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How Reddit Crushed the Internet's Largest Protest (youtu.be)

submitted 11 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 59 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I deleted my account and it was liberating. Nowadays I only go there when I want to look up something for a game on Google.

[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 37 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, the vast storehouse of information on Reddit makes it impossible to remove it from your life completely. Of course, a lot of that was built up before the douchebag decided to kill third party apps and tell Reddit users that they didn't really matter that much to him. You mean the people whose comments built your site brick by brick? Okay, sure. Why would they be important?

If I'm that unimportant to you, I can be unimportant elsewhere.

[–] RobertOwnageJunior@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not even remotely impossible. Inconvinient, maybe.

[–] AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Right? My brother in Christ, I could add a single line to one text file and reddit would be gone from my life except for the fact that people on Lemmy seem to never shut up about it. I keep it around for research, but I could live without that too, if it mattered.

[–] Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

Almost every info you find on Reddit can be found elsewhere. After all, Reddit is an aggregation machine, but it doesn't produce that much unique content.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I use a 3rd party API modded app with a burner a and check on niche communities that Lemmy doesn't have yet...I do not comment, upvote or engage.

[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I have RSS set up for the things I want. It's quite nice, I see what I want quickly and easily, and don't engage.