• Chariotwheel@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    And yet, after three months you still think about it.

    I do look on Reddit sometimes, there are niche communities that don’t exist in that form in the fediverse and it would be quite hard to just ignore the existence of that site, especially when wanting to look up certain information. I did successfully stop participating though.

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      1 year ago

      Having used it for over 12 years, sure I think about it occasionally; usually when I remember how glad I am that I no longer use it.

  • Jeremy [Iowa]@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    For me, the early days of my time on Lemmy highlighted what I’d been missing from Reddit: quality discussions light on dog-piling, circle jerking, and holier-than-thou partisan clique bullshit.

    These have all come to Lemmy in force with the migration, so now I’m plenty happy on either platform with a “block early, block often” strategy. It ends up just as low-stress.

  • Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I got to say I’m weak and still go there 50% of the time. But my app is still working charge free so that I can still avoid deleting it. I think shifting participation to Lemmy is the long run goal. I’m on my way.

      • Yote.zip@pawb.social
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        1 year ago

        Try posting those questions on Lemmy so we can build up our own answers. I’m subscribed to a lot of communities that seem full of people ready to help, but no one that needs help.

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          My problem with RTFM is that sometimes the manual assumes I have any level of competence at all, when I really super don’t

          I spent three hours trying to install a LOD mod for Minecraft last week. As soon as it said something about Gradle I should have thrown in the towel…

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    1 year ago

    I’ve been Reddit free for a couple years now, after Reddit deplatformed me for planning a peaceful protest of the yearly Billionaire’s Summer Camp in Sun Valley, Idaho. It’s where Billionaires give there marching orders to the Operation Mockingbird media.

    Quitting Reddit is way harder than any other addiction I’ve experienced, because it plays on the collectivism that is hardwired into us. It’s why they peddle it to kids like the tobacco, alcohol and gambling industries before them. Get them while they are young, and there brains aren’t developed enough to build up self-control!

    It’s not just Reddit though, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, etc, etc, etc all do the same things to varying levels. I highly encourage everyone to watch the Documovie The Social Dilema. The only way to free ourselves of this new form of digital slavery is to educate people on the dangers our such technology.

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    1 year ago

    Stuffy and pompous, makes sense

    I feel like shit not having used reddit for 3 months. I want a forum for each anime I watch that isn’t MAL…