmy. I love the lack of ads. I didn't realize how much I really missed the pre MAANG internet. It wasn't until Lemmy began to fill the void that I realized it was there, and it is so fucking exciting having some of that wild west energy back.

There's enough Lemmy instances with enough users to satisfy my meme addiction, I have absolutely no reason to go back.,

Working on it... Getting the hang of Lemmy and Jerboa pretty quickly I think

I left this week. Am still trying to get the reddit experience via lemmy though. Need to have highly specialized communities, engaged user bases, and easy UI experience. Not quite there yet, but we'll get there.

Yeah, I'm absolutely done with it. I deleted my phone app, and blocked it in my browsers and I haven't looked back.

It's all downhill from here for Reddit users.

I figure we may as well start now on building communities on Lemmy and other fediverse platforms which are inherently resistant to the 'enshittification' paradigm.

I'm finding Lemmy to be quite nice at the moment with the smaller userbase. I miss a few subreddits, sure, but anything worthwhile will end up with a Lemmy counterpart sooner or later.

Yep ditched, and this is my first post on Lemmy.

I keep accidentally opening it and then closing it in disgust

Before the protest, I completely scrubbed my post and comment history.

For the blackout itself, I closed the browser tab, uninstalled Infinity, and blackholed Reddit's domains on my Pi-holes.

After the first couple of days of the blackout, once the admins started seizing control of certain subs and booting out the mods, I went back and deleted my account.

Finally, I re-blackholed Reddit's domains, and also added them as an exclusion regex to my Whoogle searches, so they don't even turn up in my search results.

Fuck those cunts. Not one more bit of data from me again.

I'm deleting mine on the last day of the month. Until then there are many pictures of Jon Oliver to upvote. (/r/pics, /r/gifs, /r/aww, /r/art)

...And pictures of vacuum cleaners. (/r/wellthatsucks)

...Along with pictures of pressurized water vapor and its many scientific uses. (/r/steam)

These communities are bringing out their best malicious compliance for the final hoorah, and the least I can do is help them find their way to the front page.

My account was 13 years old... back from the great Digg migration.

Over the past decade I've been very active on a range of subs, with a more recent focus on professional technology, politics and gaming.

Over the years I'd amassed in excess of 300k comment karma, and not an insignificant bit of post karma (mostly from back in the SCO tech war).

I'm walking away at this point... even if spez was kicked out the door by the Board the bad faith shown is just the straw that broke the dromedary's back.

Since I am within the scope of GDPR and I want this to be painful on them (plus there are useful bits i refer to from my old history from time to time)... I've issued the GDPR data request and intend to follow through with a "right to be forgotten" GDPR data deletion request once that's been fulfilled.

I used to subscribe and pay them actual money. I cancelled my subscription and am done with it.

yep, same approach. tbh, this feels like a step in the right direction, provided this doesn't end up another LNP shillfest like the Aus subreddits.

Haven't used my account for a few days now, and it has been surprisingly easy. I'll definitely stay on lemmy, it has huge potential.

I haven't used Reddit since I discovered Lemmy. I was a lurker on Reddit and just browsed /r/all. That was a pretty unhealthy habit, glad that the black out happened honestly.

I'm about 50% there ditching Reddit for Federated servers. I miss the apps for reddit that have had years of development, but so far Lemmy scratches the itch enough. Once RES and Bacon Reader (yes I'm one of the dozens) die then I'll probably delete my account. The stock Reddit site is nearly unusable with all the ads and I've never used the official reddit app and probably never will.

I'm out. 12 year account, which I've currently left open but with all comments deleted. It's mostly just open to get my data take out so I can make sure all my comments and topics are removed.

Currently on Tildes and Kbin/Lemmy. I figure this still likely be the account I stay active on due to the local focus.

I mod a tiny sub with 12k members that I'm trying to decide what to do with. Thinking I'll just make every member a mod and let it dissolve in to chaos.

Can't believe the way Reddit as a company has decided to treat it's users. All that free content and labour given just to be spat on. Crash and burn you fucks.

I'm on the fence about it. I was part of the Digg migration and made it into the Eternity Club. I've supported the black-out and will continue to do so, but I have a soft-spot for the site and even if I'm not active on there for the time-being, I won't be deleting my account. My 'on the shitter' site switched from Reddit to TikTok a couple of years ago, so I won't miss that, but there is a vast amount of pornography on the site that is neatly contained and easily filtered that will be hard to replace.

I got permabanned because politics banned me for something stupid and then I forgot about the ban while logged in under a different name, posted some random shitpost, and then boom, all accounts permabanned. It was a few weeks ago and I'm still in shock tbh, I was a user for 15 years and now I'm persona non grata. I still browse a bit but fuck 'em.

I'm still trying to figure out whether to use kbin vs. lemmy. Kbin is making alot more sense.

I deleted my account on Wednesday. I loved Reddit, but without RIF it's useless to me. Also the more I read about the Fediverse the more I think it's the proper way for social media to work in the future of the Internet.

I'm done, thought I might stay until the third party apps lost functionality, but I like it here, and happy to ditch Reddit

Closed both of my accounts yesterday. The bummer is that I recently purchased BaconReader before the API enforcement was shoved into our faces. No way am I going to support shady business practices like Reddit's. I'm here to stay on Lemmy.

haven't been back since the blackout, when temptation hits I come here instead. I've also picked up reading again. I think maybe I'll use reddit if I need advice on some product or something.

I deleted my accounts, I pop over there from time to time to check out specific subs that don't have an equivalent here yet, but that's not very often.

I miss reddit, but it's been one week since I logged in. Removed Boost (my reddit client app on my phone) and forced myself to not go there. Since then I discovered Lemmy, and since I use mastodon as well, it's interesting to see both interconnectable. I'll see in the long run, but I don't think I'll use my reddit account again. (unless there is big changes, but even then, I'm not sure)

I've replaced the Boost icon on my phone with Jerboa. Have been deliberately not going to the site on my PC. If I have to, I've been doing it incognito.

Will not be renewing my reddit premium, and will not be using official shit-show of an app. I'm not going so far as to delete my account, but totally understand why people are doing so.

I've been on Reddit a few times since the 'official blackout' ended but mostly been on Lemmy. I deleted one off my accounts. The other I've just used to browse a little. I'm not posting, commenting, or voting on anything. Probably once rif and old.reddit die, I'll be done. I've never had the misfortune to view new reddit or the official app and I don't plan to start now.

No more Reddit for me. I deleted my account

Yeah I'm done with Reddit unless they do a big 180. Which I doubt they will.

Feels icky to go there, now that I know how they conduct themselves.

I still check it often but when 3rd party apps are killed that’s a hard stop date for me. Can’t deal with the official app or site.

Yep, all contents and accounts gone. I can really hold a grudge. And quitting Facebook, then insta then twitter was followed by an increase in my happiness, so it’s a huge incentive. Nothing is going away, nothing is being lost. People, the real value of these platforms, still exist, and will repopulate other platforms with content really fast.

I’m there a little at the moment whilst my apps of choice (Apollo and ReddPlanet) are still operational. However it’s nothing g like it used to be (the blackout has worked from that regard) and I’m over here more often now.

I'm still on there for a few subreddits that haven't bothered with the blackouts, and there is no Lemmy alternative at the moment.

I use Sync so I imagine once 1/7 rolls round I won't be on there any more. I swapped the Sync and Lemmy icons on my phone though, so by habit I now open Lemmy 😆

I'm out. I was waiting to see what happened after the blackout, but with the reports of submissions being restored after deletion, subreddits being forced to reopen, and the CEO doubling down and saying he looks at Musk and Twitter as some kind of success story, I'm done.

Logged in today and downloaded a list of the subreddits I was subscribed to, and then deleted all my submissions. I haven't deleted the account yet, mostly because I want to go through my saved list and make sure there's nothing I want to keep from there. And a little bit of morbid curiosity to see if anything I purged today will mysteriously reappear.

I left and am enjoying Lemmy. I might join some of the subreddit discords for good memes to cross-post in the future and to recruit more lemons once the servers are more stable.

I'm still using it, but less. When my preferred app dies at the end of the month here, I'll probably stop altogether.