I haven’t used reddit for like 4 days which probably hasn’t happened since I signed up. I’m planning on staying here. The reddit of today isn’t like it was in 2011, it’s exploded in popularity. If the vast majority people truly cared about poor social media business practices Facebook Meta wouldn’t be around.

I never expected the blackout to kill reddit or even for them backout of the API changes (especially after the spez AMA). But I will say I’m surprised at the influx of people to lemmy, I started on lemmy 5 days ago and even since then there’s been an explosion of content and discussion which has made it a viable alternative for me.

I was a huge lurker on reddit because it seemed like my voice would never be heard or that it was probably already said. I’m trying to break that on lemmy and I encourage everyone else to as well.

Many subs are down indefinitely and a large portion of supporters are gone completely, reddit also has gotten a hell of a lot more toxic, more bots, and more company dick sucking since the blackout, this website will not get new users.

The whole thing had a huge effect from my perspective - I deleted my 14 year old account.

Why do so many people return to their abusers?

• Some victims return to abusers because they believe that despite the mistreatment, the rewards outweigh the costs of separation.

Source: https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/why-bad-looks-good/202107/why-do-domestic-violence-victims-return-abusers--

I think the best thing to do at this point is to use a tool to overwrite all your comments with something like

Edit: Moved to Lemmy

before nuking your account. That’s what I plan on doing before the end of the month.

Lemmy has blown up within the past week. “Taking down reddit” was always a pipe dream, but now we have a real alternative with committed users. I’d call that a success.