I felt like I wanted to be part of the solution by stopping my usage of reddit. I didn’t want to continue to support a site I fundamentally disagree with on how they handled their monetization strategy by screwing over so many people.
At this point, I no longer doom scroll reddit or even lemmy and it feels good to not waste my time doing so.
I feel you. The problem I have is that I mostly used Reddit for niche communities. Those niche communities don’t really exist here. I tried to do without, but it doesn’t scratch the itch. I’ve even tried making a couple. But when you’re mostly just talking to yourself in a void it’s not really the same. So unfortunately I have had to go to back to Reddit for those niche communities.
Yeah, that’s rough. Luckily I mostly just used those types of communities as interesting reads more than actively participating outside of searching for content from them.
There is still a certain excellence to the model of how interaction works for how I enjoy consuming online conversations. It reminds me of a better old school forum experience.
I do still use reddit when I find search results for things I want to know, especially where reddit was the biggest community for some topics but I usually end up there from search engines.
Because I refuse to install the Reddit official app.
Ditto
My favorite Reddit app was killed (RIF), but I stumbled into Red Reader. For some reason Reddit still allowed it to continue. It’s not bad.
I felt like I wanted to be part of the solution by stopping my usage of reddit. I didn’t want to continue to support a site I fundamentally disagree with on how they handled their monetization strategy by screwing over so many people.
At this point, I no longer doom scroll reddit or even lemmy and it feels good to not waste my time doing so.
I feel you. The problem I have is that I mostly used Reddit for niche communities. Those niche communities don’t really exist here. I tried to do without, but it doesn’t scratch the itch. I’ve even tried making a couple. But when you’re mostly just talking to yourself in a void it’s not really the same. So unfortunately I have had to go to back to Reddit for those niche communities.
Yeah, that’s rough. Luckily I mostly just used those types of communities as interesting reads more than actively participating outside of searching for content from them.
Same.
I actually feel that my stubbornness has made my life better in this case.
I’ve been to Reddit since, but I no longer feel the need to scroll it. I just use it when I went to find a genuine human recommendation on a topic.
There is still a certain excellence to the model of how interaction works for how I enjoy consuming online conversations. It reminds me of a better old school forum experience.
I do still use reddit when I find search results for things I want to know, especially where reddit was the biggest community for some topics but I usually end up there from search engines.
Revanced baby. If you get the urge to use rif again.