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I went searching for something today and instinctually clicked on a reddit link. Fortunately the sub was dark for the protest anyway, but it's crazy how ingrained in me it is to go to reddit for everything.

Unfortunately now we're going to have to get used to clicking on those clickbait tech articles like "TOP 10 FACEBOOK ALTERNATIVES 2023" to find information, and weed out the crappy blogs.

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[–] LlamaSutra@sh.itjust.works 62 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The fact is that there is some useful info that only is on Reddit. No shame in looking that stuff up since that’s where it is.

The main thing is to stop using Reddit as your go-to time waster/doom scrolling app

[–] Silviecat44@vlemmy.net 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Now I will doomscroll on Lemmy. Problem solved

[–] LlamaSutra@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tbh the lack of people and content here has limited my doom scrolling tremendously.

Also helps that everyone here is like a kid on their first day of high school or college. Zero toxicity! 😎

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[–] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If people stop providing useful information on reddit, it's usefulness will disappear over time.

[–] kadu@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (13 children)

There are also lots of people using Shreddit to remove their entire log of comments.

I'm debating whether or not to do that with my account... I have several comments with solutions to specific tech issues, documentation on specific things. At the same time, I feel less and less comfortable with Reddit benefiting from information users provided for free.

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[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 32 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Google has been pretty much useless lately because it just spits out this SEO spam (probably all written by LLMs, that's the only way to explain why it's never happened before but does happen now), so losing reddit as one of the best sources of non-AI-generated information would set us back a lot.

What we need is the current state of reddit, but frozen in time and just as searchable as reddit is right now. And since reddit won't want to lose SEO, they will be open to scraping.

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[–] catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 year ago (15 children)

It’ll take time. I think eventually we’ll have enough knowledge on Reddit alternatives like Lemmy where we can add “lemmy” to our search strings instead of “reddit”.

[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.one 30 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The problem with that is, that not all instances use "Lemmy" or even "feddit" in the URL.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

What do you mean? Who would register at such a place.

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[–] altruisticfix@vlemmy.net 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I spent some time on mastodon, squabbles, kbin and vlemmy today subscribing.. it helped seeing many of the same communities in them. I’m 60.. so I know younger minds are nimble enough to make themselves comfortable elsewhere.

What I’m interested in seeing is if others are committed and tenacious enough to stand their ground - outside of Reddit. One thing I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older.. things change, and sometimes fighting over turf leaves the winner a ruined playground with bad memories for everybody.

[–] ultimate_question@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

The key is amassing a large enough audience of people who want something new, not just people who want a 1:1 replacement for reddit. There's no way lemmy will be able to compete in content volume but I think the idea of "non corporate" social media will be attractive to people

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[–] Mia@feddit.de 26 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Muscle memory is also hard to break. I had to remove Apollo from my homescreen :D

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know the feeling. I had to put it in a folder “Do not use”. It’s like the first rhing I check in the morning. This lemmy thing has potential. I miss Apollo so much though. Jesus if Christian ported Apollo to use a lemmy backend I’m not sure I’d even notice it wasn’t Reddit. 😀

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[–] Amiral_Poitou@beehaw.org 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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[–] Swintoodles@beehaw.org 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I feel like we need a Redditor's Anonymous community lol.

Hi I'm Swintoodles and I've tried to open reddit 3 times this morning. The site is sparse, so I only browsed for 20 minutes, but I know I can get better!

[–] dewritoninja@pawb.social 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ive been tapping the empty space on my phone where the reddit app was out of habit all day

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[–] lodronsi@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago

I'm using a pi-hole on my network and I added reddit to the 'blocked list' to cut down on myself clicking the links. I should find a way to filter out the links from my search results easily, but this works for now.

[–] blade_imaginato@lemmy.one 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Fr, it is very hard to break. I instinctively add "reddit" to the end of every search.

[–] jimmyjoners@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This speaks to how bad Google has gotten IMO - I do it too.

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[–] greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had to remove my reddit bookmark to break the habit today. Its been.. rough.. I keep opening my email instead.

Apparently I visited reddit 18000 times this browser install.

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[–] BeyonDespair@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (11 children)

It doesn't help the fact that depending of the question, every single answer ends up being only on reddit and nowhere else.

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[–] farados@vlemmy.net 14 points 1 year ago (8 children)

It is a shame because there is so much knowledge on reddit that can be lost. Whenever I had a problem I would append reddit to my google search. Bug fixes for games, advice on purchases etc.

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[–] GraceGH@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, same thing happened to me. Tried to figure out what the Fragile modifier does in Trackmania but I couldn't find the answer anywhere. /r/trackmania is shutdown (based) and i literally couldn't find the answer anywhere. I still don't even know what it does...

[–] priapus@lemmy.one 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It allows your car to become damaged if you hit a surface too hard. Being damaged will screw up your steering.

[–] GraceGH@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

Finally, closure. Thanks a bunch lol.

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[–] prlang@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Quitting Reddit's hard, but it's heartening to see just how many people are posting from different instances here! I've got to admit, even after Mastadons limited success, before today I never seriously thought that federated social media would actually ever work. It just seemed to complicated for average person to grok.

Here we all are though! Decentralizing the decision making for who gets to post and host, what gets seen and what doesn't, seems to be worth fighting for. For enough of us at least to make this corner of the internet interesting for a while.

I've got a question though, are there any non technical people here? If you are interested in technology do you know non technical people who are participating in the black out?

[–] Jenga@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think a Reddit type platform lends itself better to federation than something like Twitter. Reddit is already split up into sub communities so it's easier to digest vs. Mastadon/Twitter meant to be one big conversation.

Your question about non-technical savoy folks being on here is valid and there's probably not many. But Reddit also started out like that and it took many years before it became mainstream. Federated serves are a new thing, even for the technological literate, so I suspect it will take a while to permeate into casual internet users but it will happen in the future.

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[–] neal@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I had to move Sync off the homepage of my phone to avoid the muscle memory of just clicking it mindlessly. I have caught myself once or twice wanting to type it into the URL.

[–] G0ldenSp00n@lemmy-ujt-u4842.vm.elestio.app 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yea me too, lol. i just put jerboa in the same spot I had sync to use my muscle memory for good

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[–] Wiitigo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was going to ask in a full post, but as a comment on this topic would be better: what kind of modifiers would we type in when we want to narrow a web search scope to the fediverse? Like, it's easy to just add 'reddit' to any query, that instantly cuts out all the BS. Hoping there's some magic keyword in the metadata in the ActivityPub guts.

Someone feel free to start a full post on this, if you figure it's warranted.

[–] Turtle@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

This is a very good question - when I'm troubleshooting things my default search pattern is: " 2023 reddit", because 99% of the other search results are pure garbage.

[–] TGQP@vlemmy.net 10 points 1 year ago

All the users scrubbing their comments from reddit with protest messages are doing gods work in making people more upset with reddit over this. Long live the fediverse now I guess.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Hmm, somebody should make a Lemmy instance that just has a copy of Reddit in it. Probably somewhere hard to sue.

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[–] curlygirl@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Idk how helpful this is, but LibRedirect basically redirects all reddit links (and other websites like youtube, twitter, tiktok) in your browser to a privacy front-end that doesn't do any tracking or ads or things like that which is better than using the official reddit site.

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[–] eight_byte@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Absolutely. When I was having my first coffee this morning, I tried to browse Reddit out of a habit. Luckily, Apollo reminded my with a banner that I shouldn't do this. Now I am trying to change my "browse Reddit" habit into "browse Lemmy" habit. So far I it works great - not missing anything until now.

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[–] giddy@lemmy.perthchat.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm keeping reddark open on another monitor as a reminder to stay away

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[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago (11 children)

every time I look at my phone I'm instinctively hitting the RIF app... this is gonna take a while to adapt to, but new communities are popping up all the time, new server instances appearing, and new users flooding in so perhaps we can continue to being unproductive procrastinators.

On the upside, I guess my productivity will go up by at least 5% for a few days.

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[–] WeTheBorgYall@mander.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately now we’re going to have to get used to clicking on those clickbait tech articles like “TOP 10 FACEBOOK ALTERNATIVES 2023” to find information, and weed out the crappy blogs.

So... exactly what other users submitting content had to do previously. Unless you just lurk and don't submit anything.

[–] Whirling_Ashandarei@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I keep opening Relay today and immediately quitting. Anyone use an app for this? Maybe just need to replace the app location with a new app.

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[–] odrel@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reddit still has tons of useful content and I'm expecting to be clicking on it or some sort of archive in the future. I won't be active of the platform in any way but there's still value in the content they're now using as leverage.

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[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

Hahah, that exact thing happened to me, and I had to go through such tech article as well. Hopefully all the useful information from there gets preserved.

[–] MonkCanatella@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

You don't really have to quit cold turkey. When I stopped using Digg I'd go back now and then but Reddit had become my go to. I phased it out over a little less than a month.

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