Haven't stopped using reddit, tbh. But my usage has noticeably dropped - haven't even commented on a single thing but one after installing Jerboa. Having an alternative really does help. I'm confident I can completely stop redditing on mobile by the end of the month as long as this community stays active.
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Yeah, I'm unsure what to do. I'm lead mod for /r/SanAntonio a city I recently left, and I feel an urge to do something with it. Like use it to make a statement or something.
I'm a few miles up 35 and finding the only real utility Reddit provides other than killing time is /r/Austin, and even there ... well, I get NWS alerts on my phone, take transit and don't lose pets, so the level of usefulness may be more imagined than real.
At the same time, the initial reasons I joined Reddit other than link aggregation aren't what they once were. I've found that DIY projects I learn about on Reddit and then have questions about details on get zero responses, and the communities I joined years ago have been so overrun by people who want karma over discussion that there's not much value there, either.
Using Google to search Reddit can be useful, but then you get a great detailed post from four years ago and can't do anything with it if you have further questions. The thread is locked on account of age, and people get pissed if you post a new thread on the same topic that links to the original.
What this API fiasco has done is bring into specific relief where Reddit has already failed and turned all of those into a cohesive narrative that was lacking up to this point. I'd heard of Tildes but not Lemmy until this week, and already my work internet use has switched from RSS then Reddit to Beehaw then RSS.
I guess I needed to get hit over the head with just how bad things had gotten via external forces to overcome inertia. Interestingly, two months ago, I was running Windows on all my computers, and I finally snapped on how invasive notifications and forced-app shenangians had gotten.
The stages of grief may end with acceptance where people are involved, but they certainly don't need to with technologies and platforms. I'm starting to better understand the grousing I wrote off as narcissistic woe-the-hell-is-me was actually a congregation of coal-mine canaries.
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I've curated my subreddits pretty well, so I will miss some of them if they don't move over here or someplace similar. But there's enough going on that I think it will not be too bad.
That's my biggest concern as well. I mean, I have no loyalty to reddit as a platform, but it does have vibrant communities for the numerous (and often niche) things that I am interested in. So divorcing myself from reddit almost entirely will be... difficult, but frankly, the platform has been going to shit for a while now and a kick in the butt to leave was sorely needed.
And based on your profile banner, looks like we share one of those communities: FFXIV :)
I went to Reddit today.... also, and deleted my account. :)
There was a news story that just broke, and I'll admit I briefly hopped over to an r/ sub to eat popcorn and watch the reactions unfold. Guilty pleasures are hard to break sometimes. Lol.
That aside, yeah, I agree. Have been spending way less time over there where it's like trying to have a discussion in a crowded cafeteria / auction house. Everything here is just more chill.
I accidentally opened it for a minute today, but honestly I can't say I miss it that much either.
Reddit gets maybe 15 minutes a day from me at this point. I'm not even sure I want a replacement for it. I'll be removing my reddit app from the phone on blackout day. Maybe I'll reinstall, maybe I won't.
This place seems nice, though.
This link posted there seems concerning. Any individual instance can issue a federal ban? https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/post/5781
I believe it's ban logs that are federated, not the bans themselves, but I don't have any proof. Could someone running a personal instance test this by banning a remote user and see if they can still interact with other remote instances?
Note that if a user is banned by their home instance, it's expected that they can't interact with any remote instance either, as all of their posts will pass through their home instance first.
If Beehaw bans from the site someone that is on a remote instance, that account can no longer interact with any Beehaw communities. If Beehaw bans from the community someone that is on a remote instance, that account can no longer interact in that community.
That makes sense, but I think what Smoke assumes from the federated mod logs is that if Beehaw bans me (a remote user) from beehaw.org and the ban message federates over to my home instance feddit.dk and lemmy.ml, I will be banned from feddit.dk and lemmy.ml as well. While it's unlikely that bans can federate between instances, I don't have any proof of this.
Ban logs do federate but the effects aren't in the way you describe. Otherwise, someone could just ban everyone over night by making their own little server, that'd be uh, quite chaotic to say the least? Thankfully, this is not how bans work through federation.
I can just envision the havoc that would ensue if someone could ban you from the instance you're the admin of.
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I haven't been back to Reddit since I created an account on here a few days ago. I thought I would be going back there regularly to consult my more niche subreddits, but I haven't been back at all.
I'm happy with where Lemmy is right now. So for me it can only get better here. I think I'm 100% done with Reddit.
RIP Sync for Reddit, you were my go-to for the past decade.
I'll miss sync a lot too, it is such a great application.