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Thank you Steve Huffman for curing my reddit addiction!
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I agree! I've been wasting time on reddit since 2008 or so, to the point that now and then I'd block it on my router to avoid going there from habit. Not all bad of course, but it's been increasingly futile and counterproductive in the past few years.
I've never used third party apps, but I stopped going there when it became clear the management has zero respect for the userbase.
The thing is, literally all big tech companies also have zero respect for their userbase but people keep using Google, Meta, Insta and all those things.
I think us geeks have started to move away from it more and more, but the majority couldn't care less.
I gave up on facebook, twitter and instagram years ago, but just because I did of course doesn't mean everyone else did. I ended up replacing them with nothing... more reddit, I suppose, but it doesn't fulfill the precise same purposes.
It's heartening that finally significant amounts of people are moving to alternatives because the alternatives do exist now. When people were ticked off with reddit in the past, your choice was pretty much... fuck off, i guess. Same for Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and IG. At least there are good alternatives to Twitter and Reddit now. They don't need to be huge, merely big enough.
Absolutely. And I hope Lemmy stays rather small actually... Too big is not good since it brings corporate interests in monetizing the entire thing. And then we are back to having ads and data mining and not being allowed to use certain words again like on reddit or other big tech sites.
At a certain point you just have to keep doing what you’re doing and hope people join you. :/
There are so many scary topics today that “hey this is really important to get right” just doesn’t really hit bottom unless someone already cares about a particular issue, and we all know how incentivized those big platforms are to providing actual critiques of their products.
I’ve settled on just telling people what I use and why, and sometimes they look thoughtful, and I do what I can with my own limited knowledge and time. More a minimization of harm than going for broke.