It felt really good to delete my reddit account. I hadn't logged in or posted in months, and just lurked for a while. I was amazed at how toxic it had become. Reddit angries up the blood! (to paraphrase Grampa Simpson)
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I agree and you aren't really aware of it until you are gone for a bit. I'm convinced the algorithm promotes some toxicity as it likely drives more engagement, which in turn promotes ad revenue. kbin feels like real human engagement. I replaced all of my reddit comments with a mild protest statement. Will likely delete on June 30th.
any guesses to when the admin demote the mods?
as soon as they realize they really needed them and now they are gone.
as soon as they realize the subs stay dark and traffic from search engine drop.
as soon as the mods can't use bots anymore.
Probably earlier than we think but still unexpected.
Friday afternoon/evening to avoid as much media coverage as possible
And subs which weren't closed are also flooded by posts supporting the blackout and shaming spez. So the post activity we see here is even inflated by protest posts.
For me this blackout should have 6 months at minimun. 3 days do nothing at all.
Many subs stay dark indefinitely. Had over to r/ModCoord to get an impression. r/formula1, r/apple, just to name some of the big ones.
Keep this shit up! Blackouts won't mean anything to Huffman if we all come back after 48hrs.
Not hard to keep it up. Nothing dragging me back to reddit. the only thing i am missing is the immense amount of aggregated information
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I'm surprised the admin haven't taken over and unprivated subs and demoted mods. Any guesses to when that'll happen?
It happened once but I haven't heard of any other cases
I find it especially funny that the forcibly re-opened r/AdviceAnimals is constantly reminding everyone how douchey Reddit is behaving.
Reddit admins gone an fucked up here with this grandstanding, ChatGPT is here now and its turning a bunch of us amateur coders into a more powerful force, im currently using ChatGPT4 to help me write an application that will create a sum and review system of Lemmy user accounts
Be sure to double-check anything that ChatGPT4 creates. It's good at being plausible but not so good at being accurate.
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@operator @daniel I have not used reddit since it went dark.
I am actively looking to supplement my need to connect to random others and take on interesting things from other places.
There is a definite uptick in my use of Mastodon, NetNewsWire, and reading various news sites.
I am also going to cancel my reddit premium which I've been paying for years.