I personally just went cold turkey lol
I got ready when they announced the API shutdown, then kind of cold turkey indeed
Same. But I have a specific Reddit that I search once a month because it’s the best aggregator of that info
I added most of the navigation panels and message inbox stuff to ublock origin and only look at my provincial and municipal subreddits for information that might harm me if I’m unaware of it. Deleted my last account.
But yeah, the API lockdown was the final nail in the coffin. I was getting banned a lot for not aligning with status quo enforcement already. I saw a front page subreddit successfully ban bots and saw their traffic crater into bedrock instantly which was extremely disturbing. Combination of things.
As soon as Apollo died, I never went back
It looked like me getting banned permanently for saying I should be allowed to punch nazis and I was like “Wow so reddit is pro-nazi huh?” and I never looked back.
Snap!
I logged out and just don’t log back in. Sometimes I’ll find a link there or a reference, and I’ll instinctively click the “reply” or upvote button, but it will ask me to log in, and I remember I don’t want to do that.
That was me a few years ago until they sent me an email saying they were banning my account (for whatever reason, I don’t think they ever said why). Now I don’t go there anymore/ as much as I can (darn you, pesky search results!)
Almost cold turkey after the API shutdown.
I still use some technical subs like sysadmin, cisco and Fortinet for work purposes.
Everything else I use Lemmy for.
Did something just happen? I’m browsing new and this is like the fourth post I’ve seen about it. Way more than usual.
When I realized I was in complete opposition with what they wanted to do with our content, I posted a last message on my profile stating why I left and where one could find me. And I left.
I wrote a very well formatted and evidence-based letter on my subreddit detailing grievances and why the website will die given time
The response was something like: “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out”
Some people don’t learn unless they’re personally eating crow
Got banned for suggesting child predators be punished more harshly by the courts. They said I was inciting violence against a protected class. I said no way a human decided that, must be AI. So I appealed and they upheld it. Said fuck it, they were doing me a favor. Uninstalled the app.
I’m baffled how they think child predators are a protected class
Totally could turkey quit when bacon reader stopped working at API shutdown. Good riddance.
Got banned
basically just using old reddit until i was banned for my comments being seen as promoting violence and racism. comments about real world events. apparently reporting that someone assaulted or raped someone is promotion asasult and rape now.
I never had an issue with reddit. Once the glorious leader started talking about annexing Canada I joined the rest of my brothers and sisters and got the hell out of dodge. I thought I’d give up the message boards entirely but it was reddit that showed me lemmy.ca.
Cold turkey after the api-geddon I think. Definitely cold turkey but I’ve lost track of which shitty abusive decision finally sealed the deal. I have not looked back and miss nothing.
Deleting
Used it out of necessity more than enjoyment. Plenty of vices in their community’s culture that bothered me and that here can be more easily oxygenated, and also if a community is not of my liking, here it’s easier to find alternatives. So when I learned of the alternative, I could easily see the potential past any movement, and thus jumping was pretty seamless.
Also the engines then, ~2 years back, were pretty jank. But for my needs, the one I picked, Kbin (RIP) was just enough jank to be a “does the job”, and so allowing me to use scripts and filters to improve them my way.
