I deleted my 12 year old account history after the “AMA” with Spez and will be fully deleting my account on the 30th. That being said I clicked back on reddit today and browsed a bit of what was up and after spending the last few days on kbin and beehaw I don’t think I can go back.
The amount of toxicity that I was putting up with on reddit was astounding. I can’t believe I didn’t notice it was so bad, even on the smaller subs I was active in. I always have referred to reddit as a cesspit with islands of good content, but I think the landscape changed while I wasn’t paying attention.
I do hope the protest works and 3rd party devs can continue their wonderful apps, but reddit is kind of over for me regardless. The fediverse somehow feels like the early internet, kinda like going home.
I honestly think reddit will be perfectly fine. Unfortunately…
There’s a type of pervasive apathy that’s skyrocketed over the last 6-8 years throughout the internet and society. There’s just too much to care about. The fact is it’s easier to complain about your CEO or Admins than it is to find or build an alternate source just re-enforces the apathetic response to injustices.
It doesn’t effect me, I don’t agree but I’m not buying a sub, I’m only active on small communities, etc. It’s easier to find excuses than to try to move away from a behemoth of content.
I think 95%+ of users will probably fall into this group. I know I did for years!
I personally will check reddit for what’s going on in the world once or twice a week and use it for information but my decade+ of activity was over the day spez lied about Apollo.
I’ll probably look back into using RSS too. Reddit really has gotten toxic and it’s just going to continue getting worse. I’m out for my own mental health and I hope others are too.