Well, looks like Feddit (I hope there’s a German one called Deddit) is now my home. I’ve been here a while and am enjoying the more intimate atmos.

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve downloaded all my reddit posts and comments, deleted all my reddit posts and comments and now, today, deleted my account.

Goodbye /u/TheWrongFusebox, you were a blast.

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, I started on lemmy two weeks ago or whenever reddit confirmed they were killing third party apps, and I’ve been perfectly comfortable here, haven’t used Reddit since.

    • Hossenfeffer@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I doubt Reddit will care that I’ve gone, and I doubt any of this user action will change their intent since their plans are all about generating revenue and - of course - we were the product not the customer.

      • GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukMEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        I think the tone of the other site will change, more than it already has.
        And the audience changing will be part of that.
        A lot of the old-time members joined when there was a strong “internet freedom” ethos, and may well have migrated away.

        There will still be plenty of people there, and quite possibly those people are more profitable (less chance of running adblockers, more likely to click sponsored posts)

        • dave@feddit.ukEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I’m going to start referring to it as “the other site” too now. Don’t mention it by name any more—kind of like ‘the Scottish play’.

        • OrlandoDoom@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I don’t understand how people use the internet without an ad blocker, especially on mobile, every site is just pure cancer

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Of course. I’m not trying to change Reddit, I just don’t really like Reddit anymore. Same reason I stopped using Google and Microsoft and planning on getting a Tesla. I’m onto duckduckgo, Linux and aptera. Once any company gets too greedy or overbearing are simply stops offering the services I’m looking for, I leave.

          • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Brilliant article - we can now see behind the wizards curtain and it’s not a pretty sight. Confirms my decision to get out - the Fediverse is what the web should always have been but it was co-opted by Big Tech who offered us free and easy Internet access as long as we did it in their walled garden.

            Web 4.0 has been a bit vague but I do wonder if one of the keys is the Fediverse.

      • HumanPenguin@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I have been checking it out. As vision issues will be my reason for leaving whe 3rd party apps disappear tonight.

        Comments deff seem to have become way more right wing and/or aggressive post blackout.

  • clara@feddit.ukEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    i’ve found that there is plenty of content among all the threadiverse instances to satisfy my browsing habits. it might not all be on topics i care about, but i discover more things i didn’t know existed here, than on reddit. i have no reason to go back

  • Duck@feddit.ukEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I went on Reddit long enough today to finish purging my content and replacing with spam - I haven’t deleted my accounts yet bc laziness. It was fun reading years old threads for a bit but I got bored and I probably won’t go back now. Haven’t missed it all month

    • aeternum@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’ve missed reddit. it was such a large part of my life for so long. Joined in 2006, deleted in 2023. It was a great run, but enshittification always takes hold.

  • tkc@feddit.ukEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    There is a German one called feddit.de! I think it’s existed for a long time, well before all of this Reddit malarky.

  • JohnSmith@feddit.ukEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I changed all my reddit comments today to state that I’m leaving and how I feel about the “leadership” of reddit. I used no profanities and I’m rather proud of that. It took considerable self control. Lemmy, and more specifically feddit.uk, is my new virtual home. To quote one of my favourite bands, “where I lay my head is home”