That’s me deleted my Reddit account along with all data as I do not agree with recent events that have been taking place. I’m going to concentrate on Mastodon , Lemmy and take a look at Kbin .
agree about the differences between here and the alien. there’s civility and discourse here - a good amount of fun - a sense of newness yet familiar. ive engaged more here than i have in 4 years on reddit - thanks all to a great community and gracious hosts running these servers ❤️
I was thrown off Reddit anyway after I went off on a man who was complaining that his wife didn’t want to do violent fetishes.
Out of curiosity, is there an easy way to delete user data from Reddit?
It’s funny. I never had a Reddit account but because of the shitstorm I came to realize a lot of my troubleshooting was done via Reddit posts. And when kbin and Lemmy popped up as alternatives i created accounts there to try and make it more of a two way street. Although kbin.social is struggling so hard with traffic (for me at least) that I’m primarily on Lemmy now
Deleted my account of 15 years with the quickness after the Spez AMA. Just didn’t want to participate in that ecosystem anymore and saw the writing on the wall. I came to Reddit from Digg and never went back either.
The fediverse seems to be the future even with any inherent growing pains. I just can’t trust one idiot to make decisions for everyone.
The fediverse seems to be the future
I just find it so hard to believe this because I cannot imagine 99% of people caring to go through the sign-up process.
Still can’t fathom deleting my Reddit account, even though I was always much more of a lurker. I was quicker with Twitter --> Mastodon. Deleted everything as soon as the shit started hitting the fan and didn’t look back. I’m sold on Lemmy, though. I’m getting a whole lot of what I was getting there around these parts, and it seems to be a wee bit more friendly for the kind of people me likey.
I feel like I’m getting more. Quality over quantity and really I didn’t realize how I missed the community aspect that I used to participate in back in the early 2000 when I first started meeting people online and using forums and making my own web pages and using chat services. I wasn’t interacting with anyone on reddit as I had experienced plenty of hostile interactions as well as pointless harassment. I used to be very friendly and helpful but this kind of stuff made me cynical and negative. I would comment on something, provided my insight or info or link or whatever to something and moved on. Didn’t look for replies because I knew there were going to be people butthurt I didn’t agree with such bigoted or racist or sexist or whatever comment or belief so there was no point in arguing with these people. I turned off notifications. I don’t feel defensive here. I don’t feel desensitized nor do I have my defenses up. I check my notifications knowing it’s either a useful reply or a silly joke, so far lol. I’m definitely sticking around. Reddit is off the table.
I thought it was just my social anxiety flaring up when I had new notifications. I never really thought about the fact that I was also avoiding negative replies. It’ll be interesting to see how this goes here.
I can get too involved in an argument when someone gets hostile with me and it’s not only a waste of time but it puts me in a bad mood. I need to save my patience and mood for work lol. I think my negative association with notifications is gone, and so far I’ve had genuinely good interactions so crossing fingers we don’t attract negative attention hahaha!
