• swiffswaffplop@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Was on Reddit for 11+ years. Apollo for the last few years. Quit cold turkey in June and honestly my life is better for it.

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      Obligatory, FUCK U/SPEZ

      I was part of “Rexxit” or whatever you wanna call it; I agree, life is better here. Viva la Lemmings

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      1 year ago

      Same. 11 years, nearly 2 million karma, frontpage almost every week. Mine was Reddit Is Fun app but I swore not to go back.

      Edit: same username on reddit

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      I lurk with a burner account it because lots of niche reddit communities (modded API 3rd party client of course) still don’t have Lemmy groups and…it’s all rage bait, horny bait, and whOleSomE bait.

      No substance, only engagement is the goal.

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      Same for me, but with Sync.

      I was on Reddit for about 15 years, pre-dating when Digg shit the bed, and to be honest there are some similarities between this place and old Reddit.

      That’s not to say that we’ll see a flood of people from Reddit, but that this place has a nice, quaint charm that wasn’t too dissimilar to before. With that being said, the Linux bros are as unbearable as they used to be on Reddit, and there are some extremely wild opinions on politics that don’t align with reality - that’s not much of an improvement.

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        I started on Reddit in 2012, realized quickly that I was getting too invested in karma, so decided to never have an account for more than one calendar year.

        That worked very well, but by the end I was still spending an inordinate amount of time dicking around. I spend maybe an hour a week on sync for Lemmy. perfect!

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        Same but with Boost for reddit. Now on Boost for Lemmy!

        I remember being on Reddit back when it was pretty new. Also got a Gmail account back when it was beta and invite only. Everything seemed possible back then. My world view sure has changed since then. Not quite doomer pilled but damned if I’m not on the edge.

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      1 year ago

      I still read /r/boxoffice when there’s a major flop (so I’ve been back there a bit since Wish released) but I don’t log in anymore.

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      Same. Cold turkey and the only time I’m on there is when I get there from a DDG search. When that happens, I get my info, open Modmail to make sure my dark subs aren’t stolen away, and then fuck right off.

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      I joined back on the iPhone 4 using blue alien or whatever that app was called. Then been on reddit sync until the purge. I pretty much exclusively used reddit via a third party app. It hurt to delete all my content and delete my reddit account, but the sync author said he’s moving to lemmy so I just went along. Now I’m on lemmy with sync. The community is obviously much smaller, and there’s quite a specific kind of person here (looking at you Linux and star trek instances) but I can actually interact here. I never deleted my comments before, and still wouldn’t, but I don’t see myself instantly down voted into oblivion for not sharing a hive mind idea. I get to see more kinds of interaction here instead of having to sort by controversial. It’s nice.

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    Leaving Reddit was one of the best things I’ve done for my phone addiction. Lemmy isn’t nearly as addictive, and the lack of a profit motive to fuck things up and encourage mass clicking helps control the content.

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      OP is a cuck using the official app.

      If they’re going to browse reddit they could at least use a modded client with API usage with a burner account

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      This is this years version of Reddit recap or what exactly they call it. They give you some statistics from the past year, similar to Spotify wrap, or at least that’s the meaning of it, I haven’t gotten mine to work sense they started a couple of years ago. This year I haven’t even gotten one.

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    Can someone explain what I’m looking at here? Is this the official app? What does the text mean? Is OP making a joke on it? I’ve never seen the official app (because fuck you) so I don’t know what I’m supposed to be looking at.

    (Kinda surprised how many of you get it…)

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      It seems to be from some kind of Reddit end of year highlights reel. I think OP probably engaged with the post about Apollo shutting down a lot (voted, commented, maybe viewed it a great deal of times, etc.) and so Reddit served them this little “highlights” card.

      OP is now sharing it here as a “remember where we came from / fuck Reddit amirite” post

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    It would really be nice if a company came along that recognized its relationship to the ecosystem that grows up around it. It seems like that’s an obligation, really, to help those who helped you become what you are. What you don’t have, on the other hand, is an obligation to rape everybody. Which is all capitalism does at this point - enshittification. Make a good product, then fucking ruin it, shitting on the current customers in favour of the ones you’ll get once it’s marketed to the masses.

    Useless, stupid, destructive and cancerous system.