Brisbane

I've only gone back to vote for pics of John Oliver and spread the good word about the verse.

I have. I hardly ever commented on Reddit but am trying to make more of an effort here. I'll go if there's some tech solution or game guide in a specific comment that Google leads me to, but no longer will I use it for idle browsing.

There are plenty of smaller communities there that truly don't care about what's going on in management, and will probably stay alive for a long time still.

It's those communities that keep me in Reddit.

Otherwise, I'm no longer idling and killing time through r/all or my frontpage.

Deleted my reddit account. Trying this new federated stuff is more fun anyways.
Onboarding should be easier, so less tech savvy people can join too. Right now it is like choosing an linux distro.

If I can get regular interactions here around certain topics like Brisbane, Aussie Politics, and ice hockey then not going back will just be a fairly natural profession for me. Yes, I don't like how they made the API changes but more than that, I'm not going to install their app. Once my 3rd party app of choice stopped working (I use Joey and it's still free and working for now) I'll just fall off.

I have deleted all my comments, deleted my account after 15 years. Yeah, I am done.

I still go from time to time because too many Linux communities are still (for some reason I can't understand) much more active on Reddit

I only ever lurked there using Apollo, but I’m not intending to go back apart from to clear my subscriptions/delete the account.

I miss some of the smaller subs but there’s already enough here to keep me going I think.

The amount of times I’ve automatically picked up my phone during ad breaks and stuff to try and open up Apollo has been a bit of an eye opener.

I found a home in Reddit when Digg v4 happened. After many years, I wound up deleting my Reddit account and using it 100% anonymously as a pure consumption content aggregator. I'm here on kbin now and restarting my engagement with the content. It feels fun again! I just wish we had a catchy name like Digg v4 to call this Reddit exodus.

As an aside I didn't consume Reddit at all during the blackouts in solidarity even as an anonymous consumer, but when I returned it was full of trash and Reddit quadrupled down on their shitty position so I deleted the apps and have added all the Reddit owned domains to my pinhole alongside Facebook/Meta, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc.

If there is archived content I need to access for support or finding advice, I'll be using the fediverse and archive.org from now on.

I've deleted all my posts and comments, and I'm not planning on going back. It's not only what they implemented, but also how they are treating app creators and moderators.

Ditched completely, I was a lurker on reddit, I had nothing to add to discussions. The #threadiverse feels like home, it's easy to engage and you get to talk to a lot of nice people.

I haven't been back since the protest began and it's been generally fine. I miss a few communities, but I'm seeing some that I've liked at least beginning to have a presence here.

I wasn't as much active on reddit, only the time I was speaking is in crappy design or a bit somewhere else. I was mostly watching content.
I'll be perhaps checking reddit far far less (if not, completely stop) for anything new.
But yeah might just never use reddit, they're literally threatening subreddits to stop the blackout. I honestly find it funny the way the community loopholes it by posting completely random/irrelevant things (like in r/steam)
Also the concept of Fediverse got me interested. I'll see how it feels when time passes.

I just deleted all of my comments before this month. I was looking at my old comments before deleting them, and I realized that Reddit was better 5 to 10 years ago. I saw better engagement from me with communities, and with individuals, than I even remember being possible on Reddit. I'm not going back to Reddit, but I'm starting to wonder if social media is healthy for me at all.

I've gone back a few times to scroll through the news subs, but I think I'm done with it, having found the news streams on Kbin.social.

I am hopeful that spez backs down. Reddit is a household name. If we fragment into the fediverse it will be a tough road to getting the same critical mass and name recognition.

Unfortunately I can't just ditch it because my target audience and traffic source is mostly on reddit(80%+ of my website traffic). But I don't use it for doom scrolling anymore

I'll still be using it going forward as a resource, but perhaps not as a community, if it ever really was one. It still exists as the foremost way to cull out blogspam (and now AIspam) from Google search results. So if I'm looking for discussions on a new carbon steel pan, Google will probably direct me to a Reddit thread and that's fine. Hopefully in a year we'll all be appending (lemmy|kbin|tildes) to search queries instead.

As far as a community, oof it's not looking good. Steve Huffman this week just kept finding new ways to keep digging, to keep insulting the community, and to keep straight-up lying. The fact that he apparently idolizes Musk and considers him more of a role model than a cautionary tale leads me to suspect that he's going to continue to antagonize the community and I'll probably end up editing/deleting my comments by the end of the month.

I haven’t touched it since about 2 days before the blackout. Hoping there’s a decent app for iOS soon for kbin.

Part of me is tempted to go back for the remaining 12 days before Apollo shuts down, but I feel like that’d be a betrayal after all the bullshit from spez. I’m done with reddit

Deleted my account a few days ago. Even if reddit reestablishes itself and force reopens private subs or opens new subreddits to replace them I can’t see myself going back. They destroyed the sense of community that they managed to hold on to for so long and with those decision makers in charge it feels like it will continue to slowly get worse. I’ve found the fediverse to have more interesting discussions and less awful people to put up with, it reminds me of how reddit felt to use 10+ years ago

I haven’t looked at Reddit since the eve of the Reddit Blackout. I switched to kbin and moved Apollo to a second iPhone Home Screen I call “The Memorial to Great iOS Apps Killed by Assholes” (it also contains Twitterrific).

I’ve added the web app icon for kbin to where Apollo used to be, and good old muscle memory has taken care of any absent-minded Reddit visits that might otherwise happen.

I genuinely loaded it up perhaps 3 times in the last 5 days or so and those were on accident, with me leaving immediately again. I‘m committed to this in a similar way I am committed to quit smoking, ~280 days without a cigarette.

I miss certain subreddits, mostly the TalesFrom ones (especially TalesFromTechsupport and TalesFromTheFrontdesk), but I've edited all my comments and posts that aren't rebuttals to misinformation. Just saying why I'm leaving Reddit (mostly the lies and greed of the company) and inviting people to kbin. I haven't deleted my account in case Reddit tries to undo my edits.

Other than that, I've managed to go cold turkey ever since the blackout began.

Edit: Oh, this was a Brisbane-specific community. Didn't realise, sorry.

I have mostly ditched it, but I got back occasionally to see if I can't get people to move over and to see what's up

I’m not completely off Reddit yet, but 90% of my use of that site for now is either trying to convince people to support the blackout/move to other platforms, or it’s a result turning up in Google. So I have cut back pretty dramatically.

I deleted my account, same I did with Twitter. It just doesn’t feel right to support those companies. Boycotting them is easy and doesn’t cost me anything, so I do it.

I'd like to move fully but the historical content on Reddit is necessary for me. I also tend to end a Google search query with Reddit these days as it returns better results than some shit article on a advertisement bait and switch website.

I'm also not keen on how whatever this platform is functions, it feels like moving from Windows to Linux, some nerds made something that could be great but it is just not easy to pick up and use.

Usability is what made Reddit great and especially the 3rd party apps.

Overwrote my comments then deleted them all. Keeping the account on the off chance something changes or I need to ask a question and need enough karma etc,, but don't plan on going back unless I absolutely have to. I will miss it a bit, but I'll have a heap more free time now.

I have zero want to go back to reddit. This is what I hoped and wished for in reddit. Something I didn't know I wanted till I found it. I don't need a corporation getting involved with my human interactions. I've found the people who have switched are generally more intelligent too as a bonus. The content is just icing on top of thought provoking comments for me. That's not really reddits forte. All the people who wrote nice comments are probably here now.

Reddit is a glorified search engine now. It's a closed system. If I need something specific, I may stumble upon it, but I will not interact. I haven't even had to do that all week. Maybe I never did need to do any of that.

I want to cut out the middle man and get to the point. I want to push the boundaries of thought. I don't know, but I'm enjoying it.

I haven't used my account since the blackout. I have gone to the site occasionally if I Google something and the answer shows reddit though. My wife hasn't used reddit and is waiting for me to "cave" but I haven't been tempted. The first day was the hardest but now I just use Lemmy. Looking forward to some more polish on the jerboa app but can't complain about anything else really.