I installed the official Reddit app and went on it to see what the old place was looking like now. My inbox was filled with spam. The “home feed” shows subs I never subscribed to. There are so many ads. Between the ads and the the extra subs in the feed, it’s hard to just scroll. I also noted a lot of spam in some of the subs. Maybe they are subs with no mods? I’m not sure what’s up with that.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.world
    48·
    1 year ago

    Interesting to hear your experience. It took me 3.5 months to fully remove myself from Reddit. (March to July):

    • I started just poking around Lemmy while using Reddit
    • to occasional commenting and posting on Lemmy
    • to using them about equal time
    • then making a final few posts and comments in the protest weeks and helping people migrate
    • then I was only upvoting
    • then I made a final goodbye post on my Reddit page
    • then I stopped voting but still looking around Reddit and the playplace.
    • then when that was over, I uninstalled my favourite RedReader app and stopped using it altogether

    I’m not one who likes to go cold turkey, but when once I commit to boycotting something I stick to it until my condition is met. In those final days I came across many Reddit users who were like “if you hate Reddit that much why are you still using iiiiiit?”, that was annoying but that’s behind me now and there is no condition for me to go back to it.

    • Dremor@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 year ago

      In my case I still use the Stealth App. It doesn’t allow to login, nor vote or comment, but you can still follow the subreddits you want to. No ads, no usage of the API.

      • TwoGems@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        How do I use it? I don’t want to give Reddit clicks but some subs never migrated over

        • Dremor@lemmy.world
          5·
          1 year ago

          Install the app, optionally change the Reddit source in the options (soon you’ll be able to use a teddit proxy service to further obfuscate your profile, but for now I use the Web Scraping option), and enable some Privacy Enhancers, and you are good to go. To subscribe, search for a subreddit, open it, swipe left and click on “subscribe”.

    • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      FYI RedReader has planned Lemmy support as of a couple months ago; no roadmap or time frame but it should be in the works.

    • Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyzOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      I keep my account up because I’m in subs that have technical help for certain hardware and software and haven’t migrated anywhere. I have lots of answers to issues that can be very helpful when searching. It sucks that Spez has forced so many people to delete important help like that.

    • Yoru@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      I use Infinity that I downloaded from F-Droid and it still works without me inputting any API keys or paying for a subscription. Did it steal my key or something 💀