If they gave in on day one or two, I may have stuck around.

But as it stands, a week without Reddit has effectively broken my addiction. I’ve already uninstalled Sync from my phone, deleted my comments, and I only see Reddit pages when they show up as relevant search results.

So they could reverse direction tomorrow and I would be indifferent at best.

I won’t go back. This is the final step in a long journey of enshittification - the Conde Nast sale, proliferation of power mods, the new UI redesign, subreddit ban waves, the Ellen Pao and Aimee Knight incidents etc.

I wouldn’t go back to reddit as a poster/commentator if they reversed their decision. But rather I would continue to use it as a resource, as I usually find typing in “<query> reddit” into Google to be far more useful and time saving than sifting through irrelevant search results and clickbait news articles for a simple question.

I’m sticking with Lemmy because it’s picking up all the people smart enough to figure out how to use Lemmy, leaving all the morons that were making Reddit shit to begin with on Reddit. Huge win for my sanity.

A chance…for me to still use it? Sure. I’ve always just had my list of niche subs, never used /all or /popular or whatever. It’s fine. It’s like french fries. But it’s great to have an alternative where the goal isn’t “i want to be a complete antisocial goblin and spew hate everywhere”.

Taking some time to learn about the Fediverse, it almost feels like an IRC network. Individual networked nodes cooperating with each other to facilitate communication. It’s an old school idea with a very modern perspective. I love the idea and I hope it grows.

Reddit permbanned me with no explanation, so I can never go back.

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I deleted my Reddit account, and now just kind of wander the digital world, like Caine in Kung Fu.

reddit has too many toxic people

Reddit will be absolutely fine but I don’t see myself going back. I realized I only ever used it for a few things, mostly memes. I can get that here so I’m sticking it out and helping build something new

Does reddit have a chance? Yes. Is there a chance i go back? Getting slimmer with move spaz makes.

People will keep using Reddit until an easier alternative arises. Most people don’t care about any of the benefits the fediverse offers, they just want a service that’s easy to use delivers content to them, that’s it.

I don’t care much for reddit as a whole. Since I joined lemmy have I used my phone so many more hours per day that it is scary. I was only on reddit for a few minutes per day… So reddit is maybe better for my health 😂 The only sad thing is that the niches subs I liked didn’t even seem to know about this whole thing and nobody seems to come over either… So no I won’t go back to reddit. But I am not as black and white either, for morals sake will I not use reddit until after July and after that may I check out my niched subs maybe once a week or less. But we will see maybe I don’t even care to have a look when that time comes. Just like fb I just logg in to see i don’t miss any major events maybe 4 times per year haha

I have no loyalty to reddit and if there’s one thing I realized in the past week, it’s that I am completely fine not using it on a daily basis. If instances here continue being active (kudos to warframe@dormi.zone for hosting their instance, promoting it on reddit and actively working to make it a nice cozy place here!) I have no reason to go back. I will miss smaller game subs, maybe go back sometimes to see them there but also do my best to support them here if they decide to move.

Reddit will survive. I’m a little tech savvy and even I have difficulties moving to alternatives. I think for most people, bad reddit is better than no reddit.