I have been joking to a couple of friends today who were also redditors that I’ve been feeling withdrawals from reddit throughout the day. Like I knew I was addicted, I just never thought I was going to have to face the consequences of withdrawals!

But there’s also a major part of me that’s feeling a sense of loss. I had two reddit accounts that were 11+ years old. I used an app called Redact last night to totally expunge my comment and submission history, and I just was hit by so many emotions watching my old content turn to ashes.

Reddit is where I always spent my depression spirals, but it was also where I found hobbyist communities and group help support. I found sexual partners through reddit, and used to even moderate in my early days. It’s where I used to keep up with a TON of current events but also read from so many diverse perspectives with expertise on topics.

As much as I am tentatively excited for the culture and community we can build on kbin, I truly am feeling the inconsequential reality of all that karma and browsing. Reddit felt like it was going to be immortal, but even the mighty fall.

Anyone else bummed??

  • Haunting_Tale_5150@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m no longer in the sadness stage of grief, now I am angry. I have thought of all the stupid things they’ve done since I joined in 2018

    First they made the awful new layout

    Then they promised to implement css in new reddit, only to never do so

    Then they introduced too many award variations, and made it so people could get them for free, removing what value the awards had.

    Then they made customizable snoos, which while cute were uneccesary.

    Then they introduced, barely advertised, then killed reddit cspan. Never heard of it? Can’t blame you!

    Then the introduced NFT avatars.

    Then they did that awful april fools arg that was so hidden only a few did it and those who found the answer found it on discord. Also the answer was reddit was run on a literal potato which seems to be truer by the day.

    Then they did this API shit.

    During all that time where they could have introduced features that were useful to their app and fixing up the cruft with new reddit, they slaked off in order to increase profits. Only two features that were useful were ever introduced during 2018 - 2023: polls and gallery uploads. That’s it.

    So I am sad for the communities, but reddit itself? Nah.

  • _galactose@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I feel sort of lost, because one of my sources of information is cut off. Besides being able to be a part of that highly-specific community you were looking for, reddit also was very good for finding answers to any random question and avoiding bad google-search articles that are quite often unhelpful.

    • HandsHurtLoL@kbin.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      Yes! For me, it was extremely effective at its primary goal of being a content aggregator. I kept up with sooooo much news that was thematicly linked (national news, world news, politics, specific country’s news/politics) that I could be the smartest person in most rooms I occupied in irl.

      I think though that the corresponding magazines will be the first massly populated here on kbin.

      • Haus@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        This is the thing for me. I think I’m experiencing a bit of news FOMO. Reddit has been reliable for years at supplying news, cat antics, and pretty girls. I also agree that google+reddit has been really useful in solving very specific problems.

          • TimberHearth@kbin.social
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            1 year ago

            I think people are jumping the gun a bit on what Kbin is and are expecting it to be as huge as Reddit which it might never be. Most of my news I’m getting via the free version of Feedly which is an RSS reader and I’m only really using Kbin to scratch that itch for a bit of commenting.

            I hope people are exploring their options with being able to interact with Lemmy and Beehaw boards via Federation too. If this setup ever gets as big as Reddit it’ll be through the federated whole not one individual site. Considering how much data costs to host I think pushing one site towards a monopoly will always force increased advertIsing and with popularity comes financial predators. This is of course what Reddit is going through now.

            • gluuhm@kbin.social
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              1 year ago

              Thanks, I’ll check out Feedly! I don’t know why I stopped using RSS feeds, but the idea of using one again sounds really appealing. I’m not sure why.

  • curiousPJ@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I stuck to one subreddit /r/machinists and who knows where it went. The sub mods announced their blackout like on Saturday and with really little time for a community to start migrating…Community is probably all over the place now. Old forum hosts like Practical machinists or some other incarnation of it. I feel its absence and looking for other things to fill that gap…

    Which leads to…

    I miss being able to jump into a new community and already have a wealth of beginner questions already answered. Trying to get into Xenoblade series and almost all user questions/answers are behind reddit. A handful at Quora for some reason.

    • spoilerguy@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Hello fellow Xenoblade player, If it helps, feel free to ask me anything and I’ll try my best to answer. Love the series and would love to share the love ahead.