I didn’t quit. They kicked me out when they killed my app. While I think lemmy is cool, fracturing communities is almost always the wrong answer, and I would go back if they restore access via the app.
Which app did you develop before spez took it to the grim reaper?
Apollo. Not developer, just user.
Oh.
Surprisingly not hard at all. I helped build tools for moderators on Reddit that were used by millions. When the API changes hit, it completely destroyed all of my work. I have no interest in dedicating my time casually or seriously to a site that treats me that way.
I’m a habitual person but switching to the fediverse was like trading cigarettes for a vape. Same addiction, different delivery, more flavor 😛
Delicious story
That’s the best analogy I’ve heard. Thanks, I’m gonna use it. And thanks for building mod tools since I probably used them.
isn’t vaping worse than cigarettes?
No
Are e-cigarettes less harmful than regular cigarettes?
Yes—but that doesn’t mean e-cigarettes are safe. E-cigarette aerosol generally contains fewer toxic chemicals than the deadly mix of 7,000 chemicals in smoke from regular cigarettes.3 However, e-cigarette aerosol is not harmless. It can contain harmful and potentially harmful substances, including nicotine, heavy metals like lead, volatile organic compounds, and cancer-causing agents.
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/about-e-cigarettes.html
Thanks! Where I’m from legit vapes are banned and all we get are disposables (under the shelf) so that’s what I was referring to when I said vapes are bad.
No,but its still addictive.
guys I’m obviously not saying this in context of reddit-lemmy. i’m just asking, please don’t downvote.
There’s still a core of easily offended people who ended up here on Lemmy. Kinda sad, but that’s humanity.
Hello, just want to chime in.
The only way to know the difference is to feel it. Once I started vaping my lungs felt clearer, I stank less, and spent less. I weened myself off of nicotine by reducing the content down every couple months to nearly nothing then began leaving the vape at home so that I wouldn’t vape at work during breaks. Then spent days forcing myself to do other stuff to distract myself to kick the habit for good.
I wouldnt call it a healthy alternative. In my opinion it’s an avenue to quitting. Disposable vapes are much worse and more addicting which made me falter a bit.
Haven’t touched tobacco or vapes for a few months now.
You are awesome - well done on kicking it.
Thank you!
@Cannibal_MoshpitV3 @consciouslyoblivious Honestly, super impressive that you stick with it and kicked the habit. Nice fucking job! Couldn’t have been easy :)
Had a dad who could not quit and I grew up around second hand smoke and hating the smell despite begging him to quit for years.Thank you, and yeah the smell arguably was the worst. I grew up around smokers as well
As a former mod, thank you for your service 🫡
Not difficult at all.
Left Facebook in 2016, Left Instagram in 2017, Left Snapchat in 2018, Left twitch in 2021, Left Twitter in 2022, Left Reddit in 2023.
I could walk away from tiktok at any moment.
I can quit any time. I already quit 6 times.
Impressed that you’re still on digg and stumbleupon.
Gotta have a place to leave lists of their IRC servers
You’re making great progress.
Do it now! That shit is cancer for you privacy
it was easy. I never had any social media.
You just gave me memories of childhood when all we had was forums. Those were the days.
And MSN Messenger. 😂
I spent most of my teens on the Flixster forums, if anyone remembers that movie site!
I grew up in the Moroccan deserts, so all we had was the Spacetoon website. Yeah, it still takes forever for it to load.
Easy. Deleted my FB 2016, never had a Twitter, Snapchat, vine, or anything else besides reddit. Didn’t become a frequent on reddit until 2017. I think the longest thing I was on was myspace. That place I was always on and posting or using to communicate with friends. Was happy with squabbles but deleted account as well due to the knee jerk policy being thrown left and right. Will wait a while to see if they get their stuff together. Lemmy is ok. Still small so eh. Always hated people knowing about me or searching me up.
Reddit was the only actually usable one until they fucked things up with the API. I have made my move to abandon that website.
I
amwas an Apollo user, and decided that Reddit killing it was too much. I switched to Lemmy, and while it has been an adjustment, I am reminded of the days of forums past. I dig it. Using Voyager (formally Wefwef) has helped preserve most of the UI of Apollo, which is nice. I had never heard of Progressive Web Apps before, and am super interested in the topic now. This makes me want to pick up programming again, in hopes of eventually being able to contribute to open source projects.Who knows, maybe you can make an Apollo like browser for all sorts of platforms.
We shall see!
Maybe it’s because not enough people have done it yet
Reddit made it pretty easy to stop - their app is so bad I just don’t bother logging in much.
I still check in a bit as I have a few open dialogues going but I don’t browse it anymore.
Twitter is harder - too many people I follow.
Those are the two apps I used frequently before they both fucked themselves up. Oh, what a weird world we live in.
I guess the enshitification continues.
Yup. At least the twitter app (UI) isn’t as bad as reddit’s. But I’m blocking promoted tweets faster than a game of candy crush. I hope Mastodon takes off - not comfortable with Threads.
Reddit is just unusable - I never really liked Reddit until I found BaconReader. Those days are over. Such is life.
As for lemmy, it needs to mature, but that’ll come. It’s not bad…!
Threads is basically made by a company that already ruined a great social media app. And to see them becoming part of the fediverse is weird. Mastodon is pretty good. I’m planning on signing up for kbin too once an Android client comes along.
I’ve left better things over lesser issues.
It was a relatively easy choice, but it took a long time for me to get my head around what the fediverse was and how it worked. I lurked for a good while on a few different instances before eventually creating an account. I do still check in on the small community I nurtured, though. Secretly hoping it’s gone to shit without me.
I had to go to fediverse school, too. This is why I was completely absent from social media for the past two weeks.
I still visit /r/ukraine and /r/combatfootage, but less and less lately and zero engagement. Propaganda has taken over the ukraine sub and the comments have become vile. Better discussion and analysis on /combatfootage. The /c/ equivalents are low traffic.
Otherwise I haven’t had any issues and feel better. I’ve been reading more, either reading the actual linked articles or library books/audiobooks. Every morning I ask siri ‘tell me the top news today’ and it reads me a 1-2 minute podcast from CBC. I might pop into ground.news while I do my morning business, and then during the day at work I’ll have a lemmy tab open.
The main problem is that I use reddit for work. I need to find another place, maybe stack exchange or some lemmy instances/communities. Haven’t really spent much time looking.
Hope that changes for the better.
Honestly I thought it would be tougher than it really was. The first couple days I did miss it, it was my go to for over 12 years.
I’m thankful RIF suggested this place, it’s a much nicer environment.
Me too. I felt kind of shitty deleting a decade old account where I’d had a lot of really good interactions with people, but I’ve already completed multiple craft projects that I never would’ve picked up if I hadn’t stopped reflexively clicking on reddit every time I was even slightly bored, and now I’m here, which is nice. Not so busy I can spend all day doomscrolling, and mostly a better community.
Seriously! I was pretty down at first as I was seeing so much bullshit Reddit meanness and drama around the time everyone migrated. Now it has calmed down and Lemmy is back to being nice but with a TON more content.
Yeah, I had a social media coma for two weeks before deciding I finally wanted to try Lemmy out; and Mastodon, and I also downloaded Threads with the hopes of it being integrated into ActivityPub as well.
It’s not as painful as I thought it would be and, I think a big part of that is the app experience. Decent apps rolled out quickly and rapidly replaced my apollo addiction. Reddit really dropped the ball by having such a terrible app experience, they’ve practically lost me now.
And they purchased Alien Blue and built their app on top of it. How did they ruin it so badly??
Same routine for Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit (in this order). I just stopped using them, deleted the apps, deleted them from the browsing history, and blocked them on my firewall. Other than some really technical things on Reddit (which I viewed on the archived pages), going cold turkey was not an issue at all. The relatively sparse content in the first weeks also stopped me from doomscrolling.
I had this order as well.
Joining the fediverse alternative was easier than I anticipated. Abandoning the social media website is a bit harder, since there’s still some communities that haven’t migrated yet.
I know I still feel this, especially in a country where no one knows about this idea except myself. Thanks, internet.
As soon as RIF stopped working while I was in the middle of using it, I made an account on Lemmy.World and haven’t looked at Reddit again since.
If only time machines existed.
