I didn’t delete my account but did delete RIF once it stopped working. I was mostly a lurker on reddit and the few comments and posts i did make are of little to no value to the platform.

I figured wasting a few MB of space on a harddrive would be a more effective protest than doing them a favor and deleting my admittedly worthless content.

My thinking is that because it is decentralized, even if sections of the fediverse decide to sell out to our corporate overlords, it wouldnt compromise the entire platform.

I wouldnt go so far as to say that the fediverse is completely immune to manipulation, but i do think the nature of it makes mass tampering\control more difficult.

I’ve already felt the sting of the protests when googling solutions to various issues. I used to be able to include “reddit” in the search and would almost always find relevant information quickly, but now as OP mentioned many posts and whole communities have gone dark.

It’s all been really eye opening about the potential negative consequences of having so many communities and information in the control of so few.

Just uninstalled RIF about an hour ago. I’m looking forward to this next chapter. It’s still very early days for the fediverse but it seems very promising.

This was the last push i needed to actually move on from reddit. Now i’ll finally be able to retrain my muscle memory to open kbin instead of RIF when i sit on the toilet.

I think its more likely that the posts on reddit are the same, and we are simply starting to become accustomed to the posts\quality of comments on the fediverse.

Our eyes are finally starting to open.

If you are using kbin try the option to create an “article”. Thats the most similar option to the traditional reddit post.